The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes author Whitley Strieber to discuss the accelerating pace of extreme climate change. Before the interview, Art replays the legendary recording of a man who flew his homemade Long-EZ airplane directly into restricted Area 51 airspace in 1997, narrating the encounter live as an F-16 scrambled to intercept him.

Strieber explains that what the media calls global warming is more accurately described as sudden climate change, the phenomenon they predicted in their co-authored novel Superstorm. He points to January tornadoes in Louisiana, record winds in Montana reaching 167 miles per hour, snowless Alps, and 70-degree temperatures in New Jersey as evidence that weather systems have become chaotic. Strieber reveals that 10 of the 12 great ocean currents driving the Gulf Stream have stopped flowing, with only two remaining active.

The conversation turns to Peruvian glaciers where scientists found temperate plants quick-frozen in under five minutes, still green 5,200 years later, suggesting sudden catastrophic climate shifts have occurred before. Strieber also discusses his personal experiences with the Greys, noting that the encounters stopped when he moved from New York, and considers the possibility that these beings may be visitors from humanity's own future.

Art Bell hosts the second night of listener predictions for 2007 on New Year's Eve as midnight sweeps across the continent. He tightens the rules from the previous night, warning that anyone attempting to slip in a second prediction will have their first one canceled. Only on-air predictions are recorded, and Art reminds listeners that all calls are documented so there can be no dispute about what was said.

The evening's news backdrop includes the American death toll in Iraq reaching 3,000, the burial of Saddam Hussein, and yet another powerful snowstorm burying Colorado under 10-foot drifts. Art reflects on the rapidly changing weather patterns and notes the stark contrast between freezing desert winds and unseasonably warm temperatures in the Midwest and East Coast, where callers report needing to mow their lawns in late December.

Predictions from callers span politics, natural disasters, and the unexplained. Listeners forecast events including tornadoes touching down in Los Angeles, Congress attempting to pass a North American Union, major UFO sightings that produce irrefutable evidence, and dramatic shifts in the Iraq War. Art keeps the pace brisk, enforcing his one-prediction rule while ringing in the new year with his audience.

Art Bell hosts the first night of his annual predictions show for 2007, broadcasting once again from the high desert after returning to the United States with his wife Airyn, who has officially immigrated. He opens by reviewing the accuracy of previous years' predictions and establishes the ground rules: one prediction per caller, and only on-air predictions will be recorded. Art notes that 2006 predictions were heavily influenced by the lingering impact of the tsunami, skewing results.

Before opening the phone lines, Art shares predictions from 50 eminent British scientists and a University of Alabama professor, covering topics ranging from hybrid car sales to presidential hopefuls dropping out of the race. He also reports on a massive earthquake off Taiwan that severed all communications to the Philippines, an event that would have prevented him from broadcasting had he remained there.

Callers offer a wide range of predictions touching on politics, natural disasters, technology, and the paranormal. Topics include the North American Union, global warming intensifying, regime change in North Korea, and continued unusual weather patterns. Several callers also take the opportunity to welcome Art back to American soil, expressing genuine surprise at his unannounced return home.

Art Bell welcomes author and researcher Graham Hancock from Great Britain to discuss his book Supernatural and the hidden dimensions of human consciousness. The conversation opens with an examination of the Great Pyramid, including new evidence suggesting some limestone blocks may have been poured like concrete, though Hancock notes that fossils inside broken blocks challenge this theory. The 70-ton granite blocks of the King's Chamber remain unexplained.

Hancock argues that ancient civilizations possessed a technology rooted not in mechanical advantage but in spiritual dimensions of the mind. He draws connections between megalithic structures worldwide, from Baalbek to Tonga, suggesting a forgotten seafaring culture carried this knowledge across the globe. The destruction of the Amazon rainforest serves as a bridge into his central thesis about humanity's severed connection to spirit.

The discussion turns to DMT, the compound produced naturally by the human pineal gland. Hancock describes Dr. Rick Strassman's research showing that volunteers given DMT reported encounters with entities strikingly similar to those described by UFO abductees and ancient shamans. He proposes that these plants are not creating visions but opening doorways to other realms, and that governments criminalize them precisely because they threaten state control over human thought.

Art Bell welcomes filmmaker and researcher David Sereda for a Christmas Eve discussion about UFOs, extraterrestrial contact, and the future of humanity. Sereda describes his own close encounter with a triangular craft in Berkeley in 1968 and outlines a theory connecting the Phoenix Lights to Pythagorean mathematics and the Great Pyramids, noting that the massive triangle hovered near the Estrella Mountain Range, whose name traces back to the Greek for star child.

The conversation turns to whether extraterrestrial visitors are benevolent or hostile. Sereda divides alien encounters into categories, from spiritually evolved beings who travel through what he calls the singularity to more troubling entities associated with abductions and implants. Art presses him on the contradiction between claims of helpful aliens and the forcible nature of most abduction accounts. Sereda acknowledges the darker side but points to religious apparitions and luminous phenomena as evidence of higher contact.

Sereda also addresses the environmental crisis, citing a professor who believes humanity has only five to ten years to transform its energy infrastructure or face extinction. He argues that zero-point energy and anti-gravity technology may already exist in classified programs and that withholding them represents a profound crime against the planet.