Mostly True Alien Stories

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. 🛸

On November 29th 1989 two Belgian police officers watched a massive triangular craft hover silently over a field.Over the next five months 13,000 people across Belgium filed formal reports — all describing the same craft.Then the Belgian Air Force scrambled two F-16s.Nine radar locks.Nine times it disappeared.Then the Belgian government did something almost no government has ever done — held a press conference, presented the radar data,and said on the record — we don't know what this is.Major General Wilfred de Brouwer gave the same answer for thirty years.Neal, Andrew, and Emma cover the most government-confirmed mass UFO sighting in history.Also — Andrew has been misunderstanding the premise of this show for 62 episodes.Is this a Mostly True Alien Story?New episodes every Wednesday.Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸