This special, which Art dubbed "Disclosure 2000," centered on government transparency, political accountability, and the ongoing quest for disclosure about extraterrestrial phenomena. Art opened the program with reports of extreme weather and described a strange technical outage that occurred while discussing Area 51. The first guest, "UFO lobbyist" Stephen Bassett, examined the lack of progress on UFO disclosure. He was followed by author and presidential candidate Heather Anne Harder, who called for greater openness on the UFO issue. Declaring that "government secrecy is directly proportional to its dysfunction," she questioned who has the authority to classify information beyond the President and advocated for a government built on truth and accountability.
During the third hour, attorney Peter Gersten and longtime Coast contributor Richard C. Hoagland encouraged listeners to ask presidential candidates direct questions about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Gersten discussed his lawsuit against the Department of Defense seeking records on mysterious triangular craft, arguing that the courts might be the only path to meaningful disclosure.
Hoagland also suggested that the film Mission to Mars, produced with NASA's assistance, represented a form of "soft disclosure" regarding ancient Martian artifacts. Later, he offered what he called a "bombshell" theory, claiming the Mars Polar Lander had not crashed but had instead been secretly diverted to the Cydonia region, with its faint signal originating from that distant location.