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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.
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."
Aurora, Texas. Year: 1897 In the “Year of the Great Airships,” so called due to sightings from Illinois to Texas, Dallas Morning News contributor S.E. Haydon filed a report about a UFO that ...
1897-04-17 Aurora, Texas, UFO incident • NA, United States; Aurora, Texas: Local correspondent S.E. Hayden reported the crash of an airship piloted by an alien. According to Hayden, the pilot was buried in the local cemetery. Residents of Aurora embrace the story without taking it seriously. [34] [35]
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
An Italian researcher says the first UFO crashed in Italy in 1933—and has the evidence. Secret documents suggest a suspicious cover-up.
It was the second-deadliest plane crash in Texas history but today is largely forgotten. A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash.