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Hosted by Neal Girandola · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 67 episodes
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"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.
Neal Girandola hosts Mostly True Alien Stories, a society show with 67 episodes published.
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 si
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 ligh
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 — anot
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 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
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 n
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 craf
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 —
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
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
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
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
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 — wi
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 lizar
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 cha
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
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
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 messag
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 tra
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 la
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Mostly True Alien Stories is hosted by Neal Girandola. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 67 episodes.
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