September 5, 2003: Contact Night - Open Lines
September 5, 2003: Contact Night - Open Lines  
Podcast: The Art Bell Archive
Published On: Thu Jun 12 2025
Description: Art Bell guest hosts and opens with Marshall Masters, a former CNN producer who discusses a 1995 crop circle formation that he believes encodes a prediction for September 6th. Masters presents a chronological analysis linking recurring crop circle glyphs to a communication protocol, suggesting the formations contain headers and messages from an extraterrestrial source. He alleges that the 2003 crop circle season in England was deliberately shut down to prevent a significant message from being delivered.Masters points to a photograph from the SOHO satellite showing an unidentified winged object near Venus, claiming the next day's imagery was edited to remove it. He connects this to the Tichborn formation's apparent mapping of inner solar system positions and speculates that government forces used military helicopters to suppress crop circle researchers and prevent further contact events in British fields.The second half features open lines on a contact theme, with callers sharing UFO sightings and alleged encounters from Sacramento to San Francisco. One caller describes signaling craft on a beach and receiving telepathic communication, while others report unusual lights and objects across the United States. Art reads listener jokes, discusses Mel's Hole, and fields questions on topics ranging from Tesla's wireless energy theories to the expanding universe.