In this classic episode, Art set up a special line for Area 51 employees. The first caller, "Steve," said he used to live and work at Area 51 and was ordered to call into the program and confirm the Bob Lazar stories. He said the "UFOs" people see flying there were not fully functional, and the ones that Lazar saw were in repair. The UFOs came "from a parallel timeline" or dimension, he said, and added that the new Mars orbiter would soon find remnants of an ancient civilization besides the famous Cydonia area. Finally, Steve revealed that Area 51 was controlled by "extra-dimensional" beings.
The next caller said he was from the year 2072, had traveled back to our time, and worked at the base, which he said would eventually "become the capital of the United States." He then made predictions about weather and earthquakes in Southern California in 1999, and that there would be a "purging or cleansing event" around the turn of the century that would end up with aliens living openly among us.
In the second hour, on the Area 51 line, a man called in a panic. Between sobs, the caller said that there were hostile aliens on the Earth and the government wanted the major population centers wiped out so that the few that were left would be "more easily controllable." The caller warned of government takeovers just before the system went down completely. Art had to take a break and switch to a backup system to keep broadcasting. A network engineer came on the air and said that the satellite that carried the show "seemed to have lost its Earth sensor lock" and the signal faded out. For the rest of the show, Art and many of the callers speculated on what had happened and if he (or the panicked caller) had been the victim of a cover-up.
In the first hour, near-death experiencer and author Dannion Brinkley spoke to Art from his hospital bed, where he was battling complications from a triple aneurysm. He thanked Art and the listeners who had been praying for him. He said that his faith in his ultimate healing was going to pull him through, even though he was on four IVs and a schedule of heavy blood thinners.