Skip to content
From the High Desert book cover

From the High Desert

A cultural history of Art Bell and the world he broadcast into being.

Available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle.

Buy on Amazon

HAARP & Weather Modification

Art Bell episodes about HAARP, Nick Begich, chemtrails, electromagnetic techniques, mind-control claims, and the late-night fear that weather itself could be engineered or weaponized.

Showing 36 selected episodes
Episode thumbnail for December 1, 1995: Discussion on HAARP - Nick Begich
1

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 February 16, 1996: HAARP - Dr. Nick Begich
2

February 16, 1996: HAARP - Dr. Nick Begich

Feb 16, 1996
3h 7m
Dr. Nick Begich, author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP, returns to discuss the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program operating in Alaska. Art Bell explores the HAARP antenna array, a jointly managed Air Force and Navy project capable of one billion watts of effective radiated power, designed to beam focuse...
Episode thumbnail for December 26, 1996: HAARP - Nick Begich
3

December 26, 1996: HAARP - Nick Begich

Dec 26, 1996
2h 47m
Dr. Nick Begich, co-author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP, reveals the scope of the military's High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program operating in remote Alaska. The jointly run Air Force and Navy project uses 48 antennas to focus concentrated radio energy into the ionosphere, with plans to scale up to 360...
Episode thumbnail for January 18, 2000: HAARP - Nick Begich
4

January 18, 2000: HAARP - Nick Begich

Jan 18, 2000
2h 40m
Dr. Nick Begich returns to Art Bell to discuss HAARP, ionospheric manipulation, electromagnetic pulse effects, surveillance, and mind-control technologies after a first-hour news roundup. Art opens with alarming headlines including a failed Pentagon missile intercept test over Kwajalein, 115-mile-per-hour winds deva...
Episode thumbnail for November 7, 1997: HAARP - Nick Begich
6

November 7, 1997: HAARP - Nick Begich

Nov 7, 1997
2h 6m
Art Bell is joined by Dr. Nick Begich to discuss Project HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program based in remote Gakona, Alaska. Begich, co-author of "Angels Don't Play This HAARP," explains how the phased array antenna system focuses unprecedented amounts of radio frequency energy into the ionosph...
Episode thumbnail for December 10, 2006: Electromagnetic Techniques - Nick Begich
7

December 10, 2006: Electromagnetic Techniques - Nick Begich

Dec 10, 2006
2h 39m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Nick Begich for a wide-ranging discussion on electromagnetic technologies and their potential for misuse. Begich details his years of research into HAARP, revealing that the project went dark around 2003 when it transferred to DARPA, cutting off public access and outside scrutiny. He describes...
Episode thumbnail for September 18, 2004: Chemtrails and Weather Modification - William Thomas
8

September 18, 2004: Chemtrails and Weather Modification - William Thomas

Sep 18, 2004
2h 53m
Art Bell opens with a surprise visit from Whitley Strieber, discussing a rare hurricane tracking across the Arizona desert, a swarm of 200 earthquakes on the California-Nevada border, and the connection between atmospheric temperature differentials and increasingly violent weather. Strieber warns that changes in the...
Episode thumbnail for December 13, 2003: HAARP Update - Dr. Nick Begich
9

December 13, 2003: HAARP Update - Dr. Nick Begich

Dec 13, 2003
2h 51m
Dr. Nick Begich joins Art Bell to provide a HAARP update on Alaska facility expansion, ionospheric heating, ELF effects, communications disruption, and weather-pattern concerns after a first-hour UFO abduction segment with Whitley Strieber. Strieber discusses recent UFO abduction cases and their increasingly ominous...
Episode thumbnail for December 3, 2001: HAARP - Nick Begich
11

December 3, 2001: HAARP - Nick Begich

Dec 3, 2001
2h 30m
Dr. Nick Begich joins Art Bell to discuss HAARP, ionospheric heating, ELF signals, underground tomography, and post-September 11 military applications after a first hour of open lines. Art covers escalating violence in Israel, a new homeland security warning about potential holiday attacks, and the underwhelming rev...
Episode thumbnail for April 2, 2001: HAARP - Nick Begich
12

April 2, 2001: HAARP - Nick Begich

Apr 2, 2001
2h 50m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Nick Begich to discuss the HAARP installation in Alaska and the broader world of electromagnetic weapons technology. Begich explains how the phased antenna array focuses radio frequency energy into concentrated beams capable of achieving an effective radiated power of up to a billion watts. He...
Episode thumbnail for January 25, 1999: Chemtrails, HAARP, Other Topics - William Thomas
13

January 25, 1999: Chemtrails, HAARP, Other Topics - William Thomas

Jan 25, 1999
2h 34m
Art Bell is joined by investigative journalist William Thomas, who reports on unusual aerial spraying patterns observed across 18 U.S. states. Thomas describes formations of multi-engine aircraft flying in grid-like patterns, leaving trails that do not dissipate like normal contrails but instead spread into milky ov...
Episode thumbnail for January 23, 2005: HAARP Experiments - Guy Kramer & Dr. Joseph Resnick
16

January 23, 2005: HAARP Experiments - Guy Kramer & Dr. Joseph Resnick

Jan 23, 2005
2h 54m
Art Bell hosts defense scientist Dr. Joseph Resnick and technology researcher Guy Kramer for a rare discussion about the HAARP facility in Alaska, a program whose guests required senatorial-level approval to appear on air. Dr. Resnick, who holds 26 patents including classified stealth technology work, traces his inv...
Episode thumbnail for February 27, 2002: Chemtrails - William Thomas
17

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 March 16, 1998: Mars - Dr. Tom Van Flandern | HAARP - Linda Moulton Howe
18

March 16, 1998: Mars - Dr. Tom Van Flandern | HAARP - Linda Moulton Howe

Mar 16, 1998
2h 39m
Art Bell presents a two-part program beginning with Linda Moulton Howe's investigation into Project HAARP, the high-frequency radio transmitter in Gakona, Alaska. Cornell professor Michael Kelly explains that HAARP's energy output is far smaller than the natural aurora and poses no environmental threat. Program mana...
Episode thumbnail for April 23, 1995: HAARP - Linda Moulton Howe | Predictions & Prophecies - Ted Flynn
19

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 23, 1998: Earth Changes - Sean David Morton
20

June 23, 1998: Earth Changes - Sean David Morton

Jun 23, 1998
2h 17m
Art Bell welcomes back self-described prophet Sean David Morton to review his remarkably accurate predictions from earlier broadcasts. Morton discusses his forecasts about President Clinton's political troubles, correctly predicting the Paula Jones case dismissal and emerging China scandals. He asserts that Clinton...
Episode thumbnail for December 7, 2015: Modern Mind Control - Neil Sanders
21

December 7, 2015: Modern Mind Control - Neil Sanders

Dec 7, 2015
2h 22m
Art Bell welcomes Neil Sanders, a British mind control researcher and author of Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own, for an expansive discussion on modern psychological manipulation. The conversation opens with Sanders describing his background as a qualified hypnotherapist and past life regressionist before turning to t...
Episode thumbnail for November 27, 2009: Electromagnetic Pulse Attack - William R. Forstchen
22

November 27, 2009: Electromagnetic Pulse Attack - William R. Forstchen

Nov 27, 2009
2h 35m
Art Bell welcomes Professor William R. Forstchen, a military historian and author of One Second After, to discuss the devastating threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States. Forstchen explains how a nuclear detonation high in the atmosphere generates a massive gamma ray burst that triggers the Co...
Episode thumbnail for September 25, 2002: Viruses, Chemtrails, & Vaccines - Dr. Leonard Horowitz
23

September 25, 2002: Viruses, Chemtrails, & Vaccines - Dr. Leonard Horowitz

Sep 25, 2002
2h 4m
Art Bell interviews Dr. Leonard Horowitz, an authority in public health and bioterrorism, following Senator Patrick Leahy's call to investigate possible links between West Nile virus outbreaks and bioterrorism. Dr. Horowitz presents documentation showing that strains of West Nile virus were shipped from the United S...
Episode thumbnail for March 14, 2001: Chemtrails - William Thomas | UFO Reports - Peter Davenport
24

March 14, 2001: Chemtrails - William Thomas | UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Mar 14, 2001
2h 51m
Investigative journalist William Thomas joins Art Bell to discuss chemtrails, while Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center addresses orange UFO reports over Nevada and elsewhere. Art reads a report from a Nevada political figure describing a hunter-orange orb over the Spring Mountains that separated in...
Episode thumbnail for January 6, 2000: Viewpoints on Chemtrails - Mike Castle & William Thomas
25

January 6, 2000: Viewpoints on Chemtrails - Mike Castle & William Thomas

Jan 6, 2000
2h 1m
Art Bell brings environmental chemist Mike Castle on to offer a different theory about the persistent trails being observed in skies across the country. Castle, an industrial polymer chemist who has testified before Congress on Superfund cleanups, suggests the iron compounds and bacteria found in ground samples may...
Episode thumbnail for November 3, 1999: Chemtrails - William Thomas
26

November 3, 1999: Chemtrails - William Thomas

Nov 3, 1999
2h 24m
Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist William Thomas for an extensive update on the chemtrail phenomenon. Thomas reports a sharp increase in sightings of persistent chemical trails spreading across skies nationwide, accompanied by widespread illness including sore throats, respiratory problems, and a troubling...
Episode thumbnail for June 9, 1999: Crop Circles, Chemtrails - Linda Moulton Howe
27

June 9, 1999: Crop Circles, Chemtrails - Linda Moulton Howe

Jun 9, 1999
2h 0m
Art Bell is joined by investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe for a wide-ranging discussion that begins with a remarkable eyewitness account from Holland. A 19-year-old named Robert watched from his bedroom window as a small pinkish-purple light expanded into a disc-shaped object over a farm field, emitted electri...
Episode thumbnail for May 6, 1999: Chemtrails - William Thomas
28

May 6, 1999: Chemtrails - William Thomas

May 6, 1999
2h 25m
Art Bell brings back investigative journalist William Thomas for an in-depth examination of the growing chemtrail phenomenon that has generated thousands of eyewitness reports since their initial broadcast. Thomas presents new lab results from a government-certified laboratory that found Pseudomonas fluorescens bact...
Episode thumbnail for March 17, 1999: Chemtrails - Linda Moulton Howe & William Thomas
29

March 17, 1999: Chemtrails - Linda Moulton Howe & William Thomas

Mar 17, 1999
2h 55m
Linda Moulton Howe and investigative journalist William Thomas join Art Bell for a two-part investigation into chemtrails, anomalous contrails, and silver-sphere reports across the United States. Howe reports witnessing massive X-shaped trails over Sedona, Arizona, and interviews an Albuquerque resident who observed...
Episode thumbnail for November 20, 1994: Immanuel Velikovsky's Works - Dave Talbot
32

November 20, 1994: Immanuel Velikovsky's Works - Dave Talbot

Nov 20, 1994
1h 56m
Dave Talbot joins Art Bell to explore the catastrophist theories of Immanuel Velikovsky and his own groundbreaking research into ancient planetary mythology, while Linda Moulton Howe reports on the mysterious military project known as HAARP.Talbot, who founded the journal Pensee and published the influential Velikov...
Episode thumbnail for May 29, 2005: UFOs in the USSR - Paul Stonehill
33

May 29, 2005: UFOs in the USSR - Paul Stonehill

May 29, 2005
2h 54m
Art Bell welcomes Paul Stonehill, a Kiev-born researcher who immigrated to the United States in 1972, for a deep examination of UFO phenomena across the former Soviet Union. Stonehill draws on decades of research into declassified Soviet military reports, intelligence files, and eyewitness accounts to reveal encount...
Episode thumbnail for April 4, 2001: Fuzzy Science - Bart Kosko
35

April 4, 2001: Fuzzy Science - Bart Kosko

Apr 4, 2001
2h 48m
Art Bell interviews Professor Bart Kosko, an electrical engineering professor at USC and author of "Heaven in a Chip," about fuzzy logic, digital immortality, and the future of computing. Kosko explains how fuzzy logic enables computers to reason in shades of gray rather than strict binary, a technology already embe...
Episode thumbnail for February 19, 2001: UFO Expert - Don Ecker
36

February 19, 2001: UFO Expert - Don Ecker

Feb 19, 2001
2h 56m
UFO Magazine research director Don Ecker joins Art Bell to discuss lunar anomalies, NASA archive photographs, and UFO secrecy after a mystery-signal segment with Nick Begich. Art opens with a signal detected at 3.39 megahertz that listeners across the country are reporting at unusual strength. Begich, author of Ange...