Art Bell kicks off his annual predictions tradition by reviewing listener forecasts from the previous year, scoring hits and misses with his signature ding and bonk system. Several 1996 predictions proved accurate, including Jacques Villeneuve winning the Formula One championship, Chinese expansionism, and tightened U.S. immigration. Others, like Clinton being assassinated and Rush Limbaugh retiring, earned definitive bonks.
Callers phone in with their 1998 predictions, ranging from a massive stock market crash sending the Dow to 3,800, to friendly alien contact during the week of November 15th, to a Goodyear blimp crashing into a baseball field. One fisherman from San Pedro, California, describes a missing time experience near Catalina Island that left him with a vivid impression of coming extraterrestrial contact.
In the second half, Sean David Morton of the Delphi Associates joins to deliver his 1998 forecast. Morton discusses artificial weather vortexes he claims to sense through meditation, predicts El Nino will not be as destructive as feared due to protective cold air blasts from Alaska, and foresees a massive storm devastating Cuba that could topple the Castro government. He also warns that 1998 will be defined by airborne phenomena, from viruses to objects falling from the sky.
