About this episode
Title: AREA 51 Employees - The Most Disturbing Call in Art Bell History
Description:
September 11, 1997. A date that would later carry devastating significance—but on this night, something else unfolded in the darkness.
Art Bell, the legendary voice of the night, host of *Coast to Coast AM*, opened the phone lines as he always did. Listeners called in to discuss UFOs, government secrets, the paranormal. But one call would become the most disturbing, most debated, and most *unexplained* moment in broadcast history .
The caller identified himself as a former employee of Area 51. He wasn't calm. He wasn't collected. He was *terrified*—voice breaking, choking back sobs, speaking in frantic bursts as if he knew the clock was ticking .
*"I don't have a whole lot of time... They'll triangulate on this position really, really soon..."*
Art pressed him for something concrete. And then the man spoke words that would echo through conspiracy lore forever:
"What we're thinking of as aliens... they're extradimensional beings. An earlier precursor of the space program made contact with them. They are NOT what they claim to be. They've infiltrated the military establishment... particularly Area 51."
He continued, his voice disintegrating into desperation:
"The disasters that are coming... the government knows about them. There are safe areas they could move the population to NOW. But they are not. They want those major population centers wiped out so the few that are left will be more easily controllable..."
And then—*silence*.
The show went dead. Not a fade. Not a technical glitch. Complete and total transmission failure. When the backup system kicked in moments later, the caller was gone. He never finished his sentence .
Engineers later reported that the satellite had *lost Earth lock*—knocked out of position by an unknown force . Some listeners reported electronic devices failing at the exact same moment . The coincidence was too precise, too convenient, too *perfect*.
Weeks later, a man claiming to be the same caller phoned in to say it was all a joke. But skeptics noted the voice didn't match. The demeanor was wrong. And why would a prankster's call be followed by a satellite failure that has never been fully explained?
The tape has been analyzed for decades. Some say it was genuine. Some say it was performance. But one thing is certain: Art Bell himself never dismissed it.
The caller's final, cut-off words—*"I say we g..."*—have never been completed. What was he about to say? *"I say we go public?"* *"I say we fight?"* Or something far darker?
Tool immortalized the call in their song "Faaip de Oiad" on the *Lateralus* album, introducing a new generation to the mystery . But the recording itself remains, preserved in digital amber, waiting for someone to decide once and for all:
Was it the most important whistleblower call
