The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes animal communicator Amelia Kinkade, author of Straight from the Horse's Mouth and The Language of Miracles, for a fascinating exploration of interspecies telepathy. Kinkade describes her first encounter with animal psychic Beatrice Lidecker, who accurately described details about her cat Rodney's life that no outsider could have known, including the view from his favorite perch and his interactions with a neighbor's dog.

Kinkade explains that animal communication is a learned skill rooted in neurophysiology, not a supernatural gift. Drawing on quantum holography concepts championed by Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, she describes how all living beings exist within one indivisible field of energy. By quieting the mind and entering a meditative state, a person can merge consciousness with an animal, perceiving the world through its senses and accessing its memories and emotions.

The first hour features open lines where callers share UFO sightings, including a massive plasma ring observed in 1978 and a vivid abduction-style dream. Art also reflects on his decision years ago at KDWN in Las Vegas to abandon political talk radio and embrace the paranormal, a pivotal moment that shaped everything that followed.

Art Bell speaks with Whitley Strieber and Nick Pope about a massive wave of UFO activity, with particular focus on sightings near nuclear installations in Iran. Strieber connects this to historical patterns, citing General Arthur Exons confirmation that the Roswell debris was not of this world and Eisenhowers alleged 1954 encounter at Muroc Air Force Base. He theorizes the visitors seek to prevent nuclear weapons use, pointing to incidents where craft disabled American ICBMs and triggered launch sequences at Russian missile sites.

The discussion turns to Iran, where over 30 UFO incidents have been reported since December 2006, including possible crashes and plasma-like objects near nuclear facilities. Strieber and Art consider whether Iranian leaders would interpret alien contact through a religious lens, and whether a dirty bomb targeting Tel Aviv poses a greater risk than a traditional strike.

Nick Pope joins to discuss his departure from the British Ministry of Defence UFO project and reveals that the ministry ran a classified remote viewing study in 2001. The study failed to recruit experienced viewers and relied on novices, producing inconclusive results. Pope notes that sensitive target applications were planned but never completed, with key portions of the declassified report still redacted.

Art Bell interviews Jim Sparks, a multiple abductee whose experiences began in 1988 and transformed him from a terrified resistor into a cooperator with his alien captors. Sparks provides detailed accounts of being transported aboard craft, describing the physical sensations of acceleration, paralysis upon arrival, and the room where he spent six years learning an alien symbolic language. He explains how the beings taught him telepathic shorthand where entire pages of text could be compressed into a single vibrating symbol.

Sparks describes graduating from these lessons to face-to-face encounters with reptilian beings who showed him visions of environmental devastation. The aliens conveyed urgent messages about deforestation, pollution, and habitat destruction, telling him humanity must change course. He recounts being shown holographic images of what Earth could become and being asked to spread a message of conservation. His background as a land developer who refused to clear-cut lots gives his advocacy an unexpected personal dimension.

The first hour features open lines where callers discuss shadow people, the mass consciousness UFO experiment from previous weeks, and global warming. Art shares his thoughts on 2012 predictions, dismissing them as simply the end of a calendar rather than the end of the world.

Art Bell interviews Dick Criswell, a lifelong UFO researcher whose first encounter with Grey aliens occurred at age six on a farm in Wheeling, West Virginia. Criswell describes how two three-and-a-half-foot beings communicated telepathically, passing through walls effortlessly and telling him he would one day serve as their emissary. The visits continued through his teenage years, growing more frequent over time, and his parents eventually revealed their own encounters, including his father witnessing a craft so massive it blacked out the sky and streetlights.

Criswell also discusses his involvement with AlphaCom, a project organized by Dr. Michael Wolfe to bring government UFO knowledge to the public. The effort collapsed when the Monica Lewinsky scandal consumed the Clinton administration, making officials reluctant to step forward. He says the witnesses remain available but are bound by secrecy agreements. Criswell shares the aliens warning about coming Earth changes, though specific timelines have proven elusive.

The first hour features open lines with follow-up reports from the intent experiment, shadow people accounts, and a caller near Ground Zero who recalls hearing news coverage of Building Seven being deliberately demolished for structural safety reasons. Art also mentions his cameo appearance in an upcoming Lindsay Lohan film.

Art Bell launches a mass consciousness experiment, asking millions of listeners to project the intent for UFOs to appear in skies worldwide. The results are staggering, with thousands of emails flooding in from people who witnessed unusual objects, spinning lights, and craft that responded to flashlight signals. A Nashville TV station even captures footage of a rotating object dismissed too quickly as the space station. James Gilliland returns briefly to confirm his inbox was overwhelmed with sighting reports.

In the second half, Art interviews independent military scholar Ralph Sawyer about China as a growing strategic threat. Sawyer, who spent nearly four decades studying Chinese military doctrine across Asia, warns that conflict with China is likely within 30 years. He details how Taiwan could fall through internal subversion rather than invasion, describes China modernizing its nuclear arsenal from liquid-fueled ICBMs to mobile solid-fueled missiles, and explains how their recent anti-satellite weapon test demonstrates a strategy to neutralize American net-centric warfare.

The program opens during the Chinese Year of the Pig, with Sawyer explaining competing astrological interpretations among Hong Kong geomancers. Callers contribute sighting reports from the intent experiment and raise questions about climate change and the Area 51 flyover tape.