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From heavy.com:
Art Bell, the radio host, is dead. How did he die? The cause of death is not yet known.
From The Washington Post:
Long before fake news became a political topic, Mr. Bell made a good living encouraging Americans to accept the most fantastic and unlikely tales, to believe that we are not alone, to accept that in a world where the pace of life seemed to quicken with every passing year, there were forces from beyond that were trying to tell us something.
Sources:
https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/art-bell-dead-cause-of-death-dies-how/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/art-bell-mysterious-narrator-of-the-american-nightscape-is-dead-at-72/2018/04/14/b6f2b278-4015-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?utm_term=.7a7db7da9686
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hartree on Monday April 16 2018, @03:42AM (2 children)
I called in and got on the air on his program once when I lived in Albuqueruqe in the 90s. He was talking about foreign military gear being seen in New Mexico.
I told about the various Russian SAM and ballistic missile launchers (An SA-6 that had been captured during the Yom Kippur War and mockups of a Scud TEL) at Kirtland Air Force Base (Air Force Weapons Lab/Phillips Lab), and that no, they weren't part of a new world order invasion force. If you're building sensors to detect and target them, you have to have something to test them on.
We'd occasionally see them drive off base to get to some of the testing areas. My roommate at the time was an Air Force officer stationed there.
There was also a German Tornado squadron at Holloman AFB in (for training). One squadron was hardly a major threat to the entire USAF. ;)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @04:54AM (1 child)
Indeed, as
a. They were German.
b.(More Importantly) They were flying Tornados.
Now, had it been a squadron of RAF Buccaneers.....
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday April 17 2018, @09:33AM
c. the F35 wasn't already deployed in full
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