Richard C. Hoagland is a former space science museum curator, a former NASA consultant, and during the historic Apollo missions to the moon, was science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News. In this early appearance, he spoke about his project called "The Mars Mission," which he called the "first extraterrestrial archaeological research project in history."

Hoagland shared his hopes that increased computing power could help in his research into extraterrestrial anomalies. He detailed evidence of structures on the moon that he claimed was being covered up by NASA and declared that "we have been living a lie" with regard to evidence of ancient artifacts on other planets and moons. 

Hoagland described "several thousand feet high crystalline skyscrapers" he and his team saw in photos from lunar probes, as well as an apparent perfect triangle inscribed within a crater. He claimed that there were clear, 3D images of the moon that had never been released. He also revealed a "precise and overwhelmingly repeating geometric pattern" in features on photos from Mars.