Episode Details

Art Bell opens with investigative reporter Chris Ruddy, who presents explosive evidence that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown may have had a bullet hole in his head when his body was returned from the 1996 plane crash in Croatia. Ruddy cites Lieutenant Colonel Steve Cogswell, deputy medical examiner at the Armed Forces pathology lab, who identified a perfectly circular, inwardly beveling wound consistent with a gunshot. Photographs and early X-rays showing metal fragments in the brain are posted to Art's website, though Ruddy says subsequent X-rays were deliberately re-calibrated and originals destroyed.

Richard C. Hoagland then joins to discuss the Enterprise Mission's ongoing investigation of possible artificial structures on Mars. He explains how the Brookings Report, commissioned by NASA in 1959, recommended withholding any discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts from the public. Hoagland also addresses the Mars Surveyor spacecraft's delayed aerobraking, questioning NASA's claim that the Martian atmosphere inexplicably doubled in density.

Stephen Bassett appears on behalf of Dr. Steven M. Greer to discuss government secrecy around UFO records, while geologist Ron Nicks presents his analysis of Pathfinder imagery suggesting the lander touched down amid the ruins of an ancient constructed environment.