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On March 2nd 1679 — 268 years before the word UFO existed — 16 people in County Tipperary, Ireland looked up at the sky and saw something they could not explain. They wrote it down. They had it printed in Dublin. They signed their names. A military lieutenant. A gentleman of the landed gentry. Named civilians who understood exactly what it meant to publish a sworn account of something inexplicable in 17th century Ireland. You did not sign your name to something like that lightly. The pamphlet exists. The WorldCat library catalog records it. One copy sold at auction in Dublin in 2021. The witnesses described something large, moving with purpose, that they could only call a ship — because that was the largest moving object any of them had ever seen. This is the oldest documented UFO report in history. And it rewrites when this conversation actually began. Neal, Andrew, and Lemon cover the Tipperary Skyship. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

October 18th 1973. 11pm. Ohio. A US Army Reserve helicopter with five military crew members encounters a cigar-shaped craft that stops dead above them — no deceleration, no momentum — and bathes the cockpit in green light. The pilot pushes the controls down to descend. The helicopter rises 1,800 feet against his own controls.No mechanical explanation has ever been identified for how a 9,500 pound military aircraft ascends against pilot input under those conditions.Four civilians on the ground watched the same green beam illuminate the cockpit and watched the helicopter rise — before they knew what anyone in the aircraft had described. Nine independent witnesses. One instrument record. A compass that spun for 10 minutes after it left. The case was presented to the United Nations in 1978 by Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Dr. Jacques Vallée. Hynek called it among the most credible close encounters he had ever evaluated. It is still officially unexplained. Neal, Andrew, and Lemon cover the night a UFO lifted a military helicopter against its own controls. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

November 2nd 1957. Levelland, Texas. 11pm.A farm worker's engine dies. A glowing object is in the road. It lifts off. His engine restarts on its own. He calls the sheriff. Before the officer can process that call — another one comes in. Then another. Then another.Nine independent witnesses. Three hours. Multiple roads. All strangers. All describing the same object. All reporting the same thing — engine dies when it approaches, engine restarts when it leaves. The sheriff drove out and saw it himself. The Air Force sent one investigator in plain clothes for seven hours and blamed a storm that never happened.Their own chief scientific consultant later said on the record — the explanation was wrong. Ball lightning cannot stop cars and put out headlights. Neal, Andrew, and Emma cover the most electromagnetically documented UFO mass sighting in American history. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

On April 30th 2023 a green fireball crossed four states at 11:50pm. Forty minutes later a Las Vegas family called 911."They're eight, nine, ten feet tall. Big eyes. 100% not human." Two police officers were dispatched. On body cam one said to his partner: "I'm so nervous right now. I have butterflies bro." He independently corroborated seeing something fall from the sky on the way to the call. Officers arrived. Interviewed the family. One entered the backyard. Metro PD blacked out that portion of the footage. Their official statement: they are not treating this as a hoax. A forensic analyst later concluded the family's footage is authentic and shows two figures. The case was officially closed and officially unexplained. The family is still in that house. Still wants to move. Neal, Andrew, and Emma cover the Las Vegas backyard alien incident — one of the most documented modern UFO contact claims on record. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

On March 26th 1997 authorities found 39 people dead in a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Matching outfits. Nike sneakers. Purple shrouds. Five dollars and three quarters in each pocket — travel money for a journey they believed was real. Heaven's Gate took 25 years to build. Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles created a theology that was genuinely original — the God of the Bible was an extraterrestrial, Jesus was an alien, and Heaven was a literal physical realm in outer space called the Next Level. When Nettles died in 1985 Applewhite reframed her death as the graduation ceremony. Twelve years later the Hale-Bopp comet appeared. They believed a spacecraft was hiding behind it. They were waiting for a sign. They found one. It was not what they thought it was. The Heaven's Gate website is still live today. Neal, Andrew, and Lemon cover the UFO cult that ended at a comet — and the question underneath all of it. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story?New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

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. 🛸

On May 20th 1967 Stefan Michalak was prospecting near Falcon Lake, Manitoba when two oval metallic craft descended. He did not run. He got out his notebook and spent 30 minutes sketching what he saw. When he approached — his glove melted on the hull. A blast of hot gas hit his chest.His shirt caught fire. At the hospital doctors documented a precise grid pattern of burns consistent with the exhaust grill Michalak had already sketched before anyone examined him. Four government agencies investigated. None could close the file. Canada put it on a postage stamp. Neal, Andrew, and Emma dig into the most physically documented UFO contact case in Canadian history. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

December 26th, 1985. A cabin in the Hudson Valley. A horror novelist wakes up being carried out of his bedroom. He writes it all down. The book sells two million copies. The face on the cover becomes the most recognized alien image in Western culture. Then nearly half a million readers write back to say — it happened to them too. This is Whitley Strieber. This is Communion. Neal, Andrew, and Emma dig into the case that changed everything — the hypnotic regression, the 500,000 letters archived at Rice University, the temporal lobe epilepsy diagnosis, and the horror writer who tried for a year to explain it away — and couldn't. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

In 1994 a Chinese lumberjack went up a mountain and something hit him before he reached the top. When he woke up at home — he had missing time, an unexplained scar, and the beginning of three encounters with a being who told him she was carrying his child. That child will be born on another planet in 2054. China's government investigated it. The Chinese Academy of Sciences sent a team. State media covered it.They called it credible. Nine years later he passed a formal lie detector test. He is still telling the same story — thirty years later — unchanged. Neal, Andrew, and Emma cover the most extraordinary alien encounter most Westerners have never heard of. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

Project Hail Mary is the most scientifically credible alien contact story ever put on screen —and Neal and Andrew have  spoilers, thoughts, and a verdict. Andy Weir's 2021 novel turned filmfollows a middle school teacher who wakes alone on a spacecraft, pieces together an impossible mission, and finds an alien called Rocky —a spider-like creature from a dying world — who becomes the most unlikely partner  in the history of science fiction. The science holds.The relationship lands. The ending hits hard. Does this film change how you think about what real first contact would actually look like? Neal and Andrew think it might. Subscribe to Mostly True Alien News — short, sharp alien news and entertainment every week. 🛸

Most alien abduction cases have one thing in common — no physical evidence. This one has a hair. In July 1992 Peter Khoury woke to find two women sitting on his bed in Sydney. They didn't look entirely human. When it was over — they were gone. He kept a single strand of blonde hair for six years. In 1998 forensic DNA testing revealed something that has never been satisfactorily explained — the hair was human, but the combination of DNA markers has never been recorded in any known human population. Peter Khoury never cashed in. He is still telling the same story30 years later. Neal, Andrew, and Emma dig into the only alien abduction case in history with DNA evidence. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

In September 1952 NATO launched the largest naval exercise in Atlantic history — 12 nations, 78 warships, 80,000 military personnel. Over 12 days multiple crews from multiple countries filed nearly identical reports — with no cross communication between them. A metallic disc orbited a Danish warship three times before vanishing. A British pilot banked toward a silver sphere — it disappeared instantly. The USS Roosevelt's official photographer took confirmed color photographs of a silvery sphere trailing the fleet. Those photographs were never released. The Air Force reviewed everything under Project Blue Book. Their classification: Unidentified. Five months later the CIA convened the Robertson Panel — and instead of investigating further,recommended using Walt Disney and the Boy Scouts to make the public stop asking questions. That report was classified for 22 years. Neal, Andrew, and Emma break it all down. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

In December 1999 a Swedish researcher sat across from a being who claimed to be a member of a reptilian species that has lived on this planet for millions of years. She called herself Lacerta. In Latin — that means lizard. She said her species evolved here before humans existed and went underground when the surface became ours. She said humans were genetically engineered by a third species she called the Elohim. She said the triangle craft in modern UFO cases are human built — not alien. She confirmed Roswell — but said the occupants were not her species. The original recording is gone. The original document has never appeared. The man who translated it said it was a hoax. And yet it has never gone away. Neal, Andrew, and Emma dig into the full Lacerta Files. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

The SS wasn't just building weapons. They were looking for something else. Die Glocke — a bell-shaped Nazi device that made people near it sick and die. Project name: Kronos. As in time. The Vril Society — blueprints channeled from a star system 65 light years away. Their leader vanished in 1945 with one final message: Nobody is staying. Operation Paperclip — 1,600 German scientists brought to the United States after the war. UFO sightings across America exploded the same year. In 1965 a bell-shaped object crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. The military erased it within hours. Hans Kammler controlled every black program the Third Reich ever ran. No body. No grave. No trial. Neal, Andrew, and Emma dig into five of the most disturbing claims in the Nazi-alien mythology. Is this a Mostly True Alien Story? New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. 🛸

Every alien encounter report shares one detail nobody can fully explain: they look like us. Upright. Humanoid. Communicative. Emotionally detached. Scientifically precise. Across decades of encounter reports — Betty and Barney Hill, Travis Walton, Antonio Villas Boas, the Friendship Case — witnesses who never met each other described the same thing. Not monsters. Not incomprehensible beings from another world. Something that looks like a version of us. So what if it is? The future human hypothesis proposes that what we call aliens aren't visitors from another planet — they're evolved humans from the future, returning to study what they've lost. Biological anthropologist Michael Masters has argued it's scientifically plausible. Jacques Vallée spent decades suggesting the phenomenon is tied to human consciousness and time, not deep space. In this episode, Neal, Andrew, and Lemon lay out the case, work through the patterns across the most documented abduction cases in history, and ask the question that changes everything: what if they're not coming for us — what if they're coming back to remember what it felt like to be us? Grounded. Funny. Occasionally ridiculous. Always worth your time. Mostly True Alien Stories drops new episodes every Wednesday.Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

In November 1974, a quiet town in northeastern Pennsylvania became the center of one of the most unusual UFO reports of the decade. Witnesses described a glowing object descending into a mining pond, police responded to the scene, and by morning thousands had gathered to see what was happening. Known as “Fire in the Pond,” the Carbondale UFO incident remains one of the most debated cases of the 1970s UFO wave.In this episode, we examine the timeline, the witnesses, the investigation, and the explanation that followed — before deciding whether this is a mostly true alien story or not.

In 1967, Betty Andreasson claimed five beings entered her Massachusetts home without opening the door.Her family reportedly froze in place. She described missing time, an egg-shaped craft, symbolic visions, and a message that felt more spiritual than extraterrestrial. Years later, hypnosis sessions uncovered details that blurred the line between alien encounter and religious experience.This episode explores:  – The timeline of events  – The role of hypnosis in abduction cases  – The influence of belief systems on encounter narratives  – And whether spiritual symbolism strengthens or weakens credibility Was Betty taken aboard a craft… or was something else happening entirely?We weigh the evidence and decide. Chapters: 00:00 Alien Abduction Stories and The Betty Andreessen Case01:37 Discussion on Michio Kaku and Alien Theories04:08 Critique of Independence Day and Its Themes06:19 Cultural Commentary on Strippers in Film09:15 Character Representation in Film11:35 Alien Movie Analysis11:51 Speculation vs. True Reports13:02 Betty's Encounter with Aliens18:13 Hypnotherapy and Memory Recovery23:53 Alien Encounters and Experiences25:25 The Nature of Alien Technology27:02 Hypnosis and Memory Retrieval28:10 The Role of Dr. J. Allen Hynek30:02 Cultural Impact of Alien Stories32:47 Skepticism and Belief in Alien Encounters36:11 Weighing the Evidence43:35 Conclusion: Truth or Fiction?

She wasn’t taken against her will. She didn’t describe fear, paralysis, or missing time. She described love.In this episode, we explore Klarer’s claim of a long-term relationship with a being named Akon, her alleged travels aboard a craft known as the “Silver Star,” and the extraordinary personal and scientific explanations she offered to support her experience.We also examine why this story emerged when it did, how it was received by researchers, and what it reveals about the early contact era of UFO history — when encounters were often framed as instructional, romantic, or spiritual rather than threatening. A strange case. A deeply human story. And one of the most debated encounters we’ve ever covered.

In 1959, a group of missionaries in Papua New Guinea witnessed a strange aerial object hovering above their station in broad daylight. What followed was hours of observation, multiple witnesses, and reports that would later be taken seriously by investigators around the world.This episode examines the Father Gill UFO encounter — one of the rare cases involving sustained observation, group testimony, and detailed documentation. We explore what was reported, how skeptics responded, and why this case continues to be cited as one of the strongest multi-witness UFO encounters on record. Is this a mostly true alien story… or something else entirely?