Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM episode dives into Area 51’s classified operations, where callers—including a medically discharged ex-employee and Fred, a 15-year veteran—reveal 1,850+ federal workers handling exotic tech like radar-invisible stealth composites and suppressed lawsuits over health injuries from materials like aluminum-titanium-silk. A former Airborne Ranger details breaching attempts with 9% success due to advanced sensors, while a Seattle caller claims government suppression of a class-action case tied to "unexplained" materials. Fred witnessed five star-like objects defying satellite behavior in 1990, and an Alaskan caller recalls lost 1960s UFO reports. The episode’s broadcast was abruptly cut mid-call on September 11, 1997, during a GE2 satellite anomaly, sparking theories of interference—leaving listeners questioning whether Area 51’s secrecy masks far greater, unacknowledged programs. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, on the best of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, a composite show from August 7th of 1998 and September 11th, 1997 on Area 51, including one of the most interesting calls to ever occur on the show.
So sit back and enjoy the best of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell.
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening.
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This is Coast to Coast AM, and I'm Mark Bell.
And tonight, as promised, as waited for by many, we are going to discuss Area 51.
And we're going to talk to government employees who wish to spill their guts.
Should be an interesting night.
Now, it has been quite some time since I have done this.
In my last foray into government agents in Area 51, the satellite, which transmits my voice to you, supposedly lost Earth lock, which is an interesting way of suggesting that the satellite suddenly moved and no longer knew where Earth was, right in the middle of a critical call.
Secret military bases, 1,850 people now employed at Area 51.
Underground installations, ultra-secure manufacturing plants, secret labs that America needs to wage the Cold War are still intact despite federal downsizing policies that have gutted many other military and civilian programs.
But oh, not Area 51, folks.
The Scripps-Howard News Service, according to Drudge, is set to move a pair of features on its circuits this weekend.
It will say that more than 1,850 federal civilian workers are currently employed at Area 51 in the southern Nevada desert, just over the hill from me, most in well-compensated jobs at several ultra-high security facilities in and near the range.
This really is one of the last big secret military bases in the U.S. It used to be that the Air Force tried to pretend that Area 51 did not exist.
Actually, they still do.
So who works there?
Non-government military observers believe that hundreds or perhaps thousands of military and civilian workers are employed in the desert facilities taking daily flights from Las Vegas airfields into the base.
Computer records appear to confirm this.
Now, whatever is done at Area 51, officially designated the, quote, Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range, end quote, on Nevada maps, is certainly still done in secret.
But scripts suggest that the base is the testing grounds for America's most secret military machines.
Everything from our favorite 117 stealth fighter to get this folks electromagnetic pulse weapons.
Now, do you remember the fellow who called my show?
Who was actually shot down over Area 51?
That might resonate.
He claimed in the last frantic moments that it was an electromagnetic pulse weapon that did his aircraft in.
Remember?
The WIRE also explores the super secret Cheyenne Air Force and Army complex.
In the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, there are 6,658 employees there.
Now, how in the world can Matt Drudge or Scripps or anybody else know the exact number of employees in Cheyenne Mountain?
What do they do?
Cheyenne Mountain operates military communications and navigation satellites.
Ostensibly, it watches for the launch of any high-altitude missile system anywhere in the world.
The center also tracks more than 8,500 objects in Earth orbit to warn manned space flights of possible collisions and assists the Justice Department and U.S. customs in illegal drug interdiction programs trying to track aircraft suspected of carrying dope.
Isn't that interesting?
So, tonight, what we are going to do is to cast away all the normal news, and we are going to open these lines this night for Area 51 employees.
Stay tuned for the original broadcast from September 11th, 1997, when the GE2 satellite inexplicably lost contact with the Earth right here on the vest of Coast to Coast AM.
The End All right, now I'm going to repeat this one more time because people are not listening tonight until I say otherwise.
All of my lines are devoted to those of you who are either current government employees and wish to sing about whatever any song you would wish to sing, those of you who have been or are currently employed by Area 51, that non-existent base over the hill from me, all of my lines are devoted to that.
So everybody else, sit back and listen and let those who do fit into one of those categories get through on any of the lines.
Let us begin.
On the first time caller line, you are on the air.
And then there's one other little factor, and this is where a lot of people begin to say, I want to know more, and that is they think there's been extraterrestrial contact.
They think that technology has been transferred to the U.S. government because of some kind of deal with them, and that that technology is being tested at Area 51, and there is some evidence to indicate that might be so.
Just as soon as you ask what it might be, I mean, you're immediately taken off of any assignment you might be on or shipped to some place like Anchorage, Alaska.
And they say the only way you could run a powerful enough laser to take down an aircraft or maybe a missile, it would have to be, you know, huge blocks.
you know, blocks long.
And some of the things I've seen...
Now, But take it from me, they're getting this technology from someplace.
You're not necessarily with me because I didn't say that's where I was.
I said that's what a lot of people believe.
Well, that is an important distinction.
And I think it's indeed possible.
Now, as you may have heard, I had my own sighting of a triangular craft that came 150 feet over my head just on a night like this when the moon was just about full, blotted out the moon, stars.
This was a craft that defied gravity without question.
And so either we have many generations of aircraft development that we know nothing about.
I just figured it wasn't, you know, a regular airplane, right?
Now, unless we have figured out a way to make the g-forces negligible or the laws of physics not apply, it was going in a straight line and immediately, I mean immediately, did a 90-degree turn and was going in 90 degrees.
Here's an interesting facts, but you're going to have to act now, not later.
The facts reads, Art, I witnessed and observed alien-type bodies in underground facilities in the Dayton, Ohio area.
Now, I can't and won't give my name.
There are still live beings kept there.
From my understanding, they were recovered in the last two years.
Now, I am willing to discuss more with you at a later date.
I will contact you.
Well, the time is now.
The date is today, and you should fax me again with a number, and I'd be glad to give you a call.
Now, and by the way, that goes for everybody else.
Anybody else who cannot get through on the phones, I realize they are jammed to the gills, who has a really interesting story to tell, be assured that if you want to fax me and give me a number, I will, well, I don't know what I'll do.
I'll destroy the fax after I have talked to you so your number can get to nobody's hands.
Now, you see, normally, most people arrested at the perimeter or inside Area 51 are turned over to the local sheriff there and thrown in the county pokey.
And there was a man, I don't know if he was in charge of everything there, but he was asking me questions, why I was there, who I worked for, and all this.
If you do happen to stumble in any condition into Area 51, people will call me frequently asking about Area 51 and whether they should try and breach security up there and go see what they can see.
And I tell them no.
You know, you will definitely get arrested or worse.
And I would imagine under severe circumstances, they probably have the old James Bond license to kill.
On the B2, when they put the wings to the fuselage, they have these gaps between the composite, the regular airspace, which they have to fill to get the radar signature out to infiltrate it.
Well, they were making these titanium shims to put in there, and we thought that the shims were just regular normal-grade titanium.
And after we did some of our own little testing on the bits and pieces that were laying around, we found out that it was an aluminum-titanium composite.
This is something that eventually is going to be public if it is not already, and it is to some degree, who is representing a number of workers at Area 51 who worked with very exotic materials and claim they got sick.
Now, the government is trying very hard not to allow this lawsuit to proceed because it would open up a can of alien worms or worse at Area 51.
There is an interesting phenomenon that occurs here where I am in the desert.
Now, to get my signal from here to there to you, I have what's called a KU-band uplink.
And we fire a very, or a relatively narrow signal from my home to GE-1, General Electric Satellite that sits up there in geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above Earth.
And so obviously we have a signal going from here to there.
We transmit a signal from my home.
And we also have an awful lot of overflights here of helicopters of the black variety, of fighter aircraft that will scream over the house occasionally at a low altitude.
And I have been told by more than one person that my KU-band transmitter turns on their threat receivers.
Now, obviously we're over friendly territory here, but turning on threat receivers of F-15s and so forth has always worried me a little bit because of some sort of automatic response, some sort of harm missile coming down my throat.
Well, I'm certainly not on this end, so anyway, say what you want to say quick so you can't get it.
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All right, real quick before they shut me up, okay?
The Greys, the best theory is they originate here on Earth around the end of the Jurassic period.
There's a fairly advanced civilization of humans, close enough to humans to breed, but the offspring is usually sterile.
And they were basically made to go out to planets, explore, and then come back because nobody wanted to take a thousand, two hundred thousand-year trip.
And at the end of the Jurassic period, they started getting a little bit overpopulated and started making some genetically engineered plants, particularly peanuts and other lettuces again like that.
And it spread further and they started taking nitrogen out of the air, decreasing the atmospheric pressure.
I have no idea what you can and can't tell us, so I'll probe and you tell me when you can't answer.
What kind of work did you do?
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I was involved in the general day-to-day operations through the base ops, scheduling, things of that nature.
Really?
Yeah.
Qualifying for using the airspace of the box, of course, the Nellis Air Force Base, something people don't usually notice about that was we actually control the airspace on the whole range.
Did you see anything that you had no rational explanation for or that did not make sense in terms of technology that we would have developed?
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Well, you know, I happen to be involved in some of the development of some of the projects that came out of there, so I'm not at liberty to discuss those.
But nonetheless, there is a big lag time before something goes white world and when it's in development.
And there's a big lag time between the things that are specced out or scaled out and developed between the time that they even go from being scaled to full production.
And then, of course, when they go from black to gray or black to white world, there's a lot of time involved there.
So I speculate that anything that I saw during the 80s, of course, had some time on it as far as development was concerned.
What would you imagine would be several generations downline from the F-117?
unidentified
Well, you know, there was different prototypes involved and everything out there, but none of them as mysterious as the things that are discussed on your program.
I'm here to say that there wasn't a building or facility that was there that wasn't out of my control, and that there was nothing mysterious about what went on there.
Are there areas within Area 51 that are underground?
unidentified
No, absolutely not.
There was one facility, a small bunker out there about as big as a basketball court, if that, and it was only underground to protect the instrumentation from RF interference.
Well, as we look over the hills toward Area 51 on many, many nights, we see, and it's well documented by Japanese camera crews, American camera crews, amateurs, things that rise vertically and do dances in the sky that just simply are not done by any conventional aircraft we know about.
unidentified
Well, you know, I'm here to tell you one thing.
I've never in my life seen a vehicle which I considered otherworldly or anything like that until I did work up there.
But during that particular time, there were four of us that were standing outside, and we actually saw five aircraft that looked like, well, not aircraft, but things like a star, okay, in the sky.
And then the other three went directly over the southern horizon.
We all looked at each other.
So we happened to have radio contact with the operations white room up there, and we contacted them and asked them to check the scope, see if anything was up.
And there was nothing on the scope.
So we looked at each other and says, well, that's kind of amazing.
But anyway, what happened was about 30 seconds later, the three that went all over the South Horizon came directly back and went to the North Horizon.
And they did that in about, like I say, 30 seconds, horizon to horizon.
Absolutely no sound.
You know, of course, the satellites don't do that either.
You said you're involved in a suit against the government right now.
And in fact, there is a group suing the government, claiming they were injured working with materials or by the government burning materials at Area 51 exotic materials.
unidentified
Yes.
And that's, in fact, part of our thing.
You know, we just filed recently to go into the Supreme Court.
And we got our our date well, we filed our paperwork.
We're waiting for a date now to go to the Supreme Court.
That's critical archaeologically because that was the last campground of the 49ers where their cohesion failed there and they went different directions in an attempt to escape the desert.
And there are seven known rock inscriptions from that wagon train.
One of them, and out of the seven, for instance, six are, well, five are well documented.
The sixth I discovered myself near the Utah-Nevada border.
The seventh lies deep in what's called Nye Canyon, which is just above Tapoose Lake.
There's an old photograph of it that I carried in there taken in the 30s before they closed the area off, of course.
I could clearly see what were security lights on the perimeters, and I could see what appeared to be lights that opened and closed near the center of the lake.
I don't know as far, but during the daytime now, I got, like I said, within a mile of the lake bed, and I was getting a little bit concerned there because I wasn't so concerned about ground security, but airborne would have found me in a heartbeat because of vegetation.
Yeah, well, I was having my lunch, and this is the farthest north I intended to go.
I wanted to backtrack in Nye Canyon.
I was having my lunch in a little, well, a waddy, a little tiny wash, really, apples and peanuts, and I felt vibration.
And I know I wasn't imagining it because there were rivelets of sand coming down just on the other side of this little wash, and I could see them coming down.
Oh, I mean, I'll tell you right now, I mean, I have good backcountry skills, but I was very, very lucky.
Anyone who's contemplating storming the ramparts of Area 51, think again, these guys are in there with weapons of war, and they will, and they can, they can kill you.
And I felt just something about the way I saw many guards, and I saw them, most of them, fortunately from a distance, although not always.
Something about the way they carried themselves.
I think if they'd have caught me in there, they'd have lit me up like a Roman candle.
I understand you're going to write a book, publish a book, and most people who write books and publish books want publicity to sell their books, yes?
Sure.
So, would it not be advantageous to you to take one of the more intriguing photographs and send it to somebody like me who would then interview you when your book comes out?
unidentified
Well, you certainly reach a large market.
Congratulations on your Newsweek article.
You're up so late, I never catch you.
But I read Newsweek and I saw your article in there.
In the past, you have shared with us listeners, and you and I discussed this one night, over the air, if some really big catastrophe should happen, say, coming in from outer space.
That you do this, Paul Harvey, and make a traveling mark and go out.
You're listening to the original broadcast from September 11th, 1997, when the GE2 satellite lost what is known as Earth Track or Earth Block for unexplained reasons.
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A backup connection was established and the show continued.
You're listening to the best of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell.
Well, this was certainly interesting.
We are now on a backup system, everybody.
A backup system.
And that one caller that I had on the air, I guess we were about in the middle of his transmission, his telephone call, which was one of the strangest ones I've ever had.
And the entire transmitting system by satellite went down here, and we were notified we were off the air.
And it would appear to be from this end and some sort of massive transmit failure.
So we are now using a backup system to be on the air.
And not that I would normally believe this kind of thing, mind you.
But I can't help but wonder if somebody zapped us in some way.
Apparently we are back on the air and apparently we'll be back after the news, I think.
The End This hour, on the best of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, Art speaks with former and current employees of the supposedly non-existent Area 51.
And now, back to the best of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell.
Let me tell you what a very, very interesting churn of events.
Right in the middle of a very, very strange, one of the strangest calls I've ever had, we apparently lost all transmit capability on this end here in Nevada.
The transmitter went belly up suddenly for some unknown reason.
I've never seen it do this in all the years, all the years that we've been on the air.
I have never seen the transmitter in this way just simply fail, a massive little fail, like a massive heart attack of some kind.
And so we have gone to a backup system to get signaled to you right now, and I presume it is getting to you right now.
Totally bizarre, folks.
Totally bizarre.
So I presume that you got to hear whatever they grabbed quickly, which I believe in this case was a bit of the Mark Fuhrman interview.
Must have seemed a bit out of context, I would say.
Good interview, but you had to hear it in context.
All right.
Well, we will continue on with the backup system and go to work on the primary system.
This is why we have backup systems.
I'll tell you, live radio is weird stuff, folks.
Anything can happen, and this is another perfect example of that.
On the run, trying to get things done in a five-hour program, anything can occur.
And we have had, my transmitter has had an apparent massive heart attack, or something happened to it, or something, somebody did something to it.
And I will not mention the alternative means we're doing to get accomplishing to get a signal up there right now or to the network, let me put it that way.
But pretty weird, and it certainly occurred at a pretty weird time.
West of the Rockies, you're on the or Hi, hi, Art Bell.