February 19, 2005: UFOs and Coverups - Timothy Good | Poker Champion - Chris Moneymaker
February 19, 2005: UFOs and Coverups - Timothy Good | Poker Champion - Chris Moneymaker  
Podcast: The Art Bell Archive
Published On: Mon Oct 27 2025
Description: Art Bell interviews Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker champion who turned a forty-dollar Internet entry into a 2.5-million-dollar prize. Moneymaker describes the mental exhaustion of fourteen-hour sessions and how he learned to read tells, shift between aggressive and conservative play, and exploit opponents' emotions. He credits a friend finishing a tournament on his account as the turning point that changed his approach.The program shifts to UFO researcher Timothy Good from London, discussing decades of investigation involving military and intelligence sources. Good reveals a Pentagon contact described multiple alien species with permanent bases on Earth, including undersea installations, and confirmed that some beings communicate with the intelligence community. He recounts Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley's claimed two-hour meeting with an extraterrestrial in 1954 London, during which the being demonstrated telepathy and knowledge of nuclear secrets.Good argues the cover-up began during World War II and intensified after Roswell, which he states unequivocally happened. He describes a pre-Roswell crash in San Antonio, New Mexico, in 1945 where two boys witnessed a downed craft. Art and Good discuss whether aliens genetically upgraded early humans, dimensional travel, and the upcoming ABC prime-time UFO documentary hosted by Peter Jennings.