Art Bell hosts the second night of the annual prediction show as the new year sweeps across the country, recording each forecast with an assigned number for the Bell Family Vault. He watches CNN coverage of celebrations city by city before mistaking footage of the shock and awe attack on Baghdad for New Year's fireworks, a moment that underscores the strange overlap between festivity and conflict heading into 2004. Callers offer predictions ranging from Dick Cheney stepping down for health reaso...
Jul 13, 2025•2 hr 43 min•Season 2003Ep. 964
Art Bell hosts the second night of the annual prediction show as the new year sweeps across the country, recording each forecast with an assigned number for the Bell Family Vault. He watches CNN coverage of celebrations city by city before mistaking footage of the shock and awe attack on Baghdad for New Year's fireworks, a moment that underscores the strange overlap between festivity and conflict heading into 2004. Callers offer predictions ranging from Dick Cheney stepping down for health… Full...
Jul 13, 2025•2 hr 43 min•Season 2003Ep. 964
Art Bell opens the annual predictions show by reviewing the previous year's results from the Bell Family Vault and urging listeners to quiet their minds before calling. He instructs callers to let predictions come naturally rather than pulling them from the top of their heads, emphasizing that only predictions made live on the air will be officially numbered and recorded for review the following year. Callers deliver a wide range of forecasts for 2004, including the detonation of a North Korean ...
Jul 12, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2003Ep. 963
Art Bell opens the annual predictions show by reviewing the previous year's results from the Bell Family Vault and urging listeners to quiet their minds before calling. He instructs callers to let predictions come naturally rather than pulling them from the top of their heads, emphasizing that only predictions made live on the air will be officially numbered and recorded for review the following year. Callers deliver a wide range of forecasts for 2004, including the detonation of a North Korean…...
Jul 12, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2003Ep. 963
Professor James McCanney challenges conventional space science with his revolutionary theories about the electric universe and privately-funded space exploration initiatives. The discussion examines how private entrepreneurs are developing alternatives to NASA's expensive and bureaucratic approach to space travel, potentially opening space access to civilian populations. McCanney critiques NASA's fundamental assumptions about space being electrically neutral, presenting evidence that electromagn...
Jul 11, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2003Ep. 962
Art Bell welcomes Professor James McCanney to discuss private space ventures, Tesla technology, and the future of space exploration. McCanney reveals that Russia's Cosmos program conducted some 1,600 missions between 1962 and 1977, dwarfing the United States' roughly 300 astronauts sent to space. He argues that private entrepreneurs like Burt Rutan and Paul Allen will prove far more efficient than government agencies burdened by overhead costs. The discussion shifts to Nikola Tesla's tower, with...
Jul 11, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2003Ep. 962
Art Bell welcomes Professor James McCanney to discuss private space ventures, Tesla technology, and the future of space exploration. McCanney reveals that Russia's Cosmos program conducted some 1,600 missions between 1962 and 1977, dwarfing the United States' roughly 300 astronauts sent to space. He argues that private entrepreneurs like Burt Rutan and Paul Allen will prove far more efficient than government agencies burdened by overhead costs. The discussion shifts to Nikola Tesla's tower,… Ful...
Jul 11, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2003Ep. 962
Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the so-called Mars curse, examining why more than two-thirds of all spacecraft sent to Mars have failed. Hoagland presents his theory that a small, determined group may be sabotaging missions to prevent public discovery of what he believes are buried Martian cities, citing incidents of deliberate contamination during the Mars Observer launch and the mysterious removal of ground-penetrating radar from a U.S. mission after a high-level diplomatic me...
Jul 10, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 961
Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the so-called Mars curse, examining why more than two-thirds of all spacecraft sent to Mars have failed. Hoagland presents his theory that a small, determined group may be sabotaging missions to prevent public discovery of what he believes are buried Martian cities, citing incidents of deliberate contamination during the Mars Observer launch and the mysterious removal of ground-penetrating radar from a U.S. mission after a high-level diplomatic… F...
Jul 10, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 961
Art Bell opens with a detailed examination of a high-resolution photograph sent by a listener showing what appears to be a disc-shaped craft sitting on the desert floor near Sedona, Arizona. The image, allegedly taken by a Grand Canyon tour pilot, shows a saucer with an apparent open door, possible heat tiles, and tire tracks leading to the site. Listeners call in with theories ranging from cattle feed storage containers to genuine extraterrestrial hardware. Ron "Mad Max" Fink then joins to disc...
Jul 09, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 960
Robotics designer Ron "Mad Max" Fink joins Art Bell to discuss autonomous robotic vehicles, DARPA research, and the International Robot Racing Federation after Art examines a listener's Sedona saucer photograph. The image, allegedly taken by a Grand Canyon tour pilot, shows a saucer with an apparent open door, possible heat tiles, and tire tracks leading to the site. Listeners call in with theories ranging from cattle feed storage containers to genuine extraterrestrial hardware. Fink explains hi...
Jul 09, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 960
Ron Fink explores the rapidly advancing world of robotics technology and its implications for humanity's future in this fascinating discussion about artificial intelligence and automation. The conversation examines Sony's impressive articulating robots and the sophisticated technology driving the modern robotics revolution that's capturing public imagination worldwide. Fink discusses the practical applications of robotic systems, from industrial automation to personal assistance devices, and how...
Jul 09, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 960
Art Bell welcomes world-renowned medium James Van Praagh for a conversation about communication with the dead. Van Praagh describes how spirits transmit thoughts telepathically, carrying with them personality traits, dialects, and the physical sensations of their final moments. He shares specific examples of verifiable details received during readings, including a deceased son reporting his wife's chipped tooth and an upcoming dental appointment. The discussion turns to the nature of the afterli...
Jul 08, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 959
Art Bell welcomes world-renowned medium James Van Praagh for a conversation about communication with the dead. Van Praagh describes how spirits transmit thoughts telepathically, carrying with them personality traits, dialects, and the physical sensations of their final moments. He shares specific examples of verifiable details received during readings, including a deceased son reporting his wife's chipped tooth and an upcoming dental appointment. The discussion turns to the nature of the… Full s...
Jul 08, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 959
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging discussion that begins with the feasibility of antimatter weapons and quickly moves into a hidden history of nuclear accidents in the United States. Kaku reveals the stories of seven Americans killed in supercriticality incidents, including Harry Daglian and Louis Slotin, who were fatally irradiated by plutonium hemispheres at Los Alamos in 1945 and 1946. Kaku details the 1961 SL-1 reactor explosion in Idaho Falls, where ...
Jul 07, 2025•2 hr 50 min•Season 2003Ep. 958
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging discussion that begins with the feasibility of antimatter weapons and quickly moves into a hidden history of nuclear accidents in the United States. Kaku reveals the stories of seven Americans killed in supercriticality incidents, including Harry Daglian and Louis Slotin, who were fatally irradiated by plutonium hemispheres at Los Alamos in 1945 and 1946. Kaku details the 1961 SL-1 reactor explosion in Idaho Falls, where…...
Jul 07, 2025•2 hr 50 min•Season 2003Ep. 958
Art Bell opens with open lines following the capture of Saddam Hussein, taking calls from listeners debating whether the deposed dictator should face trial in Iraq, before an international tribunal, or in the United States. The overwhelming consensus from callers favors letting the Iraqi people try him for his crimes against their own citizens. Author Harry Helms then joins to discuss pirate radio, Cuban numbers stations broadcasting coded spy messages on shortwave frequencies, and the fight aga...
Jul 06, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 957
Author Harry Helms joins Art Bell to discuss shadow government emergency powers, pirate radio, Cuban numbers stations, and broadband over power lines after open lines on Saddam Hussein's capture. Callers debate whether the deposed dictator should face trial in Iraq, before an international tribunal, or in the United States. The overwhelming consensus from callers favors letting the Iraqi people try him for his crimes against their own citizens. Helms shares specific frequencies where listeners c...
Jul 06, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 957
Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber for a discussion on recent UFO abduction cases and their increasingly ominous tone, including a detailed account from British Columbia where two women encountered glowing eyes and a triangular craft. Strieber shares his own unsettling experiences and reflects on the shifting nature of close encounters from curious to threatening. Dr. Nick Begich then joins to provide a comprehensive update on the HAARP facility in Alaska, where the antenna array is being expand...
Jul 05, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 956
Dr. Nick Begich joins Art Bell to provide a HAARP update on Alaska facility expansion, ionospheric heating, ELF effects, communications disruption, and weather-pattern concerns after a first-hour UFO abduction segment with Whitley Strieber . Strieber discusses recent UFO abduction cases and their increasingly ominous tone, including a detailed account from British Columbia where two women encountered glowing eyes and a triangular craft. Strieber shares his own unsettling experiences and reflects...
Jul 05, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 956
Art Bell administers the John Lear test to Dr. Steven M. Greer , founder of the Disclosure Project, who surprises listeners by saying he would not release the briefing as presented. Greer estimates roughly 75 percent of the Lear scenario is inaccurate, calling much of it deliberately crafted disinformation designed to provoke fear. He argues that effective disclosure must focus on the positive implications of suppressed energy and propulsion technologies rather than horror scenarios about hostil...
Jul 04, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 955
Art Bell administers the John Lear test to Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, who surprises listeners by saying he would not release the briefing as presented. Greer estimates roughly 75 percent of the Lear scenario is inaccurate, calling much of it deliberately crafted disinformation designed to provoke fear. He argues that effective disclosure must focus on the positive implications of suppressed energy and propulsion technologies rather than horror scenarios about… Full s...
Jul 04, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 955
Dr. Stephen Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project and CEO of Space Energy Access Systems, reveals explosive details about extraterrestrial contact and government cover-ups spanning decades. The emergency physician turned UFO researcher discusses classified information about alien recoveries, live extraterrestrial beings in government custody, and the sophisticated technology being reverse-engineered from crashed craft. Greer explains how President Eisenhower's encounters with alien representa...
Jul 04, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 955
Art Bell opens with legendary gambler Amarillo Slim Preston, who shares outrageous stories from his memoir including making a cat pick up a Coke bottle by wetting sugar on its cap, using identical twins to win a quail-eating bet, and predicting which sugar cube a fly would land on by moistening it. Slim discusses the psychology of poker, why women have not won the World Series, and his belief that gambling will eventually overwhelm the global economy. Bob Lazar returns to discuss his experiences...
Jul 03, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 954
Bob Lazar , president of United Nuclear and a controversial figure in ufology, returns to Art Bell to discuss UFOs, Area S4, gravity propulsion, and alternative energy after a first-hour interview with gambler Amarillo Slim Preston. Slim shares stories from his memoir, including making a cat pick up a Coke bottle by wetting sugar on its cap, using identical twins to win a quail-eating bet, and predicting which sugar cube a fly would land on by moistening it. Slim discusses the psychology of poke...
Jul 03, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 954
Art Bell recounts broadcast equipment failures caused by a rogue satellite signal jamming his frequency, then takes open lines covering Iraq violence, climate change, and the upcoming film The Day After Tomorrow based on the book he co-authored. Callers weigh in on military strategy, rapid weather shifts, and a listener from Dallas who corroborates a previous caller's claim of finding a shell casing near the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza. Matthew Alper , author of The God Part of the Brain, prese...
Jul 02, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 953
Art Bell recounts broadcast equipment failures caused by a rogue satellite signal jamming his frequency, then takes open lines covering Iraq violence, climate change, and the upcoming film The Day After Tomorrow based on the book he co-authored. Callers weigh in on military strategy, rapid weather shifts, and a listener from Dallas who corroborates a previous caller's claim of finding a shell casing near the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza. Matthew Alper, author of The God Part of the Brain,… Full ...
Jul 02, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2003Ep. 953
Art Bell begins with open lines covering the Iraq war, solar eruptions of unprecedented magnitude, and rapid climate change evidence from Peru where a flash-frozen plant reveals catastrophic environmental shifts from 5,000 years ago. He shares his own story of building a directional antenna to intercept a neighbor's cordless phone conversations as revenge, setting up the theme of electronic surveillance and privacy invasion. Roger Tolces , a Los Angeles private investigator specializing in elect...
Jul 01, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 952
Art Bell begins with open lines covering the Iraq war, solar eruptions of unprecedented magnitude, and rapid climate change evidence from Peru where a flash-frozen plant reveals catastrophic environmental shifts from 5,000 years ago. He shares his own story of building a directional antenna to intercept a neighbor's cordless phone conversations as revenge, setting up the theme of electronic surveillance and privacy invasion. Roger Tolces, a Los Angeles private investigator specializing in… Full ...
Jul 01, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 952
Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport , director of the National UFO Reporting Center, who presents a major sighting case from the November 8th lunar eclipse. Witnesses from Boston and New York City describe clusters of lights moving in formation across the eastern seaboard, with Jeff in Manhattan reporting V-shaped formations splitting and reconnecting over the city from an 11th-story rooftop. Davenport compares the event to the 1997 Phoenix Lights and laments the total silence from major newspap...
Jun 30, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2003Ep. 951
