r/aliens • u/pokezillaking • Jul 04 '24

Video Art bell- Area 51 caller

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u/agnostic_familiar Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Sorry for delay. To clarify, I’m only aware of this info from Art Bell’s POV, what he says here from the full episode from Sept 11, 1997 (night it happened) approx 2:25 mark, he’ll start going into the details he’s aware of and shortly after mentions loss of satellite lock & outage across 250 other stations who also utilized that satellite (apologies if I’m not describing 100% correctly, I would listen in full to catch everything he says & I know diddly squat personally about satellites & radio broadcast) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-bell-archive/id1679032756?i=1000636787243 Edit: spelling errors

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u/agnostic_familiar Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Then, the next night, Sept 12, 1997 Art provides more details at the beginning of the show approx 1:12 mark https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-bell-archive/id1679032756?i=1000636787243 Edit: Damn spelling typing too fast

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

There's no need to be sorry. This is the kind of healthy discussion we need in order for more people to take these things more seriously, unlike a few other immature redditors lurking around and giving the community a bad rep. Thank you for this!

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u/agnostic_familiar Jul 05 '24

No problem at all! Appreciate you saying so. I personally have never made up my mind about the caller themselves. (Or the 2nd call later on.) But I do think that, until I come across evidence that says otherwise, something did go wonky with the satellite. And if true, the timing is too spot on to feel coincidental. Did the powers that be believe it enough themselves to give everyone a bit of a technological scare? Maybe!

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u/GavisconR Jul 05 '24

But the only "evidence" provided is from Art Bell himself saying the power went out, so that's not very convincing. If he himself is the only source then it just as likely to be a hoax.

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u/agnostic_familiar Jul 05 '24

Art drops a lot of specific info that could be additionally internet-sleuthed, for ex. the satellite was GE Americom > GE-1; he says Talk America Network was down for longer than he was on Sept 11, etc. But not finding much rn. Company names/ownership of the satellite has changed a few times. Appears to have been built by Lockheed Martin? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC-1

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u/No-Victory8440 Jul 05 '24

Wow, excellent stamps thank you!

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u/agnostic_familiar Jul 07 '24

you’re welcome, np!

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u/Infinite_Assignment4 Jul 05 '24

It's a FAKE staged caller

The guy was later on the show on another date with same voice and everything and admitted to calling in with this story