The Art Bell Archive

Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director of SETI Research, joins Art Bell for a conversation that turns into a direct confrontation with claims made by Stephen Greer on a previous broadcast. Shostak describes the Allen Telescope Array scanning 30 million channels simultaneously and credits Moore's Law for doubling search capability every few years. Art Bell plays audio of Greer claiming SETI founder Frank Drake told him the institute received and suppressed interplanetary signals.… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-11-2015-seti-seth-shostak

Joe McMoneagle, Remote Viewer 001 and 20-year participant in Project Stargate, joins Art Bell with a resume spanning the CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, and most major Defense Department commands. McMoneagle describes how the Army recruited him not by asking for psychics but by identifying soldiers inexplicably exceptional at their jobs. His first Stanford Research Institute test produced a p-value of .003 across six trials, and the program went operational within three months when the Iran hostage crisis… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-10-2015-remote-viewing-joe-mcmoneagle

Travis Walton, the Arizona logger whose 1975 alien abduction remains one of ufology's most documented cases, joins Art Bell from Snowflake, Arizona to revisit the night that defined his life. Walton retraces the events: his crew encountering a metallic disc in the Apache National Forest, the energy blast that threw his body 10 to 20 feet, and the crew's terrified flight. He describes waking aboard the craft surrounded by small, grayish-white beings with large eyes, lashing out in panic before a… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-7-2015-alien-abductions-travis-walton

Michael Rugg, curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, joins Art Bell with a childhood encounter that launched a lifetime of research. Around 1950, Rugg wandered from his parents' campsite on Northern California's Eel River and found a towering figure covered in reddish-brown hair on an open sandbar, a memory suppressed for decades until a book passage triggered a flashback his mother corroborated. Rugg presents a possible Bigfoot tooth found near his museum… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-6-2015-bigfoot-discovery-museum-michael-rugg

Art Bell stages a 90-minute flat earth debate between Jon "the Morgile", an anonymous skeptic known on YouTube, and Dr. Josh Grindlay, an astrophysicist with over 500 papers and Guggenheim and American Physical Society fellowships. Art Bell blows through a break to keep the exchange uninterrupted. John presents an alternative model: an infinite plane with the North Pole at its center, the sun circling 3,000 miles overhead, and Antarctica forming the outer rim. He argues buildings visible from… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-5-2015-flat-earth-debate-jon-the-morgile-and-josh-grindlay