EPISODE · May 7, 2026 · 45 MIN
The Cape Girardeau Incident — America's First Alien Recovery
from Mostly True Alien Stories · host Neal Girandola
Spring 1941. Six years before Roswell. A Baptist minister in Cape Girardeau, Missouri receives a phone call in the middle of the night. There has been a crash outside of town. Someone needs last rites.What he finds is not a plane.Three grey figures. Three and a half feet tall. Large heads. Large eyes. Three fingers. A disc-shaped craft partially on fire. FBI agents already on the scene.He prays over all three of them. Then the military arrives. Everyone is sworn to secrecy. He goes home and tells his wife. And never speaks of it publicly again.The account stayed inside the family for forty years — passing from a deathbed to a granddaughter to a letter to a UFO researcher in 1991.The evidence chain is thin. But it is not absent.And if it is true — the US government had already done this once before Roswell. Six years of practice at making things disappear.Neal, Andrew, and Emma cover America's first Roswell.Is this a Mostly True Alien Story?New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸
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