Meteor Nights on the Road to Graceland

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Places & Travel, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 852 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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What's going on with all these meteors & fireballs in the dark skies above? Where did Elvis Presley see a big UFO hovering over the Mojave Desert? And what drives so many people to the pilgrimage shrine of Graceland?

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0:00.0	Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.
0:09.2	Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.
0:15.3	Night has fallen on the desert.
0:19.6	When the mystery returns.
0:26.9	I was glancing at the
0:29.0	news and saw
0:30.1	this great big
0:32.5	house I instantly recognized
0:35.1	Elvis Presley's Graceland
0:39.0	Because the president visited Graceland along with all the news media the other day
0:48.8	There really is a place of pilgrimage
0:51.5	Especially for those who know a little about show business.
0:59.1	It's even a national historic landmark.
1:03.7	Since 2006, when then President George W. Bush visited.
1:10.3	Jimmy Carter visited, too, but after he was president.
1:16.4	Elvis died when Jimmy Carter was president.
1:21.3	Six months after Carter's inauguration, now that I think about it,
1:27.4	we all look into that. Yeah. Carter's inauguration now that I think about it.
1:29.7	We all look into that.
1:45.3	Now Elvis famously visited Richard Nixon at the White House in the early 70s.
1:53.5	Nixon gave Elvis a license to kill, a DEA agent's badge.
1:56.0	This is true, many rooms in the mansion.
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