The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes cyber war columnist Charles R. Smith to discuss China's growing military threat and its covert support for global terrorism. Smith reveals that China has been directly supplying the Taliban with advanced weaponry, including HN-5 man-portable surface-to-air missiles, improved RPG-7s, and shoulder-launched fuel-air munitions. The weapons have been flown directly into Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan, with Iran serving as a key intermediary in the transactions.The conversation expands into China's broader ambitions, including the Taiwan question and the potential for military confrontation with the United States. Smith describes Operation Smoking Dragon, in which two Chinese operatives were caught in California attempting to sell sophisticated surface-to-air missile systems to people they believed were terrorists planning to shoot down American airliners. He also details how the Chinese military operates as a corporate enterprise, running factories that produce both weapons and everyday consumer goods sold in U.S. stores.Art opens the program with an emotional announcement of his retirement from regular weekend broadcasting, expressing his desire to spend time with his wife and young daughter Asia. Callers respond with warm wishes while also weighing in on the Roswell revelations from the previous night and ongoing terror threats in Great Britain.

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 death. Haut's document goes beyond his original story of merely distributing a press release, revealing that he personally witnessed a craft and non-human bodies at the base.Carey explains how Haut, a man of impeccable character and Blanchard's right-hand man, promised his commanding officer he would never speak publicly about the incident. Rather than cash in during his lifetime through books or television, Haut chose to preserve the truth in a sealed statement opened only upon his passing. The document represents the final chapter of Carey's new book, which had already gone to a second printing.As the interview unfolds, news of Haut's affidavit begins breaking worldwide in outlets from Australia to Great Britain. Callers share their own encounters and reactions, while Art and Carey discuss the Air Force's four increasingly unconvincing cover stories. For Art, this testimony from a man with nothing to gain finally cinches the reality of Roswell.

Art Bell welcomes astronomer Richard Massey, a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, to discuss his groundbreaking work mapping dark matter using the Hubble Space Telescope. Massey explains that dark matter constitutes roughly 86 percent of the total mass in the universe yet remains completely invisible, detectable only through its gravitational influence on light from distant galaxies through a process called weak gravitational lensing.Massey describes how dark matter forms a vast web of filaments and clumps throughout the cosmos, with enormous voids containing absolutely nothing in between. He explains that wherever ordinary matter exists, dark matter exists alongside it, drawn together by mutual gravitational attraction. The conversation covers how this invisible scaffolding shaped the formation of galaxies and ultimately made life possible.Art also discusses the push for a national Real ID system tied to driver's licenses, noting that five states have already refused to comply and thirteen more are considering defiance. He reads new findings on the honeybee die-off spreading across 35 states, where microscopic examination reveals blackened organs and scarred intestinal tracts in the dead bees, and shares a disturbing lab analysis of substances collected after heavy rainfall that included bacteria, heavy metals, and viruses.

Art Bell speaks with peak oil analyst Matt Savinar, a California attorney who runs the website Life After the Oil Crash. Savinar presents a stark picture of global energy decline, explaining that oil discovery peaked in 1961 and that major companies now spend more searching for oil than the value of what they find. He argues that the effective decline rate, worsened by war and political instability in oil-rich nations, could cut global supply in half within seven years of the peak.The conversation covers shale oil, oil sands, ethanol, and abiotic oil theory, with Savinar systematically dismantling each as a viable replacement for cheap crude. He points to Mexico's 7 percent production drop as an early warning sign and suggests the U.S. government's construction of detention camps anticipates the social collapse that will follow energy shortages in neighboring countries.In the second half, best-selling techno-thriller author Dale Brown joins to discuss his novels and real-world military technology. A former B-52 navigator-bombardier, Brown draws on his Air Force experience to describe advanced weapons systems and space-based defense platforms. Art, a devoted fan of Brown's work, discusses the intersection of fiction and emerging defense capabilities with obvious enthusiasm.

Art Bell welcomes James Gilliland for a UFO update from his ranch in Washington state, where more than 4,000 witnesses have now reported sightings of unexplained aerial objects. Gilliland describes face-to-face encounters with beings he identifies as Pleiadian, portraying them as genetically refined, telepathic, and deeply concerned about Earth's environmental decline and human consciousness. He recounts how military jets have chased craft over his property, only for the objects to vanish and reappear.Later, professor Bart Kosko joins to discuss noise law and emerging technology. Kosko examines how legal frameworks struggle to keep pace with advances in surveillance, digital privacy, and signal processing. The conversation touches on the growing tension between government monitoring capabilities and individual rights, with Kosko offering a mathematician's perspective on where technology is headed.Throughout the program, Art reflects on the decline of bird populations across America, citing Audubon Society data showing a 68 percent average drop in 20 common species over 40 years. He connects this to broader environmental concerns including the ongoing honeybee colony collapse and accelerating climate change, noting that such dramatic shifts measured within a single human lifetime should alarm everyone.

Art Bell welcomes author Lynne McTaggart to discuss her book The Intention Experiment, which examines scientific evidence that human thought can influence physical reality. McTaggart describes laboratory studies where focused intention has affected plant growth, altered the molecular structure of water, and even changed the output of random event generators. She argues that consciousness operates as a measurable force with real-world consequences.The discussion turns to whether large groups amplify this effect. McTaggart explains her plans for mass intention experiments conducted online, where thousands of participants simultaneously direct their thoughts toward a specific target. Art shares his own experience hosting consciousness experiments with his audience, noting that the results appeared genuine enough to warrant caution about unintended consequences.McTaggart also addresses the implications for medicine and healing, describing cases where directed intention produced measurable changes in patients. She and Art discuss the resistance such ideas face from mainstream science, even as quantum physics increasingly supports the notion that observation and consciousness play fundamental roles in shaping reality. The conversation raises questions about the untapped potential of collective human focus.

Art Bell welcomes prophecy scholar John Hogue to discuss his new e-book, Nostradamus: The War with Iran. Hogue explains how he wrote 70,000 words in just seven weeks, driven by an inner compulsion that a U.S.-Iran conflict may be closer than most people realize. He connects Nostradamus quatrains to modern geopolitical tensions, including the missile defense standoff between the U.S. and Russia, and warns that forces within the old order of humanity resist the changes a new age demands.The conversation ranges across climate science, with Art citing alarming data on Greenland glaciers accelerating from six feet per year to seventy-five feet per year of ice loss. Hogue argues that mainstream scientists have been too cautious in their projections and that cascading tipping points, including methane release from warming tundra, could push sea level rise decades ahead of schedule.Hogue frames the current era as a moment of profound transformation, where humanity must balance rational science with subjective intuition. He urges listeners to document precognitive experiences rigorously, and both host and guest agree that the paranormal deserves serious scientific attention rather than ridicule or blind belief.

Art Bell speaks with Whitley Strieber about mysterious drone photographs from Northern California and the accelerating crisis of global warming. Strieber analyzes the Chad UFO drone images, noting their unusual clarity and strange writing, and suggests the object may have been designed to look fake as concealment. The conversation shifts to alarming climate developments, including rapid ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica far exceeding predictions.Strieber warns that sea level rise could displace hundreds of millions from low-lying nations like Bangladesh. He and Art discuss the geopolitics of emissions, noting Exxon recently abandoned its support for climate denial. Strieber emphasizes that Western nations must lead global reduction efforts despite the challenge of bringing China and India along.In the second half, Art welcomes first-time guest Paul F. Eno, a paranormal investigator since 1970 and author of five books on the subject. Eno describes his early seminary-era investigations where he encountered ghostly sounds of children, farm animals, and an ox cart at an abandoned Connecticut settlement. He challenges the traditional view of ghosts as spirits of the dead, proposing instead that these phenomena represent overlapping realities where living people from other timeframes briefly intersect with our own.

Art Bell interviews first-time guest Robert Collins, a career Air Force veteran who spent 22 years in avionics, communications, engineering, physics, and intelligence at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Foreign Technology Division. Collins describes how a casual conversation in a classified vault in 1985 led him to retired lieutenant colonel Ernie Kellerstrauss, who shared extraordinary stories about UFO encounters and recovered materials.Collins recounts the 1959 Misawa, Japan incident in which an F-106 pilot fired a full salvo of missiles at a hovering disc-shaped UFO with no effect. According to the account, a tractor beam then emerged from the craft and pulled the aircraft toward it while ground controllers listened to the pilot's screams. He also discusses classified compounds on Sandia Base used for testing on recovered non-human biological materials, with body parts allegedly on loan from Wright-Patterson.The discussion expands to cover underground tunnel systems connecting military installations, including Area 51, Los Alamos, and Dulce. Collins explains how he spent years verifying these accounts through multiple sources within the intelligence community, ultimately concluding that the government UFO cover-up spanning over 60 years is real. The first hour features open lines with callers discussing current events.

Art Bell welcomes back Peter Ward, professor of biology and earth sciences at the University of Washington and NASA Astrobiology Institute investigator, to discuss his book Under a Green Sky and the science of mass extinctions. Ward explains that while the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid impact, the other 15 mass extinctions over 500 million years show no such evidence.Ward presents his theory that most mass extinctions were driven by greenhouse gas-induced ocean chemistry changes. He describes how rising CO2 levels acidify oceans until marine organisms cannot form shells, and how saturated oceans can suddenly release massive amounts of carbon dioxide in catastrophic overturning events. He draws a parallel to the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster in Africa, where volcanic CO2 burst from a lake and killed nearly 2,000 people.The conversation grows urgent as Ward reveals the Southern Ocean around Antarctica is already saturated with CO2 decades ahead of predictions. He warns that current warming trends mirror conditions that preceded the Permian extinction, the worst in Earth's history, which eliminated roughly 90 percent of all species. The first hour covers the Chad UFO photo controversy and open lines.

Art Bell speaks with researcher and author Tom Horn about his book Nephilim Stargates, which examines ancient accounts of fallen angels, hybrid beings, and interdimensional portals through the lens of modern science. Horn describes how the biblical Watchers, a group of 200 angels described in the Book of Enoch, descended to Earth, mated with human women, and produced the Nephilim, a race of giants referenced across multiple ancient texts.Horn connects these ancient narratives to contemporary developments in transgenics and biotechnology. He explains how his earlier fiction novel, The Ahriman Gate, required deep research into genetic modification, which led him to discover striking parallels between modern species-blending experiments and the ancient stories of gods creating hybrid creatures. He notes that a significant portion of federal research funding was already going toward transgenic science, raising questions about what is being developed behind closed doors.The discussion also touches on potential political and prophetic dimensions, including references to Masonic symbolism and inaugural speeches. Horn presents his theory that stargates or portals described in ancient mythology may represent actual mechanisms through which non-human entities entered the physical world. The first hour features unscreened open lines with callers discussing current events.

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Mark Eberhart, professor of chemistry and materials science at the Colorado School of Mines and author of Feeding the Fire, for an in-depth discussion on America's growing energy crisis. Eberhart explains why corn-based ethanol is a flawed solution, noting that farm subsidies rather than real energy gains drive the push for biofuels, and that converting cellulose to ethanol holds far more promise.The conversation explores Eberhart's central thesis that energy and human imagination are inseparable. He argues that everything civilization has created, from automobiles to books, exists because humans harnessed energy to give substance to their ideas. Art and Eberhart discuss how exponentially rising energy consumption, combined with dependence on foreign oil funding hostile nations, creates both economic and security vulnerabilities.Eberhart addresses hydrogen as a potential fuel source, explaining the scientific challenges of storage and production that make it less viable than many assume. He also weighs in on climate change, stating that the evidence for human-caused global warming is overwhelming, and warns that China has already surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest carbon emitter. The hour opens with unscreened listener calls on topics ranging from the Iraq War to personal stories.

Art Bell welcomes climate scientist Richard Somerville, a distinguished professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for a thorough discussion of global warming and its accelerating impacts. Somerville explains the basic science behind the greenhouse effect and presents evidence that human carbon dioxide emissions are the primary driver of rising temperatures, while acknowledging the complexity of climate modeling.The conversation addresses specific projections, including a NASA study suggesting eastern U.S. summer temperatures could rise nearly ten degrees Fahrenheit by the 2080s, with cities like Chicago, Washington, and Atlanta potentially averaging between 100 and 110 degrees during dry spells. Somerville discusses the international dimension of the crisis, noting that China is poised to surpass the United States in carbon emissions and opens a new coal-fired power plant every few days.Art presses Somerville on practical solutions and political obstacles, including the influence of industry-funded skepticism that mirrors tactics once used by the tobacco lobby. They discuss the so-called BRIC nations, the challenge of balancing economic development with environmental responsibility, and why Somerville believes the scientific consensus on human-caused warming is as strong as the link between smoking and lung cancer.

Art Bell opens with psychic Evelyn Paglini, who delivers a series of alarming predictions including civil unrest in major cities during the summer, a deliberately released virus with flu-like symptoms, and a major stock market correction in September or October. Paglini warns of intensifying earth changes through 2012, urging listeners to prepare with food, water, and community shelters rather than relying on government response.Richard C. Hoagland joins in the second half to present his hyperdimensional physics theory as an explanation for Colony Collapse Disorder, the mass disappearance of honeybees. Hoagland notes that the bees are not dying but vanishing without a trace, leaving behind untouched hives that even predators avoid, a pattern he compares to cattle mutilation cases. He calculates roughly one billion bees have disappeared across the northern hemisphere.Hoagland highlights that only commercially farmed bees are affected while organic hives remain healthy, suggesting the corporate practice of trucking bees across the country and feeding them sugar water may play a role. He and Art discuss the debunked Einstein bee quote, the potential collapse of one-third of the American food supply, and how torsion field physics might explain the disruption of bee navigation systems.

Art Bell speaks with Daniel H. Wilson, a robotics engineer and author, about the current state of robots and the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Wilson describes the wide spectrum of robotic technology already embedded in daily life, from anti-lock braking systems that use neural networks to autonomous vacuum cleaners and military reconnaissance drones operating in combat zones.The discussion moves into the concept of general-purpose human-level intelligence and when machines might pass the threshold where a person cannot distinguish between human and artificial conversation. Wilson explains how Moore's Law continues to drive exponential growth in processing power, while parallel computing and massive data storage bring the possibility of truly intelligent machines closer each year. He also addresses the ethical dimensions of weaponized robots and autonomous killing machines already in development.Art and Wilson explore the longer-term implications, including whether robots could eventually store and replicate the entirety of a human's sensory experience. They discuss the cultural fear surrounding intelligent machines, the practical benefits robots already provide in surgery and search-and-rescue operations, and the question of whether humanity will ultimately merge with its own technological creations.

Art Bell presents a two-topic broadcast beginning with the global warming debate, taking calls from listeners who weigh in on climate change, the disappearing bee crisis, and the politics surrounding environmental policy. Callers raise points about Martian polar ice caps melting, agricultural shifts needed to adapt to warming, and the urgent need for action regardless of the cause.The second half features Brother Michael Dimond, a traditional Catholic Benedictine monk who argues that the post-Vatican II Church represents a counterfeit version of Catholicism. Brother Dimond explains how changes to the Mass introduced by Pope Paul VI, particularly the alteration of consecration words from "many" to "all," mirror Protestant reforms made by the Church of England centuries earlier. He contends these changes invalidated the sacraments for millions of Catholics worldwide.Brother Dimond connects these institutional changes to biblical prophecy, citing Daniel and Thessalonians as predictions of apostasy within the Church. He discusses the invalidation of priestly ordinations under the new rites, the Third Secret of Fatima, and Pope Leo XIII's reported vision in which the devil was granted a period of roughly 75 to 100 years to attempt the destruction of the Catholic Church from within.

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 like the San Augustine Plains and White Sands regions of New Mexico.The conversation covers the methods Wood uses to authenticate documents related to crash retrievals, including his analysis of purported MJ-12 papers and other classified materials. He explains why advanced extraterrestrial craft might crash at all, pointing to factors like lightning interference, radar disruption, and even mid-air collisions between craft. Wood also discusses photographic evidence he has obtained through Google Earth showing unusual convoy routes and pentagon-shaped road formations near restricted military zones.Callers contribute their own sightings, including a trucker who photographed what appeared to be a saucer-shaped object on a military flatbed traveling through Iowa. Art and Wood also discuss underground installations, the secrecy surrounding recovered materials, and why the government would maintain such extreme classification protocols around crash evidence for over sixty years.