Mostly True Alien Stories

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...

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...

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 —...

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. Of...

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...

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...

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...

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 exhau...

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...

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...

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...

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 hai...

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 instan...

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 cal...

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...

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...

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 19...

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 epis...

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 eme...

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 testimo...

In 1964, a police officer in Socorro, New Mexico reported encountering a landed craft, two small humanoid figures, and a liftoff that left physical traces behind. Within hours, military and federal investigators arrived—and the case quickly became one of Project Blue Book’s most puzzling files. This episode explores the full account of the Lonnie Zamora incident, the evidence documented at the sce...

In 1966, a quiet school morning outside Melbourne turned into one of the most astonishing UFO events ever reported. Students, teachers, and nearby residents watched a strange object descend, hover, and depart vertically at incredible speed. Military aircraft followed. Armed personnel arrived. Witnesses were questioned. Then — silence. In this episode, we examine the Westall UFO Incident in full: t...

In October 1967, something entered the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia — witnessed by civilians, confirmed by police, and investigated by the Canadian military. No wreckage was found. No aircraft was missing. And the event was officially logged as unexplained. The Shag Harbor Incident remains one of the few UFO cases acknowledged by a national government and quietly archived without re...

In 1983, a suburban Indiana woman reported a terrifying nighttime encounter involving a hovering craft, a blue beam, physical injuries, and missing time. The incident—known as the Copley Woods Encounter —became one of the most famous alien abduction cases in history. In this episode of Mostly True Alien Stories , we revisit the case with special guest Matthew S. Williams , space journalist and sci...

For centuries, stories of Santa Claus have shared striking similarities across cultures: a mysterious nighttime visitor, traveling through the sky, appearing during the winter solstice, watching homes, and leaving gifts behind. In this special Christmas episode of Mostly True Alien Stories , we explore the origins of Santa far beyond modern holiday tradition — examining ancient folklore, historica...