January 2, 2005: Open Lines | Alien Encounters
Podcast: The Art Bell ArchivePublished On: Thu Oct 16 2025
Description: Art Bell dedicates a special phone line to callers who have experienced physical alien contact, setting strict criteria that exclude dreams and secondhand accounts. The first caller, Mary, describes an entity entering her body while she sat watching television with her family present. She reports the being seemed childlike in its curiosity, touching objects and petting animals through her, and her husband confirmed visible physical changes in her appearance.A parade of contactees follows with remarkably detailed accounts. A water skier from Nevada describes sneezing out a small silicone implant after an accident, then feeling compelled to throw it away against his will. A trucker on a lonely Texas highway recounts a football-shaped craft landing nearby and telepathic communication that filled him with an overwhelming sense of peace. A 59-year-old former Army cryptographer with top secret clearance claims a lieutenant colonel confirmed his red file status, acknowledging decades of monitored contact.Art weaves in discussion of Princeton University's Global Consciousness Project, noting that the network of random number generators registered anomalous readings a full 15 minutes before the tsunami struck. He also highlights his sister Jessie's appearance on Animal Planet with a dog that can perform arithmetic, prompting broader questions about animal intelligence and consciousness.
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