E353 - The Cape Girardeau UFO Incident

In this episode, we turn our attention to one of the most quietly unsettling cases in early UFO history: the Cape Girardeau incident of 1941. Long before the term “flying saucer” entered public language, and years before Roswell, a strange object was said to have fallen from the sky near Cape Girardeau in the American Midwest. What followed, according to later testimony, was not confusion or chaos, but swift containment, solemn ritual, and lasting silence.

The account most often associated with the incident comes from the family of a local minister who was reportedly summoned late at night to w...