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Free Energy, Tesla & Anti-Gravity

Shows about Nikola Tesla, zero point energy, anti-gravity, alternative energy, suppressed technology, and exotic propulsion claims that connected UFO lore to fringe engineering.

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Episode thumbnail for March 5, 1995: Nikola Tesla - J.W. McGinnis
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March 5, 1995: Nikola Tesla - J.W. McGinnis

Mar 5, 1995
1h 53m
J.W. McGinnis, president of the International Tesla Society, joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging exploration of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian inventor whose contributions to modern civilization remain vastly underappreciated.McGinnis traces Tesla's journey from a childhood inventor at age five to the creator of alternatin...
Episode thumbnail for December 6, 2003: UFOs and Alternative Energy - Bob Lazar
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December 6, 2003: UFOs and Alternative Energy - Bob Lazar

Dec 6, 2003
2h 51m
Bob Lazar, president of United Nuclear and a controversial figure in ufology, returns to Art Bell to discuss UFOs, Area S4, gravity propulsion, and alternative energy after a first-hour interview with gambler Amarillo Slim Preston. Slim shares stories from his memoir, including making a cat pick up a Coke bottle by...
Episode thumbnail for September 4, 2002: Zero Point Energy - Nick Cook
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September 4, 2002: Zero Point Energy - Nick Cook

Sep 4, 2002
1h 16m
Art Bell welcomes Nick Cook, aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly and author of The Hunt for Zero Point, for a wide-ranging discussion on anti-gravity research and breakthrough propulsion technologies. Cook describes how he broke the story about Boeing's classified GRASP program, a proposal to work with Russian...
Episode thumbnail for March 14, 2004: Antigravity and Zero Point Energy - Nick Cook
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March 14, 2004: Antigravity and Zero Point Energy - Nick Cook

Mar 14, 2004
2h 52m
Art Bell interviews Nick Cook, aviation editor for the prestigious Jane's Defence Weekly, about his decade-long investigation into antigravity and zero-point energy documented in his book The Hunt for Zero Point. Cook describes gaining access to top-secret military facilities in both the United States and the former...
Episode thumbnail for June 6, 2009: Anti-Gravity and Other Hi-Tech - Bob Koontz
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June 6, 2009: Anti-Gravity and Other Hi-Tech - Bob Koontz

Jun 6, 2009
2h 38m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Bob Koontz, a nuclear physicist with a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and former staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, to discuss anti-gravity research and advanced energy technology. Art opens from the Philippines with an update on his ongoing immigration battle with USCIS, detaili...
Episode thumbnail for September 17, 2013: New Energy - Steven Greer
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September 17, 2013: New Energy - Steven Greer

Sep 17, 2013
3h 29m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, for a wide-ranging discussion on UFO secrecy and suppressed energy technology. Greer recounts his private briefings with CIA Director James Woolsey and the head of the Defense Intel...
Episode thumbnail for October 28, 1997: Mars, Free Energy, UFOs - Dr. Brian O'Leary
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October 28, 1997: Mars, Free Energy, UFOs - Dr. Brian O'Leary

Oct 28, 1997
3h 19m
Art Bell speaks with former NASA scientist-astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary about Mars, free energy, UFOs, and the state of global consciousness. O'Leary, who received his Ph.D. in astronomy from UC Berkeley and was selected to go to Mars during the Apollo program, describes the current state of zero-point energy researc...
Episode thumbnail for June 10, 1997: Cold Fusion & Free Energy - Dr. Eugene Mallove
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June 10, 1997: Cold Fusion & Free Energy - Dr. Eugene Mallove

Jun 10, 1997
3h 12m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Eugene Mallove, editor-in-chief of Infinite Energy magazine and former chief science writer at the MIT News Office, to discuss cold fusion technology on the eve of a Good Morning America demonstration. Mallove holds engineering degrees from MIT and a doctorate from Harvard. He reveals that a wo...
Episode thumbnail for January 7, 2002: Alternative Energy - Mark McLaughlin
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January 7, 2002: Alternative Energy - Mark McLaughlin

Jan 7, 2002
2h 35m
Art Bell welcomes Mark McLaughlin, lead writer for the Alternative Energy Institute, for an extensive discussion on the future of energy and the environmental consequences of fossil fuel dependence. McLaughlin, a historian and researcher based at Lake Tahoe, outlines the health costs of air pollution, the threat of...
Episode thumbnail for November 5, 1997: Awakening to Zero Point - Gregg Braden
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November 5, 1997: Awakening to Zero Point - Gregg Braden

Nov 5, 1997
2h 42m
Art Bell interviews former Earth scientist and aerospace engineer Gregg Braden about measurable changes occurring within the planet that ancient traditions predicted thousands of years ago. Braden explains that Earth's magnetic field has declined from a peak of 10 on a relative scale two thousand years ago to roughl...
Episode thumbnail for December 27, 2003: Space Programs - James McCanney
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December 27, 2003: Space Programs - James McCanney

Dec 27, 2003
2h 52m
Art Bell welcomes Professor James McCanney to discuss private space ventures, Tesla technology, and the future of space exploration. McCanney reveals that Russia's Cosmos program conducted some 1,600 missions between 1962 and 1977, dwarfing the United States' roughly 300 astronauts sent to space. He argues that priv...
Episode thumbnail for June 27, 2003: The Hutchison Effect - John Hutchison
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June 27, 2003: The Hutchison Effect - John Hutchison

Jun 27, 2003
2h 51m
John Hutchison, a Canadian scientist, joins Art Bell to discuss the Hutchison Effect, zero-point energy, levitation, and jellification of metals after Linda Moulton Howe's crop-circle report. Linda details an extraordinary photograph from Montenegro, Italy, showing a sphere of light sending a beam into a field, capt...
Episode thumbnail for January 28, 2002: Hutchison Effect - John Hutchison
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January 28, 2002: Hutchison Effect - John Hutchison

Jan 28, 2002
1h 50m
Art Bell speaks with Canadian inventor John Hutchison about the Hutchison Effect, a collection of anomalous phenomena discovered in 1979 while experimenting with Nikola Tesla's longitudinal wave technology. Using Tesla coils, Van de Graaff generators producing up to two million volts, and RF generators at 455 kilohe...
Episode thumbnail for December 24, 2006: UFOs and ETs - David Sereda
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December 24, 2006: UFOs and ETs - David Sereda

Dec 24, 2006
2h 39m
Art Bell welcomes filmmaker and researcher David Sereda for a Christmas Eve discussion about UFOs, extraterrestrial contact, and the future of humanity. Sereda describes his own close encounter with a triangular craft in Berkeley in 1968 and outlines a theory connecting the Phoenix Lights to Pythagorean mathematics...
Episode thumbnail for February 27, 2002: Chemtrails - William Thomas
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February 27, 2002: Chemtrails - William Thomas

Feb 27, 2002
2h 49m
Art Bell hosts investigative journalist William Thomas, who originally broke the chemtrails story on this program in 1999. The broadcast begins with correspondent S.T. Brent playing two recorded interviews with an air traffic controller identified only as "Deep Sky," who confirms being ordered to reroute traffic for...
Episode thumbnail for May 19, 1999: Time Travel - Dr. Bruce Goldberg
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May 19, 1999: Time Travel - Dr. Bruce Goldberg

May 19, 1999
2h 2m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Bruce Goldberg, a hypnotherapist and author who has regressed over 11,000 patients into past and future lives, to discuss one of Art's favorite subjects: time travel. Dr. Goldberg outlines four methods of traveling through time, from physical time machines based on exotic matter and warp drive...
Episode thumbnail for January 6, 1999: Borderland Science Research - Michael Theroux
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January 6, 1999: Borderland Science Research - Michael Theroux

Jan 6, 1999
2h 41m
Art Bell interviews Michael Theroux, director of the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, covering a wide range of fringe science topics. The conversation begins with the conclusion of the Robert A.M. Stephens affair, as Theroux, who built Stevens's website, confirms that investigations revealed his NASA contrac...
Episode thumbnail for February 16, 1998: UFO Propulsion Systems - Mark McCandlish
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February 16, 1998: UFO Propulsion Systems - Mark McCandlish

Feb 16, 1998
2h 49m
Art Bell speaks with aerospace illustrator and researcher Mark McCandlish, who has spent 18 years consulting for defense contractors and collecting testimony about classified aircraft. McCandlish describes a family of vehicles known as Aurora, including a football-shaped craft using pulse detonation propulsion that...
Episode thumbnail for March 20, 1997: The Philadelphia Experiment - Al Bielek
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March 20, 1997: The Philadelphia Experiment - Al Bielek

Mar 20, 1997
2h 2m
Al Bielek, self-described survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment, delivers a meticulous technical account of the Navy's alleged 1943 attempt to render the USS Eldridge invisible. Beginning with the project's origins in 1931 under Nikola Tesla, Bielek details the interplay of rotating RF fields at 160 megahertz, pul...
Episode thumbnail for April 25, 1996: UFOs - Richard C. Hoagland
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April 25, 1996: UFOs - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 25, 1996
3h 14m
Richard C. Hoagland returns to break down a cascade of extraordinary developments. Edgar Mitchell has just appeared on NBC Dateline claiming the government covered up the Roswell crash. Carl Sagan has publicly admitted on KABC radio that Hoagland might be right about structures on Mars. And Art Bell has received all...
Episode thumbnail for December 1, 1995: Discussion on HAARP - Nick Begich
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December 1, 1995: Discussion on HAARP - Nick Begich

Dec 1, 1995
2h 30m
Dr. Nick Begich, co-author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP, joins Art Bell to expose the true scope of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project in Alaska. Begich explains how HAARP uses a unique antenna array to focus up to one billion watts of radio frequency energy into a narrow beam directed at the iono...
Episode thumbnail for April 23, 1995: HAARP - Linda Moulton Howe | Predictions & Prophecies - Ted Flynn
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April 23, 1995: HAARP - Linda Moulton Howe | Predictions & Prophecies - Ted Flynn

Apr 23, 1995
1h 17m
Linda Moulton Howe delivers a detailed investigative report on Project HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program based in Gakona, Alaska. Howe traces the project's evolution from a small subsidiary called ARCO Power Technologies through its acquisition by E-Systems, a secretive defense contractor han...
Episode thumbnail for June 20, 1993: The Philadelphia Experiment - Al Bielek
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June 20, 1993: The Philadelphia Experiment - Al Bielek

Jun 20, 1993
4h 53m
Al Bielek joins Art Bell for a riveting three-hour interview in which the self-described electronic engineer and alleged participant claims firsthand involvement in the Philadelphia Experiment, the Navy's classified World War II project to render a warship invisible.Bielek traces the project back to 1931 and the wor...
Episode thumbnail for August 14, 2015: Time Travel & Teleportation - Andrew Basiago
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August 14, 2015: Time Travel & Teleportation - Andrew Basiago

Aug 14, 2015
2h 14m
Andrew Basiago, a Washington State lawyer with six academic degrees, joins Art Bell claiming participation in two classified defense projects involving time travel and teleportation. Basiago describes DARPA's Project Pegasus achieving eight modalities of time travel by 1970, from remote viewing to physical teleporta...
Episode thumbnail for July 31, 2015: Open Lines - Paranormal Stories
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July 31, 2015: Open Lines - Paranormal Stories

Jul 31, 2015
2h 36m
Art Bell dedicates a full Midnight in the Desert broadcast to paranormal open lines, drawing callers with firsthand accounts of ghosts, UFO encounters, and unexplained phenomena. An Australian recounts a 1967 breakdown near Pine Gap, the secretive American installation, where a worker described anti-gravity experime...
Episode thumbnail for June 25, 2010: Environmental Disasters - Larry Schweiger
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June 25, 2010: Environmental Disasters - Larry Schweiger

Jun 25, 2010
2h 37m
Art Bell speaks with Larry Schweiger, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, about the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Broadcasting from Manila, Art notes that the disaster has dominated headlines worldwide. Schweiger, who has made multiple trips to the spill zone, des...
Episode thumbnail for January 7, 2007: The Science of Intention - Lynne McTaggart
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January 7, 2007: The Science of Intention - Lynne McTaggart

Jan 7, 2007
2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes journalist and author Lynne McTaggart to discuss her groundbreaking research into the science of intention. McTaggart explains how her investigation into the zero-point field led her to discover a quantum web connecting all living things, and how frontier scientists across the globe are overturning...
Episode thumbnail for December 16, 2006: The God Theory - Bernard Haisch
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December 16, 2006: The God Theory - Bernard Haisch

Dec 16, 2006
2h 40m
Art Bell welcomes astrophysicist Dr. Bernard Haisch for a thought-provoking exploration of the intersection between science and spirituality. Haisch, who has over 130 scientific publications and led multiple NASA research projects, presents his theory that the universe was created by a transcendent intelligence whos...