Art Bell opens with a recap of Peter Gersten's courtroom victory, where a federal judge refused to dismiss the Citizens Against UFO Secrecy lawsuit and took under advisement claims that the Department of Defense acted in bad faith when searching for records on triangular aerial objects. The packed courtroom included standing-room-only attendance from listeners who heard about the case on the program.
The main guest is Joel Rothschild, one of the longest-surviving AIDS patients in America, who discusses his book Signals. Rothschild and his best friend Albert, both diagnosed with AIDS in the early 1990s when the disease was a certain death sentence, made a pact that whoever died first would attempt to send a signal from beyond. When Rothschild discovered Albert's body after an unexpected suicide, he heard Albert's voice directing him to jump a neighbor's fence and search a trash can, where he found the suicide note.
Rothschild describes two years of documented experiences including hummingbirds landing on him indoors while consoling dying friends, a rare 1878 book containing Albert's personal quote underlined on a bookmarked page, and a nighttime visitation where Albert told him every moment of life has meaning and purpose. A former card-carrying atheist, Rothschild credits these signals with giving him the hope to survive multiple bouts of fatal infections.
