Mostly True Alien Stories

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, historical accounts of sky visitors, glowing aerial phenomena, and winter encounters reported long before Santa became a commercial icon.

From Lapland to Scandinavia, medieval Europe to modern radar reports, we follow a trail of stories that suggest Santa may be more than a myth — and possibly a cultural memory shaped by real encounters in the sky.

One host argues Santa’s origins point toward something otherworldly.
The other believes the explanation lies in the supernatural and human storytelling.

So what’s the truth?

Is Santa simply a symbol of the season…or one of humanity’s oldest unresolved mysteries? 🎄👽

Listen now and decide for yourself whether this is a Mostly True Alien Story… or not.

The Paul Bennewitz Deception is one of the darkest and most important stories in UFO history — and it has nothing to do with aliens.

In the late 1970s, engineer Paul Bennewitz began recording strange lights and radio signals near Kirtland Air Force Base. Instead of telling him the truth, government officials fed him false alien narratives to conceal classified military programs.

Over time, those lies destroyed Bennewitz’s mental health and helped seed many of the UFO myths still circulating today — including underground bases, alien treaties, and secret wars.

In this episode, we examine:

• What Bennewitz actually uncovered
• How disinformation campaigns operate
• The ethical cost of government secrecy
• Why real UFO cases are harder to separate from fiction

This is a story about manipulation, trust, and how easily truth can be buried.

Is this a Mostly True Alien Story… or not?

In August 1993, a quiet rural road outside Melbourne became the center of one of Australia’s most debated UFO encounters. Multiple drivers reported the same massive craft, the same blinding flash, the same missing time, and similar physical effects — yet their stories don’t perfectly align.

In this episode of Mostly True Alien Stories, Neal and Andrew examine the entire Kelly Cahill case from start to finish.
We explore:

• What each witness claimed to see
 • The reported physical injuries and triangle mark
 • Car engine failures and electromagnetic oddities
 • Humanoid figures with glowing red eyes
 • Why the witnesses didn’t come forward at the same time
 • The inconsistencies that challenge the case
 • And whether the evidence supports a real encounter — or a constructed narrative

Andrew delivers a detailed breakdown of the research surrounding Cahill’s book Encounter, the timeline of events, and the shifting details that raise red flags. Neal weighs the emotional and psychological components that make this case so enduring — and so divisive.

This is one of Australia’s most cited UFO encounters… but does it hold up?

Listen now and decide: Is the Kelly Cahill encounter a Mostly True Alien Story… or not?

In 1965, a massive glowing fireball streaked across the sky over South Africa’s Karoo region — zig-zagging, stopping, crackling, and disappearing in a burst of light and sulfur. Two months later, a nearly identical object crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, prompting military retrievals, sealed reports, and decades of speculation.

Are these events connected?

Were they meteors, Cold War rocket failures… or something the public was never meant to see twice?

This week, Neal and Andrew are joined by South African explorers Roland Gaspar and Frank Martins (The Adventure Guys) to investigate the Craddock Fireball and its possible relationship to the Kecksburg UFO crash.

Together, they explore:

• Eyewitness accounts from Craddock/Nwoba
• Why the fireball’s behavior defied typical meteor physics
• Secret South African radar installations & Cold War weapons programs
• Kecksburg’s acorn-shaped craft & military lockdown
• Theories involving Soviet capsules, GE reentry vehicles, and even the Nazi Bell
• Why both events were immediately labeled “meteors”… despite contradictions
• And whether this is a Mostly True Alien Story — or something else entirely

This is one of the most unique cross-continental UFO stories we’ve ever covered.

Listen now and decide for yourself.

In this episode, MTAS breaks down the new documentary The Age of Disclosure — including claims of crash retrievals, defense contractors hiding non-human tech, nuclear missile shutdowns, warp bubble propulsion, and whistleblowers risking everything to speak out. Neal and Andrew analyze each claim, weigh what holds up, and decide whether the documentary actually moves Disclosure forward or not.

In 1957, a man calling himself Valiant Thor reportedly appeared in Virginia, entered the Pentagon without identification, met U.S. military leaders, and even sat down with President Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

His message: Stop nuclear weapons. Unite the planet. Join a higher interplanetary community.

He supposedly lived inside the Pentagon for three years, wore an indestructible suit, and claimed to come from Venus — not the surface, but a civilization beneath it. The story spread through UFO circles, contactee movements, Cold War anxieties, and eventually became a foundational piece of 1960s UFO mythology.

In this episode, Neal and Andrew break down:

• Where the Valiant Thor legend came from
• Why it became so influential
• Whether the evidence holds up
• The role of 1950s fear, religion, and UFO culture
• The controversial evangelist who kept the story alive
• And the big question: If Thor never existed, why has this story lasted nearly 70 years?

Stay to the end for the MTAS verdict:  Is the Valiant Thor encounter “mostly true,” or not?

In January 1996, three teenage girls in the quiet Brazilian city of Varginha reported seeing a strange creature crouched in an alley — brown, oily skin, red eyes, and a head too large for its body. Within hours, the military rolled in, witnesses claimed a crash outside town, and a young soldier allegedly died after contact with “the being.”

Neal and Andrew dig into Brazil’s most famous UFO case — from the alleged crash site and witness statements to government cover-ups, secret autopsies, and new testimony revealed in James Fox’s Moment of Contact.

Was it a true alien encounter, a military accident, or a case of small-town hysteria?
Listen as the hosts weigh the evidence and decide:
Is this a Mostly True Alien Story… or not?

October 12, 1963 — a truck driver named Eugenio Douglas crashes on a dark rural road in Argentina… and claims two ten-foot-tall figures stepped out of a glowing craft. He fired his revolver — and the bullets bounced off metal. Moments later, beams of light burned his skin. By dawn, police found melted asphalt, scorched fields, and footprints two feet long.

This is the Eugenio Douglas Encounter — one of the most shocking UFO reports in South American history.
 
Neal and Andrew investigate the evidence, the doctor’s report, and the bizarre connection to Argentina’s “Trancas Incident” just nine days later.

🎙️ Hosted by Neal Girandola & Andrew Triana
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Before the Buga Sphere captured headlines in 2025, there was another — a sphere that rolled on its own, hummed to music, and left scientists speechless. In 1974, the Betz family of Florida found a metallic orb that defied physics and baffled the Navy.
It disappeared soon after — and the mystery never died.

In this episode of Mostly True Alien Stories, Neal and Andrew uncover the strange parallels between The Betz Sphere and today’s Buga Sphere, exploring whether history’s weirdest artifact has finally come full circle. Was it alien tech… or just another perfectly round problem?

🎙️ Listen now and decide for yourself — mostly true, or not.

In 1969, man stepped onto the Moon.
But what if we weren’t the first ones there?

This episode of Mostly True Alien Stories goes beyond the landing to explore strange claims about the Moon’s true nature — from hollow-Moon theories and alleged alien bases to why scientists once said the Moon “rang like a bell.” Joined by returning guest Don Sill (Phoenix Lights Episode), Neal and Andrew debate everything from NASA conspiracies to China’s new Moon missions. Is it science… or something else entirely?

Listen now and decide: is this a Mostly True Alien Story — or not?