Podcast
Mostly True Alien Stories
Hosted by Neal Girandola · EN
"Smartless" Meets "Huberman Lab" With Aliens. Not Woo Woo but more Ha Ha. We explore reported alien phenomenon and stories from history and determine whether it's mostly true or not. Celebrity interviews, alien news and entertainment, and unbelievable stories.
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39 People Believed The Aliens Were Waiting For Them
1w ago00:45:57Tap to summarizeOn 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. 🛸
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The Cape Girardeau Incident — America's First Alien Recovery
2w ago00:45:51Tap to summarizeSpring 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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13,000 People Saw The Same Thing. The Government Agreed.
3w ago00:41:09Tap to summarizeOn 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. 🛸
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The Man Who Touched A UFO And Has The Burns To Prove It
4w ago00:40:11Tap to summarizeOn 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 sketchedbefore 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. 🛸
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The True Story Behind Communion —Whitley Strieber's Encounter
Apr 1600:48:04Tap to summarizeDecember 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. 🛸
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She Told Him His Child Would Be Born On Another Planet In 2054
Apr 900:55:55Tap to summarizeIn 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. 🛸
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Project Hail Mary — The Most Scientifically Honest Alien Contact Story Ever Made
Apr 400:07:31Tap to summarizeProject 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 entertainmentevery week. 🛸
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The Only Alien Abduction Case With DNA Evidence
Apr 200:49:12Tap to summarizeMost 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. 🛸
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80,000 Soldiers Saw It. The Government Buried The Photos.
Mar 2600:53:47Tap to summarizeIn 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. 🛸
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The Interview Transcript That Should Not Exist
Mar 1901:06:46Tap to summarizeIn 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. 🛸
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