Putting an end to my recent lack of enthusiasm for tuning in
to Coast to Coast AM of late, guest host George Knapp
welcomed author Joseph P. Farrell to the show this past Sunday
night.
Farrell would go on to discuss the finer points of his book,
The SS Brotherhood of the Bell. Detailing a secret Nazi
weapons project designed to manipulate space-time and bring the
failing evil empire back from the brink of defeat, it sounds
like a very interesting read. Obviously the project didn't turn
out as the Nazi's had hoped, but according to Farrell's
research, the Third Reich may have been closer to creating a
doomsday weapon that we would like to think.
I don't know about the rest of you, but this topic of secret
Nazi super-weapons piques my imagination like none other. Raised
a Catholic, I'm certainly no fan of the Nazi's values, motives
or methods, but there's something about the desperation of the
German leadership and their outlandish plots that I can't help
but find incredibly interesting. Sort of like watching a train
wreck...you know, if the conductor was trying to make a nuclear
bomb, that is.
Before I jump into the nuts and bolts of the Farrell interview
and give my $0.02 on it, I'd like to first point out a terrific
topic George Knapp brought up at the start of the show. After
ripping Dan Burisch a new one and calling him out on his crap,
Knapp went on to present his thesis as to how he feels that
hucksters like Burisch and cheap internet hoaxers the likes to
be found on YouTube are the cancer eating away at the
credibility of the field of Ufology. In a sort of informal
Ufological state of the union address, Knapp puts the blame on
the hoaxers and their gullible audiences for giving critics of
the field too much fodder to bring against it.
A topic I've been writing about in my Viral Ufology articles, I
think Knapp pretty much hit the head of this nail as artfully as
I've heard. With Area 51 and the UFO debate as close to Knapp's
heart as it is, it was an honest call to arms to clean up all
this skullduggery and make it an area of research worth focusing
on. Kudos to Knapp for expressing his thoughts so astutely and
with such conviction. Well done.
Now then, on with the show as they say. As someone with an
interest in the subject of Nazi esoterica, I must admit that I
had never heard of this 'Bell' project that Farrell discussed.
Described as a mechanism for two drums filled with a mysterious
substance to be spun in opposite directions, its intended
purpose was to create some kind of space-time bubble. I'm not
sure what such a Star Trekky term really means, but Farrell
seems to believe it had something to do with an uber-powerful
propulsion system.
Overall, I was entertained by the interview and impressed with
George Knapp's hosting. Although the topic of Nazi super-weapons
is out of his expertise, Knapp was able to keep up with Farrell
and ask the right questions in an acceptably fluid pace. He's no
Art Bell, but ultimately I think he was a better choice of host
over George Noory. Though there was one part where I (*gasp*)
discovered a new-found appreciation for Noory's veteran
broadcasting skills. After Farrell's phone went haywire and they
were forced to try to reconnect, Knapp nervously tried to go to
commercial--but due to Coast's rigid commercial schedule,
he had to think quick and BS his way through a couple minutes of
awkward silence instead. If there's anything Noory is good at,
it's BS'ing when technical difficulties arise.
It wasn't long before Knapp tried to bring Ufology into the
interview, however. Soon the discussion strayed from theories of
Nazi generals escaping war-crime trials and continuing the Reich
in secret to such topics as the persistent Nazi UFO legends, a
possible link between the Bell project and the Kecksburg acorn,
and even a Nazi link to the moon landing.
That last one threw me off guard at first. Basically, the theory
says that because the true mass of the moon has been kept secret
from us and, because it's far greater than we've been lead to
think, it would have taken a system like the Bell project for
the lunar lander to depart from its surface. It's pretty far out
there, but Nazi rockets on the moon? Sounds like a sweet B-movie
or trashy rock band.
One final bit worth noting, George Knapp also broke the news
that he will be hosting the show every third Sunday of the
month. I'm going to come out and say that I'm pleased that this
arrangement is now official. If there's one thing Knapp does
well, it's talking up UFO's. And if this means that we get a
quality UFO episode of Coast to Coast AM at least once a
month, I'd say that's worthy of celebration. I can only hope
that such quality shows wont be so few and far between in the
coming months.