The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes Nick Cook, aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly and author of The Hunt for Zero Point, for a wide-ranging discussion on anti-gravity research and breakthrough propulsion technologies. Cook describes how he broke the story about Boeing's classified GRASP program, a proposal to work with Russian scientist Evgeny Podkletnov, who claims to have reduced an object's weight by two percent using rapidly spinning superconductors.Art shares his own encounter with a massive, silent, triangular craft that floated over his car near Area 51, and Cook confirms these sightings fit a global pattern of reports describing large, noiseless triangular objects that defy conventional aerodynamics. He notes that nothing in Jane's All the World's Aircraft matches these descriptions. Cook also discusses BAE Systems' interest in Podkletnov's work and Lockheed Martin's exploration of similar concepts.The conversation turns to zero point energy, the theoretically proven sea of electromagnetic particles that flash in and out of existence throughout all space. Cook explains how harnessing this field could revolutionize propulsion, eliminate dependence on fossil fuels, and open the door to interstellar travel. He traces the mystery back to 1950s aerospace companies that publicly discussed anti-gravity breakthroughs before suddenly falling silent.

Art Bell returns after time off due to recurring back spasms and catches up on major news stories, including the FBI's search of a person of interest in the anthrax mailings, a UFO chase by F-16s over Maryland, Boeing's classified anti-gravity program called GRASP reported by Jane's Defence Weekly, and four Fort Bragg soldiers killing their wives after returning from Afghanistan. He also reads an email from a woman who claims a stranger levitated pens, rose off the ground, and identified himself as a time traveler.Rocket enthusiast and stunt coordinator Ky Michaelson, known as "Rocket Man," joins to discuss his decades of building rockets and rigging Hollywood stunts. He describes constructing rockets for the film October Sky, designing the highest stunt ever performed off Toronto's CN Tower with daredevil Dar Robinson, and putting rocket engines on everything from wheelchairs to Harley-Davidsons. Michaelson details his Civilian Space Exploration Team's attempt to launch an amateur rocket 62 miles into space from the Black Rock Desert.The conversation covers the bureaucratic obstacles of obtaining FAA and Space Transportation Department approval, the challenges of amateur rocketry at extreme speeds, and Michaelson's skepticism that an Oregon man will successfully launch himself in a homemade rocket.

Art Bell speaks with Stephanie, a mother from Staten Island, New York, who describes a lifetime of paranormal encounters beginning at age fifteen when she used a Ouija board. She recounts the name "Anna Brigham" appearing in ash on her hand and transferring to her mother's wall, a statue with glowing eyes, and her seven-year-old daughter recently witnessing three small green creatures flying around her bedroom while the family cat attacked one of them.Storm chasing photojournalist Warren Faidley then joins from Tucson, Arizona, to discuss his nearly two decades of pursuing extreme weather. He describes his custom chase truck equipped with computers, a defibrillator, and a NASCAR-style roll cage. Faidley explains the physics of tornadoes, microbursts, and gustnadoes, and reveals that tornado activity in 2002 is far below average, with the longest period in U.S. history without a tornado fatality.Art and Warren discuss shifting weather patterns across the Southwest, the rare high-risk severe weather outlook issued for the upper Mississippi Valley, and Faidley's first storm chase at age twelve that ended with a near-death experience in a flash flood. The episode also touches on a mysterious bottomless hole discovered under a street in Washington state.

Art Bell welcomes journalist and technology researcher Douglas Mulhall to discuss the emerging world of nanotechnology and its potential to reshape civilization. Mulhall explains how scientists are now manipulating individual atoms using scanning tunneling microscopes and describes the three prerequisites for molecular nanotechnology: atomic manipulation, self-replication, and assembly.The conversation explores nanobacteria, a newly discovered pathogen hundreds of times smaller than conventional bacteria that secretes calcium and may underlie heart disease, kidney stones, and cataracts. Mulhall describes promising early results from treatments that strip the calcium coating and attack these organisms with antibiotics. He then addresses the concept of "gray goo," the theoretical scenario where self-replicating nanomachines consume all matter on Earth, noting both the legitimate danger and the biological counterarguments against it.Mulhall discusses solar cells made from carbon nanorods that could be spray-painted onto any surface, the possibility of machines surpassing human intelligence by 2030, and how nanotechnology might enable molecular disassembly of incoming asteroids. Art presses him on whether humans are preparing their own evolutionary replacement through these technologies.

Art Bell opens the phone lines and asks listeners to rate America's prospects on a scale of one to ten, creating what he calls the "Bell Comfort Index." Callers weigh in on the stock market's decline, corporate scandals at Enron and WorldCom, the war on terrorism, and ecological concerns, with ratings averaging around four to five.Trends Research Institute founder Gerald Celente joins to deliver a stark assessment, rating America's prospects at three. He outlines his theory of the "five O's" driving economic decline: overproduction, overcapacity, overpopulation, open markets, and online commerce. Celente warns that the gap between rich and poor has reached dangerous levels and draws parallels between 2002 and 1932, predicting trade wars, rising nationalism, and potential social upheaval.The conversation turns to the possibility of another terrorist attack collapsing the economy, the erosion of constitutional rights under anti-terrorism measures, and the risk of middle-class revolution. Celente argues that until the United States stops policing the world and meddling in foreign conflicts, the terrorism trend will only escalate, drawing from predictions he published years earlier.

Art Bell opens with a World Wildlife Fund report warning that Earth's natural resources will be exhausted by 2050, citing a 12 percent loss of forest cover, a one-third decline in ocean biodiversity, and a 95 percent drop in tiger populations. He then introduces author John Cogan, whose book argues that a six-mile-wide asteroid struck the North Atlantic Ocean 10,500 years ago, ending the last ice age and nearly extinguishing human civilization.Cogan presents physical evidence including the Carolina Bays, 3,000 elliptical depressions near Charleston that all point toward a crater at 24 degrees north latitude and 61 degrees west longitude. He cites the Camp Century Greenland ice core, which shows an instantaneous 20-degree Fahrenheit temperature spike, a near-tripling of atmospheric carbon dioxide, volcanic ash, and sea salt deposits all occurring simultaneously at the 10,500-year mark.The impact, Cogan explains, destroyed the ozone layer and sterilized most large animals through ultraviolet radiation, reducing human population by an estimated 90 percent. He contends that pre-impact humans were taller with larger brains than modern people, and that civilization required 5,000 years to reemerge in the form of Sumer, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Central America.

Art Bell devotes a Friday night to time travel, beginning with author John Chambers, publisher of "Father Ernetti's Chronovisor," documenting the Benedictine monk who claimed to have built a device capable of viewing past events. Father Pellegrino Ernetti, a quantum physics scholar and world authority on polyphonic music, reportedly collaborated with 12 anonymous physicists to construct the machine in the 1950s based on the principle that light and sound waves never truly disappear.Chambers describes how Ernetti claimed to have witnessed the crucifixion of Christ, watched Cicero deliver an oration, recovered a lost Latin play from 169 B.C., and even glimpsed a future bank robbery in time to alert police. A photograph allegedly showing Christ on the cross later matched a wooden carving in an Italian church, raising questions of fraud, though Jesuit priest Father Francois Brun maintained that Ernetti was too accomplished to fabricate such claims.The program shifts to open lines where callers report apparent time slips, including a woman in Walmart witnessing the same mother and daughter enter twice in identical fashion. Art notes that two previous guests who researched time travel have both vanished without explanation.

Art Bell hosts Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for an evening of electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at cemeteries, a haunted house, and the Laramie Territorial Prison in Wyoming. The five-member nonprofit group uses brand-new, never-recorded-on cassette tapes and five simultaneous recorders to document what they believe are voices of the dead.The EVP samples range from a child's voice saying "perfect circle" near an infrared scope to a woman named Hazel identifying herself inside a prison warden's house. One recording captures a child admitting "I did" after tugging a blanket from the investigators in a freezing cemetery. Cook reveals that the group now possesses a real-time recorder, built by electronics engineer Christopher Helms, that allows them to hear EVP responses through headphones just one second after recording.Art presses the investigators on what these voices reveal about the afterlife. Cook notes that spirits have described their surroundings as "cold" and "dark," and that approximately 60 to 70 percent of recorded voices appear directly responsive to the investigators' questions. The pair also discusses compass deflection and EMF spikes that sometimes correlate with EVP captures.

Art Bell interviews retired FBI agent Candice DeLong, a 20-year veteran of the Bureau who worked the Unabomber case, went undercover as a gangster's girlfriend, and became a real-life counterpart to Clarice Starling. The program opens with Art reading a story about the Vatican allegedly hiding a time machine called the chronovisor, built by Benedictine monk Father Pellegrino Ernetti in the 1950s to view past events including the crucifixion of Christ.DeLong offers a blistering critique of FBI management, identifying three systemic problems: agents can apply for supervisory positions with only three years of experience, specialization is neither required nor honored, and incompetent managers are routinely promoted rather than disciplined. She describes the institutional failures that preceded September 11th, noting that agents in Phoenix and Minneapolis had crucial intelligence that headquarters ignored.The discussion covers post-9/11 civil liberties concerns including the Patriot Act's expanded detention powers, FBI monitoring of library records, and whether inter-agency communication has genuinely improved. DeLong shares her conviction that the anthrax attacker is male, citing the absence of any female serial bomber in criminal history, and expresses surprise that no further attacks have occurred on American soil.

Art Bell welcomes physicist Dr. Ramon Lopez to discuss a massive solar eruption that occurred on July 1, 2002, with photographs posted on Art's website showing the sun sprouting enormous fiery protrusions. The first hour features Richard C. Hoagland reporting on a landmark two-hour phone conference with NASA's Dr. Jim Garvin about obtaining new images of Cydonia and other anomalous features on Mars.Dr. Lopez, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas El Paso and author of "Storms from the Sun," explains how solar flares and coronal mass ejections threaten satellites, airline passengers flying polar routes, and even cell phone communications. He details the unusual double peak of the current solar cycle and discusses the connection between solar magnetic activity and Earth's climate, referencing the Maunder Minimum and its correlation with the Little Ice Age.The conversation turns to the risks facing future manned missions to Mars, where astronauts would have no atmospheric or magnetic field protection from radiation. Art and Dr. Lopez also examine Earth's weakening and wandering magnetic field, the possibility of a pole reversal, and whether increased solar output may be contributing to observed global warming alongside human activity.

Art Bell interviews Nevada Senator Harry Reid, the assistant Democratic leader in the Senate, about the Bush administration's decision to designate Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear waste repository. Reid argues that President Bush betrayed his campaign promise to Nevadans by pushing forward without sound science, noting that 292 scientific investigations remain incomplete and that the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board deemed the science poor.Reid makes the case that transporting 77,000 tons of nuclear waste across 43 states poses a far greater danger than leaving it in on-site dry cask storage at existing reactor locations. He describes the shipments as 120,000 potential targets of opportunity for terrorists, each cask weighing 135 tons. He notes that on-site storage has been proven safe for 100 years at a fraction of the cost, allowing time for new technologies to emerge. Art presses him on whether Nevada should negotiate for financial compensation, and Reid flatly refuses, saying that once you discuss price, you become a prostitute.Reid also addresses the secrecy surrounding Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force and the political math needed to sustain Governor Guinn's expected veto in the Senate, where he counts roughly 37 to 38 votes toward the 51 needed to block the override.

Art Bell hosts a spirited debate between nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman and Dr. H. Paul Shuch of the SETI League over how best to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Friedman maintains that Earth is already being visited by intelligently controlled spacecraft and that the best evidence lies in classified military data, radar-visual cases, and physical trace evidence from decades of UFO research. He challenges SETI specialists for making proclamations about interstellar travel outside their area of expertise.Dr. Shuch, while respectful of Friedman's research, advocates for the electromagnetic spectrum as a practical detection tool. He draws a distinction between his amateur-driven SETI League, with over 100 radio telescopes worldwide, and the professional SETI Institute. He even stipulates that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial life through panspermia, the theory that microbes seeded life on our planet from beyond. Both men agree that billions of technological civilizations likely exist.Art also interviews a New York mother named Stephanie who describes ongoing paranormal activity in her home, including her seven-year-old daughter witnessing small green beings flying around her bedroom while the family cat attacked one of them. Earlier in the broadcast, Art covers a significant earthquake on the New Madrid Fault and a listener report of a bottomless hole discovered beneath a street in Washington State.

Art Bell, broadcasting on his 57th birthday, welcomes Dr. Steven M. Greer to discuss his paper "Cosmic Deception: Let the Citizen Beware." Greer argues that a shadowy group within the military-industrial complex has been planning to stage a fake extraterrestrial threat using man-made craft called alien reproduction vehicles and advanced holographic technology. He cites roughly a dozen independent insiders who have corroborated elements of this plan, including a former Army Ranger who participated in staged abductions designed to simulate alien encounters.Greer contends that legitimate extraterrestrial contact has occurred but has been buried under layers of deliberate disinformation. He references Werner von Braun's deathbed warnings about a manufactured space threat and Ronald Reagan's speeches about uniting against an alien enemy. Art challenges him on whether benign aliens would truly tolerate humanity's aggression, and Greer responds that extraterrestrials have demonstrated their displeasure by disabling ICBMs rather than attacking.In the second half, Neal Sibley presents the history of the Bell Witch haunting of 1817 to 1821 in Adams, Tennessee. The entity spoke in multiple voices, quoted scripture with total accuracy, manifested tropical fruits, and ultimately claimed responsibility for poisoning John Bell, saying God had permitted the act to benefit future generations.

Art Bell opens the Friday night lines with a provocative scenario built around the Planet X hypothesis. Drawing from recent guests Mark Hazelwood and Nancy Lieder, along with a detailed listener email, he lays out claims that a rogue planetary body will pass Earth in spring 2003, potentially killing nine out of ten people on the planet. He asks listeners a stark question: if you knew you had three months left, what would you do?The responses reveal a vivid cross-section of human nature. One caller announces he would form a roving band and become a warlord, sweeping across the land to establish order through force. Others speak of digging underground shelters, heading for the mountains, or simply sitting on the porch to watch it all unfold. A woman from Idaho says she cannot flee to Canada because her cats would face six months of quarantine. Several callers connect the scenario to the third secret of Fatima and the late Father Malachi Martin's cryptic warnings.Art also covers an earthquake on the New Madrid Fault, fulfilling a prediction by Gordon Michael Scallion, and reports on a bottomless pothole discovered under a street in King County, Washington. The night balances genuine unease about planetary catastrophe with dark humor about government bunkers and who would be invited inside.

Art Bell welcomes anthropologist Dr. Hank Wesselman, who has spent over 30 years conducting field research on human origins in East Africa's Great Rift Valley. Their conversation spans from the precise science of potassium-argon dating to the discovery of Ardipithecus, a fossil creature that may represent the long-sought missing link between apes and humans. Wesselman recounts a memorable 18-hour flight where he systematically dismantled a creationist missionary's worldview using physical evidence.The discussion shifts to the transformational community, a growing movement of roughly 50 million Americans who believe in alternate realities and an underlying field of power connecting all things. Wesselman shares Polynesian creation myths describing humanity arriving as "seeds of light" from across the universe, accompanied by spiritual guardians. He connects these traditions to fossil evidence of early Miocene apes dating back 18 million years.Wesselman then reveals his own spontaneous altered-state experiences in the Ethiopian desert during the 1970s, where a colleague witnessed him floating over camp at night. He describes encountering a tall, featureless, dark silhouette during a later visionary episode, a figure matching what thousands of listeners have reported as shadow people, and one found in rock art worldwide.

Art Bell reads a listener letter describing six mutilated calves found in Idaho, stripped of skin and organs with no blood present, followed by the arrival of unidentified men in a white van who confiscated photographs and removed the carcasses. The account mirrors classic cattle mutilation reports from across the American West.Creationist Dr. Carl E. Baugh then joins to discuss his hyperbaric biosphere, a simulation of Earth's original atmospheric conditions. Baugh explains that doubled atmospheric pressure and enhanced electromagnetic fields would have tripled oxygen absorption into blood plasma, allowing dinosaurs with small lungs to thrive. In experiments, fruit flies under these conditions tripled their adult lifespan in just the second generation, a result he believes would translate to 200-year human lifespans.Baugh presents evidence for recent human-dinosaur coexistence, including Anasazi rock carvings depicting sauropod dinosaurs and Peruvian burial stones showing detailed dermal patterns later confirmed by European fossil discoveries. He argues that the decay rate of Earth's magnetic field, measured since 1829, makes any timeline beyond 20,000 years physically impossible for sustaining molecular life.

Art Bell opens with calls from Denver residents describing the terrifying wildfires burning across 80,000 acres of Colorado, filling the city with smoke and ash. Callers connect the unprecedented drought and lack of snowpack to broader climate changes that mainstream media largely ignores.Nancy Lieder of ZetaTalk then joins, claiming to be an enhanced contactee who communicates telepathically with beings from Zeta Reticuli. She describes her childhood encounters, the physical appearance and habits of the Zetas, and a genetic modification to her brain that enables telepathic communication. Lieder explains the Zetas' purpose on Earth as a form of galactic peace corps, detailing their role in a hybrid breeding program and a universal governance structure that prioritizes direct democratic participation over hierarchy.The conversation turns to Planet X, which Lieder says will pass between Earth and the Sun in spring 2003, triggering a catastrophic pole shift. She predicts 90 percent of the population will perish, with massive flooding, volcanic eruptions, and 25 years of atmospheric gloom. Art presses her on survival strategies, and she recommends moving inland, distilling water, and growing alternative food sources.

Art Bell opens with the arrest of dirty bomb suspect Jose Padilla and welcomes bioterrorism author Stephen Quayle, who argues that a radiological weapon could render an entire city uninhabitable for years. Quayle warns that weapons-grade plutonium is available on the black market and that official media coverage drastically understates the true danger of such an attack.Internationally recognized intuitive Gordon Michael Scallion then joins for a rare interview. He recounts the 1979 incident in which he suddenly lost his voice during a business presentation, was hospitalized, and began seeing vivid images of pyramids, strange craft, and altered maps of the Earth. These visions, initially dismissed as a reaction to IV fluids, proved to contain scenes that later came true. Over the following years, Scallion developed a system of viewing probable futures through what he describes as three screen-like images of varying intensity.Art and Scallion discuss the massive Colorado wildfires devastating the Denver area, the emerging El Nino pattern, and how Scallion's map projections show dramatic geographic changes to North America in the coming decades.

Art Bell confronts the Amazing Kreskin over his failed Las Vegas UFO prediction, during which Kreskin admits his original intention was to demonstrate how an enemy could manipulate mass perception. Art accuses him of deliberate deception and bans him from the show permanently, adding him to a short list of guests never to return.Retired Los Angeles Times editor Phillip Krapf joins to discuss an urgent communique from the Verdants, an alien species he claims contacted him in 1997. Krapf reports that the Verdants have warned they will abandon Earth and halt diplomatic efforts if any faction uses a nuclear weapon. He explains their broader mission to establish relations with species approaching deep space capability, and how the post-9/11 security climate reversed their earlier optimism about humanity's readiness.The program also features open lines where callers discuss global tensions between India and Pakistan, the nature of alien contact, and George Noory's upcoming role as vacation fill-in host. Art announces his first real vacation in years, scheduled for late June, praising Noory as someone who truly understands the spirit of the show.

Art Bell opens the show amid the buzz surrounding the Amazing Kreskin's UFO prediction for Las Vegas. With a night vision camera pointed at the desert sky, Art takes calls from people gathered at the Kreskin event, where most report seeing only airplanes in the McCarran Airport flight path. The prediction is widely deemed a bust.In the second half of the program, Art welcomes physicist Bob Lazar, who worked on advanced propulsion systems at the secretive S4 facility near Area 51. Lazar describes his recruitment through EG&G after meeting Edward Teller, his first glimpse of a disc-shaped craft sitting in a hangar, and the moment he realized the technology was not of human origin. He details the gravity-wave reactor he handled firsthand, a small device that produced a repulsive force field no object could penetrate.Lazar also discusses his hydrogen-powered car, his jet-engine Honda, and a new film deal with Blue Book Films that promises to tell his story accurately. He reveals that only 22 people had clearance at S4 and confirms he still holds their names privately as verification of the program's existence.

Art Bell speaks with Professor Ted Bryant, a physical geographer from the University of Wollongong in Australia, about catastrophic tsunami and climate change. Bryant describes how he first stumbled onto tsunami evidence 13 years earlier when he found angular boulders jammed into coastal crevices in locations too sheltered for ordinary storm waves. What began as a small hypothesis grew into the discovery of multiple massive tsunami events preserved in the Australian coastline over thousands of years.The conversation turns to the mechanics of ocean impacts from space objects. Bryant explains that a rock just over half a mile in diameter hitting the Pacific would vaporize billions of tons of water at 5,000 degrees Celsius, generating a forward-moving steam blast capable of incinerating forests, followed by tsunami waves reaching 30 feet or more at distant coastlines. The vaporized water would then return as unprecedented rainfall events, evidence of which Bryant believes he has found in anomalously wide ancient waterfall channels in Australia's Northern Territory.Art reads breaking news that India plans military action in Kashmir within two weeks, and Bryant provides atmospheric analysis of what a nuclear exchange would mean for global fallout patterns. He notes that the 1963 nuclear testing period left a detectable cooling signature in global temperature records, and explains how monsoon circulation and jet stream patterns would carry radiation from South Asia primarily through China and Japan before crossing the Pacific.

Art Bell speaks with Steve Quayle about the escalating India-Pakistan nuclear standoff. Quayle places the odds of nuclear war at 80 percent and outlines the geopolitical alignments, with Russia backing India and China supporting Pakistan through a mutual defense pact. He warns that terrorist groups with ties to Pakistani intelligence could serve as a trigger, and that a nuclear exchange involving just three major cities could kill tens of millions. Art and Quayle discuss the inadequacy of American civil defense programs and the freely downloadable Nuclear War Survival Skills manual by Cresson Kearney.In the second half, Bruce Moen, a mechanical engineer who trained at the Monroe Institute, describes his decade-long effort to prove the existence of an afterlife through direct contact with deceased individuals. He explains his retrieval technique, in which a living person uses relaxation and guided imagination to locate people who have become "stuck" after death. Moen recounts the experience that convinced him, when a deceased man urgently repeated the word "Punky," which turned out to be the name of his small dog, not a pet name for his daughter.Moen describes an afterlife organized into three zones: isolated realities where confused individuals remain trapped, belief system territories shaped by group expectations, and a higher level containing rehabilitation centers. He recounts exploring a place he calls Thief's Hell, populated entirely by thieves who spend eternity stealing from one another.

Art Bell hosts Major Ed Dames for wide-ranging discussion that opens with a brief appearance by the Amazing Kreskin, who announces he will publicly reveal the exact date and time of his predicted massive UFO sighting over the Nevada desert. Kreskin says the event will occur the following week and invites serious observers to a meeting at the Silverton hotel in Las Vegas.Dames addresses his earlier prediction about Chandra Levy, straightforwardly declaring his Potomac River location a miss rather than offering excuses. He reveals his remote viewing team has now shifted focus to identifying the killer, whom they believe works in a bar or lounge in the Georgetown or DC area. Dames announces he is flying to Washington to personally conduct reconnaissance, matching his team's sketches against actual locations and coordinating with police. He also discusses ongoing work locating missing children in Oregon through his Operation GoldenEye project.On the India-Pakistan nuclear crisis, Dames offers a detailed hypothesis drawing on his background in nuclear non-proliferation intelligence. He suggests the United States possesses classified technology capable of destroying Pakistani missiles during their boost phase, and that a secret arrangement with India could prevent any nuclear exchange from occurring.

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft data revealing enormous quantities of water ice beneath the Martian surface. Hoagland argues the hydrogen distribution map confirms his tidal model of Mars, which posits that two ancient oceans once sat 180 degrees apart on the equator. He contends NASA is downplaying the findings for political reasons, waiting for marching orders from the Bush White House before making a bigger announcement about a potential manned Mars mission.In the second half of the program, James Cox, a 58-year-old Vietnam veteran and former TRW and General Dynamics systems engineer, describes his work on a backpack personal lifter based on what he calls the Gravito Inertial Lift System. Cox claims his device uses counter-rotating unbalanced masses and centrifugal force to generate vertical thrust. In static tests with 150 pounds of concrete blocks on a bathroom scale, he reports a 60-pound weight reduction at only 600 RPM, projecting full human lift at around 3,000 RPM.Cox traces his inspiration to Norman Dean's 1958 oscillator experiments and explains how the Coriolis force creates a time lag between action and reaction forces, producing net directional thrust. He estimates a fully operational backpack could achieve speeds of 60 miles per hour with hours of flight time, all for roughly $100,000 in development funding.

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a themed Friday night session built around three listener-suggested topics. Callers share short-term predictions for the next six weeks, first-person encounters with monsters and unknown creatures, and accounts of sexual encounters with unseen entities or forces. A truck driver describes witnessing a massive winged shadow creature stalking a hiker in the California moonlight, while multiple callers recount being physically held down by invisible presences in their own bedrooms.The evening also touches on breaking news, including an FBI whistleblower accusing headquarters of obstructing pre-September 11 surveillance requests, and a Scotland Yard case in which a stabbed bouncer was found lying in a pool of non-human blood. Paul Harvey first reported the London story, and DNA samples are being sent to a veterinary genetics lab in California for analysis.Throughout the program, Art reads listener emails describing changes in the sun's intensity and color, with painters, photographers, and outdoor workers all reporting that sunlight feels more penetrating and white than in previous years. A caller from Kokomo, Indiana, also reports on the mysterious low-frequency hum plaguing his city and driving residents to abandon their homes.