This show aired two months after the original "Phoenix Lights" mass UFO sighting on March 13, 1997. There had just been a news conference by Arizona Governor Fife Symington in which he'd suddenly done an about-face and was making fun of the mass sighting rather than searching for answers. There were suspicions that Symington was pressured to retract his investigation. In the first segment, UFO researcher Bill Hamilton spoke about the events and video footage he had in his possession, as well as a timeline of events based on witness testimony.
In the second segment, Art was joined by Phoenix City Councilwoman Francis Barwood, who said her constituents were confused and upset about the Governor's news conference. Barwood commented that this was "totally out of character" for Symington, whom she had known for many years. She also said that she had heard that there were FBI and KGB agents in the area, as well as "military convoys on the way," and that things seemed to be "getting pretty creepy."
Richard C. Hoagland was next, and had predicted some sort of disturbance in Phoenix just 24 hours before the program. He described his idea that NASA always planned their launches and landings based on Egyptian mythology, and that the location of Phoenix was symbolically connected to Egypt as well. He suggested that Symington's surprise news conference and other developments in the city coincided with alignments in the heavens that signaled important events or changes.
Author Whitley Strieber was the guest for the rest of the show. He speculated that the press conference may have been meant to ridicule the UFO subject. He also recalled his personal connection to the Roswell Incident due to his Uncle, who was in the Air Force and had told him, "Our knowledge of them [the Visitors] enables them to come into our world and has something to do with the physics of perception." In the last segment, Strieber took questions from callers.