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Nov. 14, 1997 - Art Bell
18:58
Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Whitley Strieber - Fiery Lights Over Northwest (partial)
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Give it to me, it's conscious again.
If I were walking in your shoes, I wouldn't worry none.
You and your friends are worrying about me and having lots of fun.
Couch and flowers on the wall, that don't bother me.
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Once again, here I am. Good morning everybody. We're in the middle of a
breaking news story. My very good friend and world-renowned author of Communion
and More, Whitley Streber, is with us as a guest and we have a tale yet to tell
you from Whitley. Quite a few actually.
But the last two hours have been absolutely consumed by what has occurred in the skies of the Northwest.
An object has been seen and variously described By many callers, some very, very good eyewitness reports as moving from the Pacific over the state of Washington
We're getting some reports that it may have come down, whatever it is, in Central or Eastern Washington.
Initial reports of some wreckage in Central Washington.
KXLE telling us that they have no reports of wreckage, that the Highway Patrol up there has dispatched nobody.
Rick Van Tise, the News Director of KOMO Radio, Uh, has been feeding us, uh, report after report.
And, uh, was the first one to tell us, first one to report that Como was saying that it was an SL-12, uh, booster rocket.
And, as a matter of fact, uh, bless his heart, Keith has found a photograph of an SL-12 rocket, and he's putting that up on the website.
Let me tell you what else we've got on the website.
We have got pictures from King 5 in Seattle.
...of this object, uh, the second picture being the more interesting of the two from King 5, literally showing this object streaking in and apparently breaking up.
It actually shows, uh, what appears to be, uh, breaking up in progress.
I also have a time hack report, and you can see the time right on the photograph, uh, from KOMO Television in Seattle.
And there's a time hack there, so there's absolutely No question about what time this occurred.
Now some people have called and said they are getting mixed up on the times.
You need not be.
Because the television stations in question reported the time.
And it is 9.06 and 26 seconds when the photograph that I sent Keith was taken by Como.
So we know exactly when it actually did streak by that area.
And that was 9.06 and about 26 seconds.
So this is an ongoing breaking news story.
We don't know what we've got.
NORAD and the Air Force are both claiming the object crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
They're saying it was an SL-12, which crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
Now, this of course does not make sense.
When we have had 20 or 30 reports already from people who saw the object pass overhead and continue in an easterly direction from Vancouver on the Canadian side to Seattle to even central Washington.
Uh, this object obviously did not fall into the Pacific, so the reports we're getting right now are in conflict, and I believe what NORAD and the Air Force are saying regarding the object having fallen into the Pacific obviously must be inaccurate.
However, as with all breaking news stories, uh, we're going to have to continue to gather information as we can, and we will do that until we get to some sort of resolution or a point where we have to give up.
...mystery.
And, uh, so once again, here is Whitley Schrieber.
Uh, Whitley?
Yes, I'm here.
Good.
Um, very interesting, um, very, very interesting to listen to all of this unfold.
Whatever this turns out to be, I can't imagine that it would fall into the Pacific and people then as far east as, uh, central Washington would see it pass overhead.
No, it didn't, it didn't fall into the Pacific.
Some, some part of it Major part of it continued on over land.
And what it was remains to be seen.
If it actually, the reports from as far south as Phoenix turn out to be true, then it was an anomalous object or a group of objects.
Well it was because, and here's the other thing, the people in the Seattle area reported this object as low And slow.
Yeah, exactly.
And Phoenix, of course, is, oh, I don't know, what would you guess?
Fifteen, sixteen hundred miles away from Seattle?
Yeah, probably that or a little more, but some of the descriptions, such as seeing it passing behind trees and the man who had the impression that it was dropping just a short distance away from him.
Something like this is is so low that it is below the tree line and it is not, they don't have a really, really deep horizon.
In other words, they're not seeing something that's miles and miles away below the tree line, which doesn't appear to have been the case here.
Then, um, it's very, very hard to see how this could still be on any kind of a ballistic trajectory because, uh, you know, for that close to the ground, the trajectory is much too flat If the object is moving so slowly, it just doesn't make sense.
No, it doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense at all.
If the reports are accurate, then you, you know, we do have definitely got something unusual here.
And if they're not accurate, I mean, if people were confused, well, that's very understandable, but... All right, uh... Right now, it's looking kind of unusual.
First-time caller line, you're on the air with Whitley Strieber and Art Bell trying to make sense out of all this.
Where are you, please?
I'm in Redmond, Washington.
Redmond, Washington.
Right.
Where is Redmond?
Just about 15 miles from Seattle.
And I was driving home at, uh, 11.15 tonight, and I was listening to Como, and they had brought up at the time that, um, the sighting was at 9.15.
It was a cluster of... Actually, actually, ma'am, I've got a photograph, uh, which I've uploaded to my website, which shows 9... So that... It shows 9.06.
Okay.
And 26 seconds, and that's a camera hack, and it's printed right there at the bottom, so... Oh, okay.
That must be accurate.
And, uh, they said, though, that it, um, had went over and debris or went down around Cooley City.
Debris came down around Cooley City?
Right.
Where is Cooley City, please?
Cooley City is about halfway between Ellensburg and Spokane and about 50 miles north of Interstate 90, right above Moses Pipe.
I'm not great with all this, but Ellensburg is central Washington.
Right.
You're saying that it came down at some point even further east of that.
Right.
It would be about halfway between Spokane and Ellensburg, which would put... I'm looking at my map, which puts it straight above Moses Lake, about 50 miles above Interstate 90.
90 just kind of runs pretty much straight across the state.
Well, one thing is for certain.
That's not the Pacific Ocean.
No.
No.
Your friend at Como may be able to tell you because I'd heard that on their report and then while I was on hold I heard another report that said that it was like great orange balls of fire but then he said that it was almost more jet-like because it was slower.
Oh boy, this is getting weird.
Alright, I appreciate the report and again those of you who would like to see the pictures that exist and we've got some of the best They're at my website right now.
If you can get in, it's at www.artbell.com.
www.artbell.com.
I believe we now have a total of three television station photographs from Como and from King 5.
And we've also now got a picture of what is an SL-12 Russian booster.
So all of that is on the website.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air with Whitley Strieber and Art Bell.
Hello.
Yes.
Where are you?
Seattle, Washington.
Yes, sir.
Yes, I went outside for my work and just to take a break with a couple of co-workers, and we're just a couple blocks south of the kingdom, and looked up and saw, appeared to be up to seven, as they describe it, balls of fire, with two of them being larger than the others. All right, question for you sir. Yes.
Several questions, if I might. Number one, did these objects, you saw them first to the west of you,
is that correct?
West going due east and at a perfectly straight horizontal line.
Alright, here's what I want to know.
Did you see them traverse your position?
In other words, you saw them go from the west to where you were and then continue eastward from that point?
That is correct.
We followed them and as they progressed east, I was calling to try and get some other co-workers out of the building.
And we went further west into the parking lot to continue to be able to look further east.
All right, so if NORAD and the Air Force say all of this fell into the Pacific Ocean, you say?
I say not.
You say not, huh?
No, it disappeared over what would be the Beacon Hill area of downtown, and it went behind our building, which is roughly a two-story building.
So at that point, we could not see it anymore.
Can you estimate the altitude?
Well, this is what I was going to say.
Where I work, we have the approach to Boeing Field and we also have some approach aircraft coming in for SeaTac.
And the Boeing Field particularly is a lot lower.
And this appeared to be going at the same speed.
As you would see an airliner coming in with its wheels down.
Alright, you are about the, I don't know how many, probably 20 or 30th person to say exactly that.
So, around 175, 200 miles an hour, something like that?
Something like that.
Yeah, very good question.
Whitley's asking you, how big was this relative to, say, the moon?
I would say the largest of, excuse me, the largest of the objects in relation would be, oh, maybe A fourth the diameter of the moon.
But it was bright orange.
All of these items, I would say up to seven of them, just a huge shower of sparks.
We had a MiG jet here at the 4th of July that did a night show along with the fireworks that showered sparks as it flew.
And our first thought was, it's a whole fleet of MiGs.
But it just, they kept, there was no sound to it.
And the largest object appeared to pulse.
It's definitely got brighter and dimmer, brighter and dimmer.
And I've never seen anything like it in my life.
Well, you know, this is highly unlikely.
Again, if your description is accurate and the others are accurate, there's a problem in describing this phenomenon to falling debris.
Because we've gotten stories of pulsation, slow movement, extreme lowness.
A large or extremely large size, one of the two.
Probably extreme lowness because some people have seen this in connection with the horizon and so forth.
We have gotten one report that said that the object eventually stopped and then the lead object dropped down, straight down to the ground.
I think there needs to be a much more adequate explanation of what this is from the authorities than we've gotten.
As a matter of fact, Whitley, one of the photographs on the website appears to show that, you just said dropping straight down to the ground, it appears to show that occurring.
Now, I'm not a trained observer, but that's what the photograph appears to show.
You see, the thing is, the body of a launch vehicle, it would be re-entering It's basically a tube, and it has, I believe, it will have some, if it's Russian, it will have some tanks and so forth in it, and there would be some big round rings on it where it's connected to other parts of the launch system.
And all this debris can create an impression of Something burning and falling apart, but when it changes, and people keep describing these group of discrete, separate objects, sometimes pulsating with light, you have to wonder what kind of breakup could cause something to look like that.
And there isn't really any kind of breakup, and there's no question about this being any commonly known form of meteor.
If it was a meteor, it was a very, very unusual one.
Wendley, you have dealt in your life with a lot of very strange occurrences.
Very strange.
And again, for the audience, if you would, kind of sum up the way you feel about the way ufology is going, the number of sightings we're getting, and I know you have had some recent experiences.
As a matter of fact, I want to take a second out and I want to tell the audience, the audience knows that you have had what you regarded as an implant in your Yes.
Well, all I can say publicly right now is that there was an attempt made to remove the subject, and it migrated out from under the surgeon's scalpel, even though it had been fixed in... Oh, oh, oh, oh, stop.
Did I hear you correctly?
You said the surgeon went with a scalpel and went after this object.
And it moved away.
And it moved away?
Indeed.
It moved away.
We were able to get a piece of it.
And right now that's where the story stops because it's still under study.
I have nothing to say about it at all at this point except that That's what happened, and after this occurred, because it had been fixed in my ear, in the pinna of my ear, and the surgeon had observed it and palpated it to be fixed, and had drawn a target around it to indicate its position, and then had sutured, I mean, had opened it up and began dissecting around it, when it suddenly
He moved away from under his instrument.
My God!
Whitley, what does a... What did he do?
What did he say?
He said, it's moving.
And then he laughed and said, it's alive.
And I thought to myself, but it's in my ear.
And I have to tell you, right now as I talk to you, the object has returned to where it was.
The suture is healed.
And the object feels precisely like it did before.
Maybe where it wants to be?
Well, it seems to be where it's decided to make its home.
I just keep thinking of what the visitor... Someone said at one point, was it one of the other abductees?
I'm not sure.
And I think this has been in my experience somewhere too, this phrase, we will come from within you.
And I'm thinking about, you know, Roger Lear out on the West Coast, and the people that he's done these surgeries on, and Jesse Long, whose object we have studied for so long here in San Antonio.
And I'm thinking, in this thing with me, that, uh, that maybe what we will come from within you means is that these implants are going to prove to be something quite hard to explain.
You have a new book coming out, we think, in May, right?
Yeah, okay, well, here's the situation with me.
Right now, We have the communion letters out in trade paperback, large format paperback.
Ann and I edited this.
It's a hundred letters from the quarter of a million that we have gotten.
And it is, if you read this book, it will completely revise your understanding of what the close encounter experience is.
And I, in fact, could, if you want to tonight, I could read one of these Knock your socks off, letters, or... I would absolutely love that.
We'll do that after the break.
These are... Okay, this is... Is it a book?
It's a book.
It's a book called The Communion Letters, edited by Ann Whitley-Strieber.
And Ann is the person who has collected these letters all of these years, for ten years.
And we've got 36,000 letters on file, out of a quarter of a million that we have gotten.
The others are either shorter, or repeats, or something like that.
And we have called, she primarily did this, called these 100 letters out as a representative sample of what we've gotten.
And as I say, it is the most amazing story ever told in the world.
There is nothing like it anywhere, not in the UFO literature, not anywhere.
Where can people get this, by the way?
Well, okay, there's two things I have to say.
First, it should be in all bookstores.
It's called the Communion Letters.
That's the first thing.
The second thing is it's from my former publisher, HarperCollins.
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