Art Bell’s 2002 predictions episode reflects a mix of geopolitical tensions—India-Pakistan nuclear brinkmanship, Guantanamo’s Taliban uncertainty—and climate chaos, from Europe’s deadly cold to Brazil’s mudslides. Callers foresee domestic airline bombings (plastic explosives), Olympic bioattacks, and UFO disclosures, while Bell debates energy breakthroughs like Johnson noise diodes (50 nanowatts) and nuclear plant vulnerabilities (NRDC studies). Hollywood’s shift toward paranormal themes and cloning advancements clash with skepticism about public conscience. A caller even predicts a U.S. civil war by late 2002, though Bell dismisses it as unrealistic, underscoring the era’s blend of paranoia and speculative foresight amid post-9/11 unease. [Automatically generated summary]
That period of time in the year between Christmas and the New Year.
And yes, by the way, I will be here on New Year's Eve.
Then I'll be here.
So we'll bring in the New Year together, and we will do predictions up through the end of that program, and then they're cut off until the following year.
It is prediction.
So tonight, we devote entirely, as well as tomorrow night and Monday, to your predictions for the coming year.
And it should be a whopper.
It really should be a whopper.
Considering all that has gone on and is going on.
My my, what a year I'm sure we've got ahead.
By the way, I want to thank everybody for the logo submissions.
We'll run this through tomorrow and then stop it and sit down and look at them all.
We're getting gazillions of them.
And thank you all, very talented people out there.
It'd be fun to go through them and sort of compare against what we've got and see where we are.
But boy, they came flooding in, I'll tell you.
All right, now, what is going on now?
The big news, the top news, actually, isn't Tulsama this time.
It's India and Pakistan.
The situation is becoming really dangerous.
Diplomatically on Thursday, ordering half of each other's embassy folks sent home.
Both countries banned any overflights between their two countries.
You know, the situation is getting worse and worse and worse.
And both of these countries have nuclear weapons.
Not a lot of them, but with nukes, you don't need a lot.
They both have them.
And I believe they both have the will to use them.
And that's probably more important than the simple possession.
They would use them.
They say, at least one of them, that they would do everything to try and not use nuclear weapons.
But, you know, that's not the way war works.
When you actually go to war, you use whatever you have.
And my guess on whether India and Pakistan would refrain from dipping into the nuclear arsenal if they actually got into a real serious war, I'd say that the chances of their not doing that are slim and none.
We're going to take the Afghan prisoners we have, the Taliban prisoners.
Apparently, they're not going to have military tribunals at Guantanamo.
It will take weeks to get the base ready for the detainees, but what we're going to do with them is very, very unclear.
That girl who was lost and feared dead and they had pretty much given up has been found safe in West Virginia.
There is a kidnapping charge being filed, so that's pretty good news, actually, because they really thought she was lost.
Says goodbye to Mayor Giuliani.
Heard his voice in the news at the top of the hour.
And I wonder if he could be a presidential candidate.
In the news at the top of the hour, he sounded like a presidential candidate, if you ask me.
We'll see.
On Bin Laden.
We've got this tape they think was made in mid-December, perhaps.
Not very long ago, and appears to be Bin Laden.
An interesting story on the climate.
This is, let me see, where has this come from?
Who, but I think it came from elsewhere, actually.
I suppose I'll get to it.
Friday, December 28th.
Countries around the world were trying to cope with a climatic catastrophe as a big freeze chilled Europe and North America.
Brazil recovered from torrential rains, bushfires blazing in an Australian heat wave, and the Saudis are actually now praying for rain.
North America plunged into the throes of a very intense cold front that buried Buffalo, New York in three, maybe coming four feet of snow.
We're on the air in Buffalo.
Sure it would be interesting to hear from Buffalo.
In Europe, the chill has claimed hundreds of lives.
A winter cold snap in Poland has claimed 178 lives since October, according to local police there, a figure well above the previous year.
Authorities in Bulgaria declared a state of emergency in the northeast of the country after the worst snowfall in 30 years.
That's where three more people died in the intense cold.
In Russia, normally no stranger to bitter cold, Moscow authorities say three people have died in sub-zero temperatures.
The southern hemisphere, in real trouble with heat, Australia.
Brazil, massive mudslides triggered by torrential rain in Rio de Janeiro are beginning to engulf homes, claiming at least 50 lives there, leaving 2,000 homeless.
Saudi Arabia, thousands of people are filling the country's mosques to pray for rain as they there blame the Drought on sin and corruption.
Saudis have twice already offered up rain prayers this year, but with little apparent success.
Most northern and central regions have remained dry, and southwest areas of the kingdom have had very little rain.
Meteorologists are saying the forecast is going to be more drought next year.
Bad news.
The spate of extreme weather across the globe comes as many scientists warn that populations are going to have to get used to increasing incidences of drought, searing heat, icy cold, and flooding, which they say characterized the so-called greenhouse effect.
Climatologists are warning that a trend of increasing global temperatures is not the only phenomena from the effect they blame on a buildup of greenhouse gases.
So, everywhere now across the globe, I'm getting a story like this every night.
It is obvious we are going through a climate change.
Now, in order to try and stay non-political, because talking about global warming is intensely political, I don't think it matters.
It's a fact, whether it's a cyclic thing and the Earth simply because of the sun or whatever you want to imagine goes through this massive change, or whether it's the hand of man affecting that change to some degree or even no degree.
The fact of the matter is, the climate around the world, not just here, around the entire world, is in the middle of a change.
It could be a fast, rapid change.
We've really got to face up to that possibility.
Even the mainstream scientists are finally beginning to admit that that's what we might be in for, and this could be the opening round, the opening shots of that.
Or on the more benign side, it could be a simple slow, and I don't mean to oversimplify global warming, but a slow warming because very small temperature changes make very big changes in the kind of weather the world gets.
And it's getting pretty bad.
Well, some scientists think it's going to get a lot worse.
When you think you've heard everything, comes a story proving to you you haven't.
This came, I think somebody plucked it from the Drudge site originally by Cecilia Vega and Jeremy Hay, Press Democrat.
And is, plane takes off from Two Rock Ranch without pilot.
Parrot, unmanned airplane, broke free from its moorings Wednesday, get this, while the pilot was working on it.
Taking off from a Two Rock Ranch and flying over southern Sonoma County without a pilot for at least two hours.
Now, how do they know that?
Well, the fellow who was working on it said he figured it had about two hours worth of gasoline.
Authorities concluded the single-engine airplane eventually crashed, duh, but a search for wreckage is suspended because of darkness.
In other words, they haven't found it yet at all.
Walt Smith, regional coordinator for the FAA, said, quote, this will be in the aviation history books, end quote.
Pretty wild, he said.
We're all shaking our heads.
We thought we'd heard it all.
Search began shortly after 3 p.m. when Paul Clary III of San Rafael, well, I'd like to talk to him.
If you're out there, Paul, email me at artbell at mindspring.com.
Love to talk to you.
Of San Rafael called 911 to report that his airplane had taken off from his son's Middle Two Rock Ranch, Road Ranch, with nobody aboard with enough fuel to fly along for two hours.
He said, everybody's saying it's a nightmare.
He had owned the plane, a 1946 Aronica champion for about six years.
All kinds of people have dispatched aircraft and search parties, and the airplane is yellow.
It's not like you'd miss it.
And I don't know a whole lot about aviation, as proven by my broken arm when I was trying to hang glide.
But excuse me, how does an airplane with somebody working on a flooded engine start up?
Okay, I can get that part.
It starts up.
Surprise.
You know, the flooded engine suddenly gets unflooded and chokes and starts.
But this airplane then somehow managed to rev up the engine sufficiently to get to flight speed, aim itself down some sort of runway or something, and take off in level flight, gain altitude, and fly for two hours.
Now, maybe some of you experienced pilots can explain that to me.
As I said, anyway, getting back to predictions, this is your one opportunity.
These are numbered predictions that will be filed away in the Bell Family Vault.
Now, I've got predictions made for the year 2001, and we will read more of them and score them in a moment.
Now, if I get it wrong, and sometimes I'm not sure how it really came out, I will open my Fast Blast computer screen so you can tell me I'm full of it, and this Or that did or did not actually happen.
Let me get that going.
There we go.
So, in a moment, I will read to you and rate some of last year's predictions, followed by my turning to the phones for all of you to register your.
Now, look, I want you to reach deep down into your psychic center.
At a certain point, a preponderance of consciousness can tip the balance and shift the entire course of history.
The sequence of events that we're about to experience is like an intervention that's going to start to reverse some of the negative events that have been so dominating our lives, and we need to not succumb to fear.
Now, we take you back to the past on Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
Art Bell Let us now review some more of those predictions made last year.
We got up to number 9.
So number 10 made last year would be JC, who had not called in a very long time, to call again.
And by God, that is a ding, ding, ding.
JC did call, in fact, not very long ago, after a very, very, very long absence.
So we know JC is alive, and I must say, I don't note that he went through very much of any sort of good personality change.
Number 11 is a definite bonk.
It's the old ETs will land on the front lawn of the White House.
Bonk.
Number 12, that people will become more aware of communications with the dead.
I'm going to give this one a ding, and I'm going to tell you why.
Because people like, what's his name, Edwards, have entire programs based on it, the sudden, a really big increase in the popularity of those who talk to the dead, James von Prague and others like him.
But most of all, the electronic voice phenomena that we have been so much into over this last year.
So I'm going to give that one a ding.
People are aware of, much more aware of those who speak to or purport to speak to dead people.
Number 13, Ramona and Art renew their wedding vows.
Actually, it says wedding anniversary.
I don't know why I wrote that.
We did certainly renew our wedding anniversary, but I think they meant vows.
So I'm going to give that a general bonk.
We didn't actually renew vows, though we certainly had an anniversary.
Number 14 is dead meat.
Number 14 says the XFL, you know that football league?
XFL becomes more famous than the NFL.
You're talking about how major league, how entire football organizations can go, quickly they can go down the tubes.
I was so sad about that.
I really like the XFL becoming more popular than the NFL.
Bonk.
All right.
Number 15, another shot to the moon announced.
Now, I'm a little bit unsure about this one, but I don't think that we have announced any sort of manned shot to the moon, right?
So I'm going to give that a bonk.
Let's see.
Number 16, referring to my show.
Ratings go up.
Ding, ding, ding.
Our ratings certainly have gone up.
Big ding there.
And number 17, a space shuttle disaster.
Thank God, a bonk for that one.
18, I'm going to be willing to give a ding.
Even though I was not particularly hopeful for him when he was elected, and there was something that gave me the GBs about him, which, by the way, I might add is not totally gone.
Number 18 is that George Bush will be a good president.
And so far, you must say, I will.
Ding, ding, ding.
He really has been.
And he certainly has risen to the occasion, in my opinion, as many presidents have, you know as something horrible happened in america absolutely horrible he has risen to the occasion and i think is a good president so i'm giving that a good qualified ding ding ding actually your record so far it's really not half bad we'll talk about that and take more predictions coming up in a moment you're listening to art bell somewhere in time on
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Now, leave it to me to note something like this, but you know, we're all worried about terrorism in this country, right?
And if this guy's plane flying in the blind, truly, no human being at its controls whatsoever, was an hour or two in the air and our military and our civilian people and nobody could find it.
Well, you see where I'm going, right?
If a plane, a small plane, was really wanting to do something awful, it looks to me like they could do it.
I mean, this was a big yellow plane that everybody was looking for because it didn't have a pilot and they couldn't find it.
So what would happen if a small plane was bent on doing something awful?
I'm sure the FAA is thinking a lot about that one and should be.
I'm telling you, we are not getting rosy predictions at all.
Now, I guess that's really understandable, isn't it, in view of what's happened and happening?
I guess it is, but a lot of times, remember, and I don't want to affect your predicting, but a lot of times whatever is true now, six months from now, just ain't true no more.
It's changed.
And so, you know, at least bear that in mind.
But again, I ask you to seek your psychic center.
Think about this a little bit before rendering up your prediction.
Just don't cast it.
That was actually number 11, because number 10 was the S ⁇ P 500 will go up 208 at least.
I'm in Suffering, New York, about 40 miles outside the city.
Okay.
I have a serious prediction.
I think that it's time that America is going to go into isolation as a country.
That's an opinion.
I'm sorry?
That's an opinion.
Right.
Well, that's my prediction that we will go into isolation this year.
I felt that we should have nuked them all after September 11th.
Hopefully they'll do it themselves now.
But Pakistan and India, I think, will be more conventional.
But maybe they'll all get into it, and we don't have to do anything, and it might be time for us to sit back and take care of our own country for a change.
Well, you know, you have a point there.
I don't know about nuking them all, but it does right now look as though they might nuke each other.
Correct.
India and Pakistan.
Now, we weren't really in a fight with India near as far as I know.
Correct.
But what I'm hoping for is that, you know, we as a country will just sit back and let them destroy themselves in any way they can.
So if the nuclear weapons began to fly over there, bearing in mind we have troops now in Pakistan, right?
And in Afghanistan.
Correct.
You would want to see us withdraw and say, use them up, guys.
About about it?
I would love to see us just sit back in the easy chair and go into isolation and just let the world do what they're going to do out there.
The world will survive without us, and we'll survive without them, and let them do what they want.
Do you think the world really would survive without America?
I mean, have you really thought that one through?
The aid we give, you know, to be honest with you, no.
But maybe the world would begin to appreciate America, which they should.
And I think it's time that we have to take care of ourselves a bit and clean up our own mess here.
So your theory is absence makes the heart grow fonder?
Yes, that's just it does.
I see.
All right, gotcha.
Thank you very much.
America will become isolationist.
It's been suggested many, many times throughout the years by people who are sick of what we do around the world.
You know, that we just draw all our horns in and pay attention to only America.
Just like France.
That's what the French do.
The French are an odd group.
They really are.
They're an odd group.
They're not bad.
The French aren't bad.
They're just...
They're French.
I don't know what else to say.
Yeah, actually, I do, but I can't say it on the radio.
Every guest that I've had on, you know, that has been talking about the other side has been telling me the same thing, that the veil, or whatever it is you want to call it, I call it the veil because that's a cool name, or the barrier between here and there is breaking down.
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Well, I have a feeling it's been broken for several years.
It's just been people have been afraid to talk about it.
My mother had seen angels several, several years ago when she was a little girl, and she's 92 years old now.
Give me, if you don't mind, please, a little hint.
In what manner does this device generate energy?
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It's an array of thousands at least of diodes in same alignment parallel that turns Johnson noise into heat into electricity by Johnson noise in thousands at least of diodes aligned the same way parallel.
Alright, well, I'll accept your prediction, and we'll see if it is demonstrated to me or not.
That's a very, very minuscule amount of power, but it is power.
I've heard of that before.
Diodes upon diodes, zillions of diodes, and it would make sense.
It would make some sense.
It might make more sense if it was orbiting Earth.
Remember the great experiment NASA had with their tether, which, by the way, blew off the connection point because there was so much more current than expected?
There's really something to be said about power in space.
The big question is, how to get it back here?
That's the problem.
Motion is power.
Absolutely.
And emotion and two bodies, two large bodies moving about each other generate a very great deal of power or are able to receive a great deal of power.
It depends on how you think about it, I suppose.
On the first time call our line, you are on the air.
You know, okay, I have registered your prediction, and I would like to think that you're right.
And I am personally amazed that I have a family doctor that is absolutely that way.
In fact, he's a remarkable, remarkable man here in Toronto, Nevada.
Remarkable man.
But do I think that the entire medical profession, you know, the surgeons and everybody out there is going to suddenly adopt all sorts of alternative ways of doing things?
No, I'm sorry.
I don't think so.
In the interest of getting positive predictions, I give you happy music.
Remember this from Greece?
Maybe this will do.
Getting good food, you'll make a good prediction.
Who knows?
I'm Art Bell.
This is Coast to Coast AM.
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More somewhere in time coming up.
Wearing our danger we can go tomorrow.
We start believing now that we can be who we are.
Reaching the world.
They take all of this gusted growth and see.
Why don't they follow the same?
Disgusted crying shame.
There is no light.
Winding your way down a vacant street.
Light in your head and dead.
On your feet well another crazy day.
You're driven out of weight.
Forget about everything.
This city destination seems so cold.
It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.
And it's taking you so long to find out you were wrong.
When you started held everything used to think that it's a so easy.
You used to say that it's so easy.
But you're trying, you're trying now.
I know we're making happy.
Just wondering if you see happy.
You're crying.
Oh, crying out.
Oh, crying out.
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Now we take you back to the past on Art Bell Somewhere in Time.
All right, back now to the predictive powers of my audience.
Now, I was thinking about this a little bit earlier.
It may well be that my audience, all of you, because of the fact that you listen to this kind of program, you're probably more in tune with yourself, your psychic self.
At least that's certainly a strong possibility.
So the predictions that you all make might have a higher average hit rate.
And so you would have, since you're president, you would have all kinds of things at your disposal, you know, like neutron bombs that would kill people and not stuff.
How can you imagine the United States would get two nukes going off on its territory from a foreign power, much less some crazy SOB in Afghanistan, and not react?
How could we not react, sir?
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I think we should react, but I think the probability is that we will not react.
I think that if a nation state were to hit us with a nuclear device, they could kiss their butts goodbye.
I do understand that there might be a measured response.
In other words, China would hit us with, as he suggested, two nuclear weapons, and we, I think, then would respond, at least in the beginning, maybe in a measured way.
But on the other hand, maybe not so measured.
Maybe we would take all of their military capability away and we'd do it with nuclear weapons, and that would be a lot.
There have been a number of people who have been concerned, worried about that.
Boy, the American people are in a bad mood, huh?
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I don't think that we're in a bad mood.
I think that our foreign policy and the things that we do around the country is not appreciated.
And I think that we've made a lot of enemies along the way.
I think that with what happened September 11th, kind of like, you know, the first punch has been thrown, and now more people are going to throw punches.
Yeah, you've got to imagine that that could certainly be the case.
But you think it'll be a, all right, well, all right, thank you very much.
I guess I shouldn't say a bad, but that's really what it is.
Everybody's in a really, really bad mood, huh?
Or is it a realistic mood?
Dark but realistic?
I don't know.
All of a sudden this year, going, or just before the beginning of the new year, everybody's worried about biological and nuclear attacks.
Guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it's pretty dark stuff, especially the biological part.
I think a lot of people out there are being lulled into the it's all over syndrome.
You know, the last chase in the cave-to-cave for Osama bin Laden is underway and it's all going to be over, but probably is not true.
Incidentally, if you get the opportunity, with regard to what's going on in Afghanistan, the hunt for bin Laden, all the rest of it, if you get a chance, watch the CBC, if you've got satellite, watch CBC news and watch the BBC news.
And I say that not because we've got censored news, but we are to some degree propagandized by our own country.
Looking at the news that comes from Canada and comes from Great Britain really will give you a slightly different perspective.
It's really interesting the way they cover things and sometimes the depth to which they cover them.
The dispute, for example, between India and Pakistan and the way that is now being covered.
Kind of retort on what your past two colleagues were talking about, about these little stupid wars and things.
I don't think people realize this we're at an atomic stalemate.
I mean, everybody has nuclear weapons.
We can't really do anything to each other, but destroy the entire planet.
So, I mean, I think the United Nations is going to come in, and there's going to be citizens, and then there's going to be terrorists, and we're all going to have world IDs, like international identification.
You know, I think they can stop the hijacking, but what they're going to probably do, somebody's going to get aboard and have a baggage put in the airline like they normally do, and it's going to be plastic explosives.
And I hope I'm wrong about this, but this is what I'm feeling.
Now, he did get stopped and the plane didn't blow up, but it was close.
I mean, he got C4 on an airplane, for goodness sakes.
And then the next day, we're supposed to feel better by seeing some shoes, all by their lonesome cells, going through the scanning device.
Suddenly, you have to take off your shoes and put them on a little thing, you know, the conveyor that goes through the scanner.
And I think that was supposed to make us feel better.
The fact of the matter is, if people really want to give up their lives, you know, commit suicide, take a plane out, it is really, really hard to stop them.
East of the Rockies, you are on the air.
Curio.
Hello?
Yes, yes, sir.
Yes.
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Wow, this is incredible.
Yes, my prediction is I listened to your show with Mr. Hetzman.
Well, with all this war and stuff going on, I think everything that's going on in the world, it's going to be bringing families and everybody else back together.
I mean, I see some of it happening since the 9-11 situation that took place.
Okay, but you think a catastrophe of some sort, even greater than 9-11 is going to bring it in?
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I believe that I'm not going to say exactly what it is, but a catastrophic event will happen this year, and the only thing that people will have left to do is to call on their Maker.
When this many people are saying stuff this dark, and even when the positive people are saying, well, it'll be a good thing coming out of darkness, then they're all really saying the same thing.
And when this many people say anything, you had better take notice.
I'm certainly beginning to.
On the wild card line, you're on the air.
Hello.
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Hey, Art, it's Stephen from Evansville, Indiana again.
Did you hear today that there was a solar explosion, and not a solar flare, but a solar explosion that's supposed to create aurora borealis as far down as the Midwest?
Well, uh the the main i it could still happen uh with a mega flare and we did have one mega flare.
Thank God it didn't hit earth.
One of the reasons would be because we now have much higher powered satellites than Well, this one was supposed to be some kind of huge solar explosion, and Aurora Borealis was supposed to be all the way down through the Midwest.
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Of course, we've got snowy outside, snowy clouds, so I can't see the damn thing.
And I was just wondering if any other callers might have.
Oh, now that certainly would get everybody's attention.
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And because of this, the CIA and the government decide that it's time to come clean with the general public as far as the existence of aliens and the UFO technology.
So not only will they have to come in front of the American people, somebody like Alex Haig, no doubt, saying, listen, we've decided we've got to come clean.
Not only are there aliens and UFOs, but one of them appears to have taken our president.
And that is that this will be the year, 2002 that is, will be the year when the discovery is made of a near-Earth asteroid, you know, one of the Earth-approaching minor planets, that will require what's called in the field mitigation.
That is, some kind, it will require some sort of deflection, you know, using one of the competing technologies to do that.
Now, I don't mean to stir anybody up or shake anybody up, but, you know, all over the net right now, there are all kinds of really, really, really strong rumors about scientists having detected something that we haven't all been told about yet.
You've been getting that, too?
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Well, I tell you what, I work in that field.
I'm one of the professionals who works in a minor planet that is in the near-Earth asteroid.
Do you know more than you're telling us right now?
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No, sir.
No, no, no, absolutely not.
This is strictly off the cuff.
You know, it's more by feeling than by any sort of discovery.
But it is informed a little bit, Art, by some experience in the field and the very fact that discoveries have been becoming more frequent because the technology is getting so good now to detect these things.
Well, there have been some movies, as you know, made of this sort of thing.
Now, if something like this were detected coming at the Earth that would do substantial damage, ranging from not too much to ending all life at the microbial level, what would happen politically?
Would it be announced?
Would you all tell before the President did, or would you go straight to the government, or would the government come straight to you, or what would happen?
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Oh, there's a very, very well-established protocol for this now.
It's been formulated over years, and in general, the data is sent to the Minor Planet Center each and every night that we're out there observing.
Yeah, but assuming that you got the WOW sighting and you saw something that was likely headed our way, what do you think would happen when you sent that in and they confirmed it?
In other words, what do you think the chain of events would be?
Would we be told right away or not?
unidentified
Yes, in fact sometimes even some rather half-baked orbits leak out, you know, even before there's sufficient data to make an accurate projection.
That's embarrassing, but it's really nobody's fault.
The fact is that an orbit can become much more precise overnight just by one extra observation or perhaps one of our colleagues could look back and find the object on a photographic plate made in 1970.
Now, with regard to mitigating something that might be coming our way in some way, do we have the ability right now to really do anything if a big rock was headed toward Earth, what could we do?
unidentified
I would say the technologies are there.
In other words, we are a technological society, I should say technological enough, to carry this out.
It's just that I don't think that there is the political infrastructure or even the relationship among governments to actually carry this off, at least smoothly.
We have seen since September 11th that certain very difficult things can be done through our own government and through international relations.
So if there's a sufficient need, things can get done.
But the fact is that it's been pretty rocky to Little Pun?
If it was going to fall on China, would we attempt to mitigate it?
unidentified
I think wherever it falls on the Earth, Art, and this is why we have to take this threat so seriously in general.
I'm not saying there's a specific one now.
I don't want to give any false alarms.
If one is to fall anywhere on Earth, it must be mitigated regardless of the locale, because even if it falls in the ocean, because bad news for everybody.
You know, an object of sufficient size would simply take out the biosphere for about 10 years.
Everybody says something's going to happen, but they can't tell you why they know.
I think Ellen DeGeneres is going to, and this is a fun one, is going to do a lot of fill-in work for David Letterman, and soon she will take over the tonight show.
I think what her performance, oh, and thank you for that response.
I think her performance, I think maybe there are already people who are saying this woman should have a talk show, and it should go big time, and it should go the night.
think that we ask people here in the United States of is that simply are much much the same the powers that be the people who are controlling I don't think that they're going to throw us into the water.
I think they're going to gradually count the heat.
No, I think we're going to see another ho-hum year, really.
And I think that's what everybody is thinking about.
And I think that in combination with all the warnings we're getting and the worry about bioterrorism and nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan, you've got to admit, it's a pretty lousy atmosphere out there right now.
I mean, we frogs are just getting a little warmer, that's all, right?
unidentified
Yeah, and they're going to turn it up, and they'll turn it up, and they'll turn it up, and eventually we will be cooked, but I don't think that we're going to be cooked all at one time.
you know i am the coolest for up frog on the block i i'm i don't I mean, that's your own theory.
I'm turning back on you there.
I'm Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast AM roaring through the nighttime doing predictions.
Hope you get a chance to make yours.
Number 28 is going to be next.
Stay right where you are.
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And it's coming quickly.
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Now, we take you back to the past on Art Bell somewhere in time back now to predictions and it really is true I was saying that during the commercial break don't know if you caught it but
don't say how they know I dream things okay that's what I have this is what I have dreamed all right do your dreams frequently come true always come true once in a while come true almost always come true almost always all right with that in mind what have you dreamt I have dreamt and I don't know if it's natural or unnatural as in man-made that there will be a disaster in Mexico that will result in the U.S. having
to close the border and set up guards along the border.
I'm not sure he made it for this coming year, but I mean, you could be right.
There could be something that would happen in Mexico that would be so dire that the border would be so flooded that we would virtually have no choice, I suppose.
Your prediction, if you have one, will be number 29.
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Okay, I predicted under our President George W. Bush that we're going to go into a period of extended enlightenment and prosperity with racial equality and we're going to, the United States is going to influence the whole world.
I don't have these dire predictions that other people have.
And I just I no longer believe that they're for the small people or for the working people and they've they've just changed their attitude and and what they've gone through lately or they're they're causing us to have this uh economic problem uh because they're they want to get re-elected and and I guess you can't blame them for that.
My prediction is that there will be increasing international cooperation between the United States and Russia and will help to mitigate the situation between Pakistan and India.
In other words, if we go out and get involved in the world, then we are the big bad, interventionist, adventuresome U.S. The same old U.S. aggressive, adventuresome, troublemaking, invasionary, whatever words you want to use.
That's how we're looked at By a lot of countries.
Now, if we were to sit back and not do much of anything, we would be responsible for the chaos of the world.
And he visits it on us in ways of locusts and water turning to blood and stuff like that.
But he's not ticked off.
He's just, it's justifiable retribution.
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I'm Art Bell.
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Coast to Coast AM All right, I've reviewed 27 predictions made last year for this year, at the end of last year, and you know what?
I think I've been fairly tough on the people, and you all would be 11 for 27.
11 for 27.
Now, that's damn good.
It's not good if you're talking about a 50-50 guess on something.
But if you're talking about a specific prediction, something randomly plucked from the ether that you think is going to occur during any given year, I would say 11 for 27 is almost too good.
Really almost too good.
So bearing that in mind and bearing in mind the nature of the majority of the predictions that we've been getting so far, it could be a pretty rough year.
I will say.
First time caller line, you're on the airline.
unidentified
This is Austin in Indianapolis, listening to you on WIBC at AM 1070.
I wanted to clarify one thing that Sean David Morton was talking about last night, and that's the 10-nation configuracy that has been referred to a number of times by a number of your guests, ostensibly thinking in terms of the European Union.
But that I don't believe is correct.
There is a 10-nation configuracy envisioned by a group called the World Parliamentary Organization, whose spokesperson was none other than Mikhail Gorbachev about five years ago.
They have a constitution drawn, and their goal is to establish a world government through the auspices of the United Nations.
Do you think a world government would automatically be a bad thing?
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Taken in context with the biblical prophecies, the outcome of it is fairly certain.
The fact is that they have divided the world into ten regions.
And I think that's significant because here you have the number that equates with the prophecy that you've referred to quite a number of times on your show.
Now, as far as prediction for this year, I truly believe that given a biblical insight into the scripture in Thessalonians that tells us when they cry peace and safety, sudden destruction will come upon them.
Yes, I do not believe that we're in that period in which we're going to have all of this gloom and doom.
Therefore, you have to agree we're in a state of heightened alert right now.
And the deal with China is going to lead us there.
Now, I don't know about that.
I do know that, and I've spoken of this many times before I was in China, you know, in Hong Kong and then up into communist China.
If you had been with me or seen what I had seen, it would have scared the you-know-what out of you.
The amount of commerce going on there ought to be believed.
Not to be believed.
Lines of trucks carrying goods, and I passed 40 miles of factories, you know, on either side of the street, factory after factory.
It would remind you of the U.S. in the industrial, at the very height of the industrial age, you know, when all the steel mills were really cranking and everything.
It would remind you of that.
It was pretty scary stuff, considering the number of people in China, the abilities they have, and all the rest of it.
We are either going to join them economically, or they are going to pass us like a turtle.
We're going to be crawling along like a turtle, and they're going to go right past us.
So something is going to have to happen.
And it may be that George Bush has the vision, somehow get along with China and have everybody economically prosper.
I think that we're going to see at least two, probably a lot more people get arrested and run through the ringer, very similar fashion to Kevin Mitnick and Dmitry Sklyarov.
No, I think your prediction is probably a pretty sound one.
Considering how much of our economy is turning toward the Internet and e-commerce, then I would imagine any threat to that would be responded to with all guns blazing.
unidentified
They're probably going to get more serious treatment, more serious and foregone conclusion.
If so much of our economy is going to be based on e-commerce, then in order to make people comfortable with that economy, with that reality, that's what it is, it's a reality, anybody who threatens that will be treated like a bank robber.
And that's not so far off base, really, right?
Robbing banks.
It's the modern version of going into a bank and say, stick them up.
So I would imagine they're going to get very tough.
They're going to protect the economy.
We're in a nation that protects its economy, wherever it may go and whatever it may be, and that's always changing.
I want to predict that prediction number 24 would be wrong, and it would definitely, or prediction 24 would pull down the average of correct predictions next year, and that would make my prediction right and offset him.
People feel threatened, and when they feel threatened, they get closer together.
And when they get closer together, well, they do what people do.
And so nine months from that time, there will be more babies born.
I'm sure he's exactly correct.
Probably a pretty safe prediction.
Just about June, huh?
I wonder if all the support companies for infants, you know, like formula makers, diaper producers, cradle makers, I mean, all the things that you need when you have a baby.
And boy, you need a lot of stuff that you never even knew existed.
You know, all these things you've got to get to boil sterilized bottles and nipples and it goes on and on and on.
I wonder if all of these companies, if their stock is up.
Anybody give that a thought?
It's like war after a war boils and baby boom.
That's why they call it the baby boom generation.
And I wonder if they're all ratcheting up for June.
Listen, while I agree, there were some callers earlier in the show predicting a spiritual renaissance.
I agree with them, but at the same time, I'm going to predict right now that Scientology will be fully exposed as a corrupt organization and at best be dismantled and at least lose its charitable status and suffer a huge crippling attrition rate.
Well, I think people are entitled to believe in that as much as anything else they want to believe in.
unidentified
I agree with you there.
Live and let, live, and all that.
but at the same time you know we're talking about i'm talking about you know human rights violations that are going to come to light you know and uh...
i've heard rumors about that but i've never really seen I've heard the rumors, and you hear that about every religion that has not quite made it up there with the Catholics and the Protestants, you know, and the big ones.
unidentified
Personally, I don't hear these rumors.
You know, I tend to investigate them, and I really believe that the idea of religion for sale and using money that is tithe tax-free to pay lawyers to harass people like me.
You know, I've looked into Scientology, and as I told that man, there are good aspects of it, and in America, you're allowed to believe in whatever you want to believe in.
And if Scientology is your thing, then I don't know.
I don't have a problem with it.
Whether they're persecuting him personally or not, maybe.
I had a 92-year-old woman flying from Newark to Palm Beach last week, and I was speaking with her and assigning her bulkhead seats because she uses a walker.
They're being a lot more in tune with their surroundings now.
It's no longer, I'm getting into a tube, I'm going to sit here for two hours, I'm going to wolf back my meal, read my magazine, and then tune out of everybody else.
People are becoming a lot more aware of one another.
And another really nice bonus is I'm a man large in stature.
But a lot more people are going to start traveling a lot more.
And another problem you're going to see is at the security checkpoints, you're – Oh, I heard the guy talk about the TOGUS.
What really impressed me more was the gentleman that you had on last night, speaking of martial law.
You have that at the airports now, and it's going to get a lot tighter, a lot tighter.
Once they start moving in the full-time federal government employees running security, I mean, once they're in charge of the whole show, oh, baby, it's going to make Israel look like it's run by a bunch of smurfs.
In other words, if you look, you know, if you look like the kind of person who might have a bomb hidden somewhere, you're definitely going to get asked more questions, right?
unidentified
On the front lines, I really couldn't tell you.
I really, really couldn't tell you because where I work is in reservations.
I mean, if people are out there demonstrating for music that they could, for one thing, understand the lyrics of, for another, sing along with, for another that actually carried a tune that you can hum.
Oh, that there would be two nuclear detonations and that we would absorb both of them without retaliating.
unidentified
If you remember some years ago, I think if I have attributed right, Stan Dale said that there was a presidential decision directive to just that very effect that President Clinton signed.
I think it would be rescinded, my dear, at the push of a button.
You follow me.
unidentified
Yes, I do.
And are our warheads back up and running?
Because there was also something to the effect that they had shut down the silos, and it would take, what, like, 20 minutes or so to get them back to arming position?
Now, I don't care what kind of directives are out there.
I don't care.
I know that any president of the U.S. would sign his own political, absolute, complete death warrant by not responding to a nuclear attack in kind, and especially two detonations.
No way.
Believe me, we would respond.
Wes for the Rockies, you're on the airflow.
Hi, Art.
unidentified
Yes.
My prediction is going to be the scandal of 2002.
And it deals with the fact that George W. Bush has been losing it up for about a month and a half now.
I mean, if you were president right now and the Twin Towers had been hit and destroyed, and the Pentagon had been hit with severe damage, and we were at war, you'd probably have a drink or two, wouldn't you?
I think I would as president.
I think that went over really hard.
But I don't know about the hard drinking he's talking about.
My prediction is not quite like that guy that said a few nukes are going to be dropped on us from China or someplace, but I do believe we're going to have nuclear incidents.
I've had a dream about a couple of nuclear dirty bombs.
And I think it's either going to be a smuggled nuclear dirty bomb or it's going to be someone attacking one of our coastal nuclear power stations, blowing it up.
Well, of course, our nuclear plants are vulnerable.
Nobody has been able to answer for me.
What would happen if a 747 or another large aircraft were to plow into a nuclear plant?
unidentified
Oh, I can give you something on that.
They had a big article up here since I'm close to Hanford, and they did studies years ago, but it's only for a very small jet, sort of like when they did for the World Trade Center.
And the NRDC, the Regulatory Commission, has admitted that their studies have never progressed to a large jet, but they simply won't say anything, but they basically admit that a large jet could probably breach most of the containment vessels.
I'm thinking of something like maybe they might even bring in some of those stolen, some of those Stinger missiles, smuggle some of those in on a boat offshore.
If you lob two or three of those into a containment vessel, how would it be?
But they interviewed recently the Texas guy, the congressman, 60 Minutes, that sold them all those, and he said he regrets that he's been living in fear.
His nightmare for years has been they shoot down an airliner with one of them.
Who was it who I had on the other night who said that the people who flew the aircraft that participated in the 9-11 disaster flew right over a nuclear plant?
And I believe that is accurate.
They probably did fly right over a nuclear plant.
Can you imagine?
Maybe they didn't do it because they didn't know if it would work.
Who knows?
First time call our line, you're on the air, hi.
unidentified
Yeah, how are you doing?
It's Dave.
I'm somewhere in between Terre Haute and Indianapolis.
I just wanted to make actually a comment and a prediction all in the same breath, I guess.
My prediction is that we're going to see a wide array, like a wide range of different kinds of movies coming out, nothing of which we've seen like with the violence and the sex on TV, like stuff like Harry Potter and that movie you just mentioned about Mel Gibson, Contact, all those sorts of better nature type films.
So in a sense, I'm talking of more like a Hollywood revolution because I believe that they really think that with the violence and the sex that there has been some damage done.
And I think they really do believe now that they have a part to play in turning that whole thing around.
In other words, you're saying Hollywood has a conscience.
I disagree with you.
Your prediction certainly could be correct about movies moving more toward G ratings and moving more toward the paranormal.
And there is a great new movie coming out.
It's called Signs.
And it's all about prop circles.
And I think it's due for release perhaps in August of 2002.
Mel Gibson, of course.
And it's about time they did a movie about this.
So you could be certainly correct about the genre of movie that we're moving toward, but I would argue with you that Hollywood has not developed some sudden conscience.
Not a chance.
Hollywood makes, you know, it's a supplier.
Right?
It supplies what people demand.
And that's the biz it's in.
If they think that people are demanding this kind of movie, they will make this kind of movie.
They will not suddenly begin making this kind of movie because they have some sort of conscience.
They don't.
Believe me, they don't.
They do what you'll go and pay to see, folks, and that's how it works.
I'm Art Bell.
This is Coast to Coast AM.
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But I may think I'm only full of her cheese.
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But the prediction I have is I think we're going to see a lot of strides made in the cloning area.
I don't know how you are with the scientific thing, but some people may think that the religious people may believe that it's not meant for us to mess with nature.
Of course, he has had health problems, as you know.
Wonder where he is.
I suppose if you consider his health problems on the one hand, and in other words, he should probably be fairly sedentary anyway, they've probably got him hidden away just reading books or something.
He is ten times less visible than the normal vice president, and the normal vice president is barely visible.
I think China is going to become the ruler of Asia.
I think there's a very substantial possibility that China is going to become to Asia what we are to the Americas, what a few select countries are to Europe.
Certainly that process is underway right now.
But as far as China taking over the whole world, I don't think so.
Here's, I mean, you're talking about one of America's major industries virtually disappearing so that only VIPs can fly.
Exactly.
That's a very serious prediction.
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And, you know, that's not to say that there won't be the privately owned, you know, single aircraft pilots out there that are going to be out scabbing flights here and there.
I know, but to imagine, I think I've got to thank you.
To imagine that the U.S. would be reduced to one single carrier that would basically be a government carrier, government-controlled, to the degree that it would be government like El Al.
Now, I would miss that a lot about America, wouldn't you?
Booking flights, going online, booking flights, and Seeing the competition out there between the airlines, can you imagine what a plane ticket would cost if only one airline existed?
I mean, if you consider the theory that crop circles are an attempt to communicate with us that are, here you go, Mel, signs, then why not try and communicate back using the same method?
One of the main theories about crop circles is that they are a form or a type of communication.
If somebody could even decipher to the point of a beginning of an understanding of what they meant, then one might indeed attempt to create a crop circle that would communicate back in the same way we're being communicated with if that's what it is.
I have had several now predictions, just like the one you're making right now.
However, most of the people making the predictions think that this spiritual revolution is going to come about because of some very, very tragic event driving people back to churches and spiritual behavior.
unidentified
has it not already i mean in some forms it it may continue to happen for you know the next well i think ever of years but i think the attendance at church right now is up uh...
Wildcard line, you are on the air without a lot of time.
unidentified
Hello?
Oh, gosh.
I wanted to tell you about the animals because you knew so well.
If you watched the Animal Planet, Amazing Tales, they just had an animal psychic and she was very good.
It was on 1222.
My prediction is dire.
I believe there will be a civil war in the United States at least by October.
If not October, by December.
And it will be haves against the have-nots.
The elite has been arming themselves unbelievably.
And with all this legislation and laws that are being passed to deprive people of their freedoms and their rights, people will finally get the message that it isn't just if you're not with me, you're again me, that it pertains to us also.
And they will try to revolt.
The trouble is the have-nots will be split.
And there will be, the poor will have to depend on the gangs who are the only ones with guns.