Before the discovery of the bodies, when asked if he thought Miss O'Callaghan was still alive, he said: "We hope she is alive, we are certainly working on finding her and recovering her."
Unconfirmed reports say the taxi was filled with pictures of Sian and appeal posters seeking information about the missing brunette.
The man arrested was taken to a local police station and his car was towed from the rank at the Asda supermarket in Haydon Wick.
Earlier, the police had appealed for any information about a green Toyota Avensis taxi which was seen between Swindon and the Savernake Forest, near Marlborough, shortly after Miss O'Callaghan was last seen alive.
It is understood that the arrested man was about to pick up a fare when he was detained.
On Wednesday night, police said they were "very close" to identifying Miss O'Callaghan's whereabouts.
Specialist sniffer dogs were brought in to help track down the office administrator after more than 400 volunteers joined in the search.
Experts also had been examining specific "hotspots" within the dense 4,500-acre Savernake Forest.
Detectives using mobile phone technology pinpointed several areas of interest to the police and allowed them to rule out large areas of the forest.
Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, who is leading the inquiry, said the inquiry was moving at a "rapid pace" with "significant lines of inquiry being developed".
He added: "The public have been fantastic in support of the search for Sian O'Callaghan and I'm very grateful.
"I've been able to use new technological techniques to provide a tighter search parameter and have been able to rule out large areas of the six-and-a-half-mile radius we have all been searching."
Police revealed earlier this week that phone masts put Miss O'Callaghan's mobile phone somewhere in the 4,500-acre forest just 34 minutes after she left Suju nightclub in Swindon at 2.52am on Saturday.
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