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A Texas Historical Commission marker outside the Aurora Cemetery, alleged burial site of the UFO pilot, which briefly mentions the incident.. On April 19, 1897, an article in the Dallas Morning News written by S.E. Haydon [a] described the UFO crash. [2]
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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."
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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 ...
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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
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.