In the 1950s, Lieutenant Colonel Richard French was one of the U.S. Air Force’s top investigators for Project Blue Book — the program designed to debunk UFO sightings. His orders were clear: explain everything away.

But during an assignment in Newfoundland, French said he witnessed something he couldn’t dismiss: two saucer-shaped craft submerged beneath the water, with small gray beings repairing them. The story stayed buried for decades until 2013, when French — then 83 years old — told the world at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in Washington, D.C.

In this episode of Mostly True Alien Stories, Neal Girandola and Andrew Triana dig into French’s shocking testimony, the credibility of a man once called “the King of Debunking,” and whether this underwater UFO encounter holds up to scrutiny.

Is this the confession of a whistleblower… or just another tall tale?

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

Chapters: Colonel French

00:00 Cold Open - Colonel French & The Drowned UFOs

01:39 Buga Sphere Carbon Dating Controversy

07:22 Asteroid Threat to the Moon

11:21 Richard French's UFO Encounter

17:02 Skepticism and Belief in UFOs

22:45 Alien Encounters and UFOs

25:10 The Nature of Alien Technology

25:49 Disclosure and the Citizen Hearing

27:48 Debunking and Weasel Words

30:14 The Whistleblower's Perspective

32:15 Project Blue Book and Its Implications

34:30 Weighing the Evidence

40:26 Final Thoughts on the Alien Story