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Aug. 27, 1996 - Art Bell
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Art Bell dissects the 1996 TWA Flight 800 explosion, spotlighting Linda Cabot’s disputed missile photo—FBI-confiscated—and eyewitness reports from military pilots, while questioning media bias in convention coverage (NBC’s 30-minute Democratic focus vs. Republican neglect). Callers debate welfare dependency, compass deviations (10-20 degrees off), and baseless conspiracy theories like Clinton bodyguards on the plane or UN population control schemes, though Bell dismisses most as fringe. A Montana standoff involving giant pet rats and a failed Jupiter probe tech update briefly divert attention before he circles back to Flight 800’s unresolved mysteries, urging listeners to scrutinize evidence on his website. The episode blends skepticism of official narratives with sharp political critiques, leaving unanswered questions about government accountability and eyewitness credibility. [Automatically generated summary]

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Photograph Revealed 00:07:04
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Welcome to Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast A.M. from August 27, 1996.
art bell
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening, good morning, and welcome to the best in live overnight talk radio from the Tahitian and Hawaiian Islands in the West, East to the Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands, south into South America, north to the Pole, and worldwide on the internet.
This is Coast to Coast A.M. Good morning, everybody.
I'm Art Bell.
unidentified
Well, it took all day long.
But the photograph that I have been wanting, I now have.
art bell
First of all, I would like to thank everybody at Hard Copy, and they did their job hardest to get a release to get the photograph to us.
unidentified
And it just didn't work out in the end.
art bell
But they are very good people and tried very hard.
Then we discovered that MSNBC's website had the photograph we were searching for.
Now, if you go to my website now, you will be able to see it.
There are three versions of it in a link to MSNBC.
And it will be in the new category right at the top of the webpage.
Let me read you again the New York Times article that set off this search.
New York Times, Hampton Bays, New York.
All things being equal, Linda Cabot says she wishes she had never taken the photograph.
But she did.
What can she say?
In the dusky sky that serves as a backdrop for the otherwise routine snapshot, there appears to be a cylindrical object with one end aglow.
On another day, another part of the country, the object, if it is an object, would have been dismissed as a simple optical illusion of some sort or the result of a watermark on the camera lens.
But Cabot took the photograph on the fateful night of July 17th when TWA Flight 800 exploded a few miles south of where she stood with her camera.
Once the FBI heard about Cabot's snapshot, it requested and received the commercially developed photographs from the RolaFilm as well as all the negatives.
Now, this photograph is not distinct.
As you might imagine, it would not be distinct.
I believe that it was a Republican fundraiser that was underway at the time, and they were taking photographs of people that were there at the party.
However, in the background, clearly, there is something.
Bearing in mind, this was a photograph taken in the correct direction at the correct time and that it was not intended to be a photograph of a missile, but of a person.
And anybody who does any camera work knows that you focus on the people in the foreground.
That is the way you focus a camera.
So, this is your opportunity.
And what I would say is, go to my website now, because we had a lot of trouble locating it and getting it set up.
And I want to thank Keith, as usual, Keith Rowland, for all the machinations we went through today to get this up there for you.
You take a look.
You tell me what it was in that sky that night at that time.
There's about 200 eyewitnesses now who saw something headed toward that airplane.
I think there is a good chance this was that something.
If it wasn't, then you tell me what it is.
So, as I said, that photograph, as promised, is now on my webpage.
You go take a look and send me some facts.
I'll give you my facts number or some email and let me know what you think.
It is definitely something.
And it was in the sky in the right direction at the right time.
If that's not a missile, what is it?
My webpage is www.artbell.com.
www.artbell.com.
So go take a look, and if one of the pictures doesn't come out for you, try one of the other ones, depending on the browser you're using.
All right, what else is going on?
Oh, yes.
Flashback to yesterday and this.
Good morning, Art.
I, too, have noticed a change in my compass reading.
This afternoon, while driving to work, I glanced down at the compass in my car and happened to notice it was off by 10 degrees.
I thought it was just my compass since it is a few years old.
So I went out and bought a new one tonight after work, and what do you think happened?
The same damn thing with a brand new one.
Now I know my orientation and where points of reference lie with regard to north, south, east, and west.
So this leaves me wondering what the hell is going on, especially since you just mentioned it at the top of your show.
Weird.
Glad to have you back from vacation.
So now we have two separate, distinct, really three reports of compass deviation.
This happened about a year ago, and I wonder if it's occurring again now.
So those of you who are able and who do regular compass readings, do us all a favor and take a quick look and let me know.
That too would be a reason to fax me.
My fax number is area code 702-727-8499, 702-727-8499.
Unfinished Agenda 00:12:20
art bell
Now, the convention.
I watched NBC News tonight, and the only news they had on was the convention, one way or the other.
It took up the entire 30 minutes.
Other than a stock market report, I don't think I saw any other news.
That was it.
Now, as you know, during the Republican convention, I was on vacation.
So I don't know what kind of resources of the networks were devoted to the convention.
You tell me.
Please do tell me.
And maybe it was the same.
Maybe all 30 minutes were devoted to the Republican Convention.
I don't know.
I wasn't here.
I'm just wondering.
I'm just curious, because I'll tell you, fluff pieces and all, discussion of First Ladies and the convention took all 30 minutes of NBC's evening news.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton took on Republican nominee Bob Dole Tuesday night, offered a spirited defense of her book on child rearing.
Ms. Clinton told Democratic Convention in Chicago that Dole's scathing attack on her book, It Takes a Village, was wrong.
Dole said it just takes a mama and a daddy, mother and a father to raise a child, not a village.
First Lady replied tonight, no, it takes parents, teachers, clergy, business people, and it takes a president to raise a child.
It takes a president to raise a child.
And I'm curious how many of you out there feel that this president or any other has had a lot to do with your child's rearing.
Does your child frequently mention the president?
No, mommy, I can't do that because the president said I can't do that.
Or I shouldn't do that.
Or the president said this or that.
In other words, how much influence has the president had on the rearing of your child?
I don't know where they get this stuff.
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo appeared to fellow Democrats and gave Bill Clinton and Al Gore a rousing wish for four more years.
He said, Bill Clinton spells hope and Republicans spell disaster.
Well, the Democrats, you'll know, stick here to four-letter words, hope.
Jesse Jackson rose then, noted he disagreed with the president's decision to sign welfare reform, but applauded the president for raising the minimum wage and backing affirmative action.
Indiana Governor Bayh in the keynote address pictured the president as a man with an unfinished agenda to restore opportunity, responsibility, and sense family for all.
Well, he has an unfinished agenda, but you know, part of it was to get the homosexuals into the military.
He had to end up settling for a don't ask, don't tell policy, so that agenda isn't finished.
He was going to nationalize virtually health care in America, and of course he didn't finish that agenda.
He was going to give the middle class a tax break, and he didn't finish that agenda.
So I guess he does have an unfinished agenda.
Dear Art, welcome home.
I've been watching it too.
Just saw Jesse now watching Mario.
Amazes me how the Democrats continue to paint over the meaning of their words.
Fact is, by what I'm hearing, these people are totally socialist.
They need more programs to cover up their continuing failures that the average American has been forced to fund during the past 40 years.
So there you have it.
The Democrats are whooping it up in Chicago.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Edward Edward is whooping it up right now to the 130-mile per hour mark.
This is a big hurricane.
And they don't know where it's going to go.
Could head toward the islands.
It's presently 265 miles north-northeast of the Leeward Islands and moving west-northwest.
Could come to the U.S. Could come north, hit the Bahamas.
It's hard to know exactly what it's going to do, and they don't know.
But if it does hit the coast, it's going to be bad.
The Chechnyan situation is due to continue to improve.
Russian troops are supposed to resume their withdrawal beginning tomorrow.
We will see, believe almost nothing of what you read about Russia.
They talk peace and, indeed, have a lot of war.
Dear Art, early this morning, between 8:15 and 8.45, a newscaster on Las Vegas radio station KJUL announced between songs that the National UFO Research Department is seeking witnesses to an event in the southwest that occurred last night that could be described as a battle between people on the ground and a hovering craft.
He was rather adamant.
The story was real.
I contacted the station.
They said it came from Westwood 1.
I don't know what show it was.
Couldn't find anything else about it.
Have you heard any accounts, or is it just more disinformation?
I don't know.
It's the only report on it that I've got.
Hey, Art.
Hello again.
Isn't Executive Decision a killer movie?
I saw it first last March, a few weeks before it hit the theaters, sneak preview, and it blew Broken Arrow away.
unidentified
Well, that wasn't too hard.
art bell
I agree.
It is an absolutely tremendous movie.
If you get a chance, see it.
Here is a story indicating that drug use in California is on the increase among young people, just about at the same levels as it is nationally.
unidentified
It's unbelievable.
art bell
Cocaine nationally up 166%.
I mean, these are non-trivial figures.
This is a return to the earlier years, 30 years ago, that kind of drug use.
Dear Art, here is my anti-union joke for the day.
Please feel free to use it.
What's orange and sleeps six?
People in California will appreciate the answer.
A Caltrans crew cab is the answer to that.
All right, well, I've got quite a bit more here, but I think I'm going to hold it.
The moon be full.
I don't know if you've glanced outside, but it's a great big round moon up there.
And of course, it indicates nearly anything can happen.
One more time, I want to urge you computer users to quickly head up toward our website and get a look at this photograph and tell me what you think it is, bearing in mind it was the right place, the right angle, the right time on that fateful night when TWA-800 was shot down.
If this is not a missile, what is it?
unidentified
There is just one more little thing.
art bell
It comes from the Orange County Register in the opinion page.
And I'm not going to read you the whole article because I decided the title of the article really asks the question that I want to ask.
And it's not a question here.
It's simply an article entitled, The Lies We Tell Our Young People.
And I thought, you know, there lies an important family values question.
The Democrats are wanting to talk about family values, and I think that's just fine.
And I think this would be a spiffy way to torch off a conversation on exactly that.
We tell our young people a lot of lies.
Now, the article, of course, mentions drugs.
The article mentions sex.
But as I think across the spectrum of things that you raise with a child and things you tell a child, we tell them a lot of lies, don't we?
That just might have something to do with the reason that they come up and become less than perfect little citizens, you know, some of them indulging in crime and drug sales and some of them to a lesser degree disagreeable, foul little children.
And why are we raising a group of, at least to some degree, disagreeable, foul little children?
The answer might lie with, no pun intended, what we tell our young people.
The lies we tell our young people as adults, and we all do it.
I'm sure I'm guilty of it myself.
But I thought I would ask you what you thought some of the lies are that we tell young people, that adults, not just individually, but nearly as a group inculcate in our youth.
Lies, untruths, warnings that we give our young people.
Many times it comes as kind of a warning.
Don't you do this or don't you do that or this will happen.
Lies.
Otherwise said lies.
So if anybody has any contribution to what we're going to form as a list here, how about it?
What are the lies we tell our young people?
Anybody with any nomination?
unidentified
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art bell
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You and I have talked about the possibility of some nation getting very close to the United States with portable missile launchers.
And then, you know, you launch a nuke into the atmosphere that detonates.
george noory
And it's history for us technologically, isn't it?
unidentified
Absolutely.
Anybody that's involved in this issue, it's why have we not been thinking about this?
I hope we straighten it out before we get to the terrible price.
You're listening to Art Bell somewhere in time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from the 27th of August, 1996.
art bell
Art, I checked out the photograph.
The close-up looks interesting, but I am puzzled by something when one checks further down in the story and sees the picture of the people who were photographed.
Nothing abnormal in the background, yet the story quotes Mrs. Cabola saying her husband notices something in the frame that glows.
Why can't we see that glow in the background?
Well, my guess would be we only have scans, not the original photograph to begin with.
And secondly, it just may be one of those things that after the news of TWA broke, they went back intentionally and took a look at their photographs and looked very closely, very closely.
It did require a blow-up of that area to get a good look at it.
Now, I'm not saying that's a missile, but if it isn't, what is it?
What is it?
You go take a look.
And again, my thanks to everybody involved.
But it finally turned out that we were able to just link to MSNBC and obtain the photograph there.
And you'll see that one of them will work for you, one of those links.
My webpage is www.artbell.com.
One more little note, just received a facts from somebody.
It says, Art, there's been a military takeover of a small town in Pennsylvania.
My friend just called me and said that the military with the infamous black helicopters have taken over a small town in Pennsylvania.
unidentified
Oh, no.
art bell
Have you heard anything?
unidentified
No.
art bell
And then this art, I grew up in the 60s and early 70s.
Nixon was president.
When I was a child, yeah, he influenced my childhood.
I was bugging people, too.
Tom and Tuscan Alabama.
unidentified
Oh, my.
art bell
And I guess one more here.
Why not?
Dear Art, if it takes a president to raise a child correctly, why in the hell is juvenile crime and drug use worse than it's ever been?
The Clintons don't know anything about raising a child.
They had their illegal alien nanny do it for them.
I don't know about that, Dan.
That's Dan in Illinois.
But he makes a pretty good part.
It takes a president, takes a village, takes this and that.
But at the top of the line, it takes a president to raise a child.
Oh, come on.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Top of the morning to you.
Hello?
unidentified
Yeah, this is Ray.
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
Tennis.
art bell
Yes, Ray.
unidentified
Is this Art Bell?
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
A long-term listener and long-time fan.
I was wondering if you've heard the rumors going around that some bigwigs in the Democratic Party back in Washington are asking Bill Clinton to either step down from the nomination or resign.
No.
art bell
No, I haven't heard that.
Why would they do that?
unidentified
I don't know.
That's just a buzz that's been going around for the past couple of hours.
They said, you know, your good friend Terry Taylor caught the tail end of that when he was over at the convention right before the end of his show.
art bell
What is the rumor say about why?
unidentified
Something to do with the Whitewater deal.
art bell
Whitewater.
unidentified
There's some sort of stake about the Whitewater, and some of the heavyweights in the Democratic Party are trying to talk Mr. Clinton into either backing out of the nomination or resigning.
art bell
Well, you can't discount anything because anything could be, but I would bet against it right now.
unidentified
If you don't mind me asking, whatever happened with Arts Park?
art bell
Oh, well, we report on that every week on Dreamland, including this last week on Dreamland, sir.
It's kind of hard to give you a summary of an ongoing investigation that gets reported on every week.
If you listen to Dreamland, we have a report in the first hour.
unidentified
I'm here around Clarksville, Tennessee.
So what time, by when would Dreamland be around here?
art bell
Probably 10 to 1.
Check with your local station.
I'm not sure when they run it.
unidentified
Oh, it's on Sunday?
art bell
I'm going to guess 10 to 1, yeah.
unidentified
Okay, but Dreamland is still on Sunday, though.
Oh, yes.
Okay.
All right?
All right.
art bell
Thank you very much.
And check with, you know, some stations tape delay it, which is fine.
That's fine, as long as you get it.
You'll just have to check time-wise and find out when they run it.
Yeah, I remember that.
Doesn't taste bad.
unidentified
Go ahead and try it.
art bell
And you can just tell by when you're a child, and really I haven't changed greatly from that point.
My food has got to look right to me.
You know what I mean?
How many of you are like that?
There are a lot of gourmet eaters out there.
My wife is one of them.
It doesn't matter.
Fish eggs, ducks with faces, you know, anything.
To me, food has got to look right.
I mean, I want a hamburger to look like a hamburger.
I don't want something looking back at me from my soup.
I don't like a lot of unrecognizable mixed things.
I think that probably had to do with my years in the military.
They served a lot of unrecognizable mixed things to me.
I didn't like that.
So I'm not a great exotic food eater.
I like the staples, things that I recognize and tend to shy away from experimentation with food.
So yeah, I remember that one.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hi, Art.
art bell
Hello, you must be in a truck.
unidentified
A van.
Where are you?
In Palm Springs.
art bell
Palm Springs.
unidentified
Okay.
One of the first things I noticed about the increased press given the Democratic Convention was that when the Republican convention was going on, they continued to state that there was no news, that nothing was going on, that the whole event could have been staged because nothing was happening.
art bell
Well, it was staged.
That's true.
Thank you.
It was staged.
What I wanted to know was, I wasn't, of course, in the country during that time.
While I got news of the convention, what I did not get was a sense of how the media was covering it, and I still don't have that.
Now, again, watching NBC News last night, other than the stock market report, I guess, as far as they're concerned, nothing else happened in the world but the Democrats Convention, or was about to happen.
You know, they were anticipating it.
And here's a little taste of what so-and-so is going to say and so-and-so is going to say.
But they spent a full 30 minutes on that and welfare reform and all related to the convention.
30 minutes, beginning to end.
Like nothing else happened.
So for those of you who were here during the Republican convention, did we get equal treatment?
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
How are you, Art?
art bell
Well, I'm okay.
unidentified
Hey, did you hear the story?
My name's Joe.
I'm in Suffolk and Oregon.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Did you hear the the story that broke, I think, out of California about the CIA smuggling cocaine and starting the crack Eminem F.
art bell
Yes, a San Jose Mercury News.
unidentified
Yeah.
What did you think about that?
art bell
Well, I knew that there was smuggling going on.
I've said it for years.
I don't think that it was a full-blown policy.
I think that pilots brought back, took down guns and brought back cocaine.
I've always known that went on.
And so I'm not surprised.
unidentified
Isn't that just sick that through that whole just say no era they're bringing in and they're selling the drug they're selling the drugs to us?
art bell
Well, I don't you see, I don't believe that it is as widespread and sort of a policy thing as they're seeming to suggest.
unidentified
But it's just like hunting.
You know, if you go out and you see one deer in the woods, there's usually nine you didn't see.
art bell
But law enforcement, you see, frequently requires, now there were two things going on.
One was pilots being a bit of entrepreneur and bringing back drugs so they didn't have to bring back an empty airplane.
I mean, there's good profit, so they do it.
The other was that our DEA had ongoing sting operations.
16 Minutes ran a big piece on that.
And in the sting, they participated in undercover work.
Part of that would involve allowing some shipments to get through to get to the right people.
Now, do I believe this was, as is suggested, some overall policy to hook the nation on drugs?
No, I don't.
Do I think there was dirty dealing going on?
unidentified
Yup.
art bell
I do.
Not a policy, but individual.
And then some government-sponsored sting work that looked very much like government drug dealing.
That's what I think happened.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Well, good evening, Art.
This is T in lovely Liberal Portland.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
You know, I don't have my computer set up right for cruising the web.
I don't have the right software or hardware and the $15 a month for cruising.
So have you got the picture of the purported missile over on the Art Bell, Nevada BBS?
No.
Oh, God.
No, I don't.
art bell
Although my vacation pictures are there now, by the way.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
Tune in for that.
You know, back when I guess it was the first day after the plane went down and they were showing all those interviews on TV of people saying something was rising up from the surface of the water towards the plane.
I was thinking of a missile, but I wasn't thinking a friendly fire incident until just recently.
art bell
Well, it's entirely possible, Pete.
Thank you.
Again, you get up there and you take a look at that photograph and you let me know.
You tell me what that is or what kind of chance there is that what you're seeing is a missile.
The right place, the right time, the right angle.
And it is certainly an anomaly that looks an awful lot like a missile to me.
But again, when you're taking a photograph like that, you're taking the photograph of people because they were trying to capture a photograph.
You know, they were at a fundraiser, I believe, political fundraiser, and they were trying to get the people in the picture.
So what they got in the sky as a small part of the picture was not the target.
It just showed up.
What is it?
Wildcard line, you're on air.
unidentified
Hi.
I have a wild card question for you from Columbia, South Carolina.
This is Bernard WBOC.
art bell
Okay, speak up good and loud for us.
james okeefe
Okay, last night you said you were going to talk about guns and gun control.
I have a gun control question for your listening audience.
art bell
Okay.
james okeefe
And I want to start a debate that doesn't have to end tonight.
art bell
All right.
james okeefe
Based on everything I'm hearing coming out of the Democratic Convention, God forbid should Bill Clinton win re-election and Hillary Clinton run in 2000, the American people may have to arm themselves to defend themselves from their government.
I'm trying to figure out what is the right type of long gun for me to obtain, and what is the right cartridge that should be adopted by the American people when they choose weapons with which to defend themselves.
unidentified
Is it 3030?
Is it maybe the NATO 5.62?
Is that it?
Which is the equivalent of the 223 Remington.
james okeefe
Americans, tell me, what should we choose as the right cartridge based on ammunition availability when we decide to defend ourselves?
unidentified
Since we should all the right people should choose the right cartridge.
james okeefe
And I want your listeners to start thinking, what should we choose?
Maybe we should go back to the M1 Grand and get 308.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
art bell
I think that the question you ask is kind of a flippant one in the sense that you would appear to be asking what is the right equipment to stock up for for a revolution, you know, if I'm reading through what you're saying correctly, and I'm sure I am.
And in other words, to fight off the government.
Well, I don't think it's going to come to that.
If you're sincerely asking what is a good self-defense weapon, that would vary from person to person, their capabilities, their stature, their abilities, and all the rest of it.
But that is not what, in fact, you were saying.
It was readily transparent what you were saying and kind of silly.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing?
art bell
Hey, I'm okay.
unidentified
Yeah, I was calling about Clinton.
Clinton?
art bell
Who's he?
Pentagon's Pointed Inquiry 00:15:21
unidentified
Who's he?
He's the President of the United States.
art bell
Oh, yes.
The one raising our children.
unidentified
Yeah, this one guy, you know, this guy is like the whole saying goes, symbolism without substance.
I think that if he gets re-elected, he's going to turn completely liberal, turn, you know, completely against everything that's right, as quote what I'm saying.
art bell
Do you think the majority of the American people believe that?
unidentified
I'm not sure what they believe.
art bell
Or do you think they're going to buy into the new conservative ending welfare as we know it until I'm re-elected, Bill Clinton?
unidentified
Yeah, I do.
art bell
Yeah, I do too.
Thank you.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Good morning, Art.
art bell
Good morning to you.
Where are you?
unidentified
I am in Bend, Oregon.
art bell
Bend, all right.
dr joseph mercola
Yeah, I have a comment or a thought about the facts that you got that was on TWA stationary about what it was about communications between the people at TWA and the Pentagon.
art bell
That's right.
dr joseph mercola
What I was thinking is that that could have been kind of a fact that was faked by somebody from a foreign country like Iraq or something that would have the intention of taking the gaze off of the foreign terrorists and putting it onto friendly fire type of situation.
art bell
Well, no, not necessarily.
TWA meeting with the Pentagon, the TWA chief, that could mean any of the above.
It could mean that the U.S. military had concerns about friendly fire.
Could mean the Pentagon had concerns about foreign suspects.
It could mean anything.
dr joseph mercola
Oh, well, I was thinking it would mean more that.
art bell
Frankly, I really wasn't surprised.
I would expect the head of TWA to interact with our military regarding this whole thing.
Sure, why not?
dr joseph mercola
Well, I was just wondering if maybe it was.
Well, why couldn't the why would not TWA interact with our military?
Well, I thought that the innuendo was that there was something secret going on between TWA and the military, like it was some kind of cover-up.
art bell
Yeah, well, right.
That was the innuendo in the facts.
That is not necessarily the innuendo I draw from it.
I would imagine TWA's meeting with the FAA, NTSB, FBI, for all I know, CIA, and the Pentagon.
None of that surprises me.
On our first time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
art bell
Going once, going twice, go on.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, this is Mike from St. Louis.
art bell
Hello, Mike.
unidentified
I think before that one guy starts arming himself for some kind of revolution, he better start learning his calibers.
He had the numbers all mixed up on those.
art bell
Yeah, well, he didn't really care because that was not the message that he was trying to send.
unidentified
Yeah, I think before we start worrying about having a revolution in this country, we better start paying attention to what some of these guys like Major Dames are saying about digging at the hole to keep them blown away.
art bell
By the way, I've got a very, very interesting remote viewing report.
One of the students of the major at Farsight.
Is that the major at Farsight?
unidentified
SciTech.
art bell
SciTech.
This is Farsight, who looked at the construction of the pyramids, and I've got a full report here.
It's very interesting.
unidentified
Is that on the web?
art bell
Not yet.
I've got it in front of me, though.
I just got it.
unidentified
Oh, that ought to be pretty interesting.
art bell
Well, maybe I'll read it for all of you, and we'll let you decide.
If you get a chance, you take a look at that missile picture, okay?
unidentified
Sure will.
art bell
All right, take care.
That's www.artbell.com.
Then you send me a facts and let me know what you think.
unidentified
The trip back in time continues with Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM.
More Somewhere in Time coming up.
Networks presents Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from August 27th, 1996.
art bell
We are into several very interesting topics, and I will tell you about them in a moment briefly.
unidentified
Okay, we've got two very important things going on now.
art bell
Actually, three.
No, two important things and one frivolous.
No, two important things and two frivolous things if you count the Democrat Convention.
The most important thing, in my opinion, is this missile photograph.
We've got it.
We went through many machinations during the day trying to get it.
Our friends at Hard Copy tried their best but couldn't release the photograph to us.
Then it turned up on the MSNBC website.
So you can go to my website and take a look at that photograph now.
Now, some people are writing and saying, well, where's the TWA jet?
Well, that's not necessarily in the photograph at all.
I don't see it.
Look, this is a woman on Long Island during a political fundraising event of some kind, you know, a party, and her husband who took a photograph of some of the people at the party.
It just so happens that she was pointed, whoever took the picture, was pointing the camera at the right place at the right time, and what they caught is open to debate.
I don't see the TWA jetliner there, nor is it represented as supposed to be there, as supposedly being there, so I don't see it.
But that doesn't mean this missile was not in flight toward it.
I say missile.
I don't know what it is.
You see, they were focusing on the people, obviously, at the party, trying to take a picture of the people, not the sky.
And so what they caught was, and obviously out of focus, because you're focusing on the people, with respect to a little tiny part of the sky where they caught what appears to be a missile in flight.
So I'm telling you, you go up there and take a look at that photograph, and you tell me what that is, right place, right time, something very anomalous that looks an awful lot like a missile to me.
I think this is a very important photograph.
The FBI has confiscated the photographs and the negatives.
But there was one photograph left.
It's now out.
And you need to take a good, hard look at it and tell me what it is.
This is significant.
I'm not saying that it is absolute smoking missile proof.
It's not.
But by God, it's something in the sky at the right time, the right place.
And I suggest you take a look.
It took a lot of work to get it up there.
And I want to thank everybody involved, including MSNBC, which has it on their page, including Keith Rowland, who managed to get the links put in, including Hard Copy, who tried to get it to us.
They were very nice.
But anyway, it's done.
You go up there and take a look, please.
The other item is last night, this is really under the category of here we go again, and I'm going to read you some faxes, and then I think you better do some checking.
Keith in Magnetic Volcano last night called up and said, hey, we've got a big 10-degree magnetic deviation suddenly.
Then a lady sent me a fax tonight before the show saying, Art, I too noticed a 10-degree deviation, so I went out and bought a new compass.
And I'll be damned if I didn't get the same one.
And now, come rolling in the following faxes.
Let me read them to you.
Art, I missed the top of the show.
But I took a compass reading with a very good Lasantic compass.
I sighted in on a tree that the sun rises behind every day.
Should be east.
And lo and behold, I'm off by 10 to 12 degrees.
It's happened before.
I think about 8 to 10 months ago.
What's up?
Robin in San Diego.
Or this.
Dear Art, compass readings taken just now on a military unit show a 15-degree shift of magnetic north to the east from the normal here in Alaska.
My mobile home was set originally at 355 degrees and is now reading 340.
What this will do to navigation, what will it do?
Anything not GPS guided?
Is there an agency that can be contacted to verify this?
Thank you.
Rich in Glen Allen, Alaska.
Or this, dear art, North on my compass, is pointing more to the north, northeast.
This is really bizarre.
How can we find an explanation?
And so forth.
So I'm beginning to get those facts is it begins to look to me as though we may be in the middle of another strange, anomalous, magnetic variation.
So anybody out there who wants to check is welcome to do so and fax me.
And if you've seen the photograph of this anomalous object in the sky over the skies of Long Island, out toward the ocean at the right time, I would like you to take a look.
I'm not saying this is a missile.
I'm just saying it's a hell of a coincidence to have something like this in the sky, whatever this thing is, just literally seconds before the blow-up of this airplane.
And then, inspired by an article in the Orange County Register entitled The Lies We Tell Our Young People, I've been asking you what lies you think we tell our children.
And oh, we do tell lies, don't we?
My wife said, it'll only hurt for a minute.
She said, it doesn't taste bad.
That's right.
We tell our children that.
Go ahead, honey.
It doesn't taste bad.
Go ahead.
Take a bite.
Art, we begin by telling our children about the Two Fairy Santa Claus Easter bunny.
While it's fun and cute, it tells our children that wishing makes true, rather than teaching them that whatever they want in life must be worked for and earned.
Sean in Yucca Valley says, you'll understand that when you grow up.
Right, Sean.
Yeah, right.
You'll understand that when you grow up.
There are a lot of things that grown-ups never do understand, right?
Back to the phones.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Hello, my name is Sal.
art bell
Oh, okay.
From where?
unidentified
Arkansas.
art bell
Arkansas, right?
unidentified
Yes, London, Arkansas.
art bell
Okay, turn your radio off there.
unidentified
Okay, I've turned it off.
art bell
Good.
unidentified
Okay, I want to say one thing, that you are the only single most, the single most entertaining thing to listen to at 3 o'clock in the morning.
And that you're a God.
I worship you.
That's all.
art bell
Well, thank you.
I'm not God.
I'm not God.
Nor am I the Antichrist.
So I really can't take credit for either one.
Not God, and I'm definitely not the Antichrist.
How do I know that?
Well, there was a Catholic priest that came on our cruise.
And he looked at me and he said, actually, I asked him, I said, Father, do you think I'm the Antichrist?
And he said, well, you know, at first I did.
But you're not.
So that's my best evidence.
Catholic father looked me right in the eye and told me I wasn't.
It'd be fun to hear from him.
God, that was a great cruise.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
art bell
Yes, sir.
Yes, turn your radio off.
Turn it off.
unidentified
Yes, we're off.
I had a little news flash that was very, very strange the other day that I heard on the ABC radio network here in San Antonio.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
On the 26th, and it only came across once regarding the Jupiter mission.
I believe I've heard many of your shows about the potential for a fissionable event around the year 2000.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
They mentioned, and it was very, it was only a short, brief message.
It said that, and here I actually wrote it down, the probe main computer has failed and they're trying to initialize the backup mode.
art bell
That is accurate.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
art bell
I've got that report as well.
It figures, huh?
unidentified
The HAL 2000 has never made a mistake, has it?
art bell
You know, somebody pointed out last night, Dr. Carlotta, or maybe I pointed out to him, that back in the days of the earlier, less higher-tech probes, they all worked.
But in recent years, if you look at what we've sent out, they've all failed.
unidentified
Because of all those Japanese ICs.
art bell
Well, I don't know.
Whatever the cause is, thank you very much.
You're absolutely right.
And the current Jupiter probe does have computer problems.
And I've not seen anything to indicate that that has been fixed yet.
Credible Witnesses Mention Missile 00:02:09
art bell
So figures, right?
They're getting close to shots of the moon of Jupiter that we want to see, and there's going to be a computer problem.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
You know, I think that the picture has a great deal of relevance based upon just solely the fact that there were so many credible witnesses to a missile, you know, early on.
art bell
About 200.
Now, have you seen the photograph?
unidentified
I have not seen the photograph, but it bears a great deal of relevance given the fact that there were so many credible eyewitnesses.
art bell
The one that got me was the two military pilots, Jocks, who were in a commercial aircraft and said without equivocation, that was a missile.
Period.
unidentified
Yeah, and you know, the other thing was, I don't know if you've heard this, I don't know exactly classified a rumor, I suppose, but on KSFO, somebody called in who had been to Paris and said that there's an Israeli newspaper published in Paris two days after the crash had stated that it was, in fact, shot down by accident by the U.S. military.
And the very next day, huge noise was made about Jonathan Pollard being released and his wife went on a hunger strike.
art bell
Well, the Israelis know a lot about military attacks by accident.
I'm recalling a ship of ours that got wiped out.
unidentified
By accident.
Yeah, right.
But anyway, I haven't heard anything.
But if Jonathan Pollard gets set free, I'm going to be real disappointed.
art bell
I appreciate your call, sir.
And I, too, heard those reports, but I have not actually seen anything in print about that.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hi.
Maryland's Signed Bill Controversy 00:14:48
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
How you doing?
art bell
Okay, where are you?
unidentified
Moses Lake, Washington.
art bell
Hello, Mike.
Hi, Mike.
unidentified
I've got a question for you.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
Why is it, you know, I'm just a regular guy here, yet I watched, this is about Quinton.
How people can listen to all the things that he's said over the last four years and then really take him seriously when he starts promising tax cuts and all these kinds of things in the current election.
And I wonder if it's just me or am I you know sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who sees through this.
I know that I'm not, but what is it that he does to convince people that what he's saying is that he believes?
art bell
What he does is tell people what they want to hear.
And that works every time.
If you tell people what they want to hear, they immediately settle for it because it meets their expectations.
And he is an expert at doing that, sir.
unidentified
And so how come it seems to me that we're more as a society, I think we're more concerned about what's inside of or what's on the outside of a package than what's on the inside.
If it looks good, we think it's great.
And we don't really care about the substance of what it might be.
And I think that that's kind of the thing that bothers me.
If it were a Republican that were doing the same thing or have the same track record, I would think the same thing about him.
Doesn't matter if it's a Democrat or Republican.
Anyway, I just wanted to run that by give it your thought.
art bell
Well, I think you're right is what I think.
Thank you very much for the call.
I think you're right.
That is Mr. Clinton's talent.
He is a good politician.
Look, I would never take that away from him.
Now, I don't know how much of a compliment that is, a good politician, but that's what he is, a good politician.
He has refined it to a new level.
He's a mighty morphin man.
He can be and will be what you want him to be.
And if it requires that he sign welfare bills that he wouldn't have signed in a trillion years otherwise, he signs them.
I mean, we're talking about a man who is president and wants desperately to be president again.
And will do whatever it takes to achieve that.
And I believe he will be re-elected.
Under the category of greatest lies to our children, Jackie submits the following.
I'll love you no matter what.
Usually said, right after you've done something that would blow the love out of the most maternal mother ever seen on the face of the earth, something truly horrible.
They wind it up by saying, I'll love you no matter what.
Guess that's true.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
Hello.
art bell
Hello.
unidentified
This is Marion from Maryland.
art bell
Mary from Maryland.
unidentified
Marion.
art bell
Marion from Maryland.
All right.
How are you doing?
unidentified
Fine.
art bell
How's Maryland this morning?
unidentified
Oh, it's pretty good.
art bell
Well, what's on your mind?
unidentified
Well, I wanted to call about the, I didn't understand if you were asking about the Republican Convention or the news broadcast.
art bell
Well, I was in Europe in Russia while the Republicans had their convention, so I don't know what the media coverage was like.
I just know that last night when I watched NBC, Mr. Brokoff spent the entire 30-minute newscast covering what there was to cover of the Democrats Convention.
And I was wondering if the Republicans got equal treatment.
unidentified
No, indeed.
We only get ABC, but there was very little about the Republican Convention on the news.
Really?
Really.
And when we tried to watch the convention itself, we got to see Peter Jennings and the whole cast of ABC a lot more than we got to see any of the politicians.
art bell
Well, at least with the Republicans, there was a little bit of the unknown.
I mean, we had just found out who was going to be the vice presidential candidate.
It's not like we don't know who the candidates are for the Democrats, right?
So there was a little tension there.
We got to find out about 15% tax cut that Bob Dole wanted to give.
we're not getting much new from the president though maybe thursday night will change all of that so so far uh...
if the republican convention was boring this one is from a moment in the very end away Well, I understand, but the likes of Ted Coppel thought it boring and left.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, sure.
It wasn't anything he thought was amazing.
art bell
Well, listen, my dear, I thank you for the call from Maryland.
unidentified
Thank you.
art bell
You take care.
unidentified
Maryland.
art bell
I once lived in Maryland, so I know about Maryland.
Actually, I lived near Fort Ritchie.
If those of you in that area know where that is.
Way up in a mountain.
It was cool.
You know, ham radio operators like mountains.
We have this big old house, and I used to put antennas up, and oh, I'll tell you, that was some supreme ham radio location.
Cam radio operators like mountains.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Good morning, Mr. Bale.
This is a socialist from Kansas City.
art bell
Well, I'll be a son of a gun, inspired to dial forth, no doubt, by the ongoing spectacle of the convention in Chicago.
unidentified
Yes, sir.
mark in indiana
Unequivocally, the newscast carried all the Republican convention while he was gone from opening minute to closing minute.
art bell
They did?
You mean the network spent 30 minutes on it every night?
unidentified
I watch ABC and CBS.
art bell
I had heard that Ted Coppel packed up his bags and left.
mark in indiana
That's because the Republicans didn't have anything to say, anything to show us.
art bell
Oh.
Listen, do you want to hold through the break here?
unidentified
I'll do you that favor.
art bell
Well, okay, we are graced.
Thank you, and we will be right back.
unidentified
This is Premier Networks.
That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM on this Somewhere in Time.
We take you back to the past on Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
art bell
Democrat Convention's going on.
Texas President to raise a child.
We've got the picture of the missile question mark, whatever it is, streaking across the Long Island sky.
unidentified
Out to sea.
art bell
Seconds before the TWA jet blew up.
Take a look.
It's on my webpage.
Let us know what you think.
From Ring of the Dolphin, you're listening to the newest Cusco right now.
Matters at hand.
Art, the photo, I've seen it now, does look suspicious.
Mark in California.
Yes, I certainly agree with you.
It's going to be interesting as the evening wears on to see what people think.
And I've got a lot more here, including a man.
You're not going to believe this man barricaded with a bunch of pet rats.
It's an Associated Press story from Billings, Montana.
This one will blow you away.
But first, back to Mr. Socialism himself in Kansas City, Mo.
Back on the air again.
unidentified
Yes, sir, Mr. Bell.
Are you there?
art bell
For the most part.
unidentified
Hey, your attacks on health.
mark in indiana
Well, number one, this deal about it takes a village and it takes a family debate between her and Dole.
unidentified
She won.
It's obvious.
Your criticisms are inane.
You know, it's like you're going in.
art bell
Well, actually, this will please you.
I'm going to give you time.
Now, listen, I've got a facts here, and it's going to back up what you just said.
Art, your interpretation of the First Lady's speech was pathetically simplistic.
Obviously, you still don't get it or don't want to.
I'm not going to try to explain it to you.
I think you're actually smarter than that.
Your attitude toward the First Lady is very ugly.
It doesn't become you.
Also, I think we could take some lessons on raising children from the Clintons, judging by their lovely, well-adjusted daughter.
However, you may disagree with them politically.
The Clintons are, by all account, warm and caring people.
You should try and judge them honestly.
unidentified
Well, I think that letter's right on.
art bell
I knew you would.
Okay, I knew you would.
unidentified
I don't need to argue that.
art bell
From now on, when the child does something wrong, instead of saying, when your dad gets home, we're going to be telling, I guess moms are going to start saying, go ahead, keep it up.
I'm telling Bill.
unidentified
Hey, see, it's that sort of thing.
You know how that isn't even worthy of my comment.
Well, I can't help myself.
mark in indiana
Can't you say something of substance if you're going to attack Bill on this?
unidentified
Okay, it takes a president.
art bell
I mean, how can you address with substance something that has no substance in person?
mark in indiana
The president has to do with raising children in this country.
The Republicans passed this welfare reform.
Clinton, number one, says America late it as much as he can.
art bell
Look, it's patently ridiculous to suggest that it takes a president to raise a child.
The president has as much to do with raising children in this country as a rock does with drinking water.
unidentified
Okay, I can prove you're wrong.
steve in indiana
You're going to not interrupt me?
art bell
I won't guarantee that.
unidentified
Go ahead.
The welfare people, they've got to have health care.
They've got to have babysitters.
mark in indiana
You're going to pay this person, this one on this welfare mother.
You're going to pay her minimum wage, and then she's going to have to get a babysitter.
unidentified
And then her health insurance, that's her whole check, Mr. Bell.
mark in indiana
If we don't have a president that can lead us to share our wealth in this country, are you attacking me or the president?
art bell
I mean, he's the one who signed the bill.
mark in indiana
I'm attracting your Republican self-interest, money-grubbing, money-worshiping, give-me-mind philosophy.
art bell
All right, having said that, if you were the president of the United States, would you have signed that bill?
Hello?
unidentified
Yes.
You're ready for your trick questions?
You spend millions of dollars brainwashing the American people.
art bell
Did you say yes, you would have signed it?
mark in indiana
You people spend millions of dollars brainwashing the American people.
You've got them thinking that welfare mothers are lazy, poor, and are lazy, black, and fat.
art bell
That's what I'm saying.
Do you think there ought to be a cutoff after a certain point or not?
unidentified
I think that if these people, okay, yes.
mark in indiana
People, when Adam and Eve screwed up, God put us out in the wilderness and said we have to toil.
I don't see anything wrong with making able-bodied people find a job.
The Democratic Party, I'm sure all our leaders, don't feel any remorse with able-bodied people earning their own way.
unidentified
That's not what we're talking about, Mr. Speaker.
So in other words, we're talking about good nutrition.
art bell
One thing at a time, come on, the president signed the bill.
Is it a good bill or not?
unidentified
No, it's not a good bill.
art bell
Well, then why did he sign it?
unidentified
Because something has to be done.
There are good parts of the bill.
mark in indiana
It sets up provisions to track down deadbeat dads.
Let's talk about what the president can do to help raise a child in our society.
Okay, not only can he modify the impact of these Republicans, you know, they don't give a anything.
They're pushing us into a third world, pushing these people into poverty like this.
And if you talk about drugs and crime and everything, you know that's the breeding ground for it.
What's your Republican president going to do to help these people climb out of the ghetto?
unidentified
Well, no problem with them.
They got some cheap labor, right?
art bell
The best thing, look, the best thing to help anybody climb out of the ghetto or climb out of poverty is a job, is work.
That is the best thing.
And that is what will ultimately bring them out of it and what will trap them into it forever, is the continuing and building welfare state.
You see, I finally dragged it out of him.
No, he doesn't think it's a good bill.
No, he would not have signed it.
But he is president, the pinnacle of compassion, signed the bill.
I wonder how he really reconciles that.
First-time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
art bell
How are you?
unidentified
I'm fine.
Where are you?
I'm in 12, Washington.
Okay.
I wanted to comment on the photo, first off.
art bell
Yes, sir.
You've seen it.
unidentified
Yeah, I looked at every one of them.
art bell
Well, what do you think?
unidentified
It looks could be a missile.
art bell
That's what I said, too.
It could be a missile.
I mean, we're talking about the right time, the right place, the right angle, the right part of the sky.
And that's an awfully big coincidence.
I grant you, it is like a UFO.
But it also looks kind of like a missile.
Rat Pet Behavior 00:08:40
art bell
And so that's important.
And apparently the FBI thought so, too.
unidentified
Yeah, well, I wish I had at least one original photograph for myself.
art bell
Well, that makes all of us.
I do, too.
unidentified
Yeah.
And as for Mrs. Clinton there and her little comment, I only got one thing to say to her, and the last gentleman you were talking to was supporting her so well, is it's time to get real and face reality.
It's a whole nother world.
art bell
All right, I thank you for the call.
Dear Art, the lights flickered here in East San Diego County for a brief time at 11.55 p.m.
Simultaneous with that, the signal from KFMB San Diego, where the transmitters are, they're about 55 miles west of here, dropped to about half strength for five seconds before coming back.
About 30 seconds later, the lights flickered again.
But KFMB was not affected, so something's going on out there.
And I'm getting endless numbers of faxes noting a significant magnetic shift from true north.
Weird.
Check this out.
Police waiting out barricaded man with pet rats, Billings, Montana.
Tear gas and a water cannon failed to drive Robert Dorton from his motel home Tuesday, where he had been barricaded for two days, keeping police from confiscating his pet rats.
Police evacuated the area around the townhouse motel in downtown Billings because Dorton fired several dozen shots from a room that neighbors said has been his home for eight years.
The standoff began, standoff, began Monday after Dorton refused to open his door to an animal control officer who was responding to complaints about the rats.
Tenants of the motel said they had seen two rats the size of cats in Dorton's room.
He was seen kissing one of the rodents and referred to them as my brothers, the neighbors complained.
Firefighters tried unsuccessfully to break into the room with a chainsaw.
Police fired tear gas into the room when the pepper spray had no apparent effect.
Dorton, who police suspect has a gas mask, responded with gunshots.
Officers also fired water into the apartment with a remote-controlled nozzle elevated on a fire truck ladder.
Dorton did not come out.
According to Sergeant Ken Dove, we're kind of doing the Freeman thing here.
Just kind of sitting and waiting.
unidentified
Rats as big as cats.
art bell
And he's holed up.
Ooh, I need to hear from Billings.
People in Billings call me.
Is this really going on?
Rats as big as cats?
Can you imagine a rat as big?
I've got a 17-pound cat.
You imagine a 17-pound rat?
And he's kissing them, too.
I wonder if a rat really makes a good pet.
I mean, they don't look like they make a good pet.
They're ugly.
That doesn't mean they don't make good pets.
Rats, perhaps, are very loving creatures.
But I don't know about kissing one of them.
I wouldn't do that.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Yeah, hang on, Art.
Let me get the radio.
art bell
You must be in a truck.
unidentified
Yes, I sure am.
Call from my car phone.
Okay.
My name's Chris.
I'm from Kansas City.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
And just wanted to find out concerning the gentleman here from Kansas City.
Yeah.
If everybody in the nation was to go onto welfare, what would happen?
Just food for thought there.
art bell
We'd be broke.
unidentified
Exactly.
I mean, you know, everybody needs to know that welfare is there just for people to get back on their feet, and that's it.
art bell
Tell me something.
unidentified
I'm sorry?
art bell
Tell me something.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Would you kiss a rat?
unidentified
I'm sorry?
art bell
Yeah, me too.
Would you kiss a rat?
unidentified
I don't think so.
art bell
Yeah, I don't think so either.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Thank you very much for the call.
I mean, that's a no-brainer.
What would happen if everybody went on welfare?
Well, it had happened a long time before everybody went on welfare.
It would only stretch so far, obviously, with fewer people paying taxes, supporting those on welfare.
I mean, the whole thing was obvious.
We had to change it.
We had to change it.
That's all.
It was going to drive us broke.
Penniless.
unidentified
Poor.
art bell
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Yeah, Art.
By the way, I have a rat for a pet.
art bell
You do?
unidentified
Yes, I do.
art bell
Is it a loving pet?
unidentified
They're actually very calm animals unless you, I mean, I wouldn't have like five, six, or ten of them, you know, all jammed together.
Then they get a little stir-crazy, but I have two.
art bell
Well, what does a rat do that indicates that it's loving?
I mean, does it like to be scratched behind its little rat ears?
unidentified
Well, actually, it'll sit in the palm of your hand or in your lap, and you can rub its head, and they're actually pretty maintenance-free pets.
art bell
Do they show signs?
I mean, you know, when you pet a cat, it purrs, and you know that it's liking what you're doing.
unidentified
Right.
art bell
Or a dog sits here and goes and looks happy, right?
Right.
Or jiggles his back leg when you pet him.
I mean, are there any obvious signs that a rat is enjoying your company?
unidentified
Well, it makes a little chattering, I don't know how to explain it, little clicking noises.
Not really a purr, but little clicking noises with its teeth.
And it'll sit on your shoulder and nuzzle up against your neck.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, I just want to share that with you.
They're actually pretty good pets.
art bell
What do you think about this man who's got your are your rats the size of cats?
unidentified
No. I've never heard of one getting quite that big.
The people I know that have rats, I've heard them getting about the size of a chihuahua.
Maybe two or three pounds.
Wow.
art bell
I suppose if you put them on science diet or something.
unidentified
Well, it really depends on what you feed them.
That's what I mean.
They prefer dry dog food, actually.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Well, I'd never thought of it before.
Would you, or have you, ever kissed your rat?
unidentified
No.
For the main reason that the teeth are a little bit, you want to be leery of them.
You can put a piece of wood, hardwood, in their pin or box, whatever you keep them in, and it helps keep their teeth dulled down, sharp enough where they can eat, but dulled down where they do nip you, they won't do a lot of damage.
art bell
So in other words, if you were to kiss a rat, he might get angry and bite you.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
art bell
And certainly there would be no tongues.
unidentified
No, no, not at all.
But I think it would have to do with how much the animal trusts you.
Just like any other animal.
If you don't mistreat it, it's not going to react in a violent way to you.
art bell
All right, sir.
Thank you very much for the call.
The whole prospect is ugly to me, kissing a rat.
I kiss cats, but not a rat.
I mean, somehow you go, you need to go, take a piece of your lip away.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
All right, this is The Economist, Monterey.
art bell
Yay, yay.
unidentified
Yeah, I saw Hillary Clinton's brilliant speech, but regarding your comment about Mr. Clinton, you know, changing all the time, you have to look to the Republicans to find this degree of hypocrisy and lies.
Politicians And Promises 00:12:33
art bell
They do it too.
unidentified
Oh, of course.
Like, they said they'd end.
Clinton in 92 said he'd end welfare as we know it.
And now, Bob Dahl saying we're going to end IRS.
Doesn't that sound a little bit familiar?
art bell
Yeah.
Look, it's a trait of politicians.
They do things that they think their constituents will like, period.
unidentified
Of course.
art bell
It just so happens that Bill Clinton is a little bit better at it than anybody else.
unidentified
But just look at their economic theory.
It's a complete non-sequitur of this Republican renegade Congress.
They're going to cut taxes and stimulate people to work harder, right?
that's what they say and at the same time they say they'll cut taxes and produce more income for the government Well, they're going to cut taxes so everybody will work harder and then they'll get a healthier economy.
Yet at the same time, and in the same breath, they say they want people to spend more time at home with their families.
Now, how can you have that?
It's a complete non-sequitur.
art bell
Not necessarily.
It depends on how the money is used.
Let's get down to basics here.
Do you believe, or do you not believe, that a tax cut will produce more revenue for the government?
unidentified
No, it's absolute absurdity.
It's called supply-side theory or whatever, trickle-down, voodoo economics.
In fact, out of 18,000 economists who are members of the American Economics Association, only 14 say that it's even a theory.
art bell
It is a theory.
unidentified
No, it's not.
art bell
Of course it is.
unidentified
Trickle-down?
No, that's the biggest monstrous joke they've ever played on.
art bell
Actually, I'll go even farther than that.
It's like a law of nature.
unidentified
Only 14 professional economists say that that is true, and yet 18,000.
art bell
Yeah.
Let us imagine, close your eyes and picture a rainforest.
Can you do that?
unidentified
Sure.
art bell
Heavy canopy overhead, right?
unidentified
Right.
art bell
Okay.
At the base of the rainforest, there are little plants growing, okay?
Look, deep plants?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
They need water, right?
unidentified
Right.
art bell
When it rains, if it rains, and we'll think of the rain as money.
But when it rains, the rain initially goes to the top of the canopy and is absorbed by the trees.
But as it continues to rain, eventually there is drip down.
And the plants down at the bottom, they get watered.
unidentified
Sure.
art bell
That's just like trickle-dot down economics.
It's not a theory.
It's like a law of nature.
I mean, if things are going well and there's a lot of money around, eventually that money trickles down to the people at the lower end of the economic scale.
That's just a fact of life.
unidentified
It might be true in a canopy in the rainforest.
However, it's not economics.
And as the guy from Kansas City was saying, it's a specious, inane argument, and there's no fact about it in economics.
I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous.
art bell
I think that you and the man from Kansas City have been economic blood brothers forever.
unidentified
No, but these supply-siders, even Bob Dole ridiculed them back in his administration.
He's, you know, suddenly mocked them for all these years, and suddenly he's become one.
I mean, doesn't that tell you the smack of hypocrisy and lies?
art bell
Well, no more than Mr. Clinton.
I actually see both of them morphing as needed to run for the presidency.
unidentified
Well, that's true.
Both will do or say anything to get elected, and that's about the truth.
But Clinton said he's going to put people first back in his election campaign.
Now you hear Bob Dole say, we're going to put the American people first.
He's stealing all these ideas, and as you say, they're morphing.
art bell
Well, yes, on that one point, we can agree, and I do agree.
Of course, they're doing that.
Bob Dole is doing it.
He's picked out certain things that he thinks will resonate with the American people.
Offering the candy of a 15% tax cut has, in the process of necessity, had to become sort of a supply-side philosopher.
So I agree.
He's morphed, and so has Clinton.
Politicians morph.
That's what they do.
unidentified
The trip back in time continues.
With Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM, more Somewhere in Time coming up.
That don't bother me at all.
Playing solitary to dump with the deck of 51.
Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Penger in the hotel.
art bell
As good an occupation as that.
Unless you're kissing rats.
I'll tell you about that in a moment.
Well, the Democrats are having their convention.
That is all of the news.
The entire NDC evening newscast talked about nothing else.
I was out of the country when the Republicans had their convention.
I don't know if they got that kind of generous coverage or not.
I do recall when I was on vacation, there was a New York Times article about Ted Coppel picking up sticks, saying there was no news and leaving.
I don't know what the networks did, and I'm going to rely on you to tell me if they got the same kind of coverage.
The first lady gave a speech Tuesday in which she said she argued with Bob Dole all about It Takes a Village, you know, her book.
And she said, not only does it take a village, but it takes teachers, clergy, business people, and yes, it takes a president to raise children, too.
And Jesse Jackson and Mario Cuomo had their say.
Mr. Bay gave his, the governor of Indiana gave the keynote address.
And they gained a lot of coverage.
So that's going on.
We're talking about that, of course.
Then there are some other very odd things going on.
Let me first tell you, I know there are a lot of stations that join us at this hour West Coast, that we have got a photograph on the webpage you must see.
This is the photograph taken by a lady, I think, a couple, Linda Cabot, her name is, on Long Island during a party that was going on there.
I think it was a political fundraiser of some kind or another.
And I spent the better part of the morning talking with my friends at hard copy, and they tried very hard to get that photograph released for me, but were unable to do so.
And then we found it later in the day on the MSNBC website.
Ta-da!
There it was.
And so Keith Rowland, I'll tell you, it was a real day of trying to get this on.
Keith Rowland got it on for us, and there are links up there that will show you this photograph.
Now, look, number one, I don't think the TWA airliner is in this photograph.
Number two, don't expect it to be definitive because it's not.
What we've got here is somebody who was taking a picture at this fundraiser of some people.
They were pointing the camera toward the right direction on that evening, that fateful evening.
And in the photograph, it appears large, of course, because they have blown it up purposely.
In the photograph, way off in the sky, there was detected this object.
It was the right place, the right time, on that awful night.
And I'm telling you, it is something.
I don't know what.
Is it a missile?
It kind of looks like a missile to me.
It is important evidence.
The FBI certainly thought so.
They confiscated the photographs and the negative.
Apparently one was kept, and that is where this photograph comes from.
It's important.
It's undeniably important, no matter what you think of it.
I mean, here is an obviously anomalous object in the sky seconds before the TWA jetliner blew up.
So take a look at it.
It's now on my website.
The links are there.
Just jump up there and take a look.
How do you get there?
Well, if you've got a browser, if you're on whatever, just go up to my website, www.artbell.com.
www.artbell.com.
Take a look for yourself now.
Another item.
Oh, here's somebody commenting.
Art, I just saw the photo on your website.
It looks like it certainly could be a missile, but it's so big, I'm surprised no one said they heard it also.
Well, again, that's Dale in Port Angeles, Washington.
Dale, it's blown up, of course, as you will see by the represented circle with a line around it there.
It's blown up.
So, of course, it seems unnaturally large, but I don't know what the hell else that could be.
Then, I just have a whole flurry, I mean a flurry of people saying there is a magnetic deviation going on right now from Alaska to the East Coast.
I'm getting facts after facts saying 10, 12, 15 degrees off true north.
This happened almost a year ago.
But now, again, we're getting flooded.
So, if you are fairly sure, I even had a lady went out and bought tonight a second compass.
Very, very interesting.
Why are we getting a magnetic shift?
Anybody contributing, you're welcome to do so.
Then, there is this story.
There's the story of a man with pet rats, rats as big as cats in Missoula, Montana, and he's holed up in a motel.
Now, I could read you this story again, but he's got these pet rats, and apparently they're trying to get to him, and they can't get to him.
He's shooting at them.
The rats as big as cats, and he kisses them.
I mean, there are witnesses in adjacent motel room, see him kissing his rats.
And he's hold up, here's somebody, just for the record art, I used to have as many as 36 pet rats.
And they are very cute, very intelligent pets.
They're nearly as smart as dogs and easily trained.
I've never had one as big as a cat, but the male ones could be pretty big.
That's Derek in Greenfield, Indiana.
So this guy's holed up.
Local authorities there are calling it a kind of a Freeman standoff situation.
The guy with rats as big as cats is not coming out despite tear gas and pepper spray and everything else they've tried.
All right, we'll get to the phones in just a moment.
Those are a few of the things.
Oh, and we're talking about lies that we tell our children.
There's a million of them.
Boy, we tell our children a lot of lies.
If you have any contribution to that category, you're welcome to make two.
To the phones we go.
Whatever is on your mind is fair game.
White Flash, Fireball, and Mystery 00:05:40
art bell
A program where we normally don't talk a lot about politics inevitably is going to talk about politics during a political convention and no doubt moving up toward the election itself.
It is inevitable and proper that we do so.
Even so, we will not concentrate on it as the central theme, but simply deal with it when its ugly head arises.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
This is Marv from Bellevue, Washington.
art bell
How you doing, Marv?
unidentified
Not too bad at all.
richard c cook
Say, I've got something that, as fight 800, there's something that has been forgotten about, or I've heard nothing about since the night that it actually happened.
If you recall, there was a, I believe it was Air Sea Rescue C-130 that was in the air at the time this happened.
art bell
That's right.
unidentified
All right.
Now, the pilot said he saw a bright white flash.
art bell
That's correct.
richard c cook
And then he saw the large fireball.
art bell
Yes.
richard c cook
They flew over to the fireball, and he said they estimated the top of the smoke cloud at approximately 7,500 feet.
art bell
Right.
richard c cook
And then they returned back to their home base, picked up some crew members, and flew back out.
And I believe they were the first ones to drop some lifeboats and whatnot into the area where the crash occurred.
art bell
Right.
richard c cook
And, you know, I haven't heard anything more about this.
We keep talking about the two that were on the plane, you know, on the airliner, that military pilots that saw it.
And there were two in the air that actually went to the site.
art bell
Yeah, but they didn't make any statements about something rising toward flight 800.
The reason the military guys are important is: A, they're trained observers.
B, they ought to know the difference between a missile and whatever else.
You know, they deal with missiles, so they know what a missile looks like.
So that impressed me.
richard c cook
Yeah, well, see, these were two other two military pilots that they did not see the missile, it's true.
But they did see the white flash, and then a few seconds later saw the fireball.
art bell
Correct.
Well, all right.
unidentified
There were two explosions that occurred.
art bell
Well, yes, that's right.
But the first white flash was whatever caused the initial explosion, the impact of a missile, a bomb, exploding fuel tank, main tank, whatever.
The second flash at a lower altitude was the apparent ignition of the main body of the jet fuel, and it would burn and produce about that color in a fireball of that sort.
So I consider that to be an accurate rendering of what was seen, but not to answer the question about what did the ugly deed.
And I think there's significant evidence pointing toward the possibility of some kind of missile.
That's why I'm telling you, you have got to get up and take a look at that photograph.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Yeah, this is Deborah from a little town called Nobnoster, Missouri.
art bell
Wow.
Hi, Deborah.
How are you doing?
unidentified
Fine.
How are you?
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
And to you.
I've been trying to really been wanting to tell you this.
I don't have cable.
And I just get five stations on my TV set.
art bell
Right.
unidentified
And they showed, I can't remember which channel it was on.
I think it was Channel 4.
But they showed this amateur film of that missile hitting the plane.
The picture that the lady took was just a picture of it before it struck the plane.
This was an amateur film, and it showed the whole thing.
art bell
Well, I certainly have not seen that.
Now, what I have seen are demonstrations of a shoulder-fired missile.
In fact, Hard Copy did that during the body of their story, and the missile fires and takes down an airplane.
I wonder if that's what you might have seen.
unidentified
Well, I don't know.
I was just watching the news, and they showed it hitting the plane, and they showed people watching it, so I just took it for granted that that was the real thing.
art bell
No, I think not.
I think I'm sure that is what you saw, but I believe what you saw was a demonstration of how a plane would be taken down by a missile.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
Well, they had another thing on the radio, some type of rumor saying that on this plane there were two used to be bodyguards at Clintons.
They were on their way to England to tell their story to a newspaper there.
art bell
All right, thank you.
Well, I don't know about that one.
Every time somebody is killed, somebody wants to blame it on the president.
This president is not my favorite person, as you know, but I don't give a lot of weight to those rumors.
I don't think this president is having people killed.
I don't think this president is actively involved or even was in bringing drugs in.
I don't buy into that stuff.
My arguments with the presidents, with the presidents, with this president, is a political one.
And I think that that is the way if Bob Dole is to be successful, very unlikely possibility, in running against this president, it isn't going to be with that kind of material.
Conservatives And The Issues 00:09:21
art bell
It's going to be with the issues, not allegations and accusations and rumors.
And I think that conservatives opposed to the president are best served by not forwarding that kind of baloney.
Because that is not what's going to take him out of office.
It's going to be a battle on the issues.
It may be that a lot of people see the issues as not a battle that Bob Dole can win, and so they say this sort of thing.
Well, there were a couple of guys on there who had the real goods on Clinton, you know, and they had 800 taken down because of that.
Well, come on.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
Hello.
Going once.
unidentified
Is this RBL?
Yes, it is.
art bell
Turn that radio off.
unidentified
Hello.
art bell
Turn that radio off, sir.
unidentified
All right, Tom, baby.
This is Kevin in Leavenworth.
art bell
Leavenworth, Kansas.
unidentified
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
art bell
Home of the containment facility.
unidentified
Yeah, pretty close to all of them.
You had a guy on the radio the other night, Jerry Brown.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Okay, and he was talking about legalizing drugs.
art bell
Was he?
unidentified
Yeah, I believe he was.
What did he say?
Well, he said he wanted to legalize them because it would reduce crime.
art bell
How does he know that?
unidentified
I don't know.
I believe that's what I heard him saying.
art bell
Well, I've thought about that a lot.
Let's take the case of the young gang member that's selling drugs.
Okay?
unidentified
Uh-huh.
art bell
And let's think about it for a moment.
We legalize drugs.
Oh, no.
Now he has no product to peddle on the streets, right?
unidentified
Right.
art bell
Now, ask yourself this.
Is this young enterprising gang member going to say, oh, no, that's the end of my career.
Let me quickly go get a job at Burger Kingdom because that's all that's left to me.
Or is he going to begin doing something else, most likely against the law, to continue to live in the style to which he has become accustomed?
unidentified
Exactly.
I mean, it's so destructive drugs are anyway, so I can't even fathom the thought of some ass wanting to make them legal.
art bell
Well, I understand I wouldn't call Jerry an ass.
I understand that there's a genuine argument in behalf of taking the profit out of it, but I honestly don't believe it would suddenly convert those who are selling drugs and living a life of crime to become saints and burger flippers.
No way.
unidentified
Oh, no, there's too much money to be made in dealing drugs.
Well, no, even if they took it out, they're going to find something else.
art bell
I mean, they're going to start breaking into homes.
They're going to start stealing things or hitting people over the head, whatever it takes.
They're not going to go get a legitimate job.
So that's my attitude about that.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
Hi, Art.
This is Leonard in Bonnie Lake, Washington.
art bell
Bonnie Lake, Washington.
unidentified
Yeah, I'm just up the hill from Puallop.
Yes.
I had something I thought I'd call and tell you about involving his taxes and everything.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
I used to watch a program on Channel 9 called Japan Today.
And twice they talked about Japan's economic problems.
And twice the answer was from the Clinton administration to correct their economic troubles was to cut their taxes across the board.
So on the other hand, he raised our taxes, you know, the highest tax increase ever.
art bell
After he promised a middle-class tax break, remember?
unidentified
But anyway, anybody that wants a government to tax him has got to be sick.
That's all I can say.
But this is the true.
This isn't anything I heard on Limbaugh or any of that other stuff.
I'm a little nervous.
But it's something that I heard with my own ears and saw on TV.
art bell
I appreciate the input, sir.
I do.
And I look, I said this to the two liberal callers.
The one thing I will admit is that both sides promise things and do things they think you will like.
It's just Bill Clinton does a little better.
That's all.
Bill Clinton is a true expert at telling the American people what they want to hear.
That's politics.
And he is a very astute politician.
unidentified
That's all.
art bell
A little bit better at it than Bob Dole, or maybe even a lot better at it than Bob Dole.
And in America, we have become a nation of people who are pleased when we are told what we want to hear.
Everything's going to be okay.
I'm really quite conservative.
I will cut your taxes.
I will do this.
I will do that.
I will improve the educational system and welfare as we know it.
And he will.
He'll do whatever he's got to do to get back into office.
unidentified
Period.
art bell
That's the man we're dealing with.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Yes.
jane in washington
This is Roberta from Norwalk, California.
art bell
Hi, Roberta.
unidentified
Yes.
jane in washington
Okay, there's two main things here about that troopers on the plane.
That was purely a rumor that was not true.
Those two troopers are alive and well in Arkansas today.
art bell
Yeah, I'm sure.
jane in washington
Larry Nichols brought that, verified that because they are two of his witnesses.
Also, there was, however, from a trustworthy source to Art Bell, not Art Bell, to Ray Breen.
I don't know if you know Ray Breen.
art bell
I know Ray very well.
unidentified
Okay.
jane in washington
Ray gave it as from a very trustworthy source, but unverified that it was from Fit Friendly Fire, and a great deal of detail was given, though I didn't write it all down.
art bell
Yes, I've got a number of faxes about that.
jane in washington
You have the information, but he said it did come from an extremely good source, and he doesn't normally give that unless they give it out over the air, unless he trusts the information at least somewhat.
unidentified
But he did say he didn't have it verified.
jane in washington
Okay, the second thing that I wanted to ask you about or to tell you about, Kennedy was a supply sider.
unidentified
He did cut taxes, and it raised revenues.
Yeah.
art bell
Yeah, it always does, ma'am.
unidentified
So the thing is, Kennedy is one of their own, and he was a supply sider.
How can they all come out against him?
art bell
Well, because it's fashionable to do that now, that's why.
I thought my rainforest analogy was a good one.
I thought it up just at that very moment, and maybe I'll repeat it and refine it.
unidentified
You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
Tonight featuring Coast to Coast AM from the 27th of August, 1996.
Premier Networks presents Art Bell, somewhere in time.
Tonight, featuring Coast to Coast AM from August 27th, 1996.
art bell
Top of the morning.
It's a weird night.
unidentified
Who knows just what it is?
art bell
Big full moon up there.
unidentified
The magnetic polls seem to be shifting.
art bell
Let me read you what I've got again.
It just keeps going.
Art, I'm 20 degrees off now on my east siding.
I'll get out my tripod, level it, shoot the sun in the morning.
Let you know.
Also, if I'm still off, I'll check with some Navy friends and have them set their reference stable element to true.
If they're off, I hope no one's doing a live fire exercise.
Robin in San Diego, Art.
If there's a shift in true north, how do pilots adjust for that?
Could that account for so many military planes crashing?
Diane, KGA, Spokane.
Or this, dear art, on the magnetic north deviation, please note that it was brought forth on a shortwave program recently that the sun is in the process of reversing its magnetic polarity.
We're going to be in for quite a ride.
Well, I don't know.
Without being able to reference the content, I also just got a fax from Major Dames, SciTech's Major Dames.
Major's Return 00:06:51
art bell
And so I thought I would take this opportunity, Major, since I know you're out there, to invite you to come back and do another program.
Are you busy tomorrow night, Major?
Would you like to come on and do it?
He sent me some information that cannot be made public yet.
But how about a show tomorrow night, Major?
Are you interested?
Sure, that'd be fun to do right in the middle of the Democrats Convention, wouldn't it?
Then, this, dear art, I think it would be extremely ironic if the quote missile photograph end quote was not substantial enough for the FBI to prove or disprove the TWA missile theory, but instead would force the FBI to finally publicly admit to the existence of UFOs, Sean, in Reno.
So that's some of the stuff we're looking at.
And I've got the story on this guy with the rats in Billings.
I really want to hear about this.
It wasn't in Missoula, it was in Billings.
And I want to hear from some people in Billings.
So maybe we'll try and hold a line open.
I will hold the line open in a minute.
As a matter of fact, let me set aside a line for people in Billings.
Call us at area code everybody else hold off, please.
Area code 702-727-1222.
Billings, Montana only.
Everybody else, drop off that line, please, and let people in Billings.
This is a very important story about the man with the rats.
I want to hear about it.
702-727-1222 Economic Survival.
Not so easy these days, no matter where you are in the rainforest canopy, eh?
Running harder to keep even.
No fun.
And you know what?
happens mainly when you're working for somebody else from millings montana tear gas water cannon have failed to drive out robert dorton from his motel home
This is a brand new story where he's been barricaded now for two days, keeping police from confiscating his pet rats.
Police have had to evacuate the area around the townhouse motel in downtown Billings.
Because Dorton fired several shots from a room that neighbors said has been his home for eight years.
Standoff began Monday when Dorton refused to open his door to an animal control officer who was responding to complaints.
Tenants of the motel said they'd seen, get this, folks, two rats the size of cats in Dorton's room.
He was seen kissing one of the rodents and referred to them as, quote, my brothers, end quote.
They're referring to this now as a kind of Freeman thing.
It's the big rat standoff in Billings.
And so I'm holding a line open here for a while for Billings for Montana people in the area who know about this standoff.
How many of you would kiss a rat?
unidentified
Hmm?
art bell
On my Montana line, you're on the air.
Hello.
Oh, wait a minute.
Now you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Yeah, this is Mike Forsythe.
art bell
Forsyth, Montana?
unidentified
Yeah, I'm 100 miles east of Billing.
art bell
What do you know about this?
unidentified
Well, this guy's got, like you said, he's got two rats as big as Tomcat.
They're big, I guess.
Yeah.
And they closed the high school down.
art bell
What?
unidentified
Yeah, they closed the central high school down.
There's several schools in Billing.
They closed the central high school down because they don't want nobody shocked, you know.
art bell
Well, the high school is in some proximity to the motel, I take it.
unidentified
Yes, sir.
Yep.
Wow.
And they got streets closed.
Some of the couple of the main big streets that run through there.
art bell
They got them blocked up.
And all of this because of a couple of rats.
unidentified
Well, he's got like 16 of them in there, I guess.
art bell
Oh, that's a lot.
Especially in the motel room.
That's no good.
unidentified
Yeah.
He's in his bathroom.
Or this is when they put the tear gas in there.
art bell
He took off into the bathroom.
So that's how he escaped the tear gas?
unidentified
Yeah, he locked himself in the bathroom and put a mattress up against the doors.
Yeah.
And then he's got gas masks and everything.
art bell
I suppose he brought all his rats in with him.
unidentified
Yeah, I suppose he did, so they didn't die.
He calls them his brothers.
art bell
That's what he calls them.
unidentified
That's right.
art bell
He kisses them, too.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
He must be a different type of guy.
art bell
I wouldn't kiss him.
unidentified
He's in that town and house motel.
art bell
Man, I wouldn't kiss a rat.
unidentified
Oh, me neither.
They're ugly.
art bell
Well, they are, and they've got sharp little teeth.
I mean, these are rodents.
Now, as loving as a rat might be able to become, who knows?
You put a rat on science diet.
Maybe it grows.
But still, it could bite.
unidentified
Yeah, they got to have a lot of diseases, you know.
art bell
So then you're verifying this story is true.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, it's very true.
Yeah, I don't know for a fact it is.
Yeah, it's still going on right now.
art bell
Well, you know, Montana just has not had it too good this year.
unidentified
No, we had them weirdos over in Jordan.
art bell
There's been some problems in Montana.
And now it's rats.
All right.
Well, thank you very much for the call and the confirmation of that story.
There you've got it, folks.
A rat?
I would like to see a rat as big as a cat.
Like my cat.
Abby, 17 pounds.
Can you imagine a rat that big?
unidentified
Or a small dog even?
art bell
I can actually understand, and people have been sending facts and saying, you know, they make good pets.
Maybe they do.
Maybe rats are somehow loving.
But the kissing part, that's really going too far.
East of the Rockies, you're on air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello, Art.
This is Cindy in Kansas City, Missouri.
art bell
Cindy, you're going to have to sneak up on that phone and yell at us.
unidentified
Okay, I'm in Kansas City.
art bell
Right?
unidentified
Okay.
debra medina
I don't know if it's my area or what, but I've heard three calls now, including my own, of people that have seen the same tape on television that I have of this missile blowing this airplane.
art bell
Well, I saw it too.
Pyramid Construction Theory 00:03:07
art bell
I saw it, too.
debra medina
Well, I know, but when I saw it, it was the very night that that happened.
art bell
I think, though, really, I think it was a demonstration of what a shoulder-fired missile can do.
It hit a drone.
That's what I think you're talking about.
And there's been no video that I know of of a missile hitting a 747 aircraft, and they're very easily discernible.
debra medina
That very first night, you also saw witnesses that saw this.
art bell
That's true.
unidentified
But you don't see them anymore either on television.
That's true.
debra medina
And also, Art, I've been waiting for this report from the Farsight Institute in Atlanta.
art bell
Can you give that soon?
I am going to give it, yes.
unidentified
Well, we're waiting.
art bell
All right, all right, all right.
I'll get it on.
unidentified
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
art bell
All right.
It is interesting.
Let me see if I can get it out.
And don't forget, Ed Dames, if you're out there, you're invited to do a show with me tomorrow night if you want to.
unidentified
Send me a fax and let me know.
art bell
Where is my Farsight Institute?
It is a competitive...
Here it is.
Here it is.
All right.
Farsight student example number four.
The target for this session was the largest pyramid in Egypt.
After three pages of preliminary data, the viewer drew the sketch that is linked below.
In the sketch, there is the obvious drawing of the pyramid.
But the session also revealed some ideas that may be relevant to how the pyramids were constructed.
The session seemed to suggest the builders may have piled up dirt to cover the pyramid as it was being constructed layer upon layer.
In this way, the builders would not have to lift any large rocks.
Rather, they could simply place the blocks on logs or even stone dowels and push the blocks over the dirt and into place on the rising pyramid.
After another layer of stones was placed, the builders could then raise the ground level by piling up more dirt around the pyramid and begin to roll the next layer of stones in place and so forth.
After the pyramid was finished, the builders would then dig it out of the dirt, thereby exposing it.
Note the offset ground levels in the sketch.
The vertical line above the pyramid may represent the lined up logs or dowels on which the stone blocks were placed.
The session did not resolve these points definitively by any means, but the viewer was clearly, quote, on target, end quote, with the pyramid.
The viewer also constructed a timeline and located the time of the target about 3,000 years ago.
As with all other training sessions at the Farsight Institute, the viewer was doing the session totally, quote, blind, end quote.
Strange Stories from Montana 00:03:47
art bell
Other words, without any conscious identifying information regarding what the target was to be.
So, there you've got it.
And if we have Graham Hancock back on, we will ask him about that.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Good morning, Art.
This is Mike from Billings, Montana.
art bell
Oh, hi, Mike.
How are you doing?
unidentified
Well, pretty good this morning, yourself?
art bell
Well, I'm okay.
I'm amazed at this story.
unidentified
It is rather strange, but we've had our share of strange stories lately.
art bell
It has been a hard year for Montana, hasn't it?
unidentified
That it has.
That it has.
art bell
So this is true.
They've actually called off school because of it.
unidentified
Yes, sir.
Billings Central.
It's a couple blocks away from the motel.
art bell
What are the people in Billings?
I mean, well, you're a person in Billings, so you tell me, what do you think about this guy?
Is he being mistreated, or are the authorities responding in a proper way?
unidentified
Well, I think they might have, I mean, spraying the water cannon in there and everything a little harsh for a guy with some rats.
It is over now.
I work in an office building about four or five blocks away from there, and you can see where the police used to have the street barricaded, and it's no longer barricaded.
art bell
So they've got him out?
unidentified
Yep.
art bell
And the rats?
unidentified
I would imagine so.
Listening to the scanner earlier, I heard him sending some trucks over there and an animal control officer.
art bell
Well, you know, I can understand that he really shouldn't be doing that in a motel.
unidentified
Well, that would be true.
art bell
I hope, though, that they don't kill his rats.
unidentified
It sounded like they were taking them away down to the pound or something.
art bell
Yeah.
Well, I hope they don't.
I mean, these are, I suppose you could love a rat.
I don't know how, but I guess you could.
And the story going on around Billings was really that this guy was kissing his rats?
unidentified
Yeah, they said that.
I think it got exaggerated with each telling, but that was right from the beginning, so I believe that's probably true.
art bell
It just brings back to me that old saying in the movie, no tongues.
unidentified
No tongues.
art bell
All right.
Well, thank you very much for the call, and take care.
unidentified
I mean, kissing rats.
art bell
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
Yes, sir.
It's good to talk to you after listening to you for so long.
Where are you?
I'm in Flagstaff.
art bell
Flagstaff, New Mexico.
Or Flagstaff, Arizona.
Excuse me.
unidentified
Flagstaff, California.
art bell
Are you in California?
unidentified
No, you're right.
Flagstaff, Arizona, but it's becoming Flagstaff, California.
art bell
I know.
unidentified
Let me ask you if you will repeat what you just mentioned only briefly at the very beginning of the show.
The information that you had regarding a report somewhere in the southwest regarding people on the ground fighting with a hovering UFO.
art bell
I'll read you what I've got.
Thank you.
Yes, here it is.
UFO confrontation in the southwest last night.
Question mark.
Dear Art.
Early this morning, between 8.15 and 8.45, a newscaster on Las Vegas radio station, KJUL, announced between songs that, quote, the National UFO Research Department is seeking witnesses to an event in the southwest that occurred last night that could be described as a battle between people on the ground and a hovering craft.
Midway Flare Mystery 00:06:36
art bell
He was adamant the story was real.
I called the station who indicated the programming was syndicated from satellite originated with Westwood 1 in the L.A. area.
Maybe it was on the Likas show.
Anyway, I contacted Westwood One.
They told me they'd investigate the matter and get back to me tomorrow.
So he also contacted CNN in Atlanta who had no record of the story.
So anybody know anything about it?
Signed Wayne in Las Vegas, east of the Rockies.
You're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Hey, this is Paul in Somerville, Texas.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
And I've been looking at your photograph here, and I've got a computer program where I can really play with the pixels on this thing.
And it looks to me like we've definitely got some type of missile here.
art bell
Well, if it isn't that, look, I'll say it again.
You know, you know, you're looking at it.
It's pretty indistinct.
unidentified
Well, that's true.
art bell
However, it is obviously something.
It is cylindrical.
It seems to have a flare coming from behind it.
unidentified
Right.
art bell
It's in flight at the right time in the right place, and I think it absolutely cannot be ignored.
unidentified
Well, now, in this photograph, there are apparently two very small bright sources, one being the apparent flare at the end of the cylinder.
Correct.
And then there's what appears to be a sunspot or something, some reflection or something up to the upper right of that.
art bell
Yeah, there may be those who say, well, is that supposed to be the 747?
I wouldn't have the slightest idea.
unidentified
Well, the reason I was calling is I've been playing with this thing and adjusting the various, the greens and the reds and the hues and the contrast and everything.
Right.
And I've got a very clear image of four wings on this cylinder.
art bell
Four wings.
unidentified
Four wings.
And it looks like they're possibly, I've been trying to discern what would be fins on the end of it, but it looks like, and it also appears to be traveling horizontally across the water.
art bell
I quite agree, but it's a little hard to know the angle of the photograph.
In other words, whether it was taken at a proper angle, and the reference is so far off that it's, you know, you really can't depend on what you're seeing there.
It almost looks like the missile is going down instead of up.
unidentified
Well, that's exactly what I was getting at.
You can, with some enhancement, you can see that there's appears to be going, there seems to be something similar to a cylinder going in several different directions, but there's the main cylinder, which this flare is at the end of.
I'll call it a flare, I guess.
I've been adjusting for colors, and I can see clearly that there is some orange or yellow tint to that.
art bell
I believe that's correct, yes.
unidentified
And I'm seeing something.
Now, I don't know very much about missiles, but something along the line of an Exoset or something like that is coming to mind.
Something that has, now I don't know what I'm talking about with an Exoset, but something that has like a pair of wings on each side of it that go out in sort of a V from the body.
And I can see four wings.
I can see two definitely on the right side.
art bell
Do you mean to say wings or fins?
unidentified
I mean something that appears to be wings up toward the away from the end of the where the flare is.
I'd say about midway into the almost midway into the cylinder.
And then there appears to be quite possibly I can see it looks like at least one fin, which is at a different angle from the other ones from the wings.
It appears.
art bell
Well, you're seeing more in it than I did.
unidentified
Well, I've really been playing with this thing ever since you came on the air.
art bell
Well, I'll tell you, you can drive yourself crazy with that kind of thing.
Can get down to the pixel range, and you can begin to see pictures of our Lord in the middle of it, and all kinds of things if you spend too much time at the pixel level.
But look, I think that the photograph, as it sits, cannot be ignored and obviously is not being since the FBI went and grabbed it up.
So, you know, I don't know what to say about this, folks, except that I thought you should see it.
The photograph is up there now, the link to the photograph on the MSNBC website.
You can get it by going to my website, which is www.artbell.com.
Remember, about 200 people said they saw something rising toward that aircraft.
And this photograph, whatever you think of it, was the right place at the right time at the right angle.
You tell me what it is.
It is not nothing.
unidentified
This is Premier Networks.
That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM on this Somewhere in Time.
There's no need to speak.
Somewhere in Time with Art Bell continues, courtesy of Premier Networks.
art bell
And it's a good morning to be here.
Lots going on.
That missile photograph on the webpage, www.artbell.com.
Is it a missile?
unidentified
I don't know.
art bell
It's something long, cylindrical, with a flare coming out the back.
Might be a missile.
Timing and the place are all right.
You decide for yourself.
Wildcard Line, You're on the Air 00:11:32
art bell
Let's see what more trouble we can get in this morning.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
How are you?
It's good to have you back from Russia.
art bell
Well, thank you.
It's always good to get back from Russia, I guess.
stacy malkan
Yeah, this is Debbie Conservative from Missouri.
art bell
See, did you hear Charlie a little while ago?
unidentified
Yeah, I just love to hear you guys talk.
He's funny.
art bell
Yes, he is, and that's a good way to put it.
unidentified
Yes.
stacy malkan
Well, first of all, I must have missed something because I can't understand why they're hassling the man with the rats in Billing.
art bell
Well, I guess, you know, it's in a motel.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
And then some of the other patrons were encountering big rats.
unidentified
You mean like wild ones or something?
art bell
Well, when you're in a motel room and something as big as a cat that's a rat, you know, you're not probably happy about that seeing that.
stacy malkan
But, I mean, if they allow pets, you know, isn't that, you know, up to the individual?
art bell
Well, let me put it to you this way.
We've got a magic act in Las Vegas.
Oh, yeah, the tiger.
And they're pets, and I'm sure they're very friendly animals, but I wouldn't know that if I were to encounter one, you know, like in a hotel there in Las Vegas.
And it'd probably scare the hell out of me.
And I imagine that's what happened there.
It scared people, I'm sure.
unidentified
Well, I think you ought to leave him alone.
You know, I mean, but now there's gunfire and everything.
art bell
Well, it definitely was the wrong move to begin shooting at people.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
art bell
Wrong move there.
stacy malkan
And then just a comment through you to Charlie Liberal.
I just feel like sometimes the people that follow the Democratic ideals tend to want to shut their children off on their village and become a little bit dependent and government to solve their problems and take care of them.
art bell
I think Charlie needs some loving.
unidentified
Yeah, it is.
And I don't think you should go back to the government.
stacy malkan
Go to his own family.
art bell
Well, I think that is where Charlie gets his lovin' from the government.
unidentified
Yeah, well, that's not right.
art bell
No, no, it isn't.
It's not even decent.
Thank you very much for the call.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello, Ardone.
Yes.
My name is Jeff from California.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
There was an AP story that went across the air on Monday about Louis Farrakhan.
art bell
A billion dollars, right?
unidentified
Yes, a billion dollars from Moman Argadafi.
art bell
Yeah, he wants to bring a billion dollars in.
unidentified
Yes.
And I would like to allege that this is a payoff for TWA 800 and the downing of that.
art bell
No, it couldn't be because they were talking about this.
Remember back when you remember back when Farrakhan went over there?
unidentified
Uh-huh.
art bell
It was arranged for then.
Uh-huh.
unidentified
It was arranged for, but it is interesting that it happens now that he asked permission from the government after the downing.
art bell
Bring in the $8 billion.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
I don't necessarily see how you can relate them.
unidentified
Okay, well, I think Farrakhan has three reasons for this.
And the first one is because of the Israeli jet that was supposed to take off at a similar time as the TW800.
art bell
That's a true statement.
unidentified
Also, for the money.
And I think eventually he wants to start a race war.
And I'd like to quote a New Yorker article that says Farrakhan is a man of visions.
Just weeks before the march, that's the million-man march, he told a congregation of Washington, D.C. Church about the Mother Wheel, a heavily armed spaceship the size of a city, which will rain destruction upon white America and save those who embrace the nation of Islam.
art bell
He did say that, yes.
unidentified
And I just think that the coincidence is amazing, and I think that it should be looked into further.
art bell
Well, I would imagine people are looking into it.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
I appreciate your call, sir.
Thank you.
And have a good morning.
Billion dollars.
Now, Farrakhan could go a long way with a billion dollars.
Wants to organize the black people in America with a billion dollars.
I wonder if they're going to let him bring it in.
Wildcard Line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
Hi, this is Brett Denver.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
How's it going?
art bell
It goes quite well, actually.
unidentified
Good.
I've got an interesting little kitty for you.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
I've got a question, actually, it's kind of a statement.
Have you noticed with the two power outages we've had on the West Coast, the train derailment, and now the downing of the possible mythical TWA, we may have a war, but it's not going to be in a foreign country.
It may be on our own soil.
art bell
Oh, I hope that's not true.
unidentified
Look at Louis Farrakhan, like you just got done saying.
He just got all this money from Gaddafi.
art bell
Well, he doesn't have it yet.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
He wants to bring it in.
Yeah, you know, that's the worst scenario of them all.
A foreign enemy, that we can handle.
A domestic war, whether it be a race war, whether it be a revolutionary sort of war, the nutball cases out there, terrorists internally, whatever it is, it's the worst scenario.
It will rip this country up faster than anything else I can think of.
unidentified
All you need is 30 terrorists.
Yep.
30 terrorists in the United States and the United States fall.
art bell
And money.
unidentified
Yep.
Mr. Clinton is trying to disarm the public.
Our first line of defense is the public.
Then comes your military.
Mm-hmm.
art bell
I agree.
unidentified
But that's something for you all to sleep on.
art bell
All right, thank you.
Or not to sleep on.
No, he's right.
He certainly is correct.
It is the worst of all scenarios.
When the thing happened in Oklahoma City, I was wishing, hoping, praying that it was foreign because of the divisive nature of domestic violence.
And now that would be the worst thing that could ever happen.
If TWA 800 was brought down by domestic terrorism of some kind, oh, God help us.
That would just rip this country apart.
If it was brought down by our own military by mistake and covered up, same deal.
Rip this country up.
So it's the last thing you want to happen.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello, is this Art Belt?
art bell
It is, yes.
Where are you?
unidentified
I'm located in California.
art bell
All right.
You're a little hard to hear, so you'll have to speak up.
Go right ahead.
unidentified
I'm calling.
I have an idea regarding the changing of the magnetic field due north.
We recently have had several major power outages here, and I have heard through an untropical source of some major testing going on in the North Pole.
And I would just like to present that to Art, and maybe he could research it more.
art bell
I'll tell him about it.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
Thank you.
art bell
Thank you, sir.
Yep.
First chance I get.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
How you doing?
art bell
I'm doing.
unidentified
Well, that's good.
I'm calling about the missile that you've been talking about for a little while.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
I've got a little problem with this.
When it first happened and all this information started coming out, was there not something about a blip circling the aircraft?
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And then coming back in on it and merging with it.
art bell
There was a radar signature, and then there, you know, as there always is with this kind of thing, they later said, no, it was just a radar anomaly or an echo or something.
You know, that's what they always say.
unidentified
So, I mean, what's happening then is, I mean, is it really possible for a handheld missile to circle an aircraft like that?
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Okay, because I thought it would have like a proximity detector that if it had bypassed the plane.
art bell
Well, I'm not a military munitions expert, but there are some missiles that, as you point out, the second they detect, they pass the target, detonate, try to get a proximity hit.
Then there are other missiles, heat sink seekers, and I presume radar homing missiles as well, that if they miss the target, do have the ability to turn and go back after it.
unidentified
Okay.
Because I have some friends who are in the military, and they have some experience with, you know, electronic warfare systems and other types of systems like that.
Right.
And, you know, I've discussed it with them, and they don't, you know, none of them, and me included, can't see a way that a handheld missile like that would be able to even lock on to a target, you know, in that short time because you've got to look at the plane that was, you know, still pretty low to the ground.
art bell
Oh, I don't think there'd be any problem at all.
Look, this plane was hit at 13,000 feet, and a 747 is not exactly a trivial target.
It's a big heat source.
I don't think a missile would have any trouble locking on at all, sir.
I appreciate the call.
But if anything, a 747 is a hell of a lot easier to lock on to than an F-15 or 16 with the speed it's going.
No, I don't think there'd be a lock-on problem.
There's some controversy about whether it could have reached the aircraft.
But there are many differing types of missiles.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
This is Greg in Oklahoma City.
How are you doing?
art bell
I'm doing all right.
unidentified
I sent you a fact a few weeks ago.
I think it caught your attention about flowers on the wall in Amarillo, Texas.
art bell
Oh, that's right, yes.
unidentified
I think the most beautiful women in the world are in the Texas panhandle.
The stories I could tell you.
art bell
I could tell stories too, but I won't.
unidentified
Let's not, shall we?
No.
I sent you a facts a few moments ago about the passing of Greg Morris.
art bell
Before we get to that, my Air Force years were precious years in more ways than one.
unidentified
I visited the old Air Force base in Amarillo just a few months ago, and it's now a ghost town.
There's basically nothing left of it.
art bell
Well, do they still have the red and white towers there?
unidentified
No, sir.
As I recall, it was been torn down, and they've replaced it now with something else.
Why We Left Google 00:15:35
unidentified
Their claim to fame now is being some sort of secondary or tertiary landing site for the space shuttle in case of something bad happening because it is such a long runway.
art bell
Oh, now that's something.
That's interesting.
unidentified
That's Amarillo trivia for you.
art bell
Thank you.
unidentified
If I could put something positive with all the Ferracon talk on the air this morning, the passing yesterday of Greg Morris.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
I don't know about you, but as a redneck Texan growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, I've always thought that Greg Morris, through his character as Barney on Mission Impossible, and also Michelle Nichols as her role of Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, to me, did more to improve race relations than anyone I can think of nearly.
I hope that doesn't sound trite.
And it's kind of silly that through the efforts of such people who have seriously tried to improve race relations that it's been achieved through something of the sort of TV programs.
But if you think about it, back in those days, Barney and Lieutenant Uhura being black people, extremely intelligent and people of great power, I can recall some of the older folks in my family having their jaws hit the floor at the thought of such a thing.
But it sure adjusted my attitude.
art bell
To me, the best way to improve race relations is not to dwell on them.
And the people that hurt us most are the ones on the radio and elsewhere that do nothing but dwell on racism, period.
And at any turn of an argument, we'll accuse somebody of being a racist.
unidentified
Were you around?
I'm pretty big.
Were you around in the late 60s and early 70s?
Were you a fan of Mission Impossible and Star Trek?
art bell
Well, yes, I watched both, and I've been a Trekkie, and I still am.
unidentified
Do you recall a little bit of social shock at seeing Barney and Lieutenant Dehura being in positions of such power and being handsome and intelligent and educated and very noble beings?
art bell
Sure.
unidentified
I think that did so much.
And I'm personally going to miss Mr. Morris.
I hope he's resting in peace with a smile on his face now because I think he did well with his time here on Earth.
art bell
Well, that's a very good thing to say of him, and I'm sure if he's hearing it now, he's smiling.
unidentified
Thank you so much.
art bell
Thank you.
unidentified
Take care.
art bell
Yeah, I try not to dwell on race problems, and I think that's one answer, that we dwell on it too damn much.
unidentified
And that ends up causing problems.
art bell
You know, there's a little bit of out-of-sight, out-of-mind kind of psychology at work here.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be discussed when it is a problem.
Heaven knows we've done that.
But not to dwell on it all the time.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Yes, good morning, Art.
This is Carl in KOMO Province.
art bell
Yes, I'm just fine.
unidentified
Good.
I'm glad to hear that.
willie nelson
Art, I've been a longtime listener.
If I fail to catch anything in the way of a Cuba connection on this Flight 800, please check me if I'm wrong.
But I'm wondering, since they have downed aircraft in the past, I'm wondering if there's any possible connection between Cuba and Flight 800.
art bell
Well, that's one area of imagination.
Sure, there could be.
There could be.
The Cubans have always been troublemakers up to this kind of thing, financing it at least, training people to do it possibly, certainly with access to the kind of hardware it takes to do the job.
So, yeah, could be.
willie nelson
Well, I don't know if this has been discussed or not.
If you've had another caller contact you with the same thought, I'll tell you this.
art bell
If it were proven, it would be the end of Castro's regime in Cuba forthwith.
willie nelson
Well, I'm surprised it didn't end quite some time ago, but I can't help but think about that, particularly on that commemorative flight that Cuban refugees made, what was it, back about six months ago?
unidentified
Yep.
willie nelson
And I just wondered if there could possibly be a connection there.
art bell
Good thinking.
willie nelson
So anyway, Art, I appreciate the time and you're allowing me to express that thought, and I hope it's food for thought on those who are no doubt wishing for a domestic part of the equation here.
I feel that some of this is orchestrated to bring the U.S. population under total control, and I mean specifically a United Nations effort of some sort.
I may be paranoid, and I think I've talked to you before on this same subject, and this is what I fear, and I think that the elections coming up are going to be a watershed in determining specifically what kind of country this is.
art bell
If, sir, you've talked to me before on the subject, then you shouldn't be on the first-time caller line.
unidentified
Oh, I must have, God, I must have missed dial.
As I say, I haven't.
art bell
All right, well, listen, I've got to run then.
Thank you very much for the call, but that is for first-time callers only.
Eric code 702-727-1222.
So you've got to actually listen to what people say to you.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hi.
Here I've been being good, not calling on the first-time caller line.
This guy gets through.
art bell
Well, I caught him, though, didn't I?
unidentified
Yeah, you did.
I heard that as soon as he said.
I thought I discussed this with you before.
I was like, ah.
art bell
You know, there's a lot of talk shows, and they sit, and for whatever number of hours they're on the air, they just sort of push buttons and let people make little speeches, and they don't even sit there and really listen to what the person is saying.
You actually have to listen to the people that you put on the air.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
I get the vision of you actually sitting there paying attention, like the guy who sits there on the Wayne's World show where he was getting slapped around by Wayne and his buddy Garth and didn't even realize it on the air.
art bell
Yeah, yep, that's me.
unidentified
Well, I just wanted to say a couple things about good old Charlie Liberal.
I couldn't hardly stand sitting there listening to him.
art bell
It's so repetitive and so predictable that I guess I'm getting it's almost like an immunity, you know, when you get hit with something so many times, you finally start getting immune to it.
It's just sort of like la da da da da.
You guys, you guys, you cruel guys, you child killers, blah, blah, blah.
unidentified
That was getting kind of repugnant to me.
The idea that I would that I would ever allow my grandparents or my children or anybody to suffer because of what I believed, it just made me feel like he was calling me dirt or other bad words.
Yeah, he was.
Yeah, he was.
Yeah.
Another thing on the TWA, there's a picture of the rocket.
I haven't seen the picture or missile going up from the water.
Has anybody looked at any pictures of the water to see what was down there?
art bell
You mean as in like a submarine or a boat or something?
unidentified
or anything?
art bell
I would think, well, the photographs they have were taken from ground level.
And you've got to bear in mind that if something was shot toward that airplane, it had to be quite a number of miles out at sea.
So the line of sight would not have allowed that.
And there is no such photograph that I know of or even evidence eyewitness evidence of somebody on the ocean.
So we don't know anything about that.
But a missile would have been seen because of the altitude.
unidentified
Yeah, it was Hoagland who said it was at the Terminator.
art bell
It was, that's correct, of course.
It was at the Terminator.
The aircraft was in sunlight, but on the ground, it was already virtually dark.
In other words, that gray area between dusk and full darkness.
unidentified
Absolutely.
Well, there's one other thing I wanted to talk about since I'm a police officer.
art bell
Oh, no kidding.
Can you hold on?
unidentified
Sure.
All right, officers, stay right there.
art bell
And we'll be right back to you.
unidentified
This is Premier Networks.
That was Art Bell hosting Coast to Coast AM on this Somewhere in Time.
Listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Tonight, featuring Coast to Coast AM from the 27th of August, 1996.
art bell
Somebody faxed me the other night and said, you know, women, they ought to come with a set of instructions.
unidentified
That's true.
art bell
There's something we'll never understand.
Much like the Kennedy assassination, the disappearance of Judge Crater, probably the TWA thing.
There's lots of things we will never know about.
women are no doubt one of those.
...who just before the break identified himself as an officer of law.
Back on the air again.
unidentified
Howdy.
My name's Don, and I'm in Forks.
And if you can guess which state I'm in, you win the prize.
art bell
Did you say Forks?
unidentified
Exactly.
art bell
North Dakota.
unidentified
Washington.
art bell
Washington.
Forks, Washington.
unidentified
Absolutely.
Really?
Yeah, we're out here on the corner of the peninsula, and because of the mountains in the way, I can only get you on Oregon stations.
Little scratchy.
art bell
If I wanted to have some of my listeners arrested, could you help?
unidentified
Well, uh we'd have to talk about that later, but uh all right, that's fine.
art bell
We'll have a private communication.
I don't want them to serve a lot of time, you know, do you?
unidentified
I can think of a few that probably deserve to be in there for a few weeks anyway.
art bell
Exactly.
unidentified
Yeah.
Well, let them see what it's like to live on the government's government dole there.
art bell
That's right, that's right.
Really on the dole.
unidentified
Yeah, three hots in a cot.
art bell
You got it.
unidentified
Well, the two things I wanted to talk about near and dear to my heart are both involved personal liberty are firearms and narcotics drugs.
Okay.
I am not a user of narcotics, never have, never will.
Because they are illegal, I do arrest those who use them, deal in them, transport the whole nine yards.
But I'm very much like Harry Brown on this subject.
I believe that because of personal liberty and government just does not work on this subject, I think that, well, I would say legalization would probably be the only real safe way to end the quote-unquote war on drugs and actually kind of declare victory.
We've won, but you know.
art bell
Well, I guess you wouldn't have to make any more arrests.
unidentified
No, not on that, you know, not on that subject.
I would say that, and it would, I think, believe I believe it would bring down drug use, actually, because of the two most commonly used drugs, you know, well, not counting caffeine, you know, being nicotine and alcohol, society pressure has brought down the use of those, not any laws about them.
art bell
You know, I have come to the point in this argument of the legalization of drugs where I would like to see a test, maybe one state in these U.S. of A, in these combined states, where we would legalize drugs and watch and see what happens.
unidentified
Oh, I would like to see it too.
You know, I've seen people's rap sheets, of course, and I saw a man who had three counts of attempted murder where he had tried to, you know, he'd actually shot people in the back.
He spent 18 months in jail for those total.
He had one count of possession of marijuana, spent 22 months in jail.
art bell
Now, let me ask you this.
When you encounter a teenager or a young person, fairly young person, and they've got a joint or a small amount of marijuana, what do you do?
unidentified
Well, we have a zero tolerance.
So I well, I have limited authority over children who are not members of my community.
So because I work on an Indian reservation, if they are non-members, non-tribal members, I will arrest them or detain them, administratively detain them, until a sheriff will get down there.
And then it's up to the sheriff, whatever he's going to do.
art bell
I see.
unidentified
Our children, I take it into evidence, give them, issue them a ticket because we have no facilities for children.
We don't have enough money for it.
And then I will take them to their parents' home or grandparents or whoever can take care of them.
art bell
Where no doubt good things do not happen.
unidentified
No doubt.
art bell
And on guns.
unidentified
Oh, I believe anybody should be able to own whatever they wish.
I have no compunctions at all about that.
I think that you have not only a right, but an obligation to protect yourself.
You were saying that in urban areas it's you know cops can get there quicker, but I had a friend who she called me after she called the Seattle police with a 911 disconnect and I got there 30 minutes before the Seattle police.
art bell
Well, okay, but again, you you're enforcing on a reservation, right?
In downtown Seattle, that might not be true.
No, no, no, it's uh but if you you know, if you live out in the country, I mean, you're living with certain realities, and there's drive time, um, and the density of patrol is not that great.
And so if you want to if you want protection, you better protect yourself.
Um oh, absolutely.
unidentified
You know, the police were not designed as a primary protective force.
They were designed to supplement, you know, people's own protection of themselves.
I I wouldn't want my grandmother or mother to have to wait, you know, even two minutes on somebody trying to get there to them.
I'd expect them to be able to defend themselves instantly if some crazy guy was trying to bust through their windows or whatnot.
And as far as this argument of the militia goes, the National Guard was federalized, I believe, in the 60s or 50s, which means that's no longer a local force.
That's national.
And therefore, they're no longer the militia.
art bell
I appreciate your call, sir.
unidentified
Thank you.
art bell
Thank you, and take care.
In the state of Washington.
Yeah, I mean, it's just common sense.
If you're out in the country, it's a certain drive time, response time to get to you.
And if you have need to protect yourself, you've got to protect yourself.
Martian Wife Form Faux Pas 00:04:46
art bell
That's all there is to it.
Or else by the time they get there, it's all over.
You know, and you're not going to have anything to say.
There won't be any court date.
unidentified
You'll be dead.
art bell
So it's just, it's obvious.
It's a no-brainer.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
art bell
Hey.
unidentified
Hey.
How you doing, bud?
art bell
All right.
unidentified
I don't believe it.
Don't tell me Ridge of them.
art bell
Do the wild thing.
It's 702-727-1295.
Okay, well, you're out of here.
You're out of here.
You see, when you use bad language, and he used the F-word, he used the F-word, you're out of here immediately.
I mean, there's no second chance.
You come on here and use the F-word intentionally, unintentionally, or however it comes out of your mouth in your history, brother.
You're out of here.
And moreover, it doesn't do you any good because I have a wonderful memory for voices.
And I don't let you back on the air.
Moreover, your effort at foul language didn't make it on the air because we have a tape delay, you know, for people like you.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Good morning, Art.
art bell
Good morning to you.
unidentified
Mike in Blair, Nebraska.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Hey, the Flight 800 thing.
rick in ohio
About a week, maybe a week and a half ago, in the Omaha World Herald, there was a story, and I think it was off the AP wire.
I'm not sure where it came from, but it was an FBI official claiming that they found that most of the eyewitnesses were not credible.
They said of all the eyewitnesses that they interviewed, they only found about three or four to be credible witnesses.
And those happened to be the three or four that did not see a missile.
unidentified
And I thought that was very interesting that they wouldn't.
art bell
Well, what about the military officers who were on a commercial flight and said it was a missile?
I guess not credible, huh?
rick in ohio
Well, according to this FBI guy, they just discounted and said most of these people probably had heard things on the news or whatever.
art bell
Well, I'm sure there was a lot of that.
unidentified
Where they were making up their stories.
art bell
Yep, I'm sure there was a lot of that.
There always is.
rick in ohio
But why would you just go with the few and discount the many?
unidentified
You know, it seems very strange.
art bell
Well, maybe because you're trying to get something to come out the way you want in the press.
I don't know.
unidentified
Well, I would, yeah, I guess that would be it.
art bell
I find it strange that the media in the very beginning interviewed zillions of people who claimed they saw a missile, and then all of a sudden all of that just disappeared.
unidentified
Just disappeared.
art bell
Strange.
unidentified
Hopefully we're going to get to the bottom of this eventually.
rick in ohio
I don't know that we will, but I think America wants the answers.
art bell
Well, the longer it goes on, the less likely it is we will ever get an answer.
It's just like homicides.
If they don't solve them generally in the first hours or days, the rate of conclusion, successful conclusion to an investigation goes way down.
rick in ohio
Speaking of credibility, I just saw on one of the tabloids this morning, I was in a store and they had a picture on the front page of the Martian wife forms, and it looked like a blown-up picture of some sort of insect, a fly or something.
And at the bottom of the front page, they had the face, the Martian, the face on Mars.
And I just bought Mark Carlado's book last week, as a matter of fact.
unidentified
Oh, yes.
rick in ohio
Which is very credible and goes quite a bit of detail about it.
art bell
Oh, he's a credible scientist.
rick in ohio
They stick it in a tabloid, and that kind of takes away from the credibility of it.
art bell
Well, look, we're lucky we didn't see the bug you talked about crawling across the face the way the tabloids do it.
I wonder how they could get a bacteria to look like a microscopic chupacabra from Mars.
Seattle Police Frequencies 00:04:35
art bell
Anyway, west of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
art bell
Hi, Arbill.
unidentified
Hello.
I'm in Southworth, Washington.
art bell
Oh, that's where you are?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
Okay.
My name is Sean.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Just wanted to say, I remember just overhearing the gentleman in Forks, Washington?
art bell
Yes.
dr john dunn
Well, I happen to work for the Seattle Police Department.
And one of the things that I do is I take calls from individuals who want response time to their needs at a timely fashion.
art bell
Right.
dr john dunn
What I found, and what the department wants to do, is to have everybody accountable for themselves to try to help out the police department.
art bell
Well, that makes sense to me in more ways than one, not just as a good policy.
unidentified
In a way of community policing.
art bell
Sure.
dr john dunn
You know, we have individuals that call all the time and say, hey, we've got this minority, if you will, living in our neighborhood doing what this gentleman does for a living of collecting the narcotics, putting people away, but they're wanting us to be there all the time.
art bell
Well, you can't be.
And that's why I tell people, look, if somebody is breaking through your window or a door, and you pick up the phone and you call 911, by the time you have dialed and begun to report your location name, if you can even get it all out, how long is it going to take that person to get from the broken window or door to you?
Versus the response time after the radio call to get the patrol car to the scene of the break-in.
unidentified
Certainly.
dr john dunn
And we will get there as fast as we can, as readily as possible, the higher the priority calls.
unidentified
What I believe in is what we call life over property.
We go over to life-threatening things over the property.
And a lot of people don't consume that.
But if I can ask one more question, sir.
Sure.
dr john dunn
Off the side, I know you're an amateur radio enthusiast.
art bell
I am.
dr john dunn
I don't know do you have the time when you were over on your vacation to meet any fellow hams or take any USL cards with you if that's what you do in exchange?
art bell
I did.
I took QSLs.
I operated on certain bands that I'm not going to discuss here.
unidentified
Certainly.
art bell
And I had fun, but I didn't take an HF rig with me.
I took VHF, UHF.
unidentified
All right.
Well, I'm an enthusiast listener, and I've got everybody here at work listening to you, and I enjoy your program immensely.
art bell
All right, I thank you for the call.
As a matter of fact, I'll tell you what I did.
Probably shouldn't, but I will.
It is possible when you're on a ship, which is out at sea, you know, away from land, to discern through the auspices of a scanner the ship's operating frequencies.
The officers on the ship have one set of UHF radios, and the crew, which mans the lifeboats and so forth and so on, has a VHF group of frequencies that they use.
And it is possible to discern these frequencies with a scanner and then program them into a handheld.
And an individual, not that I would ever do anything like this, of course, an individual can have a great deal of fun talking to the officers and crew of a cruise ship.
Again, emphasizing that I, of course, would never do anything like this.
I'm just telling you what can be done.
Corporate Welfare Costs? 00:05:07
art bell
Wildcard line, you're on air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
Corporate welfare is five times a year more than helping the poor.
It costs over $150 billion a year, whereas helping the poor costs $30 billion or so.
art bell
What is corporate welfare?
unidentified
What is corporate welfare?
It helps to big business, financial help, taxpayers, dollars that go to support and prop up and pull out of hot water, big businesses.
art bell
Well, sometimes it just plain helps it out.
If you help out big business, wouldn't you think it would be true that big business would then provide more jobs?
unidentified
Well, we see that jobs are going out of the country, so we know what big business, when they get to it.
art bell
Wait a minute now.
Mr. Clinton is claiming that he's created 10 million jobs.
Where'd they come from?
unidentified
I don't know.
Maybe they're service jobs.
I don't know where those jobs are, where they came from, or anything like that.
Maybe they're part-time jobs.
I live near McDonnell Douglas.
They wanted to turn full-time jobs into part-time jobs for the workers.
I don't know.
Why do I try to appeal to a right-winger to have a heart, to care about the country, to stop wanting to have it all?
art bell
I have a heart.
I have compassion for R.J. Reynolds.
There's compassion in my heart.
McDonnell Douglas, they do wonderful things for us.
They give us airplanes that we can fly in.
They give the military airplanes to defend our nation with, and I have compassion for them.
unidentified
Yes, but the nation is in bad shape because the wealth all belongs to a few people.
It does.
art bell
But McDonnell Douglas and R.J. Reynolds, they give a lot of jobs to people.
unidentified
The rainforest has trickled up for 23 years or whatever.
art bell
I've never seen that happen.
The little bitty plants actually dispense moisture upward to make it unnatural.
unidentified
That's why it's wrong for human beings to have to live like that.
art bell
Yeah, but the canopy deer is the McDonnell Douglas and the R.J. Reynolds, and the little guys down at the bottom, the ones that are trickled upon.
unidentified
Trickled up.
The wealth has gone up.
There's been 60% increase in our economy, and that has all gone to the rich.
art bell
But it's supposed to go up.
That's the way it works.
unidentified
No, it's not.
It's supposed to be democratic.
It's supposed to be spread around.
art bell
Well, you see, when it rains heavily on the canopy, then it drops on down, and that's how it works.
That's what's like a lot of money.
unidentified
Did you hear this?
Do you see that this is wrong?
That this is not right for a country.
Where a country is all family and everyone working together.
It is not right.
Have you seen them become so rich they don't even care about it?
art bell
Hey, Dari, look, you look at socialist states around the world, and they don't look so good.
unidentified
Well, that isn't socialist.
art bell
I said social.
I didn't say communist.
We didn't talk about communism.
I said socialist.
What you're talking about and wanting is socialism.
unidentified
No, wrong, wrong.
Ah, wrong.
art bell
Well, all right, then explain to me what you do want.
unidentified
We can't go.
The 50s there was a reasonable lie for the middle class, except the blacks still didn't have a fair share.
I would like it like that, but for everybody, including the blacks.
Not a million black people in prison.
Not a million black men in prison.
The drugs, when a government can distribute drugs to their own country, they don't care about the country.
art bell
Now, wait a minute, you're starting to jump all around here.
What kind of economy do you want?
unidentified
I mean, what exactly do you want?
I want a decent wage for the middle class, where they don't have, both the husband and wife have to work, where they have less and less, where they have to run harder to stay in the same place, where the rich, where we can see where all the wealth is going, it's going to the top few percent, 5%.
That's just not right.
They not only take the money, but they take the jobs out of the country, too.
art bell
Well, what would you say to a company that's considering opening a plant, for example, in Mexico?
Would you say, no, you can't do that?
unidentified
I'd say that, you know, where did this company got to its position in this country through having the breaks, the benefits of being in this country?
I'd say that they have a responsibility to give it back, to keep generating wealth for this country, for everyone in this country.
Tell America Good Night 00:00:31
unidentified
I'd say that if it's going to...
art bell
Well, listen, I wish we had more time for this, but my program is ending.
So you're going to get the honors this morning.
unidentified
Will you let me do this?
art bell
Well, sure, I'll let you do it.
Tell America.
Tell America a great big socialist good night.
unidentified
Good night, America.
art bell
All right.
Good night, dear.
We've got to go from the hot desert.
I'm Art Bell.
Thank you all very much.
See you tomorrow night.
Don't forget, Major Dame says he'll be here.
See you then.
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