Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired U.S. Army intelligence officer and original member of the military's remote viewing program, for his seventh year as a guest. Dames announces his cameo role in the upcoming feature film Suspect Zero alongside Sir Ben Kingsley and discusses taking his remote viewing workshops on the road to cities across the western United States.

Dames presents a striking theory about UFOs, claiming they are solid but temporary projections created by an automated system of intelligent machines located beneath the surface of Mars. He explains that these machines gather atmospheric materials like nitrogen and oxygen to construct physical objects at a distance, comparing the phenomenon to the projection technology in the film Forbidden Planet. He extends this explanation to crop circles, Bigfoot sightings, and other anomalies, describing them all as products of the same projection system.

The conversation also covers shadow people, which Dames describes as literal shadows cast by ghosts that bend light between a source and a surface. Art plays a 1952 radio drama called "The Shadow People" to demonstrate the phenomenon predates his program. Dames addresses foreign terrorist cells still operating on U.S. soil, reports his team trained a student to win a major lottery, and shares remote viewing insights about an ancient Martian civilization.