In the 1950s, Lieutenant Colonel Richard French was one of the U.S. Air Force’s top investigators for Project Blue Book — the program designed to debunk UFO sightings. His orders were clear: explain everything away.
But during an assignment in Newfoundland, French said he witnessed something he couldn’t dismiss: two saucer-shaped craft submerged beneath the water, with small gray beings repairing them. The story stayed buried for decades until 2013, when French — then 83 years old — told the world at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in Washington, D.C.
In this episode of Mostly True Alien Stories, Neal Girandola and Andrew Triana dig into French’s shocking testimony, the credibility of a man once called “the King of Debunking,” and whether this underwater UFO encounter holds up to scrutiny.
Is this the confession of a whistleblower… or just another tall tale?
👽 Listen now and decide: is this a Mostly True Alien Story, or not?
Chapters: Colonel French
Chapters: Colonel French
00:00 Cold Open - Colonel French & The Drowned UFOs
01:39 Buga Sphere Carbon Dating Controversy
07:22 Asteroid Threat to the Moon
11:21 Richard French's UFO Encounter
17:02 Skepticism and Belief in UFOs
22:45 Alien Encounters and UFOs
25:10 The Nature of Alien Technology
25:49 Disclosure and the Citizen Hearing
27:48 Debunking and Weasel Words
30:14 The Whistleblower's Perspective
32:15 Project Blue Book and Its Implications
34:30 Weighing the Evidence
40:26 Final Thoughts on the Alien Story