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Roswell & UFO Crash Retrievals

Roswell episodes and crash-retrieval discussions with Kevin Randle, Jesse Marcel Jr., Philip Corso, recovered debris claims, and the cover-up mythology around 1947.

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Episode thumbnail for June 24, 1994: UFO Crash at Roswell - Kevin Randle
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June 24, 1994: UFO Crash at Roswell - Kevin Randle

Jun 24, 1994
2h 50m
Kevin Randle, a former Army helicopter pilot and Air Force intelligence officer, presents the case for an extraterrestrial crash recovery at Roswell, New Mexico, drawing on years of investigation with co-author Donald Schmidt.Randle describes interviewing dozens of firsthand witnesses, including the provost marshal...
Episode thumbnail for August 28, 1994: The Roswell Truth - Kevin Randle
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August 28, 1994: The Roswell Truth - Kevin Randle

Aug 28, 1994
2h 2m
Kevin Randle, author of The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell, joins Art Bell to present what many consider the most thoroughly documented case for extraterrestrial contact in history. A former Army helicopter pilot and Air Force intelligence officer with 20 years of UFO research, Randle details how he and co-inv...
Episode thumbnail for September 26, 1996: Roswell UFO Crash - Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.
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September 26, 1996: Roswell UFO Crash - Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.

Sep 26, 1996
2h 53m
Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. shares his firsthand account of the night his father, a military intelligence officer, woke him at 2 a.m. to examine debris from the 1947 Roswell crash. Marcel recalls three types of material spread across their kitchen floor: lightweight metallic foil, dark bakelite-like fragments, and small I-...
Episode thumbnail for November 17, 2015: 100 Years of UFO Coverups - Kevin Randle
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November 17, 2015: 100 Years of UFO Coverups - Kevin Randle

Nov 17, 2015
2h 23m
Art Bell sits down with retired Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Randle, a veteran UFO researcher with over 45 years of investigation experience, to discuss the state of ufology and the contents of his new book, The UFO Dossier. The conversation opens with the recent discovery of possible megastructures around star KIC 8462...
Episode thumbnail for April 30, 1997: UFO Crashes - Kevin Randle & Renee Barnett
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April 30, 1997: UFO Crashes - Kevin Randle & Renee Barnett

Apr 30, 1997
2h 18m
UFO researcher Kevin Randle and Strange Universe correspondent Renee Barnett join Art Bell to preview an upcoming TV special ranking the top ten UFO incidents of all time. Randle, an Army helicopter pilot turned Air Force intelligence officer, reveals that of roughly 125 documented crash reports dating back to 1886,...
Episode thumbnail for November 22, 2002: Roswell UFO Crash - Bill Doleman & Bill McDonald
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November 22, 2002: Roswell UFO Crash - Bill Doleman & Bill McDonald

Nov 22, 2002
2h 46m
Art Bell examines the Roswell UFO crash in the wake of the Sci-Fi Channel's two-hour television special. He highlights the program's most explosive revelation: a digitally enhanced photograph of General Roger Ramey holding a dispatch that references "victims of the wreck" and objects shipped "in the disc," contradic...
Episode thumbnail for May 12, 1996: Roswell Crash Debris - Linda Moulton Howe
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May 12, 1996: Roswell Crash Debris - Linda Moulton Howe

May 12, 1996
15m
Linda Moulton Howe returns to present the first laboratory results from mysterious metal fragments sent anonymously to Art Bell, allegedly recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash. A credentialed university scientist has examined ten pieces using a scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive spectroscopy, revea...
Episode thumbnail for April 29, 2007: UFO Crashes - Ryan S. Wood
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April 29, 2007: UFO Crashes - Ryan S. Wood

Apr 29, 2007
2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes researcher Ryan S. Wood for an in-depth examination of UFO crash retrieval cases spanning decades of alleged government recoveries. Wood, who maintains a comprehensive database of such incidents, walks through the evidence behind multiple crash events, including lesser-known sites beyond Roswell li...
Episode thumbnail for July 16, 1995: Alien Abduction - Kevin Randle | The Afterlife - Dr. James R. Lewis
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July 16, 1995: Alien Abduction - Kevin Randle | The Afterlife - Dr. James R. Lewis

Jul 16, 1995
1h 41m
Kevin Randle discusses Roswell alien abduction and the Santilli autopsy film, and Dr. James R. Lewis explores the afterlife after Linda Moulton Howe's opening encounter report. Linda Moulton Howe opens with a gripping account from a Washington State woman who describes a fully conscious encounter with gray-colored b...
Episode thumbnail for September 23, 2013: The Ely, Nevada UFO Crash - Jeremy Meador
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September 23, 2013: The Ely, Nevada UFO Crash - Jeremy Meador

Sep 23, 2013
3h 29m
Art Bell welcomes Jeremy Meador, a Las Vegas researcher, to discuss a little-known UFO crash near Ely, Nevada on July 7, 1952, exactly five years after Roswell. Meador explains that two fiery objects were tracked across multiple states, with Hill Air Force Base scrambling a B-17 to pursue one. The objects converged...
Episode thumbnail for May 14, 1999: UFO Crash - Whitley Strieber & Bill McDonald
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May 14, 1999: UFO Crash - Whitley Strieber & Bill McDonald

May 14, 1999
2h 2m
Guest host Whitley Strieber interviews forensic artist and investigator Bill McDonald, who presents a detailed composite description of the Roswell spacecraft assembled from multiple independent military witnesses. McDonald describes a craft resembling a diamond-shaped stingray, approximately 32 feet long and 25 fee...
Episode thumbnail for February 11, 1998: Roswell Alien Technology - Jack Shulman
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February 11, 1998: Roswell Alien Technology - Jack Shulman

Feb 11, 1998
2h 45m
Jack Shulman of American Computer Company joins Art Bell to discuss alleged Roswell alien technology, the transcapacitor, and claims of back-engineered computer hardware after a first hour of open lines. Art covers the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a five-million-dollar interview offer from his Las Vegas affiliate, the l...
Episode thumbnail for July 10, 1997: Roswell Investigator - John Kirby
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July 10, 1997: Roswell Investigator - John Kirby

Jul 10, 1997
2h 55m
Art Bell welcomes researcher John Kirby from Portland for a definitive wrap-up of Roswell's 50th anniversary. Kirby presents audio recordings from key witnesses, starting with Walter Haut, the officer who delivered the famous press release announcing the capture of a flying saucer. Haut explains that Colonel Blancha...
Episode thumbnail for June 30, 2007: Roswell Crash - Tom Carey
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June 30, 2007: Roswell Crash - Tom Carey

Jun 30, 2007
2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes researcher Tom Carey to discuss groundbreaking developments surrounding the Roswell crash on its 60th anniversary. The centerpiece is a sworn affidavit left by Lieutenant Walter Haut, the base public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947, who kept his account sealed until after his...
Episode thumbnail for August 4, 1997: Roswell & Project Starman - Maj. Ed Dames
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August 4, 1997: Roswell & Project Starman - Maj. Ed Dames

Aug 4, 1997
2h 55m
Art Bell welcomes Maj. Ed Dames of SciTech International for a wide-ranging discussion on technical remote viewing and its implications for humanity. Ed describes his new instructional videotape series, explains how remote viewing differs from natural psychic ability, and challenges James Randi to a controlled test...
Episode thumbnail for July 2, 1997: Roswell Crash - Jaime Shandera
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July 2, 1997: Roswell Crash - Jaime Shandera

Jul 2, 1997
3h 21m
Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Jaime Shandera, who has spent over a decade tracing the chain of evidence behind the 1947 Roswell incident. Shandera lays out a detailed timeline beginning with the July 2nd explosion heard over the New Mexico desert, rancher Mac Brazel's discovery of strange metallic debri...
Episode thumbnail for June 24, 1997: Roswell Case Closed - USAF Press Conference
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June 24, 1997: Roswell Case Closed - USAF Press Conference

Jun 24, 1997
2h 45m
Art Bell reacts to the Air Force''s noon press conference declaring the Roswell case officially closed. Lieutenant Colonel John Haynes presented a Pentagon-backed report attributing the 1947 incident to high-altitude balloon research and crash test dummies, but the evidence shown came from experiments conducted betw...
Episode thumbnail for April 3, 1996: Roswell Fragments - The Quickening - Open Lines
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April 3, 1996: Roswell Fragments - The Quickening - Open Lines

Apr 3, 1996
2h 51m
Art Bell reads a breaking Associated Press report from Roswell, New Mexico, where a metal shard delivered to the local UFO museum is undergoing analysis at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The fragment, described as copper plated with silver with holes caused by catastrophic forces, was submitted b...
Episode thumbnail for July 31, 1995: 1947 Roswell Crash, Waco - Rep. Steven Schiff
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July 31, 1995: 1947 Roswell Crash, Waco - Rep. Steven Schiff

Jul 31, 1995
2h 2m
New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff joins Art Bell for an extraordinary two-hour interview covering both the Roswell GAO report and the ongoing Waco hearings.Schiff recounts how a routine constituent inquiry to the Department of Defense about the 1947 Roswell incident led to a bureaucratic runaround, with the milit...
Episode thumbnail for August 1, 1997: Reverse Speech - David John Oates
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August 1, 1997: Reverse Speech - David John Oates

Aug 1, 1997
2h 55m
Art Bell welcomes David Oates, the founder of reverse speech analysis, for an evening of startling audio reversals covering Colonel Philip Corso, President Clinton, and NASA. The broadcast opens with Art mourning the death of his beloved Hewlett-Packard 950 fax machine before turning to the serious business of playi...
Episode thumbnail for July 3, 1997: Art's Parts - Linda Moulton Howe & Budd Hopkins
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July 3, 1997: Art's Parts - Linda Moulton Howe & Budd Hopkins

Jul 3, 1997
2h 55m
Art Bell connects with Linda Moulton Howe live from Roswell, New Mexico, on the eve of a press conference claiming scientific proof that crash debris is extraterrestrial. Linda reports that Paul Davids and Chris Wyatt, who organized the announcement, declined to preview their evidence on air. She reveals that a Stan...
Episode thumbnail for July 1, 1997: Open Lines
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July 1, 1997: Open Lines

Jul 1, 1997
1h 20m
Art Bell opens with a promise to answer the Air Force press conference on Roswell over the coming evenings. He announces that a July 4th presentation in Roswell will feature isotopic ratio tests on crash debris, with scientists from major universities prepared to argue the material is manufactured and not of Earth o...
Episode thumbnail for June 30, 1997: Open Lines
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June 30, 1997: Open Lines

Jun 30, 1997
42m
Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night loaded with breaking developments. He addresses the Holyfield-Tyson fight, questioning why spectators who witnessed the ear-biting incident overwhelmingly declined refunds, and what that reveals about the appetite for violence in American sports. He also reflects somberly on...
Episode thumbnail for May 30, 1996: Open Lines | Ed Dames
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May 30, 1996: Open Lines | Ed Dames

May 30, 1996
2h 43m
Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night filled with startling developments, from the Israeli election of Benjamin Netanyahu to horrifying quickening stories of juvenile violence across America. Callers weigh in on the mysterious "Art's Parts," alleged Roswell crash debris that scientists have confirmed as pure alu...
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 April 21, 1996: Life After Death - Dannion Brinkley
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April 21, 1996: Life After Death - Dannion Brinkley

Apr 21, 1996
1h 57m
Dannion Brinkley joins Art Bell on Dreamland fresh from a spiritual pilgrimage to Machu Picchu, buzzing with an energy that sets this interview apart from his previous appearances. The bestselling author of Saved by the Light recounts being struck by lightning in 1975, dying for 28 minutes, and experiencing a panora...
Episode thumbnail for November 25, 2015: The Seres Agenda - R. Scott Lemriel
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November 25, 2015: The Seres Agenda - R. Scott Lemriel

Nov 25, 2015
2h 22m
Art Bell welcomes researcher and author R. Scott Lemriel, who claims over 40 years of direct contact with benevolent extraterrestrial beings he calls the Seres. Lemriel recounts childhood experiences beginning at age three, when he left his body and perceived mathematical equations related to star charts and interdi...
Episode thumbnail for October 2, 2015: Open Lines - I Married an Alien
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October 2, 2015: Open Lines - I Married an Alien

Oct 2, 2015
2h 15m
Art Bell opens the show addressing behind-the-scenes crew drama, then launches into a freewheeling open lines night with a special twist: the "I Married an Alien" line. Inspired by recent discussions with Dr. David Jacobs about alien-human hybrids living among us, Art invites listeners who suspect their spouse may n...