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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 ...
Aurora, Texas. Year: 1897 ... lights for 50 minutes as it flew over Alaska on a route from Paris to Tokyo on Nov. 17, 1986, according to various reports. ... UFO seen near a runway at Rafael ...
An account from Aurora, Texas, [43] 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."
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
Pages in category "April 1897 events" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Aurora, Texas, UFO incident; B. The Boat Race 1897; M.
For April Fool's Day 1897, two practical jokers in Omaha, Nebraska set aloft a helium balloon with a burning wicker basket suspended beneath it. [1] On April 17, 1897, The Dallas Morning News reported that the previous evening three boys hoaxed a mystery airship sighting by soaking a cotton ball in kerosene and tying it to the leg of a turkey ...