Art Bell dissects the Holyfield-Tyson fight, where Tyson’s ear-biting apology revealed fans’ fascination with violence, and laments Hong Kong’s 1997 handover to China—156 years after British rule—while criticizing U.S. inaction on democracy. He touches on asteroid threats, Mir’s uncertain fate, and the Roswell anniversary, interviewing Frank Kaufman, an 80-year-old skeptic of alien abductions, and Colonel Corso. Callers debate hollow moon theories, Area 51 anti-gravity craft, and a Memorial Day UFO sighting Bell witnessed, dismissing government explanations as incomplete. The episode underscores persistent questions about secrecy, science, and society’s acceptance of unexplained phenomena. [Automatically generated summary]
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Good morning.
Welcome, WCKY, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Great to have you on board.
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We've been a while waiting for that one.
Cincinnati, Ohio, welcome to the program.
All right, we are going to cover all kinds of topics tonight.
Basically, it is going to be Open Line City.
If anything you want to talk about is going to be fair game, there is a lot going on.
Now, it's hard to know what to open up with.
I suppose the Holyfield-Tyson fight, as you all know, by now, Tyson bit off a goodly little portion of Holyfield's ear.
Tyson says, or said earlier it was revenge for a second-round head butt that was not called by the ref.
And now Tyson has apologized to the entire world.
Interestingly, in earlier fights, you know, when the fight would end early, the people who paid the big bucks to sit up front all wanted their money back.
Remember that?
And they all want their money back.
And they scream and they yell and they have riots to get their money back because they don't think they got their money's worth knockouts in 30 seconds of the first round or something like that.
And in this event, horrible though it was, without redeeming value though it was, almost nobody wanted their money back.
In other words, they think they got their money's worth.
So I think that all of this revisits not the questions that the press is dealing with, because I never really think what they think.
I think it revisits questions about the nature of violent sports in America.
You know, sure, it was unsportsmanlike.
You're not supposed to bite somebody's ear off.
But we are, at our very base, a violent society.
As a matter of fact, even I watch the ultimate fighting championships before they begin to wuss out.
So when you think about violence in sports, and there's plenty of it.
I love football.
That's very violent.
Very violent.
Is violence...
Or does it actually promote violence to see it?
I haven't made up my mind about that yet.
But I'm not going to sit here and, if you'll pardon the expression, chew over the question of what Tyson did.
I would rather chew over the question of why nobody wanted their money back.
And I think the reason is because they enjoyed it.
And I admit to it.
When I see a good football game, there's nothing like a good hit.
When you see a boxing match, you're not going there to see them dance.
You're going there to see them beat the hell out of each other, if at all possible.
I mean, I'm being honest, I think.
And that's what violence is all about in sports.
Now, cathartic, or does it promote violence in society?
I'm not really sure.
But I think that is the proper question for us to chew over.
I watched, because of course of the nature of the hours that I hold here, I watched the return of Hong Kong to the Communist Chinese after 156 years of British rule by lease.
And I watched the celebrations and CNN was showing split shots of Tiananmen Square and Beijing and all the fireworks going up and all the rest of it.
And the celebrations and the Chinese were all happy and bubbly.
I was simply sad.
I was in Hong Kong two years ago.
And I'm really glad that I went then.
And I'm not sure that I would want to go now.
And that's the only emotion I can tell you I felt as I watched the ceremonies.
Very solemn, hard to agree on, but they came off basically without a hitch, and the British stiff upper lip in place handed back Hong Kong.
By the way, the Chinese, within hours now, have put on a rather blunt military display.
Thousands of Chinese troops rolled into Hong Kong to cut defense of the island.
The troops began arriving after a midnight ceremony in which Britain's Prince Charles, very stiff, upper-lipped, handed the bustling capitalist territory to the president of Communist China.
It was sad as the union jack was lowered.
Now, a lot of people are running around and they're asking, well, will the U.S. protect the human rights of Hong Kong residents?
No, of course we won't.
A lot of people are running around acting as though we gave Hong Kong back to the Red Chinese.
Well, we did not.
The British did.
And they had to do so, legally.
Now, how concerned are the Hong Kong residents about democracy?
Well, it was either Meat the Press or Brinkley, I don't recall which.
The priorities in Hong Kong among the people are housing, employment, law and order, education.
In that order, democracy not even mentioned, but somewhere down below those four priorities.
Housing, employment, law and order, and education.
That's what they're worried about.
So I simply felt sad.
Tried to get Lau, who is no longer a letter.
I interviewed Emily some time ago on her phone.
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At least it brings...
A discussion of freedom of the press and religion.
46 hours, just about here now.
Permits will be for any demonstration you want to hold.
And that's it, folks.
Hong Kong has gone back, and I'm really glad that I had an opportunity to visit Hong Kong because it is never going to be the same.
Communists will try and keep the dollars and the pounds flow.
But inevitably, will lower a gray mist over this capital.
People's attitudes.
It's going to change the bigs that were on their faces.
Hong Kong was a replace.
And that will end.
Commerce will not end.
They will that going.
And there will be a facade, openness all over.
But all that will slowly slip in.
Hong Kong will never be the same.
We apparently have had a close encounter with the an asteroid, probably USA, on CNN.
Matilda is the size of Rhode Island.
Big rock.
They obtained five photographs of Matilda, a light called NIR, which watches for Earthbound rock.
And it was very interesting.
See such a close look at an asteroid, and you can imagine if something like that were to enter the atmosphere, there wouldn't be much atmosphere left.
On Mir, improving conditions, but still troubled, and we don't really know the whole story.
The continuing controversy about Roswell, I've got a lot about that, and I'm going to be interviewing a lot of people about that.
We're going to have Colonel Corso on Dreamland this next Sunday in part with a Linda Howe interview and then perhaps carrying on into the show to some degree.
Colonel Corso is now in his 80s, very spry, but probably now all night to come on this program.
Maybe I'll repeat it a little bit on this program.
Did an alien spacecraft crash in New Mexico, 1947?
Well, the people in Roswell are making lots of money, $5 million a year, cottage industry.
And the big weekend is coming up.
Now, on the Brinkley show, Captain John McAndrew, who authored that book, ooh, that book, Roswell Case Closed, was interviewed.
And I don't know what to say.
He said it's nothing but a myth.
Here's somebody who faxed me about it.
Art, I have just seen ABC's This Week with Sam Donaldson.
I think I'll always call it Brinkley somehow.
And company, and have come away from their interview with the author of the Air Force's research report on what really happened at Roswell.
Captain Andrews, far more confused now than I was previously.
Are you surprised?
Part of the difficulty was the lack of repertorial follow-through to some of Captain Andrews' more puzzling assertions.
One that really left me scratching my head was the lack of any follow-up questions to the captains saying the, quote, aliens, unquote, were really crash test dummies, and later referring to some ufologists getting the date of the autopsies wrong.
Will you perhaps on your Monday night show attempt to clarify why in the hell autopsies would even need to be done on crash test dummies?
Also in reference to the, quote, stench, unquote, or strong odor, Sam Donaldson said some ufologists claim to have noticed at the crash site, Andrew said, that that came from the corpses of dead airmen.
How'd they die if Only crash test dummies were used in the tests.
Very, very good question.
In an old ranching town, an 80-year-old man with bushy eyebrows sits in his tidy brick house and talks about the time he saw aliens.
His name is Frank Kaufman, and he does not seem crazy.
Smiles often, is warmly polite, a bit grumpy about the recent influx of UFO buffs.
Said, you've got these guys coming out of the woodwork.
There's people who say they've been abducted, women claiming they've given birth to alien babies.
That's just a bunch of crap.
See?
Kaufman tells his own story.
Kaufman is one of the last remaining eyewitnesses to what occurred in Roswell in 1947.
No compression time compression for Mr. Kaufman.
And I should tell you that I am working on an interview with Mr. Kaufman.
Again, in his 80s, but maybe we can talk him into staying up a little later.
Now, I got a fact from somebody named Dan who said they just had a snowstorm in Madrid.
Madrid, Spain.
A snowstorm in Madrid, Spain.
And again this last weekend, tornadoes in England.
Tornadoes.
Now, it just doesn't happen that there are tornadoes in England, but it is occurring.
And I don't know about the weather where you are, but I live out here in the desert.
And it's presently, and oh, I don't know, very pleasant about the mid-70s in the daytime going only into the 80s.
And this is just about the 1st of July.
Now think about that.
Now, you may not be familiar with the territory in which I live, but it should be 110 degrees by now.
The weather, I tell you, is definitely changing.
There is no question about it.
Short and cyclical, perhaps long and permanent, maybe.
I just don't know.
And now a little bit of news that you're not going to hear anywhere else or have not heard anywhere else.
The following comes from the International Mars Watch electronic newsletter and was faxed to me.
Dear Art, I hope all is well with family.
Richard said, Richard Hoagland, that the Mars probe would have problems.
Now there is a storm.
How do we know this information is real?
Well, this information comes from Jim Bell at Cornell University Department of Astronomy.
And listen to this.
Friends of Mars, HST Hubble, Hubble Imaging from a few nights ago, has detected an enormous dust storm within Valles Marineris.
The dust is filling the canyon and is beginning to spill out of the eastern edge, and rather, heading downhill straight for, guess what, the Pathfinder landing site.
We have requested additional HST time prior to the landing this Friday, but any supporting ground-based red and blue observations so as to distinguish dust from the extensive water ice clouds now present of this phenomenon would be extremely valuable and appreciated.
And that is from Jim Bell at Cornell University.
So I'm not saying this will cause a delay in landing or a shifting of the landing spot, but if true, it might.
It certainly might.
So we'll just have to wait and see on this one, but a big storm going right into the area where Pathfinder is due to arrive on the 4th of July.
Now, those of you who have web TV might go up to my website and notice a number of things tonight.
Linda Moulton Howe, we bugged her for a long time.
She is a reporter on Dreamland.
Was once, we discovered one day, Miss Idaho in the Miss USA beauty pageant.
And so for weeks I bugged her, and finally she came through with photographs, sent them to me.
And so I scanned them, and they're up there on the net right now.
So if you want to see Linda Molten Howe in her younger days, what a beauty she was, and still is, by the way, those are on the website.
Or you might go up to my website and click on the studio cams.
We have three cameras taking photographs of me as I do the program.
I think you will particularly enjoy the shirt I'm wearing.
One that every U.S. citizen should wear in any confrontation with the government anywhere.
You know how they always have those jackets and shirts that say whatever they are, BATF, FBI, DEA.
Somebody has sent me a t-shirt that I think says it all.
It's designed to keep you alive in any domestic difficulty whatsoever.
It is a black T-shirt with bright orange lettering that simply says civilian.
Yeah, you know, so that's one of the it's a Russian, some kind of, I don't know who wrote this, but I know who wrote it, but it's a Russian theory that the moon is hollow.
Listen, while I'm thinking about it, we do have an international line.
And if you are anywhere outside the USA, in Europe, Asia, South America, wherever you might be, you can call us toll-free.
If you're listening on the internet and in England or Australia or New Zealand or Asia, wherever you might be, just call up and get your friendly AT ⁇ T operator online and ask her to call 800-893-0903.
That's 800-893-0903.
It is a toll-free international line.
We will pay for the call no matter where it comes from, South Africa, China.
I'm going to have to check the internet, see if Hong Kong remains on the internet for now.
Thank you, because you could record an entire news conference and then sit there and listen to it all backwards and pick out the reversals one at a time at your leisure.
It's really not that easy, though.
Have you tried?
You've got to listen very, very, very carefully.
The reversals come and they are of a slightly different nature than the rest of the what appears to be gibberish.
And I worked on maybe a dozen or more major programs: space probes, Venus, Mars landers, shuttle proposals, and advanced aircraft.
And so have a lot of my friends.
And we've worked for many major companies.
And once in a while, we get together and compare notes.
And what bothers me, listening to this UFO stuff for maybe a year or more on your show, what bothers me, no aerospace design engineers that worked on programs have been talking.
Just about everybody else has been talking.
And it just sort of gut me bugged to where I got a call.
Well, you're retired now, so why don't you spill the beans?
And so why don't you spill the beans?
And the Cold War is supposedly over.
And a lot of the secrecy was due to the Cold War.
But some of my friends, when we compared notes and got talking, a lot of the things that have been questioned, people have been not sure of or wondering about, we've talked it over for years.
And?
And one of the things, one of my friends was involved in the development of secret craft, I guess you'd call them spacecraft, that were tested in the Nevada test range.
Area 51?
I don't know for sure.
He wouldn't talk about the exact area, but he said that they had developed three configurations.
And he also informed me recently that there were so many people with cameras and sneaking around some of these sites that they've moved the whole thing down to Arizona.
Wouldn't it be a little brainless of anybody testing a secret craft to do it over a city of 2 million plus people?
I don't.
I've got to talk to some more people about that.
But anyway, one of the things, the thing that was recently seen over Phoenix was one of their configurations.
It's what I would call it a...
It's really like a swept wing, like a V configuration.
All right, sir.
Well, look, I appreciate all the information, but I fail to understand any logic that would drive the military, not that I credit them frequently with a lot of logic, to fly something gigantic, secret, stealth, anti-gravity, whatever you want to call it, over a major U.S. city for 106 minutes.
It does not make sense.
And as far as Area 51, otherwise known as Groom Lake, which nobody will talk about nor will even admit exists, I don't think it has gone to Arizona.
I don't think it has gone to Utah.
I don't think it's gone anywhere.
I think Groom Lake is right where it always was.
The facility and buildings remain.
The testing continues.
And the employees continue on an every morning basis to leave my little town and others and go to work up at Area 51.
There was a jet aircraft in the sighting that my wife and I had this last Memorial Day.
It was discernible through a good, high-powered pair of binoculars as a jet aircraft.
I could resolve that.
The thing was really trucking.
But then, looking back along the double contrail that this jet was laying out, here was this round object glowing like the sun, just about like the sun, actually.
And it followed the jet aircraft for a period of time, stopped dead, sat there for about two or three minutes hovering, and then took off in altitude and to the south like about out of hell until it finally disappeared from view even with a pair of binoculars.
Now you tell me what that was.
I certainly have no idea what it was, was a UFO.
So I take a position somewhat different than our government's.
As far as I'm concerned, UFOs are real.
Case closed.
Now that does not mean that UFOs are alien craft.
Case closed.
It means there are unidentified flying objects.
No question about it.
Case closed.
Now, what they are, we're going to have to wait, find out.
I suspect one of these days we will.
But I'm, you know, I'm with the eight out of ten American people who think the government knows a whole lot more about this than they're telling us.
And anybody who bought the explanation laid out by Colonel Haynes the other day, well, they're a bunch of crash dummies, as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, lots on Roswell in the next week.
I'm Art Bell and this is CBC.
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