January 16, 1997: Whitley Strieber & Courtney Brown

Art Bell hosts a tense and historic confrontation between author Whitley Strieber and Professor Courtney Brown of Emory University over a photograph that was presented as evidence of an anomalous object traveling alongside Comet Hale-Bopp. After holding the image for two months at Brown's urging, Art and Whitley released it on January 15th. Within 24 hours, astronomers at the University of Hawaii confirmed it was a manipulated version of their own September 1995 image of the comet. Dr. Oliver… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-16-1997-whitley-strieber-and-courtney-brown