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The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897, when, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. [1] The incident (similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident 50 years later) is claimed to have resulted in a fatality of the pilot.
Aurora is known for a purported UFO crash in April 1897, and the ongoing legend that the UFO's pilot is supposedly buried in the local cemetery. [10] Although the town has embraced the legend to a point (the city's website mentions the legend), [11] the cemetery association has refused all requests to exhume the alien's purported gravesite.
1896–1897: Multiple: Multiple: Mystery airships: Alleged sightings of airship-like vehicles across the United States. April 17, 1897: Aurora: Texas: Aurora, Texas, UFO incident: Local residents alleged that an airship crashed here, with the dead alien pilot being subsequently buried in the local cemetery. February 24, 1942: Los Angeles ...
1896-11-17 to 1897-04-23 Mystery airships • NA, United States: Newspapers across California, and later other states, especially the Midwest, printed reports of strange airships and lights. Common elements of the descriptions included bright lights, cigar-shaped bodies, movable wings and a metallic hull. [33] 1897-04-17 Aurora, Texas, UFO incident
An account from Aurora, Texas, [42] related in the Dallas Morning News on April 19, 1897, reported that a couple of days before, an airship had smashed into a windmill belonging to a Judge Proctor, then crashed. The occupant was dead and mangled, but the story reported that the presumed pilot was clearly "not an inhabitant of this world."
Pages in category "April 1897" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Aurora, Texas, UFO incident; B. The Boat Race 1897; M. Lynching of ...
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In 1897 Aurora, Texas, schoolteacher Alain Peebles inherits the town's failing newspaper after her father's death.Meanwhile, a UFO appears in the woods outside the town. . Late at night, local resident Irene is startled by the appearance of a short alien-looking man at her window, followed by beams of li