The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell dedicates the opening hours of his program to the UPS strike entering its second week, calling it a growing national emergency. He restricts phone lines to UPS employees, management personnel, and union representatives, arguing that the walkout by 200,000 Teamsters is crippling small businesses across America that depend on the delivery of nearly 12 million packages daily. He questions why President Clinton, who intervened in the baseball strike, refuses to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act despite $2.4 million in Teamster campaign contributions.A UPS management caller contradicts union claims that part-time workers receive no benefits, stating that all part-timers who reach seniority get full medical, dental, and vision coverage. An 18-year part-time feeder driver confirms he earns $17.89 per hour with excellent benefits and says he chose part-time work for the lifestyle flexibility. Both callers express frustration at being kept in the dark by negotiators in Washington and support giving rank-and-file members an opportunity to vote on the company's offer.A third caller, a preloader and air driver, identifies the pension plan as the central sticking point, explaining that UPS wants to take over pension management from the Teamsters. He supports the strike on the pension issue but agrees the membership should be allowed to vote on the proposal rather than having the decision made entirely by union leadership.

Art Bell welcomes abduction researcher Budd Hopkins for a Dreamland broadcast that begins with a discussion of media attacks on UFO investigators. Budd recounts how the PBS program NOVA set him up during filming, suppressing the most compelling footage of a husband describing his family's abduction while editing hypnosis sessions to falsely suggest he was leading witnesses. Linda Moulton Howe reports on Bigfoot sightings near Ochopee, Florida, where multiple tour guides and a fire chief observed a tall primate creature, followed by visits from men in black and mysterious helicopter activity.Budd then shares the extraordinary case documented in his book Witnessed, in which a woman was floated out of her twelfth-story New York City apartment window in a beam of light in November 1989. Multiple independent witnesses came forward, including government security agents protecting a major political figure whose motorcade had stalled below due to electromagnetic effects. A woman on the Brooklyn Bridge and other observers corroborated identical details.The discussion turns to the purpose behind abductions. Budd explains that the phenomenon centers on genetic harvesting and hybridization, with alien beings extracting human reproductive material and later presenting hybrid children to their human parents. He notes the beings seem envious of human emotional depth, a quality they appear to lack entirely.

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night with a twist, designating his first-time caller line exclusively for men in black, time travelers, and anyone claiming to possess a time machine. Several callers rise to the occasion, beginning with a self-described "auditor" who claims men in black are outdated biological drones created from insect templates with human genetic material impressed upon them. He says their files are full of holes and they desperately need upgrading.A second caller identifies himself as both a man in black and a time traveler, offering elaborate claims about the Roswell crash being staged technology, Phoenix being prepared as a future provincial capital of Earth, and a coming revolution in 2018. He says the hierarchy controlling the men in black has been taken over by a new female leader who has decided to let information flow to the public. A self-proclaimed time machine inventor then calls to describe his "fidget," a handheld device made from bicycle chain links that he says helps users manipulate their perception of time.Between calls, Art discusses the UPS strike, new crop circle formations near Silbury Hill in England, and a possible response to a message sent through crop circles. He also previews his upcoming appearance on the TBS program Topics about American conspiracy culture.

Art Bell speaks with Penthouse Magazine publisher Bob Guccione about his wife Kathy Keaton's remarkable recovery from terminal stage four breast cancer. Diagnosed two years earlier with cancer that had spread throughout her lymph nodes, liver, stomach, and bones, Kathy was given three to six weeks to live. She refused chemotherapy and radiation, instead choosing hydrazine sulfate, an inexpensive compound Penthouse had investigated for 18 years.Bob details how hydrazine sulfate combats cachexia, the wasting process that ultimately kills cancer patients, while also shrinking tumors. He describes flying staff to Japan and Italy to obtain vitamin K3, a complementary treatment unavailable in the United States due to pharmaceutical industry resistance. He reports that Kathy is now in complete remission and healthier than ever, at a treatment cost of roughly $150 per year compared to tens of thousands for conventional therapy.Bob describes how the National Cancer Institute sabotaged UCLA clinical trials by administering incompatible substances to 600 patients, then declared hydrazine sulfate ineffective. He announces plans for a class action lawsuit and urges families of the trial participants to contact Penthouse with their stories.

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 of his skills. He also revisits the Roswell crash, proposing that an advanced race orchestrated the event and later erased physical evidence through time travel.The conversation takes a darker turn as Ed outlines environmental catastrophes he says remote viewers have tracked, including ozone layer collapse and an artificial component detached from Comet Hale-Bopp carrying a plant pathogen toward Earth. Art presses him on the timeline for global disruption, and Ed points to late 1998 as the beginning of widespread agricultural and economic consequences.Ed then reveals his most ambitious undertaking, Project Starman, a plan to initiate contact with a non-human race using laser technology. He explains that technical remote viewing identified the means, location, and recipients for a laser beacon he intends to build at a facility in Polynesia. He describes the target race as transient occupants of a planet within our solar system who are angry about the deteriorating condition of Earth.

Art Bell presents a Dreamland edition featuring investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe reporting on a deadly aquatic organism devastating the North Carolina coast, followed by dream analysts Jim and Pat Fregia discussing the hidden power of the sleeping mind. Howe details the spread of Pfiesteria, a toxic microorganism dubbed the cell from hell, which lies dormant in sediment until activated by pollutants and then attacks fish and humans with open bleeding sores.The Fregias explain that dreams are messages from the subconscious mind, arriving primarily in symbolic form every 90 minutes during sleep. They describe techniques for programming specific dreams, including writing questions on paper tucked inside a pillowcase, and discuss lucid dreaming as a method of taking conscious control within the dream state. Jim shares that he and Pat have verified out-of-body experiences by independently confirming details observed during astral travel.Callers share vivid dreams including a Washington state listener warned to evacuate within 180 days and multiple reports of precognitive dreams preceding real-world events. The Fregias note that six callers from different states reported dreaming of a frequency change on Earth during the same week, coinciding with an unusual spike in disorientation cases reported by a local doctor.

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 playing recorded speech backwards to reveal hidden messages embedded in forward dialogue.Oates explains that the human brain constructs speech sounds so that a second message communicates simultaneously in reverse, occurring roughly every 10 to 15 seconds as short phrases with over 80 percent contextual relevance to the forward words. He demonstrates with infant reversals, including babies saying intelligible phrases months before learning to speak forward. Art and Oates conduct a live experiment proving that listeners cannot hear a suggested reversal unless it actually exists in the audio.The centerpiece of the program is the analysis of Colonel Corso, whose reversals Oates declares completely congruent and truthful. Reversals including ''sworn the general,'' ''it was so real,'' and ''produced illegal patents'' directly support Corso''s claims about Roswell crash debris being seeded into American industry. Oates also plays Clinton budget speech reversals and the classic George Bush inauguration reversal where a commentator''s words play back as ''you''re fired.''

Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf, a Native American elder of Lakota and Iroquois heritage, for a sweeping discussion about environmental collapse and Native prophecy. The broadcast itself arrives amid severe weather, with lightning having struck Art''s studio and knocked out equipment the previous night. Ghost Wolf reports witnessing six-legged frogs and jackrabbits with multiple ears in the Arizona desert, signs he says confirm that genetic mutation has spread far beyond waterways.The conversation covers the rapid deterioration of ecosystems worldwide, from millions of diseased fish off the North Carolina coast to migratory birds flying south months early and crops ripening ahead of schedule. Ghost Wolf connects these events to electromagnetic fluctuations in the Earth''s poles and the depletion of essential minerals in food and water. He warns that the human immune system is weakening as the very substances needed to carry information through the blood disappear from the environment.Ghost Wolf explains the Ghost Dance, a spiritual ceremony he is organizing to reconnect humanity with ancestral consciousness before what Hopi elders describe as the end of the current dream. He outlines prophecies of major earth changes between 1998 and 2007, including three and a half days of darkness caused by a collapse of the energy holding physical reality together.

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 Black who told him certain NASA scientists believed the Phoenix Lights were extraterrestrial in origin.Dilettoso joins the program live from his Village Labs facility in Tempe to discuss his analysis of the March 13th Phoenix Lights footage. He explains that frame-by-frame optical testing of the unknown objects reveals light signatures fundamentally different from military flares, comparing the distinction to the difference between a violin and an oboe. He notes the objects vanished not like dimming artificial lights but as though an iris closed over them.Callers share stories of a glowing UFO hovering over the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy, a blue flash accompanied by missing time during a camping trip, and pets that appear to speak. Art fields calls from listeners whose dogs say ''mama'' and whose cats demand milk, turning the first-time caller line into a dedicated talking animals hotline for the evening.

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland, Tom Danley, Marv Czarnik, and Ken Franklin for a packed evening spanning two continents and one planet. In the first hour, former NASA consultant and acoustic expert Tom Danley describes his firsthand exploration of secret tunneling above the King''s Chamber in the Great Pyramid at Giza. Danley recounts crawling through newly carved passages, discovering widened cavities, and finding bags of limestone hidden in upper chambers, evidence of clandestine digging that Egyptian authorities deny.The conversation shifts to Mars as NASA veterans Czarnik and Johnston join Hoagland to examine growing anomalies around the Pathfinder mission. They challenge official explanations for a communications blackout on July 20th, arguing that experienced mission controllers could not accidentally miss a contact window by ten minutes. The group questions why the rover''s published operational range appears deliberately understated.Hoagland presents his theory that Pathfinder landed at coordinates encoding hyperdimensional physics constants, claiming a super-resolution image of the right Twin Peak, briefly posted then removed by NASA, reveals the exposed interior of a buried pyramid. He calls on listeners to preserve the image and help verify the discovery.

Art Bell interviews author Jim Keith about his book Casebook on the Men in Black, a serious investigation into the phenomenon behind the Hollywood comedy. Keith identifies at least four categories of men in black encounters: government agents silencing witnesses, hoaxers, delusional reports, and a residual percentage that appears genuinely paranormal and defies conventional explanation.Keith presents the disturbing case of Dr. Hopkins in Maine, who was visited in 1976 by a bald, lipless man in black while researching a UFO abduction. The visitor demonstrated apparent psychic ability by identifying coins in the doctor's pocket, then caused a penny to slowly dematerialize in Hopkins' open hand. The man warned that the same thing had happened to UFO abductee Barney Hill's heart. Hopkins destroyed all his research and never investigated UFOs again.The program traces men in black accounts back to the 1500s, when similar figures appeared in connection with witchcraft and plague outbreaks across Europe. Callers share their own encounters, including a woman whose terminally ill father was visited by men in black who told him they would return to take him to his deceased wife. Keith concludes that while most cases involve government intimidation, a small but irreducible core of encounters remains unexplainable.

Art Bell hosts retired Colonel Philip J. Corso and Dr. John Alexander for an extraordinary discussion about recovered extraterrestrial technology and its integration into American industry. Dr. Alexander, who personally verified Corso's military credentials through Pentagon records and the National Archives, provides independent confirmation of the Colonel's distinguished career spanning World War II, Korea, and the Eisenhower White House.Corso describes seeing an extraterrestrial body at Fort Riley, Kansas in July 1947, floating in liquid inside one of five crates being transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He details how General Arthur Trudeau later assigned him a file cabinet containing artifacts from the crash, which he systematically distributed to military laboratories and defense contractors. Among the technologies Corso claims originated from this material are fiber optics, night vision devices, integrated circuits, and irradiated food preservation.The conversation also covers a secret war involving U.S. reconnaissance aircraft probing Soviet borders, abandoned American POWs, and Project Horizon, the Army's classified plan to establish a military base on the moon. Dr. Alexander notes that Corso's methods created an untraceable path, making the alien origin of these technologies virtually impossible to confirm or deny.

Art Bell interviews Leonard Nimoy in a brief but energetic half-hour conversation covering Star Trek, science fiction, and the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. Nimoy reflects on why the logical, dignified character of Spock resonated so deeply during the turbulent 1960s, offering audiences a trustworthy figure amid growing cynicism about government and authority.Nimoy shares behind-the-scenes stories about the creation of the Vulcan mind meld during a filming session for the episode "Dagger of the Mind," and candidly discusses the emotional difficulty of filming Spock's death scene in The Wrath of Khan. He reveals that on the day of shooting, producer Harv Bennett asked him to leave a thread for a possible sequel, leading to the iconic "remember" moment. Nimoy also discusses his audio book productions with Alien Voices and his career in musical theater.The remainder of the program features open lines where Art discusses the first artificial brain unveiled at Stanford's Genetic Programming Conference, a million-neuron machine capable of evolving its own neural networks. Art and callers debate the implications of creating a sentient artificial intelligence without human morality or emotion.

Art Bell speaks with Claire Sylvia, a dancer from Massachusetts who received a heart and lung transplant from an 18-year-old motorcycle accident victim in 1988. The first two hours feature open lines covering topics including crop circles from England, the Cunanan manhunt, and the Mars Pathfinder mission losing contact on July 20th.Sylvia describes her years-long battle with primary pulmonary hypertension, a rare fatal lung disease, and the dramatic day she received the call for her transplant just one day after being evaluated. Following surgery, she began experiencing unexplained cravings and personality changes that seemed to belong to her young male donor. She craved beer and chicken nuggets, foods she had never wanted before, and began having vivid cross-gender dreams.Most remarkably, Sylvia dreamed her donor's name, Tim L., six months after the transplant and later confirmed it through his obituary. She discusses the concept of cellular memory, her eventual meeting with Tim's family, and the moment years later when she felt his spirit finally depart from her body, freeing her to form new relationships.

Art Bell welcomes Dannion Brinkley, a former covert military operative turned near-death experience survivor, for a deeply personal conversation about dying and returning. Brinkley recounts being struck by lightning while talking on the phone in 1975, an event that left him clinically dead for 28 minutes and fundamentally transformed his worldview from hardened soldier to spiritual seeker.Brinkley describes floating above his own body, observing the energy fields around those trying to save him, and traveling through a tunnel into a place of brilliant light. He details his panoramic life review, where he re-experienced every interaction from the perspective of those he had affected. He recounts encountering a being of light and visiting crystalline cities where 13 beings showed him visions of future events, including Chernobyl and the collapse of the Soviet Union.The conversation also explores Brinkley's second near-death experience following emergency open heart surgery years later, his 18 years of hospice volunteer work, and what he learned about forgiveness and the true nature of human existence beyond the physical body.

Art Bell welcomes author Robert Anton Wilson, whose 31 books include the legendary Illuminatus trilogy, written during his years as associate editor at Playboy. Wilson explains that the trilogy was born from letters sent to the Playboy Foundation by people claiming government conspiracies against them, blended with real and fictional elements so thoroughly that even he cannot always distinguish between them. He traces the Illuminati from Adam Weishaupt''s 1776 founding through competing theories about its true nature and purpose.Wilson shares his experience of being falsely declared dead on the Internet, a hoax that spiraled into theories about CIA assassination and android replacement. The two discuss the consolidation of media ownership, the suppression of alternative energy technologies by petroleum interests, and Buckminster Fuller''s principle of doing more with less. Wilson describes nanotechnology as the coming revolution that could rebuild the rainforest in 48 hours and make everything practically free. He expresses optimism that increasing information flow, despite the chaos it creates, will ultimately lead to greater prosperity.Callers press Wilson on topics ranging from the Priory of Sion and Oriental Masonry to the murder of Pope John Paul I and the Tesla conspiracy. Wilson recommends his three Cosmic Trigger volumes for readers interested in secret societies and maintains that the unpredictability of modern life stems not from hidden conspiracies but from the accelerating speed of information itself.

Art Bell introduces Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a parapsychologist, doctor of divinity, and lifelong practitioner of natural magic who was trained by her grandfather, a high-ranking magus, beginning at the age of four. Art warns listeners at the outset that the discussion will disturb some people and urges the easily offended to change the station. Dr. Paglini explains the vibrational properties of color, the mechanics of imitative and sympathetic magic using wax effigies and personal items, and the real power behind tools like candles, herbs, and essential oils.Art shares personal stories about his wife, including her successful water witching using coat hangers to locate an underground water source on undeveloped land, and her instinctive reaction to a cursed doll that arrived in the mail, which she immediately buried in salt. Dr. Paglini confirms these as natural abilities rooted in sensitivity and vibration. She discusses familiars, shape-shifting traditions among Native Americans, and the karmic consequences of misusing magical power, which she says returns tenfold.The conversation takes a serious turn when Art, without revealing details, asks whether magic can be used to take a life in cases of justified retaliation. Dr. Paglini affirms this is possible when true justification exists, describing it as setting up a mirror that returns the harm to its sender.

Art Bell opens the show reflecting on the previous night''s split-screen broadcast from Phoenix, noting that some listeners refused to believe the technological feat was real. He covers the day''s news, including the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, the troubled Mir space station, and the Mars Pathfinder rover''s ongoing discovery of what amounts to red rocks on the Martian surface. Art questions the scientific value of landing at the chosen site when the far more intriguing region of Cydonia remains unexplored.The open lines segment produces a memorable parade of unusual callers. A woman from Wisconsin describes seeing a one-foot-tall elf wearing a green suit with pointy shoes, peering into a glass of water in her childhood home. A caller from Jacksonville reports a mysterious new creature in Texas dubbed the "chupalavetga," said to be a cousin of the chupacabra that feeds on snakes. Another caller shares documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base referencing flying saucers.Art reopens his "Time Traveler Hotline," a dedicated phone line for callers claiming to have physically traveled through time. The line rings constantly as self-proclaimed time travelers call in with predictions, echoing the eerie success of similar callers from previous broadcasts.

Art Bell broadcasts a groundbreaking split-screen event, connecting his Nevada studio with the Civic Plaza Ballroom in Phoenix, Arizona, where Richard C. Hoagland hosts a packed seminar before thousands of attendees. Hoagland presents his analysis of tetrahedral geometry encoded in NASA mission dates, coordinates, and landing sites, arguing that a Masonic influence has shaped the space program for decades. He notes that the Pathfinder rover, named Sojourner, carries deep Masonic significance rooted in ancient tradition.Phoenix Councilwoman Frances Barwood details the political intimidation she has faced for publicly investigating the March 13th Phoenix Lights. She describes the mayor''s office distributing mocking business cards with her name and the dismissive responses she received from every level of government. Despite a recall effort launched against her, Barwood remains committed to seeking answers about the massive object witnessed by thousands over the city.Panelists Ken Johnston and Vance Davis trace Masonic traditions back through ancient Egypt while researcher Larry Hunter presents GPS-verified coordinates linking the Giza Plateau to the Orion constellation. Hoagland projects that a significant event will occur between July 20th and 26th, connected to celestial alignments over Phoenix, Mars, and the moon.

Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin, the renowned Catholic priest, author, and former Jesuit who served as advisor to two popes. Fr. Martin shares the remarkable story of his journey from Ireland to the Vatican, his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the unusual arrangement by which Pope Paul VI granted him a rare priestly status outside any diocese or religious order.The conversation turns to the nature of demonic possession, which Fr. Martin describes as a slow, staged process similar to addiction. He explains the difference between partial possession and "perfect possession," a state from which no person has ever emerged. He estimates roughly ten million Americans may be perfectly possessed, many of them occupying positions of power and influence. Fr. Martin reports that exorcism cases in the northeastern United States have increased 750 to 800 percent since 1970.Art opens a special phone line inviting atheists and practitioners of the dark arts to interact with Fr. Martin. Callers raise questions about the nature of God, the profile of possessable individuals, and the dangers of the middle plateau where psychics and remote viewers operate. Fr. Martin warns against Ouija boards, transcendental meditation, and spiritual seances as gateways to dangerous spiritual territory.

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 Blanchard handed him the draft and sent him to the local media. He describes the event with striking calm, noting he delivered the release and went home for lunch.Frank Kaufman, who claims he was part of the impact site cleanup crew, describes the craft as roughly 24 feet long with a shape resembling a stealth bomber. He reports finding bodies and describes the beings as small, about five feet tall, with ash-colored skin and features that looked surprisingly human. He dismisses the Santilli autopsy film as a hoax.Jesse Marcel Jr. recounts handling debris his father brought home, including foil-like material and small I-beams bearing purple geometric symbols. He disputes the mogul balloon explanation after examining actual mogul materials. A rare tape captures Jesse Marcel Sr. phoning his son years later. Colonel DuBose confirms the balloon was a cover story, and Major Easley says he remains sworn to secrecy.

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Karl Grossman to discuss alarming risks surrounding NASA's upcoming Cassini mission to Saturn, scheduled to launch October 6, 1997. The probe will carry 72.3 pounds of plutonium-238 oxide, the most plutonium ever placed on a space device, to generate just 745 watts of electricity for its instruments. Grossman notes the Titan IV rocket has roughly a five percent failure rate, raising concerns about a launch accident dispersing radioactive material over Florida and beyond.The greater danger comes in August 1999, when Cassini is scheduled to fly back past Earth at 42,300 miles per hour, passing just a few hundred miles above the surface to gain speed for its journey to Saturn. NASA's own environmental impact statement acknowledges that a re-entry accident could release plutonium dust affecting approximately five billion people. Independent scientists project potential fatalities ranging from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions, far exceeding NASA's estimate of 2,300 cancer deaths.Grossman argues the mission could use high-efficiency solar cells developed by the European Space Agency instead. He questions why NASA insists on plutonium when ESA plans to send its Rosetta probe beyond Jupiter on solar power alone.

Art Bell welcomes Stan Tenen, director of research for the Meru Foundation, to discuss hidden patterns in the Hebrew text of Genesis. Tenen distinguishes his 30 years of research from the statistical Bible codes popularized by Michael Drosnin, explaining that the Torah is not a collection of specific prophecies but rather a system designed to guide a person toward a prophetic state of consciousness. He compares this to a fishing pole rather than a fish.Tenen describes how he discovered the patterns by writing Hebrew letters on a bead chain and curling it until matching letters aligned. The chain folded itself into recognizable geometric forms that unfolded in an elegant sequence. He connects these forms to the Great Pyramid, noting that the mathematical measurements of the Genesis spiral correspond to the pyramid angle of approximately 52 degrees. He also explains how Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic letters appear to derive from shadows cast by specific hand gestures.The conversation turns to the Pardes meditation from the Talmud, where Rabbi Akiba and three companions attempted to reach a transcendent state. Only Akiba returned whole. Tenen warns that such experiences require humility and grounding in tradition, cautioning against arrogance when approaching these spiritual realities.

Art Bell hosts a special Dreamland broadcast from Roswell, New Mexico, featuring Colonel Philip J. Corso and co-author William J. Birnes discussing their book The Day After Roswell. Linda Moulton Howe moderates as Corso recounts his 1947 experience at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he saw a small, gray, non-human body floating in liquid inside a veterinary building. The creature had a large head, no ears, slit-like features, and spindly limbs.Birnes describes the fierce internecine warfare between military intelligence and the CIA during the Cold War. Army leaders distrusted the civilian intelligence apparatus, believing it had been penetrated by Soviet agents. This distrust shaped the decision to keep recovered alien technology strictly within military channels. Corso then describes the file cabinet General Trudeau assigned him in 1961, filled with artifacts from the Roswell crash.Corso details how he and Trudeau seeded alien technologies into American industry through standard R&D contracts. Items from the cabinet became precursors to integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, night vision devices, and super tenacity fibers. He also discusses Project Horizon, a classified Army plan for a lunar outpost, and directed energy weapons derived from recovered materials.

Art Bell broadcasts live on Independence Day with reporter Linda Moulton Howe calling in from Roswell, New Mexico. Howe covers a groundbreaking press conference where Dr. Russell Vernon Clark of UC San Diego presents isotope ratio analysis of a mysterious fragment. The nearly pure silicon piece contains trace amounts of zinc, nickel, silver, and germanium, all with ratios that do not match any known terrestrial source. Paul Davids explains that replication tests through Stanford University confirmed the findings.German researcher Michael Hesemann joins from Roswell to discuss his book Beyond Roswell and his investigation of the Santilli alien autopsy film. Having communicated extensively with filmmaker Ray Santilli, Hesemann reports that chemical analysis of the film stock confirms it dates to the 1940s. He notes that pathologists worldwide have identified the subject as a real biological entity rather than a dummy. Hesemann contrasts the serious scientific coverage of UFOs in Europe with the pop-culture treatment the subject receives in American media.Art also touches on the successful Mars Pathfinder landing earlier that day, praising NASA for the mission while setting up a later discussion with Richard C. Hoagland about the significance of the Pathfinder images and the questions they raise.