Neo (00:00)
I can't find my alien mug.
I got my mug that said coffee on it.
I don't know where it is. It wasn't in the dishwasher. It wasn't in the coffee cabinet. I don't know where it is.
Android (00:08)
could this alien mug have been abducted?
Neo (00:10)
shit.
Android (00:12)
it went home.
Neo (00:13)
a rash of alien mugs being abducted by aliens.
Android (00:16)
I think it went home. Like ET.
Maybe it's live streaming somewhere.
Your mug is live streaming.
Neo (00:19)
Maybe my mug has its own podcast.
it's got a hundred thousand followers!
Damn it!
All right, welcome back to mostly true alien stories. This is the show as you know, we dig into the strangest alien encounters ever recorded and try to figure out if they're mostly true or mostly just a great story. I'm Neal Girandola and I'm here with my co pilot in the unexplained Andrew.
Andrew.
Android (01:03)
Hi Neal!
Hey, how's it going buddy?
Neo (01:05)
going good man, you know today's story Andrew takes us to a small town in Alabama in 1973 whole rash of UFO stuff going on in the
where a local police chief answers a call about a strange figure in someone's
and He ends up face to face with something that looks like a humanoid in a full metal
suit i can't wait to get in this story the whole thing the the alien moves really mechanically it disappears at lightning speed and just like
got the metal man of falcville it becomes one of the weirdest unsolved cases in ufo lore and you and i are going to get into it and we're going to see if that's true or
Android (01:42)
Do you want to ask
me where I was in 1973?
Neo (01:44)
Yeah, where were you in 1973?
Android (01:46)
I was actually in Alabama.
Neo (01:47)
so you might have seen
find out.
Android (01:49)
don't
really recall I just remember my mom wrapping me in aluminum foil
me in the
Neo (01:54)
sending you out into the woods.
Android (01:56)
of a road and said find your way home and I just ran I was running just like forest
Neo (02:00)
Good luck, Maybe she was the
anonymous caller too. We'll get into
All right. As always, I'm going to tell this story exactly as it was reported. No frills. Not gonna, we're not going to stretch it out and I can embellish. I might embellish a little bit, but we'll see. Then, then Andrew and I are going to break it all down and we're going to try to figure out whether this was a legitimate other worldly encounter or just someone playing dress up at the wrong time. And of course we want to hear from you guys are our listeners. So drop your thoughts in the comments and let us know.
Android (02:17)
Yeah, it makes it fun.
Neo (02:34)
where you land on this one. But before we dive into the mystery of the Falkville Metal Man, let's check in with Andrew for what's new in alien news and entertainment. Andrew, what's been circling the headlines this week?
Android (02:45)
gotta tell you, I can't stop reading about
secret underground city that's been discovered underneath the pyramids of Giza.
it's wild. you know, people for years and years and years have just gone to look at the pyramids themselves, right? That's all they saw. They see everything above ground. But below the surface, dude, there's like these, they did this reading, right? They used high tech radar and they're scanning. Yeah, something like that. So, you know, I'm just, this is what I'm questioning this whole time. Did nobody actually think to do this before?
Neo (03:00)
Yeah, right. Right.
Like a LIDAR
Well, I don't. So, here's what I understand about this is that this, technology is relatively new. So there is no
Android (03:20)
Or did this technology just appear out of nowhere, maybe from aliens?
Neo (03:33)
reference point that they can go like exactly what you said. How could they go? Why aren't they going to all of these locations and looking underneath? Well, because the technology has gotten
this is why no one has really looked into it. So go ahead.
Android (03:46)
Right.
But I mean, we're not just talking like some secret underground burial chamber. I mean, we're talking columns. We're talking spiral staircases underneath these things. Tunnels.
Neo (03:54)
Crazy!
And they're also talking like it might be an energy source or two right because of the way the pillars are set
Android (04:00)
Yeah, they're saying that,
you know, it just reminds me
saw Total Recall, right? On Mars, right? And they actually brought the atmosphere back by pressing that huge ancient device that was on Mars that everybody was keeping hidden. I mean, it's like, I'm going to kill you. They're like, kill you. You know, it's like, Anyway, so I digress.
Neo (04:05)
yeah.
Is
I love
that movie.
Android (04:29)
dude, when they get thrown out and he's like on the sand and his eyes are like bulging out of his head.
Neo (04:33)
And
that's how they do it. start it, right? They open the movie with that scene.
Android (04:37)
Yeah, they open the movie with the end of the movie, which is kind of
favorite scene though is when he's at the air, when he's at the spaceport and he's going, he's dressed as the woman, yeah, and he's like, two weeks, two weeks, two weeks.
Neo (04:45)
He's the lady. Yeah. Well, you
know what? I know we're jumping off our story here for a second, but that is a great scene. And I remember seeing that in the movies for the first time and going, wow, that's blowing me away. That, that effect, way they did that.
Android (05:01)
Yeah. Yeah, and now you
look at it you're like, that is the most terrible special effects I have ever seen.
Neo (05:05)
What did they use? Socks?
Were they using socks?
Android (05:11)
that? That was
on a can of Crisco and some red dye? I don't
So there's several theories. The first theory is it is a power plant hypothesis that's underneath this thing, right? With a subterrain water. I mean, this is insane, a subterrain water system. So I don't know what, what do they do now? Do they just start digging to find out? Because, right.
Neo (05:21)
Yep. Sure.
Well, I think that they can't for one. think
you got this guy who's the gatekeeper out there in Egypt. Hawass, I think his name is, and he is, he, he didn't, he says everything's fake. All new science is fake. And they've even, you know, tested that, that, uh, you know, there's been a lot of science scientists that have said that actually the pyramids are older than that, that he, they are stating that it is like, uh, by 12,500 years. And
Android (05:41)
Yeah, something like that.
Neo (06:01)
I think there's a lot that they have to go through in order to test it. But what's really cool is with what I'm learning and are
is that this report itself is only been published in one science magazine. So there's hasn't that that's the
Android (06:13)
Right, that's what I found kind of been
weird, you know, and mostly it's just taking off on the internet.
Neo (06:18)
Right. because it's so the fantasy of it is really cool because it's really the implications of it is that it will change us.
It'll change us tremendously. Our civilization will because we're going to have to look at things completely different because one let's say it is a power source. If it's a power source.
it becomes this will wait a minute if it was a power source from back then.
What, you know, what does that mean? And I think it would advance our technology by hundreds and hundreds of years if that is proven to be true. But anyway, it's only published in one science magazine. And I
that science magazine isn't the most reputable. So there, I think that it needs to be
Android (06:54)
No.
Neo (06:56)
reviewed.
Android (06:57)
Is the title
of the magazine science today? Sometimes.
Neo (07:02)
We think. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. So anyway, that's the whole thing. So I can't wait to see how this
Android (07:06)
Maybe. Science. Maybe? Yeah.
Neo (07:13)
unfolds.
Android (07:13)
I
mean, that would be really cool if they find that it is real. But yeah, a lot of things that I'm reading is like people are like, absolutely not. But if you go on YouTube, I mean, it's blown up. People are talking about it. They're showing the pictures. They're doing all kinds of stuff. But I'm like, yeah, no, I love it. I love
Neo (07:22)
Mm.
really is. Yeah. It's just the fantasy of it. If it's finding something like that. Yeah,
All
right. What else you got?
Android (07:35)
you always talk
abductions, right? That's what we do on the show. We talk about abductions. Yeah.
Neo (07:39)
The alien abductions, yeah.
Android (07:40)
Would you like to get abducted?
Neo (07:42)
it's one of those things we have talked about in the past that we know we from reading these stories, there are people that see UFOs and aliens seven, eight, nine times, or, know, they've been abducted. They've seen a spaceship. There's all this stuff. And it's like hitting a hole in one in golf. I've said that before. Yes. I would love to be abducted by an alien. Just once. I would like to see a spaceship.
Yes. I would love to be abducted.
Android (08:03)
Okay.
That's perfect. That's exactly what I wanted to hear because I have purchased you a one-way ticket. California.
Neo (08:09)
Hmm? Two.
Why? What's happening there?
Android (08:15)
The highest likelihood of an alien abduction is in California. And that would probably be near the Fresno area. That's where everything's been happening. So yeah, you have a one in 1075.
Neo (08:18)
Come on. For real?
Wow
Android (08:29)
People chance of being abducted.
Neo (08:31)
Why do they say that? Why? Why is that? Is that's the number one state to the chance to be abducted?
Android (08:35)
That's the number one
state, yeah, number one state from 1974 to 2025, since they've been reporting this at the UFO Center, right? They're saying that it's the highest likelihood of being abducted is in California, in the Fresno area. That's where most of the sightings have been. So I'm just kind of assuming that's where you would get abducted since that's where the most sightings would be. So I'm gonna email you that ticket so that you can actually go to California.
Neo (08:38)
out of
Okay. Yeah.
Yeah.
my god, it'd be so badass. So wait, is this out of how many states did they rank?
Android (09:08)
They did ten
Yeah, you're in Jersey. No. Not even ranked.
Neo (09:12)
Are we ranked? We're not ranked?
You know, it's so stupid because I used to live in California for like 14 years. What?
Android (09:19)
You know what is not ranked as well?
Indiana's not ranked. I'm not going. I'm safe. I'm safe.
Neo (09:23)
So you're, you're not going anywhere. Yeah. Well, I used
to live in California for, for almost 14 years. And then I moved back here and I left the state where I could possibly have been abducted. Who knew? That's very cool. They did a ranking on that. And I wonder what they're basing that off of. Like what, why it must be in sightings or.
Android (09:30)
For a hot minute, yeah.
But who knew? You know, maybe.
I think
it's based off sightings and actual people that have claimed to be abducted.
Neo (09:50)
Would you like to live in a state that has more alien abductions? Or would you feel more paranoid? Or you don't even believe in this? You don't even believe in that list. Right.
Android (09:52)
No. I'd be more paranoid. Yeah. First of all, I don't even believe it happened. Second
of all, I'm extremely paranoid.
Neo (10:01)
Well, that's very cool. What's the what's the number 10 state?
Android (10:05)
The number 10 state is Nevada.
Neo (10:10)
So it's all in the same area.
Android (10:11)
but in Nevada your odds are not good. You're one in 1740 people.
Neo (10:16)
all right, well.
Android (10:17)
That means, I mean, how they're ranking this too? They're ranking it as, it is one UFO to every thousand people. One UFO to every thousand seventy-three people. But if you move to California, it's going to be seventy-four. You're going to ruin their odds. You're going to have to take a couple people out. Send them to Mars.
Neo (10:29)
You know
You know,
I just had this thought that we should start a business called alien abductions and it is just the alien abduction experience. And then we don't, we don't tell you when we're coming. We don't tell you when it's happening, but you sign up for it. And then we just, you know, we'd show up as aliens and we take you into a ship or, know, obviously, you know, we'd make it like an RV. Yeah. An RV or something. There's no duct tape. There's no, not that, but we make it look like a, you know, a sterile spaceship inside and we do exams on people and then we probe them and then.
Android (10:51)
Show up.
Silver fan.
Neo (11:07)
Drop them back off. And they pay like 300 bucks for this experience.
Android (11:12)
$300!
Are you crazy? That's an amazing experience! You have to pay at least... $16.
Neo (11:19)
and we film it. my god, I think this. Yeah. Yeah, everybody gets everybody. Everybody gets a video of their experience. The best Christmas present ever.
Android (11:20)
Yeah, and then we post it. And we put that on TikTok. Here's young Ben Johnson. what's going on? I'm being baroned.
Thanks, Bob!
Neo (11:37)
Alright, I'm gonna have go to California then and see if that happens, but we'll see what's next.
Android (11:42)
What's next?
you like rock and roll?
Neo (11:44)
Yes, you know I love, I do love rock and roll. The 80s, 70s.
Android (11:49)
wasn't a fan of this band. I'm just gonna go ahead and say I was a fan of this man from the band. And his name is Mr. Ace Freely, the former guitarist of Kiss, right? He was known as Space Ace.
Neo (12:00)
Cheers!
Is he still
alive, really?
Android (12:05)
Yeah,
he's still alive.
Yeah. Yeah, but only Gene and Paul are performing and they've got two new people. Yeah, they've had a real rough time with it. They're falling outs and stuff. But anyway, Space Ace,
Neo (12:06)
And they're still performing, aren't they? Don't they go around?
Okay.
Android (12:18)
The former guitarist of the veteran heavy metal group, Kiss, right? He was always seen as an extraterrestrial type being, right? He grew up in the Bronx. He was called the Spaceman. It was really cool, right? But the reason why he called himself the Spaceman is because he was obsessed with extraterrestrials.
Neo (12:22)
Yeah.
Okay. Yeah.
That's awesome. It's awesome.
Android (12:39)
Okay, so he
said one night in his guard to state in Westchester County, New York in 2002.
He had an alien ship land in his backyard.
Neo (12:52)
Wait, an alien ship landed in his backyard. This is what he's saying. Okay. Okay.
Android (12:54)
in his backyard. is what he said. Ace
told this to a radio interviewer by the name of Eddie Trunk, adding that he had videotaped the encounter, but he doesn't talk about if he showed it to anybody or not. He said the flying saucer may have abducted him and then deposited him back on Earth with no conscious recollection of what happened.
Neo (13:00)
Okay.
So wait, he's saying that he thinks he was abducted, but he doesn't recall it. So he's just saying that he thinks he was abducted, but he also videotaped this.
Android (13:22)
He doesn't recall it. Right. He
also videotaped it, but I don't think the videotape came out. I don't think. He doesn't talk about it. Sounds kind of fishy, right?
Neo (13:29)
Sounds like our
alien abduction tour group that we're starting.
Android (13:36)
Right.
Yeah. But here's the weirdest thing of
There was a circular burn mark that was 27 feet in diameter left in the garden.
Neo (13:47)
That's a lot of myth.
Android (13:48)
You think it was math?
Neo (13:49)
I think he burned a circle in the ground. All this mess.
Android (13:52)
Okay, now
that wasn't, that was his last alien experience, but he did have a first alien experience when he first joined on with Kiss in 1974. He said he was flying in a plane. It was after midnight and he described something that looked like an enormous baseball floating outside the window of the plane. He was flying back from Los Angeles to New York.
Neo (13:56)
you
Okay.
That was in 72?
Android (14:18)
74, July 1974. He said it was really strange, but he said the sphere, yeah, like a sphere, a baseball.
Neo (14:21)
Yeah.
Like a spear.
That's he was
the baseballs, but that's the sphere ships that we're now seeing around. Yeah. Yeah. No, the Tic Tacs different than spheres. Now there's spheres. Yep. Now they take that.
Android (14:33)
seeing that we could tall and tic tacs. Is that the same thing right? Our tic tacs. OK, that's The spheres are there are the round ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
he said that the thing came up, it blinked once or twice, then shot off. That was it.
Neo (14:43)
Mm-hmm.
I wonder if like what he thought the blinking was maybe it was like observing like taking pictures or something. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. that's a cool story. That's one of the coolest cool stories that I've heard from like these rock and roll guys, you know, that's it's
Android (14:56)
They were like, it's Ace Freely. Beep, beep, Kiss. Yeah.
Yeah,
most of them are like, oh yeah, I was on the stage and I saw cigar in the sky. I wasn't high or anything.
Neo (15:12)
Yeah. Yeah. I would love to.
Yeah. No.
I would love to know if there is a video somewhere or if he has it or, know, on that. Yeah.
Android (15:23)
I don't think he does. I don't think
he does. I don't think it took. Because I'm sure, I mean, he's ace freely. mean, not that most people over the age of 30 would know. 20, they wouldn't know who he was.
Neo (15:36)
Mm.
I don't know, mean they, well, they wouldn't know who he is specifically. They know kids. Yeah,
Android (15:43)
They wouldn't know him, they'd know Kiss. They'd know Kiss, yeah.
he's always been my favorite Kiss person. I was never into Gene the Demon or the Starchild or the cat, you know?
Neo (15:52)
Yeah. But he's been
openly public about these sightings or that's why they call him ace freely, but that he's been right. He's been,
nothing.
Android (16:01)
the
Neo (16:01)
think it happened?
Android (16:02)
I don't know. I'm gonna believe Ace. I'm gonna say it's a mostly true rock and roll sighting.
Neo (16:07)
Alright.
Ace, you got a mostly true from Andrew. Let's go. That's right. That's the thing. I tend to believe the people I like.
Android (16:11)
It's just because I love him, dude. That's why. If I didn't like him, I'd be like, Look, I
don't like him enough to take a bath with him.
Neo (16:23)
Freely.
Just bathe. I think two dudes can bathe together without being a gay, weird sort of sexual event. I bathed with a guy from Kiss. How cool would that story be?
Android (16:24)
Just bathing, just washing. Yeah. Of course. No, no, you're right. Mm-hmm.
Guys, I'm going to share something with you right now. I've never told anybody. But I took a bath with Glen Campbell. Yeah, we were singing Rhinestone Cowboy the whole time while we were bathing.
Neo (16:48)
What? Glenn Campbell?
I think your bathing experience would be a lot different than mine. If I was with Ace, you're with Glenn.
Android (17:04)
Actually, it wasn't Glenn, it was John Denver.
Neo (17:07)
yeah, well I love John Denver.
Android (17:09)
No, didn't. You know that was my first concert I ever went to. John Denver. I was in sixth grade and I saw John Denver. Yeah.
Neo (17:11)
John Denver.
Yeah, he's
great. He was wonderful. Really terrific. All
Android (17:18)
Brilliant.
Neo (17:20)
that's the pulse of what's happening in the UFO world right now from Andrew. Thank you. That was awesome. So let's jump into this week's featured
Here's how it works listeners. I'll lay out the full account of a reported alien encounter just the way it was
And then Andrew and I will pull it apart and decide if this one's mostly true or mostly just
local folklore on
And we want to hear from you guys. So make sure you drop your verdict in the comments and while you're at it, follow us, share, subscribe and help us grow this mostly true Alien Story universe. All right, let's get into
we're in Falkville, Alabama in 1973.
a small town, which is at the time was just under a thousand people. Uh, it's a place where life kind of moves slow, you know, doors are left unlocked. The local police chief, he knew every resident by name.
And the local police chief is the center focus of this story. His name is Jeff Greenhall. He was just 26 years old at the time, which I can't believe he's the chief of police of a
Right. They voted him in.
Android (18:24)
There's only like 15 people that live in the town.
Neo (18:28)
young, he's responsible, he's straight-laced and he was a military veteran at the age of
was well respected by the community. He lived a quiet life. He was married, he had a wife and he was known for taking his job seriously even in a town that rarely saw more than the occasional stolen
And then that all changes in a single night.
So it was just past 10 PM on October 17th, 1973, when Green Hall, receives a disturbing phone call at
A hysterical woman claims that she had just witnessed a flying saucer and it landed in an open field just outside the city limits. She wouldn't give her name and she still, they still don't know who it was to this day, but her voice was panicked and trembling.
So Green Hall.
Thinking this might be a prank or at worst a case of someone hallucinating, he responds anyway. He grabs his 357 Magnum, he slips his Kevlar vest on over his casual clothes. He was off duty. He's at home.
Android (19:28)
Why, why, every time we, why, why do we always have to grab our weapons? You get a call from a woman with like, hello, yeah, that's a UFO, just landed in my backyard, you better come down there and get it.
Neo (19:30)
Why assume?
Where is it, police officer?
And his first thought is, I'm gonna need my gun.
Android (19:46)
I'm going to get my gun. I'm going go down there and I won't kill. I won't kill all those aliens. Okay.
Neo (19:51)
If it's an alien,
I'm killing
right. So he does, he grabs his gun. goes, has his vest on too. And, and memory he's at home, he's off duty. So he gets in his police cruiser and he heads out to the reported location and he didn't know it then, but this drive was going to destroy his career, his reputation and his life as he knew
So green hall, green hall.
pulled into a narrow dirt road. It's flanked by woods and pasture. And the headlights of his cruiser were slicing through the darkness and what he saw next would stick with him forever. First, first he checked around the area and see anything. So he decides to go down this back
one last time to see what he could find. And as he's going down there, he's about 75 feet away in the beam of his headlights stands this strange humanoid figure.
According to his report, it was around six feet tall. had an oddly slender build and its body was completely covered in this reflective silver metallic material like it was wrapped in
It wore what looked like a helmet or hood with no visible facial features and just a smooth, shiny mask. Its arms and legs were stiff and its movements were described as this robotic, mechanical and unnatural.
Android (21:14)
see like breaking
Neo (21:14)
There is a picture of it.
yeah, there's, there's actual picture. So green hall, he's stunned, but thinking quickly, he reaches for this Polaroid camera. He kept in his cruiser. Now they say Polaroid camera and all the stuff, the reports I've been reading it. I think I got lost in translation because I think it might've been a digital camera. I'm not sure, but they've referred to as Polaroid.
Android (21:37)
just a regular
regular film camera probably because 73 no no digital the aliens did
Neo (21:40)
Yeah, I don't know if they digital in 73, right? Yeah. So the
aliens did. Yeah. So he managed to take four photos of the figure and the first image is this is blurry, but unmistakable. It's a humanoid shape reflecting the headlights. So the humanoid shape and what he was metallic. was just the headlights of the cruise were reflecting off of this
Android (22:03)
Yep.
Neo (22:04)
without warning the figure he
the, the alien turns and he
but it didn't just run it. It bolted with incredible speed, almost like it had springs on its feet. was weaving through the field at a velocity. Green hall later claim was too fast for a human. And he described it as in humanly humanly fast.
green hall, he gets in his car after snapping four photos with guy and he chases. Yeah, just, yeah. Yeah. Or Mark, can you turn to the side? Yeah. Right.
Android (22:29)
Can you solve the- Get fo- Floppy! Can I get a picture of you? Hold on a second.
Neo (22:34)
So green hall gives chase in his cruiser and he pushes the car to 35 miles per hour, but he's, still couldn't keep up with him because he was also on a dirt road that was bumpy. So he couldn't go that
then he, and then he, crashes his car. He kind of crashes, I guess he lost control and, and then the alien is gone. There's no trace.
So green hall returns to town and he's shaken. He's unsure of what he had just witnessed.
And the next day he develops the Polaroids, which soon made their way to the press. And instead of being treated like a professional, cause he makes a report about this.
Greenhawg then is now being mocked by the media and the photos were circulated and ridiculed as either a hoax or an embarrassing mistake. So he was accused of everything from staging the incident.
with a person in a foil
fabricating it to get
they were saying he was just mentally unstable. So despite his solid reputation, he was chief of police, Green Hall, a couple months later from all this ridicule, he's fired from his position as police
wife ends up leaving him just months later
the...
Android (23:46)
metal guy.
Neo (23:53)
Yeah, yeah, uh-huh. And fashionable.
Android (23:53)
She liked his moves. He was faster. He could dance. He was an amazing, incredible dancer.
Exactly.
Neo (24:02)
And then not only that, not only does he lose his job and his wife leaves him, but his home mysteriously burns to the
it was an arson for which no one was ever
then from that moment on a green hall ends up disappearing from public life. He refused in any interviews.
he became
name actually became this synonymous with humiliation and not heroism.
The story has divided investigators,
Some theorists believe that Green Hall stumbled upon a secret military test. possibly a prototype exoskeleton or robotic drone that was being tested by nearby military facilities.
Notably the Redstone arsenal, which was nearby a major U S army base with space missile testing.
ground is less than a hundred miles away from where this report happened. incident
he may have interrupted a covert
and
been silenced by embarrassment
than
another theory is that,
was not a biological alien, but a mechanical scout.
a robot or AI explorer from another
planet. That's pretty cool. there were, yeah. Yeah. The reflective suit, nonverbal behavior and extreme speed also just non-human
Android (25:09)
That's kind of cool to think about,
Neo (25:17)
is weird mechanical skill. Again, why are we in the middle of the woods in Alabama of your mechanical scout? And you know, what are you looking
Android (25:25)
for a wife.
Neo (25:27)
for a chief of police young. need them young.
Android (25:29)
He was
I saw his wife, she was pretty. I want her,
Neo (25:34)
the wife and the alien have been seeing each other for like months. He was like, all right, it's happening
Android (25:37)
Pryor.
Neo (25:38)
happening tonight. I will make sure it's happens. Yeah. All right. So then another theory is
Android (25:39)
We're gonna.
Neo (25:44)
Green Hall may have fabricated the entire story. So, or he was pranked by someone in a fire retardant suit or emergency
strangely, Green Hall sighting came in the middle of a UFO wave across the Southern US. And in fact, just six days earlier on October 11th in 73 is the Pascagoula abduction happened in Mississippi, not far down the
those of you who don't know this story, it's in one of our episodes, but where two men claimed they were taken aboard a craft by robotic and surhanded creatures. That's kind of
And they described it as mechanical alien-like beings as well.
Android (26:22)
Yeah,
except at Puskola the aliens actually hovered. They floated. They didn't run.
Neo (26:25)
Yeah, they hovered.
Yeah, just knowing that story real well. I don't and seeing the picture that Green Hall has taken. I don't look anything like what they described. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Also multiple UFO sightings were reported throughout Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi in October of 73. So there's
Android (26:32)
They don't look anything alike, yeah. Although people were trying to say that, so yeah, I don't believe that.
Neo (26:46)
you never know if that was, you know,
Green Hall, he remains a mysterious tragic
a figure he did
I think or something like that. He never profited from the story. He never sought fame until his
never changed his
photos are out there. They circulate in the UFO communities. fact, MUFON
examined the photos now. So here's the thing.
No, everybody that examined the photos and Q, including MUFON, the mutual UFO
they all said the photos were legitimate. The photos themselves were legitimate. There was no doctoring or anything of it,
no one really acknowledged that that probably is an alien.
no one really backed this, this kid up.
is no, mean that like Falkville, there's no Memorial, no mention of the
sort of like a dirty secret. all keep about this poor kid.
Android (27:41)
Metal
Neo (27:42)
So that's our story. now, Andrew, I'm going to hand it off to you. I'd like you to weigh in on whether you think this is mostly true alien story or not. And
add your thoughts in the comments as well. Okay, Andrew, what do you think? Is this a mostly true alien
Android (27:53)
Okay, so there was a couple things. I did a little deep dive on this. The reason why he had that camera with him just so that he know he used that camera for mug shots and stuff. So it was a real camera, like a really high quality camera. Unfortunately, because the thing was so far away from him and the lighting was so terrible, all they got was like this pixelated like looking photo, right? And he developed them. Now the...
Neo (28:09)
That makes sense.
Mm-hmm.
Android (28:22)
correlation between alien UFO and this metal man actually came from his report saying that this woman had called saying that a UFO landed in her yard. That's where the whole problem started and that's why he was ridiculed and mocked and that's terrible because if not he never said it was an alien. That's the whole thing with this story. He never said it was an alien. He just said it was this metal man that he saw in the middle of the field that just ran super fast.
Neo (28:52)
You're getting the report of a phone call from a woman who says it's a UFO and then he takes a picture and it's a metal man and then they put everything together they just call it an alien straight up.
Android (28:55)
Right, that's panicked, that's like, right. Right.
So I, what, what I think happened is I think this woman saw this weird looking dude running around in a metal suit, something. She called the police, figured out that it was an alien. So she just said that to get somebody to come out there. This poor guy goes out. He sees this thing. He's smart enough, which that's.
The thing that bothers me the most is that he was smart enough to take a picture of it. Every other alien abduction thing never talks about having a camera or they had a camera and guess what? The film didn't work or whatever, right? This guy was smart
Neo (29:35)
Mm-hmm.
Android (29:37)
the weirdest part of it all. They burned his house down right and his wife left him. He ended up getting remarried later in life. He had grandchildren. He had all that. But do you know that his house was broken into?
and they took the real photos. They took the actual photos down the road, later on down the road, yeah. So somebody broke into his house. He said he had guns in his house, he had jewelry in his house, and the only thing they took were the photos.
Neo (29:52)
Wait, you're talking down the road?
Well, they took the photos, but how are all of the photos circulating?
Android (30:10)
They're
photos of photos. He was smart enough to make copies, but the original copies disappeared. Now that might not be true.
Neo (30:16)
Yeah, go on. I'm surprised.
I'm surprised that the original photos didn't get burned down in the arson of the his first home with his wife. The police station or with him. Okay.
Android (30:25)
No, because he didn't have them there. He had them with him. Yeah, he had them
at the police station. That's why they didn't burn.
my take on this. Is this a mostly true alien story? No. I don't think it's alien related at all. I think that it is some sort of government cover up. I think it was a guy in a metal suit that they were testing. Maybe some sort of exoskeleton battle suit or something.
Neo (30:33)
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Android (30:50)
There
are military bases, like you mentioned, near that area. mean, 100 miles. If this guy is running at frickin' 60 miles an hour, you know, that we're kind of guessing, and he just kind of disappeared, it wasn't like there was a bright light that took him back up. He just ran. I think he was freaked out because he got caught. He wasn't supposed to see anybody out there. And then he did. And so, I think the worst thing in all of this is that
Neo (31:05)
Yeah.
Right. Yeah.
Android (31:16)
ruined this guy's
Neo (31:18)
So you're saying this is a not a mostly true alien story. Yeah. Okay. Good stuff. I, I, all right. And I'll weigh
Android (31:21)
No, no.
Neo (31:25)
my thought is this so there's this guy squared away 26 years old. He's chief of police. He was a he was an army veteran Married, you know had a really nice
And then he gets this phone call from anonymous call, which they never even identified who that was and all these years
Android (31:38)
No, they never know who it was,
right?
Neo (31:41)
Never knew who it was. Um, and so he heads out there. He has his camera. The fact that he had it with him because of, uh, know, mug shots and stuff like that, that, that makes sense. I feel like though that that camera should be at the police station. I feel like a lot of this stuff should have been at the police station. His gun, his vest is, you know, everything. I mean, I, I imagine chief of police, he probably did take stuff home, but I mean, they're going to need that camera at the police station in order to take mug shots with the other guys that are working. If something happens at night, you know,
So what's he on call 24 hours, you know, 24 seven ago. Yeah. Yeah. Probably, probably. But I would imagine they had some sort of backup. Anyway, he,
Android (32:12)
Pretty much. I mean, in a small town like that, yeah, he is. He is.
Neo (32:21)
he remains, uh, think being an army veteran, he remains calm and the, in the heat of battle. So you did have the fortitude to pull his camera out, take a picture and those pictures do exist. They were out there. I looked at the
what throws me off the scent here is.
you know, wanted to believe this, but what throws me off when you really look at the
photos or photo that's out there. And some say they even see a UFO in the background and stuff like that. And, know, it's a couple of photos, you know, you can make out anything in these photos, but it's very, the very clear, that is a, you know, a, and something in a suit of some sort of metal. It's shaped like humanoid.
Android (32:57)
Yeah, shaped like a humanoid. We'll just say that,
yeah.
Neo (33:01)
But the issue I have is that it really looks like this shoes on this, you know, this alien, the legs are, they're standing in a way that we would normally stand if we were in a, you know, a Halloween costume that looked like this. You know what I mean? It's like the legs are filled out. Like, you know what I mean? It's not like
Android (33:18)
or a metal suit.
Neo (33:25)
anything that's different. So I'm kind of leaning towards, yes, I think this was an exoskeleton of a test or
don't know why he would do it. I don't know why he would do it, but it could have been him, you know, hoaxing everything. you know, there could have been, could have been involved in that. He probably not, probably not. But when you look at the picture, I don't believe this was
Android (33:43)
I don't think so.
Neo (33:48)
And I, I don't understand. I mean, he may have been having trouble with his wife, but maybe, you know, she was embarrassed by this and thought that, you know, I can't live with you, you know, through this. This is very, maybe the ridicule was so hard that it just, you know, she was. Yeah. Yeah. You make me look stupid. You making me look stupid, Jeff.
Android (34:03)
grew up here in this town. I can't live here now with you telling me this.
And you know I only went to third grade. Now I look more stupid. Thank you.
Neo (34:13)
You know,
you know, I was miss
anyway, so yeah, yeah, right. So I don't think, I think the poor guy got sucked into some bullshit and, by something, but it was that that's something was,
Android (34:19)
County.
Neo (34:31)
manmade here.
And, I don't think this is a mostly true alien story. And I do feel bad for this guy to go through what he just went through just because he was the chief of police and he reported it. Maybe he handled the reporting wrong. Maybe he went about it the wrong
Android (34:44)
world.
Neo (34:48)
and that caused the vertical.
Android (34:48)
I
think he reported it like he would report any other incident. And the press freaking crushed him.
Neo (34:56)
You know what would have saved him if he didn't have pictures and if there were no pictures ever existed, you know, it's just, it's odd. If, if I put myself in that situation, it's an odd action to take for him to see this thing. He's out of his car, goes back to his car, grabs his camera, comes back out and takes a picture. Today. People are idiots with their phones. They don't even take pictures and videos. And if they do, they're shitty and they're terrible or whatever, you know,
I just don't know in 73 how he had the fortitude to go out. I'm gonna take a picture of this. That's that's why I go Where you in on this?
Android (35:22)
Right.
Well, think, no, I
think that he said, I gotta take a picture, because no one's gonna believe me if I tell them I saw a metal man, but if I can get a picture of it, and it was running.
Neo (35:37)
But but but even
even reporting UFOs back then, you know, everybody was hesitant, every reporting an alien or UFO or unknown. I mean, it's his job to have to report this, right? But but he it's just one of those things where, you know, I think he was, you know, wrong, wrong guy, wrong place, wrong time. Yeah. And, and it was not it wasn't from another another.
Android (35:44)
yeah!
Wrong place, wrong time, yeah. Yeah, wrong place, wrong time.
Neo (36:04)
because also none, none of the agencies around that looked at the photos, they, they, they confirm the legitimacy of the photos, but they all said, it's not, it's, this is not an alien. This is not, this is not anything that we can classify. Yeah. So you see his, his shoes, see those shoes, the metal man's got on.
Android (36:18)
They were like, hey, Bill, come in here. Bill, come here. Look at this photo.
Now they're like...
Isn't that Charlie in that suit we sent him out in? Yeah. Can you get Charlie? Charlie, come in here. Yeah, what is it?
Neo (36:35)
Charlie, how
many times did we tell you not to put on the tin foil suit and run out in the woods in Alabama?
Android (36:39)
Well, you know what? I thought it was a good idea and I ran like you told me to. You said if someone comes, run. And I did. And man, that suit made me fast. I was running like 70 miles per hour. This old cop tried to catch me. You should have seen him. He drove his car in a ditch.
Neo (36:59)
or green hall did he do you do you know if he went back into law enforcement somewhere else
Android (37:03)
Um, no, he just kind of, uh, no, I mean, there's not much about him. I did listen to a radio interview, um, a telephone interview with him. Um, that was done. They were just wanting to talk to him and he was hesitant to talk, even talk about the story, but he talked to this young kid. This was like in 2005, um, or 2004. Um, and the guy recorded the thing and they did a transcript. It's on, it's on YouTube. Um, but it's really.
Neo (37:09)
Thank
Mm.
Yeah, did he sound pain?
Android (37:33)
Yeah, he's like, you know, I just did what I knew I was going to do and took photos of this thing and reported it all. And then everything went to hell after that. I mean, his new wife didn't think that he was crazy. He's like, I've had a good life. I've had three grandchildren and you know, he just talked about his life. It was really sad, but he said the same thing. He's like, I drove. There was this guy standing in the middle of the road.
Neo (37:44)
Mm. Mm.
Android (38:01)
I looked like, what is that? I got out of my car, I took the camera, I took photos of it. And then he started running. So I started driving after him. He goes, I could only get the car up to 35 because the terrain was so bad. He goes, and then he darted off some off place and he goes, and then I ran into the ditch trying to go after him. That was it. But that's all he ever said. He never said this was a space alien. He never said that. So for them to bash him like that, it's it's wrong.
Neo (38:13)
Yeah, yep.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Android (38:30)
It's just wrong.
Neo (38:31)
Yeah, it's wrong. But you're also talking about the time, the place. Yeah. Yeah, that's whole thing. And I'm sure his wife was so mortified by this that she left him. And then, you know, they burn his house down. And, know, they just really just went after
Android (38:35)
1973, rural Alabama, I mean.
Yeah, you're right.
Neo (38:47)
All right. Well, I say it's not a mostly true alien story. You say it's not a mostly true alien story. And that's the Falkville metal
it's got all the classics, you know,
Everything that you want in a story. just wish it was
do you guys think listeners? What do you think? Do you think this is a metallic beam from another world or a small town mischief gone? If they drop your thoughts in the comments, we do read all your comments. So make sure you add them and make sure you subscribe to us. And that wraps it up for this episode of mostly true alien stories. Be sure to follow rate, share, and subscribe. And we'll be back next week with another story that should have you questioning the sky above and maybe.
even your neighbor's wardrobe. until then, yeah, stay curious, stay weird and keep looking up. Andrew, go get something to eat.
Android (39:32)
I gotta eat. All right,