Art Bell hosts the third installment of the Disclosure series with political activist Stephen Bassett , the only registered lobbyist in the United States representing extraterrestrial phenomena research organizations. Bassett recounts how the first two Disclosure programs in 1998 and 1999 raised expectations that the government would formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence, only for the Monica Lewinsky scandal and other political distractions to derail momentum. The broadcast also feat...
Aug 28, 2024•3 hr 4 min•Season 2000Ep. 628
Art Bell hosts the third installment of the Disclosure series with political activist Stephen Bassett, the only registered lobbyist in the United States representing extraterrestrial phenomena research organizations. Bassett recounts how the first two Disclosure programs in 1998 and 1999 raised expectations that the government would formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence, only for the Monica Lewinsky scandal and other political distractions to derail momentum. The broadcast also… Full...
Aug 28, 2024•3 hr 4 min•Season 2000Ep. 628
Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center and an anonymous witness who describes a terrifying encounter outside his rural eastern Washington home. The man, identified only as Mr. X, stepped onto his porch at 3:30 a.m. to gather firewood and found a seven-foot-tall, hair-covered bipedal creature standing just 20 feet away, peering through his dining room window. Shaking uncontrollably, he retreated inside and locked every door. Bigfoot Field Research Organization fo...
Aug 27, 2024•2 hr 55 min•Season 2000Ep. 627
Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center and an anonymous witness who describes a terrifying encounter outside his rural eastern Washington home. The man, identified only as Mr. X, stepped onto his porch at 3:30 a.m. to gather firewood and found a seven-foot-tall, hair-covered bipedal creature standing just 20 feet away, peering through his dining room window. Shaking uncontrollably, he retreated inside and locked every door. Bigfoot Field Research Organization… F...
Aug 27, 2024•2 hr 55 min•Season 2000Ep. 627
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku to discuss how science will reshape daily life in the 21st century. Dr. Kaku describes what he calls the third stage of computing, predicting that by 2020 computer chips will cost a penny and be embedded in clothing, eyeglasses, and even toilets that monitor health. He explains how the AOL-Time Warner merger signals the architecture of a new digital era where Microsoft no longer dominates. The conversation turns to privacy concerns as billi...
Aug 26, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 2000Ep. 626
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku to discuss how science will reshape daily life in the 21st century. Dr. Kaku describes what he calls the third stage of computing, predicting that by 2020 computer chips will cost a penny and be embedded in clothing, eyeglasses, and even toilets that monitor health. He explains how the AOL-Time Warner merger signals the architecture of a new digital era where Microsoft no longer dominates. The conversation turns to privacy concerns as… Full...
Aug 26, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 2000Ep. 626
Art Bell opens with alarming headlines including a failed Pentagon missile intercept test over Kwajalein, 115-mile-per-hour winds devastating the Pacific Northwest, eight-pound blocks of ice falling from Spanish skies, and hundreds of thousands of fish leaping from a poisoned Indiana river. He notes that Iran is developing nuclear weapons capability with Russian assistance, underscoring the urgency of missile defense. Dr. Nick Begich returns to update listeners on the HAARP facility in Alaska, w...
Aug 25, 2024•2 hr 41 min•Season 2000Ep. 625
Dr. Nick Begich returns to Art Bell to discuss HAARP, ionospheric manipulation, electromagnetic pulse effects, surveillance, and mind-control technologies after a first-hour news roundup. Art opens with alarming headlines including a failed Pentagon missile intercept test over Kwajalein, 115-mile-per-hour winds devastating the Pacific Northwest, eight-pound blocks of ice falling from Spanish skies, and hundreds of thousands of fish leaping from a poisoned Indiana river. He notes that Iran is dev...
Aug 25, 2024•2 hr 41 min•Season 2000Ep. 625
Art Bell returns from a whirlwind trip to New York City, recounting interviews on the Today Show, WABC with Sean Hannity, and a packed book signing at Barnes and Noble in Rockefeller Center. He also reveals that Y2K disrupted America's spy satellite network for nearly three days and that Russia's early warning system has decayed so badly it cannot detect U.S. submarine-launched missiles at all. Science reporter Linda Moulton Howe presents interviews with NOAA Administrator Dr. James Baker and NC...
Aug 24, 2024•2 hr 42 min•Season 2000Ep. 624
Science reporter Linda Moulton Howe joins Art Bell to examine climate change, accelerating global warming, Arctic ice loss, and sudden climate shifts after Art's New York trip recap. Art returns from a whirlwind trip to New York City, recounting interviews on the Today Show, WABC with Sean Hannity, and a packed book signing at Barnes and Noble in Rockefeller Center. He also reveals that Y2K disrupted America's spy satellite network for nearly three days and that Russia's early warning system has...
Aug 24, 2024•2 hr 42 min•Season 2000Ep. 624
Art Bell brings environmental chemist Mike Castle on to offer a different theory about the persistent trails being observed in skies across the country. Castle, an industrial polymer chemist who has testified before Congress on Superfund cleanups, suggests the iron compounds and bacteria found in ground samples may indicate an airborne bioremediation effort, possibly an emergency attempt to repair ozone damage caused by compounds like ethylene dibromide in jet fuel. Castle describes witnessing a...
Aug 23, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Season 2000Ep. 623
Art Bell brings environmental chemist Mike Castle on to offer a different theory about the persistent trails being observed in skies across the country. Castle, an industrial polymer chemist who has testified before Congress on Superfund cleanups, suggests the iron compounds and bacteria found in ground samples may indicate an airborne bioremediation effort, possibly an emergency attempt to repair ozone damage caused by compounds like ethylene dibromide in jet fuel. Castle describes witnessing… ...
Aug 23, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Season 2000Ep. 623
Art Bell welcomes Wayne Green , the 77-year-old editor of 73 Magazine, to discuss a landmark FCC ruling that reduces the Morse code requirement for all amateur radio license classes to just five words per minute. Both men celebrate the change as essential to reversing the steep decline in new ham operators, noting that Japan has long thrived with a no-code license and school-based radio clubs that feed its technology workforce. Wayne shares stories from a life shaped by amateur radio, including ...
Aug 22, 2024•2 hr 45 min•Season 2000Ep. 622
Art Bell welcomes Wayne Green, the 77-year-old editor of 73 Magazine, to discuss a landmark FCC ruling that reduces the Morse code requirement for all amateur radio license classes to just five words per minute. Both men celebrate the change as essential to reversing the steep decline in new ham operators, noting that Japan has long thrived with a no-code license and school-based radio clubs that feed its technology workforce. Wayne shares stories from a life shaped by amateur radio, including… ...
Aug 22, 2024•2 hr 45 min•Season 2000Ep. 622
Art Bell opens with a postmortem on Y2K, declaring it largely a non-event while urging listeners to keep their emergency preparations for increasingly severe weather ahead. He notes record warm temperatures in New York, tornado damage in Kentucky in January, and yet another devastating storm battering Scotland with winds over 100 miles per hour. Nostradamus scholar John Hogue joins to examine why the predicted millennium terrorism and the July 1999 "king of terror" prophecy did not manifest as e...
Aug 21, 2024•2 hr 53 min•Season 2000Ep. 621
Nostradamus scholar John Hogue joins Art Bell to discuss Y2K, religion, terrorism prophecy, and Nostradamus after Art's postmortem on the millennium rollover. Art opens with a postmortem on Y2K, declaring it largely a non-event while urging listeners to keep their emergency preparations for increasingly severe weather ahead. He notes record warm temperatures in New York, tornado damage in Kentucky in January, and yet another devastating storm battering Scotland with winds over 100 miles per hour...
Aug 21, 2024•2 hr 53 min•Season 2000Ep. 621
Art Bell broadcasts a special early edition on New Year's Eve, beginning at 7 p.m. Pacific time to track the millennium's arrival across every time zone. News reports confirm that Y2K computer fears have so far produced only minor glitches worldwide, though a credit card failure across Britain days earlier serves as a reminder that problems may still surface when businesses reopen. Boris Yeltsin's sudden resignation adds geopolitical uncertainty to an already anxious evening. Gordon Michael Scal...
Aug 20, 2024•8 hr 10 min•Season 1999Ep. 620
Art Bell broadcasts a special early edition on New Year's Eve, beginning at 7 p.m. Pacific time to track the millennium's arrival across every time zone. News reports confirm that Y2K computer fears have so far produced only minor glitches worldwide, though a credit card failure across Britain days earlier serves as a reminder that problems may still surface when businesses reopen. Boris Yeltsin's sudden resignation adds geopolitical uncertainty to an already anxious evening. Gordon Michael… Ful...
Aug 20, 2024•8 hr 10 min•Season 1999Ep. 620
Art Bell interviews legendary investigative columnist Jack Anderson , whose career spanned decades of exposing government corruption and tangling with the most powerful figures in Washington. Anderson recounts his decision to investigate FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by conducting a burlesque FBI-style probe, including going through Hoover's garbage and following him around the capital. The columns that resulted reduced Hoover from near-deity status, prompting the director to call Anderson lower ...
Aug 19, 2024•2 hr 45 min•Season 1999Ep. 619
Art Bell interviews legendary investigative columnist Jack Anderson, whose career spanned decades of exposing government corruption and tangling with the most powerful figures in Washington. Anderson recounts his decision to investigate FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by conducting a burlesque FBI-style probe, including going through Hoover's garbage and following him around the capital. The columns that resulted reduced Hoover from near-deity status, prompting the director to call Anderson lower… ...
Aug 19, 2024•2 hr 45 min•Season 1999Ep. 619
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gary Schwartz , professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, and psychiatry at the University of Arizona, to discuss scientific research into life after death. Schwartz explains his systemic memory hypothesis, which proposes that all systems in the universe store information through feedback loops, much like audio feedback from a speaker or the infinite regression seen when pointing a video camera at its own monitor. He describes how this replicable phenomenon led him to p...
Aug 18, 2024•2 hr 40 min•Season 1999Ep. 618
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gary Schwartz, professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, and psychiatry at the University of Arizona, to discuss scientific research into life after death. Schwartz explains his systemic memory hypothesis, which proposes that all systems in the universe store information through feedback loops, much like audio feedback from a speaker or the infinite regression seen when pointing a video camera at its own monitor. He describes how this replicable phenomenon led him to… F...
Aug 18, 2024•2 hr 40 min•Season 1999Ep. 618
Art Bell opens the show with a startling announcement: all long-distance telephone service to Pahrump, Nevada, has been down since late afternoon, leaving him unable to take calls from the outside world. With only local lines working, he transforms the broadcast into an unprecedented Pahrump-only open lines night, inviting his desert neighbors to call in on local numbers while the rest of the nation listens to a one-way show. Local callers share their experiences with the outage, reporting that ...
Aug 18, 2024•41 min•Season 1999Ep. 617
Art Bell opens the show with a startling announcement: all long-distance telephone service to Pahrump, Nevada, has been down since late afternoon, leaving him unable to take calls from the outside world. With only local lines working, he transforms the broadcast into an unprecedented Pahrump-only open lines night, inviting his desert neighbors to call in on local numbers while the rest of the nation listens to a one-way show. Local callers share their experiences with the outage, reporting that…...
Aug 18, 2024•41 min•Season 1999Ep. 617
Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf and Dannion Brinkley to discuss an extraordinary archaeological discovery in the central United States. Ghostwolf describes unearthing over 200 artifacts from a buried temple site, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, Celtic inscriptions, Hebrew tablets, and what appears to be a depiction of the Ark of the Covenant. The find suggests multiple ancient civilizations left records in one location long before Columbus arrived in 1492. Brinkley reveals he took photogra...
Aug 17, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 1999Ep. 616
Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf and Dannion Brinkley to discuss an extraordinary archaeological discovery in the central United States. Ghostwolf describes unearthing over 200 artifacts from a buried temple site, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, Celtic inscriptions, Hebrew tablets, and what appears to be a depiction of the Ark of the Covenant. The find suggests multiple ancient civilizations left records in one location long before Columbus arrived in 1492. Brinkley reveals he took… Full sh...
Aug 17, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 1999Ep. 616
Art Bell opens the phone lines with Y2K just sixteen days away, fielding calls from across North America as anxiety builds toward the millennium rollover. He reports that a Nebraska bank posted signs limiting cash withdrawals to three thousand dollars, sparking the very panic officials hoped to avoid. Massachusetts officials, meanwhile, prepare to monitor the transition from a concrete bunker forty feet underground. Callers from Alaska describe glaciers in unprecedented retreat, with mountain ro...
Aug 16, 2024•2 hr 51 min•Season 1999Ep. 615
Art Bell opens the phone lines with Y2K just sixteen days away, fielding calls from across North America as anxiety builds toward the millennium rollover. He reports that a Nebraska bank posted signs limiting cash withdrawals to three thousand dollars, sparking the very panic officials hoped to avoid. Massachusetts officials, meanwhile, prepare to monitor the transition from a concrete bunker forty feet underground. Callers from Alaska describe glaciers in unprecedented retreat, with mountain… F...
Aug 16, 2024•2 hr 51 min•Season 1999Ep. 615
Art Bell presents extended readings from his co-authored book with Whitley Strieber , "The Coming Global Superstorm," a work of researched fiction that dramatizes a catastrophic climate shift. The narrative opens with ocean buoys detecting sudden temperature drops in the North Atlantic and Antarctic, signaling that the world's ocean currents are changing course with devastating consequences. The book weaves between a fictional scenario of civilization-ending storms and factual climate science, e...
Aug 15, 2024•2 hr 51 min•Season 1999Ep. 614
Art Bell presents extended readings from his co-authored book with Whitley Strieber, "The Coming Global Superstorm," a work of researched fiction that dramatizes a catastrophic climate shift. The narrative opens with ocean buoys detecting sudden temperature drops in the North Atlantic and Antarctic, signaling that the world's ocean currents are changing course with devastating consequences. The book weaves between a fictional scenario of civilization-ending storms and factual climate science,… F...
Aug 15, 2024•2 hr 51 min•Season 1999Ep. 614
