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April 1, 1997 - Art Bell
09:46
19970401_-_Coast_to_Coast_AM_with_Art_Bell_-_Area_51_Flyover
# tax dollars satellites rail gun area 51 aviation safety experimental aircraft f 16 ford cunnard engine government secrecy jill long ez military bases nellis air force base nevada test site

Former Air Force member flying a self-built Long-EZ experimental aircraft claims to have penetrated the restricted zone near Area 51, asserting his girlfriend Jill verified his identity via fax. At 7,000 feet in a carbon fiber plane with a Ford Cunnard engine, he painted red crosses to simulate an emergency before cutting radios and descending toward the Nevada Test Site. Spotting an F-16 fighter jet flashing lights five miles away, he reports seeing a rail gun emerge from an elevator and hearing shots fired at his aircraft, arguing that tax-funded secrecy is being challenged by visible military responses despite Russian and Chinese satellite monitoring. [Automatically generated summary]

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Seeing Area 51 00:09:19
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Again, let me tell you, Art, answer the wildcard line.
My boyfriend is in a small plane north of Las Vegas, ready to fly into Area 51.
He's been trying to call you by cell phone.
And here he is.
You're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello there.
Is this Ark Bell?
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Yes, sir, it is.
unidentified
Yeah, my name, I won't give you my last name.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Okay, wait, wait a minute, sir.
Hold on.
The facts is signed by somebody named who?
unidentified
Jill.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Jill, that is correct.
So you are the one.
unidentified
That's my girlfriend.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Oh, yes, sir.
Where are you?
unidentified
Well, I'm up here from Fort Worth in my little airplane.
It's a long sea I built myself.
It's a Bird Route 10 design with a Ford Cunard.
I'm not sure if you know the time with experimental aircraft.
No, I'm not.
I've justified that, but not anymore.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
No, tell me about it.
What kind of airplane is it?
unidentified
Well, it's a long easy.
It's got 120 horsepower like oming in it, but we had it forward stroked and fixed it up a little bit.
It usually flies around 140, 160 indicated airspeed.
I'm right now at 7,000 feet.
You know where this place called Engine Springs is?
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Indian Springs, yes.
unidentified
Yeah.
Well, I've been flying now for about 45, 49 minutes, yeah, between Beady, is that what you call it, and Engine Springs.
And I figure I'd just go on up here and try to get into this area 51.
I'm right south of this Nevada test site, or Dallas Air Force Base.
Listen.
I'm right outside this restricted zone.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Listen to me.
When you fly into that zone, they are going to either force you down or shoot you down.
Don't you know that?
unidentified
Well, you know, I've been in a lot of Air Force bases, and I've been in the Air Force for many years.
I'm an ex-Air Force, but I'm just going to tell you that, you know, as American citizen, we have the right to know what's up there in this area 51.
And I've enlisted, you boys talk about this.
Hold on here.
I'm taking a turn.
Just a sec here.
And I'm going to go on up there and see what's going on.
And I just wanted to let you know about that before I do that, don't you know?
art bell ▲ ● ▼
How long do you estimate it's going to be before you?
unidentified
I figure about 14, 12, 14 minutes.
I can crank this baby up a little bit here.
Let's do that.
Let's crank this thing on up.
We've got some pretty good mountains here off to my west, don't you know?
I'm turning up north right now, and I can see the Air Force base out there in the distance.
It's got three runways.
It looks like they're all lit up.
And A-shaped, looks like north-south.
Got a lot of desert up here, don't you, boys?
art bell ▲ ● ▼
A lot of desert, yes.
unidentified
A lot of desert.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
You're liable to get yourself killed.
unidentified
I'm sorry, sir, you have to speak so loud.
I cranked this engine all the way up here.
said you're liable to get yourself killed well we'll get up there in a few minutes yeah and we're just going to see what's going to happen because this is a i've got uh red crosses painted on this baby and i got hospital on it see And maybe they're going to think that I'm on some kind of emergency flight, and I'm just off work.
And I've got the radios cut off, so you can have radio failure, don't you know?
And so I'm going to hold this thing steady here about around 65, 68, 100 feet.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Why are you doing this?
Why are you doing this?
unidentified
I'm going to put this at the bottom of this.
I'm an American.
My family has been American for years, and I want to get down in here, and I want to find out what's happening.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
All right, then why are you doing it at night?
unidentified
Because that's the best way to get in here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
But even if you manage to overfly the area, what do you...
unidentified
I'm in the restricted zone.
I just entered the restricted zone.
I see a bunch of lights out there.
Looks like some kind of a search light coming off.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
You're in the restricted zone now?
unidentified
I just crossed that restricted zone.
I'm going to drop this thing down on the side.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
I'm telling you, you're going to get shot down.
unidentified
On here now.
I got my pressure suit on.
I don't really need one of this kind of aircraft to sound like a gent, but it helps when I make the tight turns here.
And I'm going to cut down here.
Now, let's see what these boys are going to do.
I don't see anybody coming up here yet.
I just see a bunch of lights.
But I'm pretty far from that area 51.
I'd take about another eight, nine minutes here.
And it's hard to calculate it right now trying to talk to you.
I'm trailing an antenna out here about 30 feet so I can keep this phone conversation.
If we get cut off, then but I'm going to go up here and see what's going on.
They say there's bunch of UFOs and there's all kinds of things out here.
And we're going to get this safety right down here about a thousand feet.
And we're going to see if there's any UFOs or anything out here what's going on.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Listen, I think you're making a mistake.
unidentified
Well, sir, I might be, you know, but you know, our tax dollars pay for all this.
And this boys, they've been hiding everything under all this black project and all this grave funding and all this kind of thing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Don't you think, don't you?
Sir, hold it, hold it, hold it.
Don't you think that we have a right to national security secrets?
unidentified
I think we have, not really, because you know they have these K-11 and K-15 satellites up there.
And the Ruskies, they know what we're doing.
And the Chinese, they've got satellites down here, but they know what's going on.
The only thing that don't know what's going on is the common folks like me and you.
And us common folks got a right to know because we're funding all this.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
How long have you been planning this?
unidentified
I got this thing down here by a thousand feet.
I've been planning this thing now.
I'm right on the deck, not quite on the deck.
I'm at a thousand feet.
Boy, they got my probe popping up everywhere.
I'm telling you, they got search lights, about four of them on here.
And I've been planning this now for anywhere from a month to six weeks.
It took me a while to paint up the plane because I had to use that Emron.
It's the only thing that sticks to this gel coat I got off.
This thing's built out of campfire or carbon fiber.
I got it dressed 8G positive, 10 G snakes.
It's overbuilt.
I'll tell you what, I want to get down here and sperm like a little frog that's been tipped on by big dogs when I get down here.
A few minutes here, I'll tell you that.
Because I'm not going to.
Hey, looks like there's a F-16 coming up here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
I wouldn't be surprised.
You're making a mistake.
unidentified
Somebody down there.
He's got the master burners on because I can see him.
He's about five miles out.
That old boy is cranking.
Yes, sir.
And I see something opening up here on the ground.
I'm pretty low now.
I'm starting to pick up all kinds of buildings down here.
I see something here that's level with the ground.
And they're opening this thing up.
There looks like something's coming up out of that.
I can't tell you what it is.
It must be on some kind of a.
Hold on here.
I got to make this turn.
All right.
I think this old boy's going to head up here for me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
I wouldn't be surprised.
unidentified
Oh, he'll come to be up here right directly because he's in the F-16.
Sure as hell.
He's coming.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
I would advise you to turn on your radio.
unidentified
Come on, babe.
Come on, baby.
Come on, baby.
We can do this now.
Come on.
Hold on.
This old boy's coming up here.
Now he's got his lights.
He's got his lights on and he's flashing me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Yeah, he's probably...
unidentified
I'm not waving at him.
No radio.
He don't know that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼
Well, if I were you, I'd turn it on.
Well, maybe you're making a bad calculation because if they're not listening, you're going to be shot down.
unidentified
I don't know what he's going to do here.
He's rocking his wings at me right now.
He's rocking his wings and he's cutting in front of me.
And you know, this, oh, don't cut from me now, because if he cuts that close, stay off.
Stay off.
He could hear the vortex from his engine.
I'm cracking with the engine.
We're going to, just like Twin Tornadoes, if he gets too close, stay off, bro.
Hold on here.
I'm getting down on the deck.
I'm going in.
I'm getting down here.
He ain't going to get this.
I'm bent down veteran.
He's going to get me there.
They didn't get me over there.
They're not going to get you over here now.
Looks like some kind of rail gun coming up out of that elevator, that flat area over there that the doors opened up.
It's got some kind of weird-looking barrel on it with a light.
And oh, hell, they're done some.
They're shooting at me now.
Oh, God.
No, baby, I'm going in.
I think I'm going in.
Fax From Jill 00:00:41
art bell ▲ ● ▼
I'm not sure what we just heard.
All I can tell you is, I got a fax that read Art.
Answer the wildcard line.
My boyfriend is in a small plane north of Las Vegas and ready to fly into Area 51.
He's been trying to call you by cell phone.
I withheld the signature at the bottom of the fax so I could be sure that if I did get the person, I could verify it.
Indeed, it was signed by Jill.
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