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March 21, 1996: Mars & Moon Artifacts - Richard C. Hoagland & Ken Johnston

Jun 3, 20232h 50m

March 21, 1996: Mars & Moon Artifacts - Richard C. Hoagland & Ken Johnston

Richard C. Hoagland and Ken Johnston join Art Bell live from Washington, D.C., hours after their press conference at the National Press Club. Johnston, who served as data and photo control department supervisor at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory under a Brown and Root-Northrop contract, describes how he preserved a personal collection of approximately 1,000 first-generation Apollo photographs rather than destroying them as ordered by superiors.Johnston recounts a private screening of Apollo 14 footage for chief astronomer Dr. Thornton Page, during which lights and a plume were visible inside a large crater on the far side of the moon. When the same film was shown the following day to rank-and-file personnel, that sequence had been removed without any visible splicing. Hoagland describes computer-enhanced analysis of Johnston's photographs revealing geometric structures, glass-like ruins, and tiered formations surrounding astronauts on the lunar surface, visible in reflections on helmet visors.The press conference drew 18 cameras and approximately 60 attendees, with Telemundo broadcasting live to South America and Spain. White House correspondent Sarah McClendon attended and invited Hoagland to present to her group of investigative reporters. Hoagland announces the renaming of the Mars Mission to the Enterprise Mission.

Jun 3, 20232h 50m

March 20, 1996: Open Lines

Art Bell opens with updates on the upcoming Hoagland press conference at the National Press Club, reporting conflicting signals from C-SPAN and CNN about coverage plans. He confirms the event will be carried live on his IRC Internet Relay channel. A fax from Valdez, Alaska, alerts the audience that HAARP tests are scheduled to begin that Friday in conjunction with the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission.Art Bell reviews the day's news, including the Menendez brothers' guilty verdict on first-degree murder with special circumstances, the murder of New Jersey teacher Kathleen Weinstein during a carjacking, and the growing wealth gap documented by a Rand Corporation study. He introduces two themes for the evening: building a list of signs contributing to what he calls the quickening, and exploring hypothetical scenarios. Callers contribute observations ranging from senseless crime and declining social trust to the conversion of solar energy into planetary mass.The program features wide-ranging calls including a debate on gun ownership and self-defense, a discussion of Ross Perot's presidential ambitions, an update on Comet the feral cat's recovery from surgery, and a caller from Oregon proposing to claim a volcanic island as a new nation.

Jun 2, 20232h 49m

March 20, 1996: Open Lines

Jun 2, 20232h 49m

March 15, 1996: Mars & Moon Artifacts - Richard C. Hoagland

Jun 1, 20232h 35m

March 15, 1996: Mars & Moon Artifacts - Richard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland returns to reveal major developments ahead of a planned press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., scheduled for March 21st. He announces that former NASA scientists and engineers will present suppressed photographic evidence of ancient artificial structures on the lunar surface. Hoagland describes obtaining multiple versions of Apollo frame 4822, which depicts a mile-sized crystalline object resembling a Grecian temple suspended nine miles above the lunar surface in Sinus Medii.Hoagland discusses a 1960 New York Times article reporting on the Brookings Institution study, which warned that discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts could cause civilization to collapse. He argues this report provided the rationale for a 30-year cover-up of lunar anomalies. He announces that Graham Hancock will participate in the press conference via satellite phone from the Giza plateau on the spring equinox, connecting lunar findings to evidence of lost terrestrial civilizations.Art Bell uploads new photographs to his website in real time during the broadcast, including a ground-based video frame from Hawaii showing the tethered satellite glowing against background stars with unexplained luminous points at both ends.

Jun 1, 20232h 35m

March 10, 1996: Spontaneous Human Combustion - Larry Arnold & Linda Moulton Howe

Larry Arnold, author of Ablaze: The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion, presents two decades of research into cases where human bodies incinerate under conditions that defy conventional fire science. Arnold details the 1966 death of Dr. John Irving Bentley, a 92-year-old Pennsylvania physician whose body was reduced to a pile of ash and a single leg, while his bathroom remained virtually undamaged. He explains that cremation-level temperatures exceeding 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit would be required, yet no accelerants were ever found at such scenes.Arnold describes eyewitness cases including Peter Jones, whose body spontaneously produced billowing smoke on two occasions without causing tissue damage. He explores theories involving aberrant electrical discharges within the body, subatomic physics, and psychological factors such as depression and explosive temperament that may predispose individuals to the phenomenon. Arnold challenges the human candlewick theory, noting that overweight bodies are actually the most difficult to cremate.Linda Moulton Howe opens the program with an update on the Chupacabras mystery in Puerto Rico, reporting on police documentation of 30 fighting roosters found dead with clean puncture wounds and no blood. She reveals similar attacks occurring in the Mexican state of Veracruz dating back to 1994.

May 31, 20231h 17m

March 10, 1996: Spontaneous Human Combustion - Larry Arnold & Linda Moulton Howe

May 31, 20231h 17m

March 7, 1996: NASA's Tethered Satellite & HAARP - Richard C. Hoagland & Nick Begich

Richard C. Hoagland and Dr. Nick Begich join Art Bell for an unprecedented meeting of minds, connecting two seemingly unrelated programs: NASA's Tethered Satellite System and the HAARP facility in Alaska. Hoagland presents evidence that the TSS-1R mission, which deployed a 13-mile conductive tether from the Space Shuttle Columbia, served as a covert military antenna rather than a simple power generation experiment. He details how the tether broke free after a massive electrical discharge and now glows mysteriously in orbit.Dr. Begich provides an overview of HAARP, describing the phased-array transmitter at Gakona, Alaska, capable of an effective radiated power of one billion watts. He reads from a Department of Defense information paper obtained through congressional inquiry, revealing the facility's potential to convert high-frequency transmissions across sixteen decades of the electromagnetic spectrum. The two guests examine how HAARP could interact with the orbiting tether as a tuned resonator.Art Bell facilitates a discussion linking both programs to hyperdimensional physics, ancient civilizations, and the possibility that HAARP serves purposes far beyond ionospheric research. The conversation touches on compartmentalized military projects, orbital mechanics, and upcoming HAARP test schedules coinciding with the satellite's orbital lifespan.

May 30, 20231h 49m

March 7, 1996: NASA's Tethered Satellite & HAARP - Richard C. Hoagland & Nick Begich

May 30, 20231h 49m

February 29, 1996: Shuttle Tether - Richard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland, former science advisor to Walter Cronkite, joins Art Bell to analyze the space shuttle tethered satellite experiment that ended in dramatic failure when a 12-mile conductive wire mysteriously severed in orbit. Hoagland argues that NASA has no explanation for what destroyed the tether, which was rated to withstand over ten times the 24 pounds of actual tension on it. Close-up video shows the wire melted and pulled apart like taffy, indicating an enormous electrical surge far beyond anything predicted.Hoagland introduces hyperdimensional physics, tracing its origins to James Clerk Maxwell's original 200-plus quaternion equations from the 19th century. He explains how Maxwell's unified field theory described forces originating in geometric dimensions beyond normal three-dimensional space. Hoagland connects this framework to Michael Faraday's anomalous 1837 discovery that rotating a magnet and conductor together still generates current, contradicting every modern physics textbook.Drawing a direct parallel to Voyager 2's encounter with Saturn in August 1981, Hoagland describes how that spacecraft experienced unexplained thruster firings, computer malfunctions, and scan platform failures during its ring plane crossing. He argues the shuttle tether incident produced identical anomalies.

May 30, 202335 min

February 29, 1996: Shuttle Tether - Richard C. Hoagland

May 30, 202335 min

February 23, 1996: Earthquakes - Charles Watson

May 29, 202341 min

February 23, 1996: Earthquakes - Charles Watson

Charles Watson, consulting geologist and publisher of the Seismo Watch newsletter, joins Art Bell to discuss a dramatic surge in global earthquake activity. Watson reveals that 1995 produced 192 earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater, the most in any recorded year, surpassing the previous high of 164 set in 1965. He details the recent 8.2 magnitude earthquake near New Guinea that generated 476 aftershocks of magnitude four or greater within 48 hours and produced tsunami waves reaching 33 feet.Art Bell and Watson examine the earthquake swarms at Mammoth Lakes, California, where USGS has issued a low-level volcanic hazard alert. Watson explains that the Long Valley Caldera last erupted 700,000 years ago with enough force to deposit volcanic ash as far as New Jersey. He describes the current monitoring systems and explains why the recent absence of moderate stress-relieving quakes is actually more concerning than the swarms themselves.Watson discusses his conversations with Gordon Michael Scallion about seismic windows and deep earthquakes, including the mysterious 1994 Bolivia quake at 410 miles depth that was felt as far away as Toronto. He describes walking Scallion through one of his earthquake visions by phone, confirming the physical distress these experiences cause.

May 29, 202341 min

February 23, 1996: Alien Abduction Show on Nova - Budd Hopkins & John Mack

Budd Hopkins, best-selling author of Intruders and Missing Time, joins Art Bell along with abductee John to expose what they describe as a deliberately dishonest NOVA documentary set to air on PBS. Hopkins details how the program, titled Kidnapped by Aliens, was designed to discredit the UFO abduction phenomenon by assembling hostile experts who never investigated a single case while suppressing all physical evidence presented to the producers.John, one of the abductees featured in the NOVA program, describes offering to undergo complete psychological evaluation, polygraph testing, MRI scans, and home investigations at his own expense. He reads on air the producer's October 1995 rejection letter, which provides a series of excuses for declining every proposed test. Hopkins explains that NOVA spent an estimated one to two million dollars on the production yet hired no independent scientists to examine any physical evidence, including soil samples from landing sites and documented wound patterns on abductees.The conversation addresses the program's treatment of Harvard psychiatrist John Mack and the broader implications for witness intimidation. Hopkins argues that NOVA's central message is designed to discourage credentialed professionals from ever coming forward about their own abduction experiences.

May 28, 20231h 20m

February 23, 1996: Alien Abduction Show on Nova - Budd Hopkins & John Mack

May 28, 20231h 20m

February 18, 1996: UFO Abductees - Betty Luca & Raymond Fowler

May 27, 20231h 46m

February 18, 1996: UFO Abductees - Betty Luca & Raymond Fowler

Raymond Fowler, veteran UFO investigator and author of the Watchers series, joins Art Bell to discuss his decades-long research into the Betty Andreasson Luca abduction case. Fowler recounts how the Massachusetts MUFON group first investigated Betty's 1967 encounter, in which beings entered her home through solid walls and placed her family in a state of suspended animation. He describes the investigation's rigorous methods, including hypnotic regression, psychiatric evaluation, and polygraph testing.Fowler introduces his concept of paraphysical phenomena, describing how UFOs and their occupants exhibit properties that defy conventional physics, appearing to possess mass at some times while seeming weightless at others. He draws striking parallels between close encounters of the fourth kind and near-death experiences, noting that both involve out-of-body states, travel toward bright light, encounters with loving beings, and a profound reluctance to return.Betty Andreasson Luca and her husband Bob then share firsthand accounts of their encounters with tall white-haired elder beings and smaller gray watchers. Betty describes the entities communicating through mental telepathy and warning about humanity's ecological destruction, declining fertility, and spiritual disconnection.

May 27, 20231h 46m

February 16, 1996: HAARP - Dr. Nick Begich

May 26, 20233h 7m

February 16, 1996: HAARP - Dr. Nick Begich

Dr. Nick Begich, author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP, returns to discuss the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program operating in Alaska. Art Bell explores the HAARP antenna array, a jointly managed Air Force and Navy project capable of one billion watts of effective radiated power, designed to beam focused energy into the ionosphere. Begich details the system's potential applications, including submarine communication, earth-penetrating tomography, over-the-horizon radar, and weather modification.The conversation turns to the biological effects of pulsed radio frequency emissions in the one-to-twenty hertz range, which corresponds to predominant human brain wave frequencies. Begich cites Air Force documents describing how such emissions can cause brain entrainment, mood alteration, and even cardiac arrest. Art Bell reveals that HAARP program manager John Heckscher declined an invitation to appear on the show after checking with his superiors.Breaking news interrupts throughout the broadcast as an 8.1 magnitude earthquake strikes near New Guinea, prompting tsunami warnings across the Pacific. A volcanic hazard alert is also issued for the Mammoth Lakes area of California following hundreds of swarming earthquakes. Begich connects these geologic events to concerns about pumping unprecedented energy into an already destabilized planetary system.

May 26, 20233h 7m

February 15, 1996: Western Bigfoot Society - Ray Crowe

Ray Crowe, director of the Western Bigfoot Society in Portland, Oregon, joins Art Bell to discuss the search for Sasquatch from a grounded, investigative perspective. Crowe describes his introduction to Bigfoot research in 1991 when he discovered a set of large tracks and an unidentified hair sample near Yale Reservoir in Washington. He outlines Peter Byrne's sophisticated research operation funded by the Boston Academy of Science, which employs motion detectors, infrared cameras, satellite tracking, and a specialized tissue-sampling dart designed to collect DNA without harming the creature.Crowe evaluates prominent Bigfoot evidence with a skeptical eye. He considers the 1967 Patterson film credible due to the female creature's visible breasts, which he argues supports his theory that Bigfoot is a relic Homo erectus rather than an ape. He dismisses the Cliff Crook photograph as a likely model and expresses doubts about a widely televised video. Crowe estimates that roughly one Bigfoot exists for every 100 bears, placing thousands across North America.Art Bell plays a recording of an alleged Bigfoot vocalization obtained by Linda Moulton Howe, which Crowe considers authentic based on similar recordings from Oregon and Northern California.

May 25, 20232h 57m

February 15, 1996: Western Bigfoot Society - Ray Crowe

May 25, 20232h 57m

February 11, 1996: Bigfoot - Stan Johnson & Linda Moulton Howe

May 24, 20231h 35m

February 11, 1996: Bigfoot - Stan Johnson & Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe opens this Dreamland broadcast with field reports from Puerto Rico on the chupacabras phenomenon. She presents recorded interviews with eyewitnesses in Canovanas who describe encountering a three-to-four-foot humanoid with large dark eyes, three-toed feet, and feathers on its back. A separate witness describes a different creature with non-reflective black skin and glowing red eyes that flew away from a tree branch. Howe also reports on pit bulls found with unexplained puncture wounds in their necks within a fully enclosed property.Stan Johnson, an 80-year-old retired logger from Oakland, Oregon, claims a lifelong relationship with Sasquatch beings. Johnson says he first encountered a creature he calls the wild man as a child in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. He describes the Sasquatch as vegetarian, intelligent beings who get married, raise families, and communicate in any human language. Johnson says they travel between dimensions through vortexes, and he claims to have visited what he calls the fifth dimension himself.Johnson states that he passed sodium pentothal tests and hypnotic regression sessions to verify his accounts. He connects Sasquatch to extraterrestrial origins, claiming they once had their own planet that was destroyed.

May 24, 20231h 35m

February 2, 1996: Mayan Calendar - Krsanna Duran

May 23, 20232h 43m

February 2, 1996: Mayan Calendar - Krsanna Duran

Krsanna Duran, author and researcher of crop circles, UFOs, and the Mayan calendar, joins Art Bell to explore the ancient Mayan timekeeping system and its prophetic implications. Duran explains how the Mayan calendar operates on a base number of 52, with a 260-day sacred calendar and a 360-day civil calendar synchronizing every 52 years. She traces the calendar's origins back to 3113 B.C. and references Zecharia Sitchin's theory that the Egyptian deity Thoth brought the system to Mesoamerica.Duran describes discovering that two major U.S. crop circles from 1993 formed a perfect triangle with the Sun and Moon Pyramids near Mexico City, with each leg measuring exactly 2,160 miles. She connects a 52-day cycle to lunar eclipses, earthquake patterns along specific longitude lines, and the Shoemaker-Levy comet collision with Jupiter. Duran shares predictions she made for storms, volcanic eruptions, and power failures that she says came true on the dates specified.Art Bell connects Duran's theories about magnetic and electromagnetic shifts to his own observations about what he calls the quickening. They discuss increasing UFO activity over Mexico City dating to the 1991 eclipse, the HAARP project, and the calendar's end date of December 2012 when all numbers reset to zero.

May 23, 20232h 43m

January 22, 1996: Viruses - Ken Goddard

Ken Goddard, director of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging discussion on viruses, genetic science, and emerging biological threats. Goddard, a biochemist and forensic scientist, examines the alarming 87 percent increase in infectious disease deaths in the United States and explores the dangers of viruses jumping between species. The conversation covers a mysterious lung-dissolving virus that killed horses and their trainer in Australia, and the accidental release of a rabbit calicivirus from a research island off the Australian coast.Art Bell presses Goddard on the terrifying scenario of a deadly airborne pathogen breaking loose in a major city, and what decisions authorities would face regarding quarantine and containment. Goddard acknowledges the near-impossibility of containing such an outbreak in a sprawling metropolitan area and discusses the ethical dilemmas of sacrificing a smaller population to protect a larger one.The discussion extends into genetic engineering, designer babies, DNA privacy concerns, and the philosophical implications of potentially achieving human immortality. Goddard weighs in on the Spotted Owl controversy, the fragility of desert ecosystems, and the challenges of regulating private laboratories.

May 22, 20231h 22m

January 22, 1996: Viruses - Ken Goddard

May 22, 20231h 22m

January 21, 1996: 1700 Missing Cattle - Linda Moulton Howe | How to Survive an Alien Abduction - Michelle LaVigne

May 21, 20231h 41m

January 21, 1996: 1700 Missing Cattle - Linda Moulton Howe | How to Survive an Alien Abduction - Michelle LaVigne

Linda Moulton Howe opens this Dreamland broadcast with an update on the 1,700 cattle that vanished from the A.D. Richardson farm in Waurika, Oklahoma in August 1994. She reports that the insurance company finally settled the claim, but law enforcement never found any of the animals or arrested anyone for the crime. Howe also presents eyewitness accounts of slow-moving orange glowing spheres spotted over Wenatchee and Cashmere, Washington, drawing connections to historical patterns linking such phenomena to animal mutilations.Michelle LaVigne, author of The Alien Abduction Survival Guide, joins Art Bell to discuss her lifetime of abduction experiences. LaVigne, who was regressed by Harvard professor John Mack, describes being transported aboard craft through beams of light, undergoing medical examinations, and participating in teaching sessions with other human abductees. She details the physical layout of the craft, the appearance of the gray beings, and their methods of telepathic communication.LaVigne offers practical advice for abductees on overcoming fear, taking control of encounters, and opening dialogue with the beings. She addresses the emotional and psychological toll of repeated abductions and the generational nature of the phenomenon.

May 21, 20231h 41m

January 19, 1996: Open Lines

Art Bell opens the Friday night program with a wide-ranging monologue covering the severe winter weather battering the United States, from record flooding in the Northeast to wind chill readings of minus eighty degrees in Minnesota. He discusses the political fallout from a deadly Chicago apartment fire, the baby boomer retirement crisis with ten thousand Americans turning fifty every day, and a tantalizing announcement from NASA that Galileo probe data from Jupiter may force a re-evaluation of how the solar system was formed.Art Bell devotes an hour to international DX calls, hearing from near the Arctic Circle, Spitsbergen, Monterey Mexico, Winnipeg Beach Manitoba, and Perth Australia. A ship captain calling from off the coast of Trinidad describes a startling encounter where his seismic survey equipment was damaged by a large submerged metallic object that illuminated the sea with brilliant white light and appeared as a massive target on radar before vanishing.Art Bell reopens the alien and immortal phone line, fielding calls from a self-described stranded extraterrestrial scientist, a thousand-year-old immortal in Nevada who warns of a radiation plague connected to Project HAARP, and various callers speculating about what life from Jupiter-sized planets might look like.

May 20, 20232h 45m

January 19, 1996: Open Lines

May 20, 20232h 45m

January 14, 1996: UFOs - Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe, award-winning investigative journalist, joins Art Bell on Dreamland with updates on animal mutilations, the Chupacabras phenomenon in Puerto Rico, and unusual aerial sightings. Howe reports on a fresh cattle mutilation at the Tim Howard Ranch near Klamath Falls, Oregon, where a pregnant heifer was found with its tongue, eye, ear, and reproductive organs removed with precise cuts and virtually no blood. The rancher notes an absence of predator tracks, no signs of struggle, and that the animal never developed rigor mortis.Howe details the latest Chupacabras attacks near San Juan, Puerto Rico, including an incident where a mechanic was physically grabbed by a five-foot-tall primate-like creature. She explores possible connections between the Chupacabras, Bigfoot sightings near mutilated animals, and the broader UFO phenomenon, noting that some abductees describe Bigfoot-type creatures as biological androids working for an advanced intelligence.The Howard rancher calls back to report mysterious amber and flashing lights in the night sky following the mutilation. Howe announces that tissue and pasture samples have been sent to Dr. Levengood and Dr. Altshuler for laboratory analysis.

May 20, 202316 min

January 14, 1996: UFOs - Linda Moulton Howe

May 20, 202316 min

January 7, 1996: Terra Papers - Robert Morning Sky

Robert Morning Sky, a Hopi and Apache Native American researcher and dancer, joins Art Bell on Dreamland for what he describes as one of his final public appearances before retiring from the lecture circuit. Morning Sky discusses his yearlong speaking tour fulfilling a promise to his grandfather, and explains why so few Native Americans share their ancient knowledge publicly, citing centuries of exploitation and dismissal by the civilized world.The conversation centers on Hopi prophecy and its connections to current events. Morning Sky identifies the newly discovered comet Hale-Bopp as the Blue Star Kachina, Nangasuhu, and draws linguistic parallels between Hopi, Sumerian, Egyptian, and Babylonian terms for celestial visitors. He suggests that Hopi prophecy predicts a second, larger celestial body will appear approximately seven years after Hale-Bopp, possibly corresponding to what Zecharia Sitchin calls Nibiru. Morning Sky also reveals his translation of the hieroglyphs on the I-beam from the Santilli alien autopsy footage, describing it as a warrior inscription.Art Bell and Morning Sky discuss the quickening of world events, the birth of six-fingered children on Navajo reservations, and the idea that star beings walk among humanity hiding in plain sight.

May 19, 20231h 52m

January 7, 1996: Terra Papers - Robert Morning Sky

May 19, 20231h 52m

December 22, 1995: NDEs - Dannion Brinkley

May 18, 20232h 7m

December 22, 1995: NDEs - Dannion Brinkley

Dannion Brinkley, best-selling author of Saved by the Light and At Peace in the Light, joins Art Bell to recount his two near-death experiences and the profound transformation they brought. Brinkley describes his earlier life as a violent, self-centered man who performed clandestine intelligence work, and how a bolt of lightning struck him through a telephone line in 1975, stopping his heart for twenty-eight minutes.Brinkley details what he experienced during clinical death: floating above his body, traveling through a tunnel of light, encountering a radiant being, and undergoing a panoramic life review in which he felt every emotion he had ever inflicted on others. He describes visiting crystal cities and receiving 117 visions of future events from twelve beings, ninety-six of which he says have since come to pass. Brinkley explains how a second near-death experience during open-heart surgery fourteen years later reinforced everything he had witnessed the first time.The discussion turns to Brinkley's seventeen years of hospice volunteer work, his views on the spiritual nature of death, and his message about confronting mortality. Art Bell and Brinkley also explore predictions of coming earth changes, economic instability, and geopolitical upheaval.

May 18, 20232h 7m

December 20, 1995: Destiny Magazine Publisher - Emmanuel McLittle

Emmanuel McLittle, founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Destiny Magazine, joins Art Bell to share his remarkable personal transformation from an angry young man on Detroit's west side to an independent thinker living in rural Oregon. McLittle describes growing up in a family of fourteen children, becoming a teenage father, and working as a security guard before seizing an opportunity to attend college, eventually earning a master's degree in psychology from the University of Detroit.The conversation turns to McLittle's provocative views on race in America. He argues that black Americans have been misled by liberal elites into a culture of anger and victimhood rather than pursuing individual achievement. He opposes reparations, contending that opportunity in America is the real prize. McLittle also shares his controversial stance against interracial marriage, drawing on his years as a therapist to argue that mixed-race couples often avoid deeper personal conflicts.Art Bell opens the phone lines exclusively to callers from inner-city Detroit, producing spirited exchanges. A Muslim caller challenges McLittle's nationalism, while others share their own journeys out of poverty.

May 17, 20232h 55m

December 20, 1995: Destiny Magazine Publisher - Emmanuel McLittle

May 17, 20232h 55m

December 15, 1995: Harnessing the Power of the Sun - David Kagan

May 16, 20232h 46m

December 15, 1995: Harnessing the Power of the Sun - David Kagan

David Kagan, metallurgical engineer and author of the science fiction novel Sunstroke, joins Art Bell to discuss the real NASA and Department of Energy proposal to deploy a solar power satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The planned structure would span three miles wide and six miles long, collecting perpetual sunlight and converting it to a microwave beam capable of generating 5,000 megawatts, equivalent to five nuclear power plants. Kagan details how the beam would strike an 8-by-10-mile ground rectenna to produce electricity for the utility grid.The conversation turns alarming as Kagan describes EPA findings that aircraft passing through the beam at altitude would have passengers flash-roasted alive, and that ground-level intensity of 23 kilowatts per square meter could bring an acre of water to a boil. He reveals that ionospheric heating would devastate AM radio and shortwave communications within a 3,000-square-mile radius, while tropospheric effects could alter weather patterns. The satellite would also be visible during daylight, 12 times brighter than Venus, and cast shadows at night equivalent to a quarter moon.Kagan discloses that classified space shuttle tests of smaller microwave transmitters have been conducted since 1984 under the codename SPARTAN, and that the Defense Department views the technology as a weapon system capable of neutralizing missiles.

May 16, 20232h 46m

December 10, 1995: Ingo Swann - Linda Moulton Howe | NASA Scientist - Dr. Brian O'Leary

May 15, 20231h 36m

December 10, 1995: Ingo Swann - Linda Moulton Howe | NASA Scientist - Dr. Brian O'Leary

Linda Moulton Howe interviews Ingo Swann, the natural psychic who developed the structured remote viewing protocols used by U.S. military intelligence, on this Dreamland broadcast. Swann recounts his legendary session at Stanford Research Institute where he accurately mapped a secret Soviet-French research installation on Kerguelen Island in the South Atlantic, prompting official protests to Washington. He describes achieving 65 percent accuracy to remain competitive with conventional intelligence methods and recalls a classified session in which he perceived a disc-shaped object near a submarine, a revelation that stunned the military brass present but ultimately secured more funding.Dr. Brian O'Leary, a former Apollo program scientist-astronaut selected to fly to Mars before the mission was canceled, discusses his decade-long exploration of zero-point energy and the paranormal. He describes visiting inventors worldwide who have demonstrated devices producing anomalous amounts of electricity by accelerating magnets through the zero-point field, noting that Japanese corporations are actively investing in these technologies. O'Leary also addresses the Face on Mars research, explaining that peer-reviewed image analysis suggests the features could be artificial constructions.Art Bell connects these threads to the broader paradigm shift he observes accelerating across science, consciousness research, and energy technology.

May 15, 20231h 36m

December 7, 1995: Remote Viewing - Maj. Ed Dames

May 14, 20232h 44m

December 7, 1995: Remote Viewing - Maj. Ed Dames

Maj. Ed Dames, U.S. Army retired, joins Art Bell to go public about his role as operations and training officer for the military's secret psychic spy unit, responding to what he calls half-truths and disinformation aired on ABC's Nightline. Dames reveals that the CIA's reported spending of 11 to 20 million dollars covered only research, not the classified intelligence collection element he led for over a decade. He describes how Ingo Swann discovered a structured protocol in 1983 that allowed trained remote viewers to achieve 80 to 90 percent accuracy, and explains that his company PSI TECH now assists federal authorities in tracking the Unabomber near South Bend, Indiana.Following the interview, Dr. Rod Lewis of the Network for Scientific Intelligence expands on the discussion, revealing that Los Alamos researchers working on psychotronic weapons became alarmed when their work shifted toward contacting non-human intelligences for military purposes. Lewis connects the Nightline revelation to broader government interest in catastrophic future scenarios informed by chaos theory and the Gaia hypothesis.Art Bell also covers the Jupiter probe's successful parachute descent, the Senate vote to ban late-term abortions, and Russian submarines shadowing U.S. naval assets despite the supposed end of the Cold War.

May 14, 20232h 44m

December 6, 1995: Full Moon Open Lines

May 13, 20232h 46m

December 6, 1995: Full Moon Open Lines

Art Bell broadcasts under a full moon and delivers urgent news from prophet Gordon Michael Scallion, who has faxed a warning that a magnitude 8.0 earthquake near Japan's Kuril Islands marks the beginning of his predicted four-quake scenario for December 1995. Scallion reports that both of his earlier four-quake cycles occurred in sequence and on time, and he now senses major geologic events approaching the United States. Art Bell announces plans to record a detailed interview with Scallion for broadcast that Friday.The political landscape also commands attention as President Clinton vetoes the Republican balanced budget plan while his approval rating climbs to 51 percent. Newt Gingrich faces a unanimous Ethics Committee vote for an independent investigator, and the first U.S. plane lands in Tuzla as Bosnia troop deployments accelerate. Art Bell notes that Utah experienced two earthquakes at the same latitude as the Japanese quake, adding to the unease.Callers share their own premonitions and debate whether the quickening represents spiritual evolution or impending catastrophe. Art Bell draws a line between those who welcome dramatic earth changes as growth opportunities and his own pragmatic concern for human suffering.

May 13, 20232h 46m

December 5, 1995: Open Lines

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night dominated by two major stories. The first is the rapidly escalating U.S. troop deployment to Bosnia, where numbers have already crept beyond official reports according to the BBC, and General Norman Schwarzkopf warns that a military one-third smaller than Desert Storm may be stretched dangerously thin. Art Bell reads in full the 1969 letter Bill Clinton wrote to Colonel Eugene Holmes explaining his evasion of the Vietnam draft, drawing a pointed contrast with the president now ordering thousands into harm's way.The second story captivating callers is a CNN report from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where a premature baby declared dead and held by its grieving mother for over three hours suddenly gasped for breath and began to live again. Art Bell calls it nothing short of a miracle and challenges the audience to find any other word for it. Callers weigh in with theories ranging from divine intervention to the concept of walk-ins.Between these threads, callers debate the court-martial of Specialist Michael New for refusing to wear U.N. insignia, the nature of lawful military orders, and whether rockets launching eastward are slowly decelerating the Earth.

May 12, 20232h 48m

December 5, 1995: Open Lines

May 12, 20232h 48m