Hey, Where Did Area 51 Come From?
Goodman talks about aliens at KVEG, circa 1989.
In a detail-loaded post at his site, Adam Gorightly recalls the craziness that was the Billy Goodman Happening radio show. Goodman, already famous from his “drop in” records of the 1950s (where fake news broadcasts were interspersed with snippets of pop songs) started a late-night talk show at Las Vegas station KVEG in the late 1980s. In November of 1989, he introduced the world to a shadowy figure named Bob Lazar and a place called “Area 51.” The rest is history.
Possibly because of the topics he presented, Goodman and KVEG started to receive threats from anonymous sources, and the program was canceled in the early 1990s, just before Art Bell started to make a name for himself.
Speaking of intrigue, I am auctioning off an original 4-CD set of recordings of shortwave “numbers stations.” Take a look if you are interested in hearing how secret agents might get their orders, even if no one has been able to decipher them yet!
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Jan 21 2009 
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:37 am
Ah, radio memories! Somewhere I still have a tape of Gordon Novel calling Dave Emory from the desert and some ungdly hour and the ordinarily bombastic Emory becoming quite sheepish, “well, I wasn’t gunning for you Mr. Novel…” And another of Bill Cooper getting progressively more drunk as he leaves messages on an answering machine of someone he thinks stole his copy of the “driver did it” version of the Zapruder film.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Kenn: I have a copy of that Emory/Novel tape. Emory started sounding like a frightened little girl when he realized who he was talking to…Novel occasionally shows up at UFO Conventions.I saw him at the Roswell UFO 60th Conference, a couple years ago…Recently he claimed he was working with some group back engineering crashed alien saucer technology ala Lazar…
Also, I would love to hear that Cooper tape sometime if you still have it.