UFO Sightings & Witness Cases
Black triangles, the Phoenix Lights, MUFON field investigations, regional light phenomena, and the witness cases, Art and Ramona's own sighting among them, that put UFOs over real towns.
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Peter Davenport, Richard C. Hoagland, Jim Dilettoso, Councilwoman Frances Barwood and 25 more
36 shows, 1993–2016
- High Desert Origins1992–96 · 3
- UFO / Y2K Boom1997–99 · 20
- Post-Millennium Coast2000–09 · 8
- Return and Midnight Era2010–16 · 5
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UFO's + Art & Ramona's Black Triangle Sighting
Sep 3, 1993 · John Lear · 38m
John Lear returns to the program as Art Bell opens with a detailed account of his own UFO sighting near Pahrump, Nevada, describing a massive, silent, black triangular craft that floated just 150 feet above his car at impossibly slow speed.Lear, drawing on his record-setting aviation career and intelligence contacts...MUFON & UFO Investigations
Nov 14, 1993 · George Knapp, Linda Moulton Howe, and Walter Andrus · 1h 46m
George Knapp, Linda Moulton Howe, and MUFON director Walter Andrus survey current UFO reports and the practical work of investigating sightings.The broadcast moves from news leads and unidentified objects near military activity to MUFON’s organization, evidence standards, and case intake. Walter Andrus also addresse...Phoenix Lights - Peter Davenport | UFO's - Sean David Morton
Mar 13, 1997 · 3h 6m
Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell with a breaking report on one of the most significant UFO events in American history. Dozens of witnesses across Arizona are calling in frantic accounts of massive formations of lights traversing the sky from Paulden to Prescott to Phoenix, covering...Phoenix Lights Images Analysis
Jun 20, 1997 · Jim Dilettoso · 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...Mysterious Sightings of East Texas
Jan 10, 2002 · Rob Riggs · 2h 5m
Art Bell speaks with journalist Rob Riggs about his investigations into the Big Thicket region of East Texas, where strange lights, wild man sightings, and unexplained phenomena have been reported for over a century. Riggs describes two categories of sightings: a classic ape-like Bigfoot and a more human-looking fig...Alien Encounters, Time Travel, and UFO Sightings
Oct 15, 2013 · Jim Sparks · 3h 8m
Art Bell welcomes Jim Sparks, a self-described professional abductee who has maintained total recall of his extraterrestrial encounters since 1988. Sparks recounts how his experiences began as recurring dreams before escalating into fully conscious abductions by gray beings, occurring two to three times a week for m...UFO Sightings
Mar 18, 2006 · Nick Pope · 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...UFO Sightings - Peter Davenport | Remote Viewing Satan - Ed Dames | Flight 990 - Richard C. Hoagland
Nov 11, 1999 · 3h 18m
Art Bell makes radio history by bringing forward members of two separate airline crews who publicly describe encountering unidentified objects while flying over Missouri. A Learjet pilot at 39,000 feet reports a missile-like object passing within 1,000 feet below his aircraft, while a second crew in a Beech BE-40 at...UFO Sightings - Dr. Roger Leir & Peter Davenport | Miami Circle Update - Richard C. Hoagland
Mar 2, 1999 · 1h 0m
Art Bell speaks with Dr. Roger Leir and Peter Davenport about a remarkable UFO sighting witnessed by approximately 40 people at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada. Both men describe watching star-like objects arranged in a triangular formation begin moving in ways that defied conventional aircraft be...Trumbull County UFO Sightings
Feb 26, 1999 · Kenny Young · 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...UFO Sightings in Texas & Open Lines
May 5, 1997 · Peter Davenport · 2h 41m
Peter Davenport joins Art Bell to document a cluster of UFO sightings in Texas before opening the National UFO Reporting Center lines to witnesses elsewhere.Callers describe timing, direction, color, formation, and unusual motion as Davenport compares reports for possible connections. The conversation also covers co...High Strangeness & UFO Sightings
Apr 16, 1997 · Peter Davenport · 2h 42m
Peter Davenport reviews a surge of high-strangeness UFO reports and takes fresh eyewitness calls through the National UFO Reporting Center.Art Bell and Davenport compare shapes, lights, movement, duration, and witness locations while trying to separate aircraft and celestial objects from genuinely puzzling cases. Th...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...New Phoenix Lights - Jeff Willes | Antigravity and Zero Point Energy - Nick Cook
May 15, 2005 · 2h 55m
Art Bell opens the program with Jeff Willes, who captured striking new video footage of mysterious lights over Phoenix on May 12, 2005. Willes, who filmed the original 1997 Phoenix Lights and runs UFOs Over Phoenix, describes three lights appearing in a triangular formation before one rapidly skips across the sky at...Investigating the Romanek UFO Sighting
Jan 23, 2002 · George Zeiler · 2h 41m
Art Bell speaks with George Zeiler, Deputy International Director and Field Investigator for MUFON, about his investigation of the Stan Romanek UFO sighting in Lakewood, Colorado. On September 30, 2001, Romanek captured approximately 15 minutes of video showing a luminous craft following his car roughly 30 feet abov...Phoenix Lights 2nd Anniversary
Mar 11, 1999 · Peter Davenport · 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...UFO Debate
Mar 17, 1998 · Jim Dilettoso · 3h 15m
Art Bell hosts a heated debate between photographic analyst Jim Dilettoso and author Kal Korff over some of the most contentious cases in UFO history. The two clash over the Billy Meier photographs from Switzerland, with Korff declaring them a blatant hoax based on optical analysis and Dilettoso defending the testin...Men in Black - Jim Dilettoso | Open Lines
Jul 28, 1997 · 2h 55m
Art Bell opens an evening of wide-ranging open lines by reflecting on animal communication, the Honda P-2 humanoid robot, and the latest budget deal in Washington. A fax from Arizona reports that optical analyst Jim Dilettoso appeared on Phoenix television claiming he was visited by figures resembling the Men in Bla...The Phoenix Lights
Mar 11, 2006 · Peter Davenport · 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...Black Triangle Phenomena
Apr 24, 2004 · Colm Kelleher · 2h 51m
Colm Kelleher, administrator of the National Institute for Discovery Science, joins Art Bell to discuss black triangle sightings, NIDS case patterns, and Art's own Pahrump encounter after a climate segment with co-author Whitley Strieber. Strieber discusses The Day After Tomorrow film and a NASA memo prohibiting emp...MUFON - William A. Lester Jr. | Arizona Storm at Turret Peak - Richard C. Hoagland
Dec 7, 1998 · 39m
Art Bell opens with William A. Lester Jr., state section director of MUFON Georgia, who reports unprecedented UFO activity across the state. Witnesses describe domed craft hovering over ball fields, ring-shaped objects with orbiting colored lights, and large silent triangles following vehicles. Scorched ground trace...Open Lines - New Phoenix Lights Testimonies (Hour One)
Jan 20, 1998 · 41m
The first hour of an open-lines broadcast captures new testimony about the Phoenix Lights while the March 1997 mass sighting remains under active investigation.Callers describe formations, altitude, silence, speed, and the enormous apparent size of objects seen over Arizona. Art Bell compares the accounts with milit...Phoenix Lights - Frances Barwood & Stephen Bassett | Trends Research - Gerald Celente
Jan 13, 1998 · 43m
Art Bell broadcasts while battling a returning flu, joined by former Phoenix City Councilwoman Frances Barwood and political activist Stephen Bassett. Barwood announces her candidacy for Arizona Secretary of State, making her one of the first major-party candidates to run on a platform demanding government transpare...Phoenix Lights, Hale Bopp
Sep 18, 1997 · Ed Dames · 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...Phoenix Lights
Jun 19, 1997 · Bill Hamilton, Frances Barwood, Richard C. Hoagland & Whitley Strieber · 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...Open Lines | Art & Ramona's UFO Sighting #2
May 26, 1997 · 2h 49m
Art Bell and his wife Ramona take to the airwaves together on Memorial Day to describe a dramatic daytime UFO sighting they witnessed that morning at approximately 11:40 AM near their Pahrump, Nevada home. While closing a gate, they noticed a military jet leaving a double contrail at extreme altitude, and just below...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...Black Triangles - Linda Moulton Howe | Prophecies & Future Predictions - Moura Tims
Dec 3, 1995 · 1h 49m
Linda Moulton Howe reports on a wave of huge, silent, black triangle sightings stretching from Greensboro, North Carolina to Allentown, Pennsylvania since November 17, 1995. Eyewitness Kathy Schreck describes a solid gray-black metallic triangle hovering silently fifty feet above her car with twenty-five to thirty r...NIDS
Feb 12, 2001 · Colm Kelleher · 2h 55m
Colm Kelleher, Deputy Administrator of the National Institute for Discovery Science, joins Art Bell to discuss NIDS investigations, black triangle cases, UFO-related phenomena, and animal mutilations after Loren Coleman's skunk ape segment. Coleman analyzes photographs of an alleged skunk ape taken by an anonymous w...UFO Update - Peter Davenport | UFOs & Close Encounters - Whitley Strieber & Dr. Roger Leir
Nov 19, 1997 · 3h 32m
Art Bell welcomes author Whitley Strieber for an evening of extraordinary reports from the world of UFOs and close encounters. The program opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center providing a detailed update on the mysterious lights seen streaking across Pacific Northwest skies the previous we...Merle Haggard Interview
Sep 2, 1997 · 3h 6m
Art Bell sits down with country music legend Merle Haggard for a freewheeling conversation that ranges from Princess Diana's death to UFO sightings, prison reform, and the changing American landscape. Haggard recounts his troubled youth, from riding freight trains at age eleven to landing in San Quentin at nineteen,...Open Lines - Art's Final Show
Mar 11, 2016 · 2h 25m
Art Bell returns to the microphone one last time, filling in for Heather Wade on a Friday night for what would become his final broadcast. He opens with reflections on the discovery of gravity waves, the Apple encryption battle, and his love of drone technology before diving into the 2016 presidential race.Callers f...100 Years of UFO Coverups
Nov 17, 2015 · Kevin Randle · 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...Open Lines - Scott Free Line
Oct 9, 2015 · 2h 23m
Art Bell opens the phone lines for a freewheeling Friday night, featuring a special "Scott Free Line" where callers confess things they got away with. He begins with a provocative story about George H.W. Bush allegedly telling a crowd that Americans "can't handle the truth" about UFOs, and asks callers throughout th...Human Mutilations and Abduction Phenomena
Aug 27, 2010 · Butch Witkowski · 2h 38m
Art Bell welcomes Butch Witkowski, founder of the UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania, to discuss the disturbing topic of human mutilations and abduction phenomena. Witkowski, a former MUFON chief investigator, describes assembling a team of forensic experts, law enforcement officers, and scientists to pursue cases...Communicating with Animals
Mar 4, 2007 · Amelia Kinkade · 2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes animal communicator Amelia Kinkade, author of Straight from the Horse's Mouth and The Language of Miracles, for a fascinating exploration of interspecies telepathy. Kinkade describes her first encounter with animal psychic Beatrice Lidecker, who accurately described details about her cat Rodney's l...