The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Laurie Nadel, author of Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power, for a wide-ranging discussion on intuition, remote viewing, and psychic phenomena. Nadel recounts interviews with over 100 scientists and remote viewers, including Russell Targ and the late Willis Harmon, whose accounts of the SRI experiments convinced her that remote viewing is a legitimate and teachable skill. She questions why the government would abandon such a cost-effective intelligence tool.Nadel shares her own journey into the paranormal, which began after returning from covering the Chilean military coup for UPI and Newsweek. Suffering from post-traumatic stress, she began hearing a voice in her apartment and eventually witnessed a red eye appear on her wall. The American Society for Psychical Research assured her these were signs of emerging psychic abilities rather than mental illness, setting her on a path of lifelong research into consciousness.The first hour features open line callers discussing former Governor Fife Symington's Phoenix Lights admission, France's unprecedented release of 1,600 UFO case files, the discovery of caves on Mars, and a vast underground water reservoir beneath East Asia. Art also examines the coming solar maximum forecast and the growing mystery of honeybee colony collapse.

Art Bell explores lucid dreaming with Dr. Stephen LaBerge and Dominick Attisani of the Lucidity Institute, then speaks with journalist Leslie Kean about the Phoenix Lights. LaBerge defines lucid dreaming as knowing you are dreaming while the dream is happening, explaining that this awareness opens the door to conscious decision-making within the dream world. Attisani, a practitioner for over 30 years, describes lucid dreams as opportunities for pleasure, creative exploration, and confronting fears.The guests explain that lucid dreaming is a learnable skill built on dream recall and intentional memory. LaBerge draws parallels between setting an intention to wake at a specific time and setting an intention to recognize a dream. He notes that lucid dreamers often report an afterglow of energy the following day, and that the practice bridges consciousness research with the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of dream yoga.In the first hour, Leslie Kean discusses her exclusive interview with former Arizona Governor Fife Symington, who admitted to witnessing a massive, silent craft during the 1997 Phoenix Lights event. Kean emphasizes the distinction between the solid object seen by thousands and the later row of lights likely caused by flares, and challenges the media's conflation of the two events.

Art Bell welcomes engineer and author Maurice Cotterell from Ireland to discuss his theories on gravity, God, reincarnation, and the encoded wisdom of ancient civilizations. Cotterell proposes a new explanation for gravity, arguing that Isaac Newton identified the relationship between mass and gravitational force but never explained what causes it. His model traces the origin of gravity back to the Big Bang and the conversion of energy into matter.Using Einstein's equation E=MC squared, Cotterell constructs a framework where God is pure energy and the physical universe represents its opposite. He argues that human souls carry a measurable voltage that increases through love and compassion, allowing them to return to God upon death. If that voltage diminishes through negativity, the soul reincarnates into a new body with its memory essentially wiped clean, consistent with what the Tibetans call sanskaras.Cotterell draws on his decades of research decoding the treasures of the Maya, the tomb of Tutankhamun, and Celtic artifacts, claiming all these civilizations encoded identical spiritual and scientific truths. The first hour features open line callers discussing global weather extremes, the honeybee colony collapse mystery, and a former Canadian defense minister's call for disclosure of alien technology.

Art Bell welcomes billionaire entrepreneur Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace for an in-depth look at the private space industry. Bigelow, who launched the Genesis 1 spacecraft in July 2006, reveals that Genesis 2 is scheduled to launch from Russia the week of April 19th. Art shares exclusive photographs from his personal tour of the Bigelow Aerospace facility in Las Vegas, showcasing the expandable habitat modules originally developed by NASA.Bigelow explains that his inflatable modules provide three times the interior volume of any module on the International Space Station while offering superior protection against micrometeorite impacts. He describes the complex political landscape surrounding private spaceflight, citing ITAR regulations and congressional interference as greater obstacles than technology or funding. The ultimate goal is an occupiable module called Sundancer, targeted for launch around 2010, with a commercial space station to follow.The conversation turns to Bigelow's well-known interest in the paranormal, including his funding of research into UFO phenomena through the National Institute for Discovery Science. Art and Bigelow discuss who owns space under the 1967 Moon Treaty and the geopolitical implications of China's growing space ambitions.

Art Bell welcomes animal communicator Amelia Kinkade, author of Straight from the Horse's Mouth and The Language of Miracles, for a fascinating exploration of interspecies telepathy. Kinkade describes her first encounter with animal psychic Beatrice Lidecker, who accurately described details about her cat Rodney's life that no outsider could have known, including the view from his favorite perch and his interactions with a neighbor's dog.Kinkade explains that animal communication is a learned skill rooted in neurophysiology, not a supernatural gift. Drawing on quantum holography concepts championed by Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, she describes how all living beings exist within one indivisible field of energy. By quieting the mind and entering a meditative state, a person can merge consciousness with an animal, perceiving the world through its senses and accessing its memories and emotions.The first hour features open lines where callers share UFO sightings, including a massive plasma ring observed in 1978 and a vivid abduction-style dream. Art also reflects on his decision years ago at KDWN in Las Vegas to abandon political talk radio and embrace the paranormal, a pivotal moment that shaped everything that followed.

Art Bell speaks with Whitley Strieber and Nick Pope about a massive wave of UFO activity, with particular focus on sightings near nuclear installations in Iran. Strieber connects this to historical patterns, citing General Arthur Exons confirmation that the Roswell debris was not of this world and Eisenhowers alleged 1954 encounter at Muroc Air Force Base. He theorizes the visitors seek to prevent nuclear weapons use, pointing to incidents where craft disabled American ICBMs and triggered launch sequences at Russian missile sites.The discussion turns to Iran, where over 30 UFO incidents have been reported since December 2006, including possible crashes and plasma-like objects near nuclear facilities. Strieber and Art consider whether Iranian leaders would interpret alien contact through a religious lens, and whether a dirty bomb targeting Tel Aviv poses a greater risk than a traditional strike.Nick Pope joins to discuss his departure from the British Ministry of Defence UFO project and reveals that the ministry ran a classified remote viewing study in 2001. The study failed to recruit experienced viewers and relied on novices, producing inconclusive results. Pope notes that sensitive target applications were planned but never completed, with key portions of the declassified report still redacted.

Art Bell interviews Jim Sparks, a multiple abductee whose experiences began in 1988 and transformed him from a terrified resistor into a cooperator with his alien captors. Sparks provides detailed accounts of being transported aboard craft, describing the physical sensations of acceleration, paralysis upon arrival, and the room where he spent six years learning an alien symbolic language. He explains how the beings taught him telepathic shorthand where entire pages of text could be compressed into a single vibrating symbol.Sparks describes graduating from these lessons to face-to-face encounters with reptilian beings who showed him visions of environmental devastation. The aliens conveyed urgent messages about deforestation, pollution, and habitat destruction, telling him humanity must change course. He recounts being shown holographic images of what Earth could become and being asked to spread a message of conservation. His background as a land developer who refused to clear-cut lots gives his advocacy an unexpected personal dimension.The first hour features open lines where callers discuss shadow people, the mass consciousness UFO experiment from previous weeks, and global warming. Art shares his thoughts on 2012 predictions, dismissing them as simply the end of a calendar rather than the end of the world.

Art Bell interviews Dick Criswell, a lifelong UFO researcher whose first encounter with Grey aliens occurred at age six on a farm in Wheeling, West Virginia. Criswell describes how two three-and-a-half-foot beings communicated telepathically, passing through walls effortlessly and telling him he would one day serve as their emissary. The visits continued through his teenage years, growing more frequent over time, and his parents eventually revealed their own encounters, including his father witnessing a craft so massive it blacked out the sky and streetlights.Criswell also discusses his involvement with AlphaCom, a project organized by Dr. Michael Wolfe to bring government UFO knowledge to the public. The effort collapsed when the Monica Lewinsky scandal consumed the Clinton administration, making officials reluctant to step forward. He says the witnesses remain available but are bound by secrecy agreements. Criswell shares the aliens warning about coming Earth changes, though specific timelines have proven elusive.The first hour features open lines with follow-up reports from the intent experiment, shadow people accounts, and a caller near Ground Zero who recalls hearing news coverage of Building Seven being deliberately demolished for structural safety reasons. Art also mentions his cameo appearance in an upcoming Lindsay Lohan film.

Art Bell launches a mass consciousness experiment, asking millions of listeners to project the intent for UFOs to appear in skies worldwide. The results are staggering, with thousands of emails flooding in from people who witnessed unusual objects, spinning lights, and craft that responded to flashlight signals. A Nashville TV station even captures footage of a rotating object dismissed too quickly as the space station. James Gilliland returns briefly to confirm his inbox was overwhelmed with sighting reports.In the second half, Art interviews independent military scholar Ralph Sawyer about China as a growing strategic threat. Sawyer, who spent nearly four decades studying Chinese military doctrine across Asia, warns that conflict with China is likely within 30 years. He details how Taiwan could fall through internal subversion rather than invasion, describes China modernizing its nuclear arsenal from liquid-fueled ICBMs to mobile solid-fueled missiles, and explains how their recent anti-satellite weapon test demonstrates a strategy to neutralize American net-centric warfare.The program opens during the Chinese Year of the Pig, with Sawyer explaining competing astrological interpretations among Hong Kong geomancers. Callers contribute sighting reports from the intent experiment and raise questions about climate change and the Area 51 flyover tape.

Art Bell welcomes James Gilliland, director of the Self Mastery Earth Institute and a contactee who claims ongoing communication with extraterrestrial beings following a near-death experience. Gilliland describes the massive UFO activity at his ranch near Mount Adams in Washington State, where dozens of aerospace engineers and other credible witnesses have observed craft appearing on schedule. He explains that different groups are visiting Earth, from Pleiadians to Andromedans, and that Grey abductions are winding down as more benevolent entities take an active role.The conversation covers how these craft operate outside conventional physics, using instantaneous travel by shifting between physical, energy, and light dimensions. Gilliland claims to have over 60 hours of footage showing objects landing, morphing, and powering up, though major networks have repeatedly shelved the material before it could air nationally. He argues that the real disclosure will come from the skies rather than from governments.The first hour features open lines, where callers share shadow people encounters, blue orb sightings, and a striking account of a cigar-shaped craft that responded to flashing headlights and followed a caller home. Art also discusses his visit to the Robert Bigelow Aerospace facility and reflects on precognitive experiences.

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist George Knapp and biochemist Dr. Colm Kelleher for a discussion about Utah's Skinwalker Ranch, the subject of their book, and an update on Area 51. Kelleher, who served as project manager at Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, describes the ranch as a hotbed of anomalous activity stretching back generations through Ute tribal oral history.Kelleher recounts specific incidents investigated by NIDS, including an 84-pound calf found completely stripped of flesh in broad daylight just yards from the rancher's home, with no sound, tracks, or visible perpetrator. He also describes the baffling destruction of surveillance cameras by an unseen force that was caught on a second camera's feed, yet nothing appeared on the footage. Both guests explain that the phenomena seemed to possess a precognitive, sentient quality, never repeating and always staying one step ahead of investigators. Activity at the ranch has recently resumed after a period of quiet.George Knapp reflects on his career-altering decision to report on Area 51 beginning in 1989, confirming the base remains fully operational despite reports to the contrary. The first hour features unscreened open lines with callers sharing shadow people encounters, time travel proposals, and 9/11 debate.

Art Bell welcomes science writer Jennifer Ouellette, author of "The Physics of the Buffyverse" and "Black Bodies and Quantum Cats," for a conversation exploring the intersection of real physics and science fiction. They discuss the newly announced 16-qubit quantum computer from a Vancouver company, and Ouellette explains how quantum computing could eventually break current encryption systems and solve problems impossible for traditional machines.The discussion moves through the multiverse theory, wormholes as depicted in the film "Contact," and physicist Michio Kaku's civilization scale, with Art pressing the sobering point that the odds of humanity surviving the transition from Type Zero to Type One are almost zero. Ouellette shares her perspective on why women remain underrepresented in the hard sciences and discusses the physics behind fictional universes, arguing that even fantasy worlds must follow internal rules. She also addresses telepathy, suggesting that while no magical mechanism exists, future technology involving brain implants could one day achieve something resembling it.The conversation turns philosophical as they discuss the Big Bang, the accelerating expansion of the universe, the closure of Princeton's ESP lab, and whether science leaves room for the existence of God.

Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for a conversation that shifts away from his usual earth changes focus into the unsettling territory of possession. Scallion explains that visions he received beginning in 1979 revealed a connection between solar activity, geophysical upheaval, and a rising tide of what he calls borderland phenomena, including spirit possession, particularly among young people.Scallion describes his out-of-body journeys into the borderland, the realm between physical life and what lies beyond, where he observed how discarnate entities can attach themselves to living people. He connects the increase in school violence, beginning with Columbine, to these energetic shifts and draws parallels to the work of the late Father Malachi Martin, who reported an 800 percent increase in possession cases. The conversation also touches on the current solar cycle, which Scallion predicts will be one of the most powerful ever recorded, and the ongoing pole shift he believes has already begun.The first hour includes open lines covering the Super Bowl, the UN climate report, Iran tensions, reincarnation and the Catholic Church, electric cars, and Art's announcement of returning to unscreened open lines.

Art Bell welcomes Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, for a wide-ranging conversation about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and the scientific challenges of detecting alien civilizations. Shostak discusses the current state of SETI's efforts, including the optical search at Lick Observatory and the upcoming Allen Telescope Array set to begin scanning the center of the Milky Way in mid-2007.The two spar over interstellar travel feasibility, with Art raising points from nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman about energy requirements and trip profiles. Shostak acknowledges that fewer than a thousand star systems have been carefully examined so far, a tiny fraction of the hundreds of billions in our galaxy. He describes SETI's new telescopes and methods while maintaining his skepticism about current visitation claims. Art challenges him with recent UFO sightings from O'Hare Airport and North London, where dozens of witnesses reported silent objects hovering in formation.The first hour features open lines touching on the landmark UN climate change report, ExxonMobil's offer of $10,000 to scientists willing to critique its findings, the Bush administration's suppression of climate terminology, Edgar Cayce, and Art's visit to Bigelow Aerospace via helicopter.

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Orrin Pilkey, a Duke University professor of geology and expert on shoreline processes, to examine the reliability of mathematical models used to shape major public policy decisions. Pilkey argues that while models can reveal broad trends and general directions, society places far too much confidence in their precise numerical predictions, particularly when applied to complex natural systems.The discussion ranges from climate change modeling to the controversial decision to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain near Art's home in Pahrump. Pilkey considers climate models the most honest among those he studied, praising the UN panel's transparency about their limitations. However, he warns that specific projections for temperature increases and sea level rises should be taken with a large grain of salt. He also notes that the Bush administration exploits model uncertainties for political purposes while ignoring the overwhelming scientific consensus.The first hour features open lines covering the UFO flap at O'Hare Airport and beyond, mysterious ice blocks falling from clear skies in Florida, smoking cessation research involving the brain's insula region, and Art's personal update on his wife Airyn's pregnancy with their daughter Asia.

Art Bell welcomes back science journalist Charles Seife for a wide-ranging second installment covering the origins of the universe, the nature of consciousness, and the future of genetic science. Seife discusses what scientists know about the Big Bang, explaining that while they can simulate conditions microseconds after creation using particle colliders, the actual moment of origin remains perhaps permanently beyond the reach of science.The conversation shifts to the possibility that our universe was spawned by a collider experiment in another reality, creating an infinite chain of universes giving birth to universes. Art and Seife explore whether human consciousness could someday be uploaded to silicon, with Seife explaining that quantum properties of the brain may prevent perfect copying due to the observer effect. He introduces quantum teleportation as a method that transfers quantum information perfectly but destroys the original in the process.The final hours tackle genetics, with Seife revealing that ancient retroviruses called HERVs hijacked human DNA long ago and still force our cells to produce their proteins. He and Art discuss the implications of discovering genes linked to sexual preference, the ethics of genetic modification, and his conviction that information, like energy, can never truly be destroyed.

Art Bell speaks with retired electronics engineer and mental health counselor John Jay Harper about the approaching Solar Cycle 24 and its potential impact on climate, consciousness, and civilization. Harper, who spent 25 years working at top-secret Department of Defense facilities including the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, draws on both his scientific background and his research into near-death experiences to paint a picture of converging threats.Harper explains that NASA scientist David Hathaway predicts Solar Cycle 24, expected to peak around 2010 to 2011, could be the most intense in 400 years of recorded observation. He connects historical solar flare activity to flu pandemics, citing the 1918 outbreak, and warns of cascading failures if a massive coronal mass ejection were to disable satellite infrastructure. The recent Chinese anti-satellite missile test adds urgency to his concerns about space-based vulnerabilities.The discussion expands into the Mayan calendar, galactic core explosions, and electromagnetic pole shifts. Harper presents his worst-case scenario of a multi-layered event coupling energy from the galactic core through the sun and into Earth, triggering undersea volcanic eruptions and catastrophic weather changes that could lead to mass starvation and migration.

Art Bell interviews science journalist and mathematician Charles Seife about the nature of information as a fundamental property of the universe. Seife explains how Claude Shannon's mid-20th century discovery of the laws of information created a third great scientific revolution, revealing that information behaves according to rules as strict as those governing thermodynamics and energy.The conversation takes a deep look at quantum entanglement, the phenomenon Einstein called "spooky action at a distance," where paired particles respond to each other instantaneously regardless of the distance between them. Seife explains why, despite this apparent faster-than-light connection, scientists have proven it impossible to send actual messages through entangled particles. He and Art discuss how information theory connects to Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, providing a unifying framework for understanding the cosmos.Art presses Seife on parallel universes, the origins of the Big Bang, and the possibility that our universe was created by a particle collider in another reality. Seife acknowledges that an intelligent designer cannot be ruled out by science and shares how physicist David Deutsch theorizes that quantum computers may one day tap computational resources from parallel universes.

Art Bell is joined by crop circle researchers Ed Sherwood and Kris Sherwood, who bring more than 30 years of combined experience studying the worldwide crop circle phenomenon. The couple, based in Santa Monica, California, report having videotaped over 40 daylight UFO sightings above their apartment since June of the previous year, capturing spheres, tubular white objects, and formations of bright orbs on camera.Ed describes filming a large white opaque object for 30 minutes as it moved against the wind before dissolving into multiple bright spheres that flew away in formation. The Sherwoods explain their practice of synchronized global meditation, during which they invite benevolent extraterrestrial intelligences to participate in Earth healing visualizations. They note that many of their sightings occur during or shortly after these meditation sessions, raising questions about whether consciousness plays a role in initiating contact.The discussion also covers UFO sightings reported over Iranian nuclear facilities, with Art speculating these could be secret American surveillance technology. Callers share stories including a ghost encounter in Las Vegas, dolphin beachings along the Atlantic coast, and observations about the ready.gov preparedness campaign.

Art Bell welcomes journalist and author Lynne McTaggart to discuss her groundbreaking research into the science of intention. McTaggart explains how her investigation into the zero-point field led her to discover a quantum web connecting all living things, and how frontier scientists across the globe are overturning conventional laws of biology, chemistry, and physics with their experiments.The conversation centers on published scientific studies showing that human consciousness can affect matter, from single-celled organisms to complex biological systems. McTaggart describes evidence of remote healing, where individuals in one part of the country successfully influenced the health of people thousands of miles away. She details how living beings constantly transmit and receive light, creating an ongoing information exchange that provides a mechanism for intention to work.Art and Lynne explore the implications of quantum physics for understanding phenomena like spiritual healing and homeopathy. McTaggart shares her findings that directed thought registers across every aspect of a receiver's body, affecting heart rate, brain activity, and skin conductance. The program also features open lines with callers discussing near-death experiences, hollow Earth theories, and the Area 51 caller incident.