Art Bell opens with encouraging news that Dannion Brinkley's three brain aneurysms have stopped bleeding and surgery may no longer be necessary. He credits the prayers of listeners and discusses CNN's recent reporting on the power of prayer, noting that placebos work 70 to 90 percent of the time through faith alone. Art also announces that his book "The Quickening" has debuted at number 22 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and number six on the business list.
Callers respond to the previous night's program about Bell Labs and Roswell. A listener shares a story from a former NASA instructor who said the leap from vacuum tubes to microchips was not invented but "deciphered" with "a little help from above." Art breaks news from an underground source that the American Chemical Society, meeting in Las Vegas, plans to reveal that the U.S. leaked significant radiation during underground nuclear testing in Nevada, with the Department of Energy expected to confirm it.
Frances Barwood calls in to announce she has won her recall election with 47 percent of the vote, defeating two opponents despite being outspent five to one. Art retells his own close encounter with a massive, silent, triangular craft that passed roughly 100 feet above him in the Pahrump Valley. He dedicates the final hour exclusively to Canadian callers in celebration of the show's rapid expansion across Canada.
