gizmodo | Many Californians’ regularly scheduled broadcasts were interrupted
Thursday morning with strange emergency messages warning of
extraterrestrial invasions and the beginning of Armageddon. The bizarre
warnings aired on TVs in the Orange County area, affecting Cox and
Spectrum cable users, according to the Orange County Register.
One
video of the broadcast uploaded to YouTube includes a terrified,
breathless voice saying: “The space program made contact with... They
are not what they claim to be. They have infiltrated a lot of, uh, a lot
of aspects of military establishment, particularly Area 51. The
disasters that are coming—the military—I’m sorry the government knows
about them...”
Gizmodo found that the audio comes from a call that Art Bell, the host of the conspiracy theory-themed radio show Coast to Coast AM, received in 1997 from a man claiming to be a former Area 51 employee.
Other videos of the emergency broadcast feature a different voice warning that “extremely violent times will come.” Redditor smittenkitten77 discovered the audio came from the Christian radio program Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll.
