The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell speaks with Whitley Strieber about mysterious drone photographs from Northern California and the accelerating crisis of global warming. Strieber analyzes the Chad UFO drone images, noting their unusual clarity and strange writing, and suggests the object may have been designed to look fake as concealment. The conversation shifts to alarming climate developments, including rapid ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica far exceeding predictions.

Strieber warns that sea level rise could displace hundreds of millions from low-lying nations like Bangladesh. He and Art discuss the geopolitics of emissions, noting Exxon recently abandoned its support for climate denial. Strieber emphasizes that Western nations must lead global reduction efforts despite the challenge of bringing China and India along.

In the second half, Art welcomes first-time guest Paul F. Eno, a paranormal investigator since 1970 and author of five books on the subject. Eno describes his early seminary-era investigations where he encountered ghostly sounds of children, farm animals, and an ox cart at an abandoned Connecticut settlement. He challenges the traditional view of ghosts as spirits of the dead, proposing instead that these phenomena represent overlapping realities where living people from other timeframes briefly intersect with our own.

Art Bell interviews first-time guest Robert Collins, a career Air Force veteran who spent 22 years in avionics, communications, engineering, physics, and intelligence at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Foreign Technology Division. Collins describes how a casual conversation in a classified vault in 1985 led him to retired lieutenant colonel Ernie Kellerstrauss, who shared extraordinary stories about UFO encounters and recovered materials.

Collins recounts the 1959 Misawa, Japan incident in which an F-106 pilot fired a full salvo of missiles at a hovering disc-shaped UFO with no effect. According to the account, a tractor beam then emerged from the craft and pulled the aircraft toward it while ground controllers listened to the pilot's screams. He also discusses classified compounds on Sandia Base used for testing on recovered non-human biological materials, with body parts allegedly on loan from Wright-Patterson.

The discussion expands to cover underground tunnel systems connecting military installations, including Area 51, Los Alamos, and Dulce. Collins explains how he spent years verifying these accounts through multiple sources within the intelligence community, ultimately concluding that the government UFO cover-up spanning over 60 years is real. The first hour features open lines with callers discussing current events.

Art Bell welcomes back Peter Ward, professor of biology and earth sciences at the University of Washington and NASA Astrobiology Institute investigator, to discuss his book Under a Green Sky and the science of mass extinctions. Ward explains that while the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid impact, the other 15 mass extinctions over 500 million years show no such evidence.

Ward presents his theory that most mass extinctions were driven by greenhouse gas-induced ocean chemistry changes. He describes how rising CO2 levels acidify oceans until marine organisms cannot form shells, and how saturated oceans can suddenly release massive amounts of carbon dioxide in catastrophic overturning events. He draws a parallel to the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster in Africa, where volcanic CO2 burst from a lake and killed nearly 2,000 people.

The conversation grows urgent as Ward reveals the Southern Ocean around Antarctica is already saturated with CO2 decades ahead of predictions. He warns that current warming trends mirror conditions that preceded the Permian extinction, the worst in Earth's history, which eliminated roughly 90 percent of all species. The first hour covers the Chad UFO photo controversy and open lines.

Art Bell speaks with researcher and author Tom Horn about his book Nephilim Stargates, which examines ancient accounts of fallen angels, hybrid beings, and interdimensional portals through the lens of modern science. Horn describes how the biblical Watchers, a group of 200 angels described in the Book of Enoch, descended to Earth, mated with human women, and produced the Nephilim, a race of giants referenced across multiple ancient texts.

Horn connects these ancient narratives to contemporary developments in transgenics and biotechnology. He explains how his earlier fiction novel, The Ahriman Gate, required deep research into genetic modification, which led him to discover striking parallels between modern species-blending experiments and the ancient stories of gods creating hybrid creatures. He notes that a significant portion of federal research funding was already going toward transgenic science, raising questions about what is being developed behind closed doors.

The discussion also touches on potential political and prophetic dimensions, including references to Masonic symbolism and inaugural speeches. Horn presents his theory that stargates or portals described in ancient mythology may represent actual mechanisms through which non-human entities entered the physical world. The first hour features unscreened open lines with callers discussing current events.

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Mark Eberhart, professor of chemistry and materials science at the Colorado School of Mines and author of Feeding the Fire, for an in-depth discussion on America's growing energy crisis. Eberhart explains why corn-based ethanol is a flawed solution, noting that farm subsidies rather than real energy gains drive the push for biofuels, and that converting cellulose to ethanol holds far more promise.

The conversation explores Eberhart's central thesis that energy and human imagination are inseparable. He argues that everything civilization has created, from automobiles to books, exists because humans harnessed energy to give substance to their ideas. Art and Eberhart discuss how exponentially rising energy consumption, combined with dependence on foreign oil funding hostile nations, creates both economic and security vulnerabilities.

Eberhart addresses hydrogen as a potential fuel source, explaining the scientific challenges of storage and production that make it less viable than many assume. He also weighs in on climate change, stating that the evidence for human-caused global warming is overwhelming, and warns that China has already surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest carbon emitter. The hour opens with unscreened listener calls on topics ranging from the Iraq War to personal stories.