Art Bell opens with a lively hour of open lines covering the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a five-million-dollar interview offer from his Las Vegas affiliate, the looming Iraq conflict, and reports of unusual animal behavior worldwide. He notes that the Clinton administration has quietly authorized targeting Iraq with tactical nuclear warheads, raising the stakes of the pending military action.
The main guest is Jack Shulman, chairman of the American Computer Company, who claims his firm is back-engineering alien technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash. Shulman describes a device called the transcapacitor, which stores information not as binary ones and zeros like a transistor but as multiple voltage gradients, functioning similarly to the rods and cones of the human eye. He says a wallet-sized version could hold several terabytes of data and operate at billions of bits per second.
Shulman recounts receiving a mysterious classified fax from a military space platform called Sky Station, followed by a break-in at his offices where nothing of obvious value was taken but files were searched. Linda Moulton Howe joins to compare the transcapacitor's physical description with the alien wafers described by Colonel Philip Corso in his book about Roswell technology transfer.
