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Crash at Aurora, Texas
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Date: April 19, 1897
Location: Aurora, Texas
1897 was the era of the "great airship" sightings in the America. On Monday April 19, 1897, a slow moving air ship crashed into a windmill, disintegrating into pieces. As the debris was searched through, purportedly the body of a small alien was discovered. Originally the pilot was called the "Martian pilot." Some of the debris also revealed material etched with a type of hieroglyphic. The towns people gave the creature a proper burial in the local cemetery. The event, true or not, has had just enough publicity to scirculate for over 100 years. Made into a 1986 movie, "The Aurora Encounter". The news of the crash spread quickly, even for then. The newspaper article written by S. E. Haydon, reporter for the Dallas Morning News still exists,.
This is that article:
About 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden. The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.
For unknown reasons, the Aurora Cemetery Association fought any attempts to exhume the alleged alien body. They were successful, and the alien's remains stayed a mystery. Aurora still shows traces of Military intervention today, and the question remains, "Why would the U. S. military be in the town of Aurora?"