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Peter Davenport & NUFORC

Peter Davenport, the National UFO Reporting Center, live sighting updates, Phoenix Lights follow-ups, Trumbull County 911 tapes, and the witness-report pipeline that kept UFO radio immediate.

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Episode thumbnail for February 26, 1999: Trumbull County UFO Sightings - Kenny Young
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February 26, 1999: Trumbull County UFO Sightings - Kenny Young

Feb 26, 1999
2h 40m
Art Bell welcomes UFO researcher Kenny Young, who presents the complete, unedited 911 dispatch recordings from a December 1994 mass UFO sighting in Trumbull County, Ohio. Young explains that he stumbled onto the case by accident when a wrong phone number from directory assistance connected him to the wrong Liberty T...
Episode thumbnail for March 11, 1999: Phoenix Lights 2nd Anniversary - Peter Davenport
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March 11, 1999: Phoenix Lights 2nd Anniversary - Peter Davenport

Mar 11, 1999
1h 55m
Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, alongside MUFON investigator Robert Fairfax to discuss a landmark case near Mount St. Helens. Fourteen forestry workers witnessed a small disc-shaped craft descend toward a herd of elk, lift one adult animal off the ground, and rise un...
Episode thumbnail for February 5, 2001: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport
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February 5, 2001: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Feb 5, 2001
2h 50m
Art Bell returns to the airwaves and welcomes a massive roster of new and returning affiliate stations before reuniting with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center. Peter opens with a tribute to the late Holger Berg, who preserved a 1936 UFO sighting from Eklutna, Alaska, describing a cigar-shaped craf...
Episode thumbnail for January 17, 2004: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport
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January 17, 2004: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Jan 17, 2004
2h 50m
Art Bell is joined by Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, for a program featuring multiple eyewitnesses who observed disc-shaped craft in recent months. The first witness, Kim Schaefer from Bristol, Tennessee, captured video footage of a copper-colored disc maneuvering through a cloud ban...
Episode thumbnail for September 2, 2015: UFO Center - Peter Davenport
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September 2, 2015: UFO Center - Peter Davenport

Sep 2, 2015
2h 19m
Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center since 1994, joins Art Bell for what both call the most profound of their many programs together. His center hosts 102,000 sighting reports, with monthly volume doubling over the past decade.Davenport details his passive radar proposal: antennas listening...
Episode thumbnail for March 11, 2006: The Phoenix Lights - Peter Davenport
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March 11, 2006: The Phoenix Lights - Peter Davenport

Mar 11, 2006
2h 30m
Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Phoenix Lights, one of the most significant UFO events since Roswell. Davenport shares his ongoing struggle with hoax callers flooding his hotline and the challenges of running a nonprofit reporting...
Episode thumbnail for February 26, 1995: UFO Reporting Center - Peter Davenport
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February 26, 1995: UFO Reporting Center - Peter Davenport

Feb 26, 1995
1h 47m
Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, returns to Art Bell with another wave of compelling UFO reports collected through his Seattle hotline, now averaging thousands of calls over just six months of operation.Howe opens with an update from western Pennsylvania where witnesses observed triang...
Episode thumbnail for July 25, 2004: Finding UFOs - Peter Davenport
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July 25, 2004: Finding UFOs - Peter Davenport

Jul 25, 2004
2h 51m
Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell to discuss finding UFOs with passive radar after a Seattle triangular-craft eyewitness report. Art presents a UFO eyewitness named Jim who describes seeing a silent, perfectly triangular black craft gliding over Seattle's Interstate 5 corridor. Jim,...
Episode thumbnail for September 1, 1999: Streaking UFO - Peter Davenport
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September 1, 1999: Streaking UFO - Peter Davenport

Sep 1, 1999
2h 0m
Art Bell reports live as a massive aerial event unfolds across the western United States. Multiple witnesses from Oregon to California describe a formation of glowing objects traversing the sky for up to two minutes, with reports of maneuvering and formation changes. A valley-wide power outage strikes Art's broadcas...
Episode thumbnail for January 8, 1999: Disclosure '99 - Stephen Bassett & Peter Davenport
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January 8, 1999: Disclosure '99 - Stephen Bassett & Peter Davenport

Jan 8, 1999
2h 45m
Art Bell hosts a special evening devoted to the state of UFO disclosure, featuring political lobbyist Stephen Bassett and a lineup of prominent figures in ufology. Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center opens the show with a fresh sighting report from Paradise, California, where a pilot witnessed a mas...
Episode thumbnail for May 12, 1998: Bangor UFO - Peter Davenport | Open Lines
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May 12, 1998: Bangor UFO - Peter Davenport | Open Lines

May 12, 1998
2h 45m
Art Bell opens with alarming news of India's three nuclear detonations and the revelation that U.S. intelligence analysts were asleep when satellite imagery captured test preparations six hours before the blasts. He releases two controversial photographs he has held for months, asking listeners with satellite imager...
Episode thumbnail for March 11, 1998: Tampa Sightings Update - Peter Davenport
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March 11, 1998: Tampa Sightings Update - Peter Davenport

Mar 11, 1998
2h 6m
Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell with a Tampa sightings update after asteroid 1997 XF-11 and Navy low-frequency sonar coverage. Dick Allgaier, a reporter for KITV News in Honolulu, shares his firsthand account from aboard the research vessel Cory Chouest, where 195-decibel underwat...
Episode thumbnail for February 1, 1998: UFO Reporting - Peter Davenport
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February 1, 1998: UFO Reporting - Peter Davenport

Feb 1, 1998
1h 34m
Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center for a special Dreamland edition packed with raw audio recordings and startling revelations. Davenport shares never-before-heard details about the massive March 13, 1997 Phoenix sighting, including unconfirmed reports that a U.S. reconnaissance sa...
Episode thumbnail for May 21, 1997: The Phoenix Lights
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May 21, 1997: The Phoenix Lights

May 21, 1997
2h 45m
Art Bell dives into one of the most extraordinary mass UFO sightings in American history as Phoenix City Councilwoman Frances Barwood joins the program to discuss the mysterious lights that appeared over the Phoenix metropolitan area on March 13, 1997. Barwood, who dared to formally request a city investigation into...
Episode thumbnail for March 18, 2006: UFO Sightings - Nick Pope
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March 18, 2006: UFO Sightings - Nick Pope

Mar 18, 2006
2h 29m
Art Bell speaks with Nick Pope, who ran the British government's UFO project at the Ministry of Defence. Pope describes how his initial skepticism faded after years of investigating military and civilian reports, with roughly five percent of cases defying explanation. He recounts a 1993 wave of UK sightings when a m...
Episode thumbnail for July 22, 1999: UK UFO Reports - Nick Pope
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July 22, 1999: UK UFO Reports - Nick Pope

Jul 22, 1999
1h 47m
Art Bell interviews Nick Pope, a Ministry of Defence employee since 1985 who investigated approximately 300 UFO cases per year for the British government. Pope describes how roughly 10 percent of those reports involved structured craft capable of speeds and maneuvers far beyond known technology. He details the 1978...
Episode thumbnail for September 18, 1997: Phoenix Lights, Hale Bopp - Ed Dames
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September 18, 1997: Phoenix Lights, Hale Bopp - Ed Dames

Sep 18, 1997
1h 53m
Art Bell sits down with Major Ed Dames of PsyTech for a packed evening covering the Phoenix Lights, Comet Hale-Bopp, remote viewing, and dire predictions for the near future. Dames presents his controversial conclusion that the March 1997 Phoenix Lights were a laser-generated hoax orchestrated by a television networ...
Episode thumbnail for June 20, 1997: Phoenix Lights Images Analysis - Jim Dilettoso
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June 20, 1997: Phoenix Lights Images Analysis - Jim Dilettoso

Jun 20, 1997
1h 16m
Art Bell welcomes Jim Dilettoso of Village Labs in Tempe, Arizona, whose computer analysis of the Phoenix Lights footage has been running on CNN around the clock. Dilettoso brings credentials spanning concert production technology, NASA imaging, military flight simulators, and Hollywood special effects to his examin...
Episode thumbnail for June 19, 1997: Open Lines - Phoenix Lights
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June 19, 1997: Open Lines - Phoenix Lights

Jun 19, 1997
2h 44m
Art Bell opens with a declaration that he has never witnessed a period of greater high strangeness in his 13 years of broadcasting. He presents a stunning chronology from June 19th, 1997: Arizona Governor Fife Symington announces a full investigation of the Phoenix Lights at 12:45 p.m., returns to federal court at 1...
Episode thumbnail for March 14, 1997: Phoenix Lights
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March 14, 1997: Phoenix Lights

Mar 14, 1997
3m
Art Bell devotes the program to the extraordinary Phoenix Lights event that unfolded just hours earlier on March 13, 1997. Thousands of Arizona residents witnessed a massive formation of lights traversing the state, and the phone lines are flooded with firsthand accounts from stunned observers across the Phoenix met...