Episode Details

Art Bell returns from a week-long vacation in Alaska to share photographs and stories from his trip before opening the phone lines. Callers weigh in on the death of Princess Diana, debating whether the paparazzi or the intoxicated driver bears primary responsibility for the crash. Art maintains that the driver, who had three times the legal blood alcohol limit and was traveling at roughly 121 miles per hour, is the most likely cause rather than the pursuing photographers.

At midnight, Richard C. Hoagland and geologist Ron Nicks join the program to present new findings from Mars Pathfinder images. Nicks, a 35-year veteran of engineering geology, reports that features near the Pathfinder landing site display geometric patterns and orientations difficult to explain through natural geological processes. Hoagland describes what he calls artifacts, broken machines, and geometric debris scattered across the landscape at 19.5 degrees north latitude on Mars.

The team raises concerns that NASA appears to be discarding half the gray-scale information from its publicly released images, with independent analyst Jim Diletoso confirming the observation. Hoagland theorizes the landing site sits within the debris field of ancient structures destroyed by catastrophic flooding.