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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2011 11:10:17 GMT -6
No bounce through UFO history would be complete without mention of the 'Aurora Incident' of 1897. It involved what the population referred to as a crashed 'airship' and the recovery of it's dead pilot, a Martian. One of these accounts appeared in the April 19, 1897 edition of the Dallas Morning News. Written by Aurora resident S.E. Haydon[2], the alleged UFO is said to have hit a windmill on the property of a Judge J.S. Proctor two days earlier at around 6am local (Central) time[3], resulting in its crash. The pilot (who was reported to be "not of this world", and a "Martian" according to a purported Army officer from nearby Fort Worth) did not survive the crash, and was buried "with Christian rites" at the nearby Aurora Cemetery. (The cemetery contains a Texas Historical Commission marker mentioning the incident). There was a flap of sightings all around Texas at the time..of the cigar shaped craft and reports of people talking with short, dark occupants who claimed to be peaceful. If you haven't read accounts of it..then it makes for very interesting reading. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Texas_UFO_Incident www.texasescapes.com/Paranormal/Aurora-Incident.htmwww.ufocasebook.com/Aurora.html
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Post by skywalker on May 8, 2011 14:34:07 GMT -6
We have several threads on the forum devoted to the subject of the mysterious airships of 1896 and 97. This is a subject that I am very much interested in because I think it really did happen. I don't believe it was a UFO from outer space, but rather a real human-built airship that somebody was actually flying. Here is a link to the thread about the airships. theedgeofreality.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=history&action=display&thread=28I think we also had one about the crash in Aurora but I haven't been able to find it yet. I'll keep looking though. It's a fascinating subject.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2011 16:57:32 GMT -6
I think this one happened too Sky..many reports not just in Aurora but all around the area. Type of occupant varies but the ships are 'cigar shaped'.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2011 7:07:08 GMT -6
I remember seeing a documentary about this on t.v. not too long ago. I dont believe in digging up graves, but this might be an exception .
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Post by skywalker on May 9, 2011 9:12:40 GMT -6
I remember seeing a documentary about this on t.v. not too long ago. I dont believe in digging up graves, but this might be an exception . I don't think that is going to happen, touched. Back in 1973 a bunch of UFO "investigators" came into town wanting to exhume the body and they ended up causing so much mischief and trouble that the townspeople told them to get the heck out and don't come back. Now they don't even want to hear the word UFO. A handful of irresponsible people ruined it for everybody.
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Post by skywalker on May 9, 2011 9:15:32 GMT -6
I think this one happened too Sky..many reports not just in Aurora but all around the area. Type of occupant varies but the ships are 'cigar shaped'. Another thing that is interesting about the reports is that they all described the craft as if it were an actual man-made mechanical device using technology that was current at that time. I think it really may have happened. If the airship did explode in Aurora like they claim it did, they said the local people hauled the remains of it off to the garbage dump. I have often wondered where that old garbage dump was and whether or not any of the wreckage might still exist...
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2011 9:33:16 GMT -6
Supposedly..fragments of metal were collected and analyzed. Most was the normal earth composite stuff..but there was one fragment that was very unique. I've been reading Jim Marr's 'Alien Agenda' and he goes into some detail about it. If you haven't read it..I recommend it for the ground he covers. He's pretty much a..here's the facts..they are really here..deal with it..kind of writer..not overly into conspiracy but still convinced the government continues to cover the issue up. I'm sure any local library can get it..mine did
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2011 14:34:40 GMT -6
I don't know. Supposedly the headstone disappeared and the metal that had been in the grave was taken...because it no longer showed up on a metal detector. The unique thing about the incident were the amount of reports that also came in around Aurora before the crash happened. So many people saw the airships. I think it was also before hoaxes became the thing to do AND it precedes both Roswell and Orson Wells. So..how did they reach the conclusion these 'pilots' were Martians? This excerpt from an article I found is interesting (as is the whole article) because many people in many states were discussing lights in the sky. I'm reasonably sure they were not commercial airplanes..given the date. The Aurora Texas crash was, in fact, the culminating event in a rash of "airship" sightings in East and Northeast Texas, Oklahoma, North and Central Louisiana in the period between 1895 and 1898. Robert Atkinson, of Center, Texas, a veteran of the Spanish American War, often told of seeing, as a teenager, strange, "flashing lights" in the sky, as did Polk Burns of the same city. Similar incidents were recountered by Bud Knight, a prominent resident of San Augustine, Texas, who died in 1981 at the age of 108. Lee Choron, who died in 1976 at the age of 94 recalled seeing "moving lights flashing in the sky" while living in Swift, Texas (near Nacogdoches) while in his "teens". www.mdresort.com/auroraalien.htmIn our modern world..lights and objects in the sky can be so many things..not so in 1895 so it attracted a bit of attention. I think the incident is one of the best accounts for realism that there is. They were people with simple lives and no UFO propaganda or media hype to influence them. It gets my vote for a true happening.
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Post by skywalker on May 9, 2011 15:03:49 GMT -6
The theft of the stone is one of the reasons why the townspeople now hate UFO researchers. That wasn't the only crime that was committed back during that so-called "investigation." Theft, vandilism, trespassing, attempted grave robbing...is it any wonder they got upset? It's idiots like that who give all the rest of us a bad name.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2011 22:25:26 GMT -6
Yep. There is very little responsibility when it comes to the subject of UFO's
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Post by lois on Jul 7, 2012 21:46:00 GMT -6
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Post by lois on Jul 7, 2012 21:47:29 GMT -6
I never heard of Jim Mars until he investigated the above case. It was the old Sightings programs on the SIFI channel where I first seen him.
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Post by auntym on Mar 22, 2014 13:57:19 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/03/aurora-tx-crash-mystery-not-of-this.html Saturday, March 22, 2014 Aurora, TX UFO Crash Mystery: '...not of this world' Posted by Lon Strickler On April 17, 1897, a mysterious airship is said to have crashed in the town of Aurora, Texas...exploding into many small fragments. Reportedly, the occupant was child-sized and greenish, and the craft contained papers covered with hieroglyphics. The pilot's body is supposed to be buried in the local cemetery. Legend has it that residents of Aurora, TX, had their own alien encounter more than 100 years ago. Just north of Fort Worth, Aurora has a population of 376. Something about it is different...mysterious, and some say, down-right weird. "It's just a legend," said Barbara Brammer, Aurora Historian. April 19, 1897 would change this town's identity forever. "They said, 'Have you heard of the Martian that crashed his aircraft into a well site in Aurora?,'" Brammer said. "And I said, 'No." A former mayor, Brammer first heard the story of the UFO crash shortly after her arrival in the 1950s. "I kept the legend going whenever I was teaching or when we had new people in to the community," she said. Legend has it that in 1897 a number of reports came in from across the country of a cigar-shaped flying machine. An article in the "Dallas Morning News" reported that the craft came crashing down in Aurora. Today, the "crash site" is an old well, sealed with concrete. "About noon, the fire had gone out enough that they could get in there and see what really happened," Brammer said. According to a report filed by an Army officer from nearby Fort Worth, in the crash debris was the body of the pilot said to be badly disfigured and 'not of this world.' "They scraped up all the stuff that they could find, brought it down here to the cemetery and gave him a Christian burial," Brammer said. The grave site remains today under a tree in the old section of the cemetery. "They eventually came down and put a marker on it," Brammer said. "The marker has been gone for several years." It was stolen, Brammer believes, by souvenir hunters. The cemetery has been designated a "Texas Historical" site for, among other things, the legend of the UFO pilot. No one has ever been able to prove the story or rule it out. In the 1970s, The Texas Mutual UFO network asked to dig up the grave but was denied. "The cemetery board said, 'You're not going to touch that,'" Brammer said. Board members denied the request, she said, because they were worried Spotted Fever, which wiped out much of Aurora around the time of the incident, would rear its ugly head again. In 2008, another group of UFO hunters used ground-penetrating radar and did find a mysterious, unmarked grave. But the grave was so deteriorated, the radar simply could not identify what was there. So, the alien mystery continues, and the legend of Aurora is the only real thing that remains. "It's a good story," Brammer said. "It's got to be a good story. It's been around 112 years." CONTINUE READING: www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/03/aurora-tx-crash-mystery-not-of-this.html Aurora Texas UFO Crash - Paranormal Alien Documentary
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2014 15:29:27 GMT -6
I remember seeing a documentary about this on t.v. not too long ago. I dont believe in digging up graves, but this might be an exception . I don't think that is going to happen, touched. Back in 1973 a bunch of UFO "investigators" came into town wanting to exhume the body and they ended up causing so much mischief and trouble that the townspeople told them to get the heck out and don't come back. Now they don't even want to hear the word UFO. A handful of irresponsible people ruined it for everybody. I don't like the idea of anyone disturbing grave sites for any reason unless it is absolutely necessary in some rare cases with state approval of course. If enough evidence is brought forth to determine there was a crash,,,it might be one of those exceptions. I would think there would still be some debris scattered around the alleged site or remnants at the bottom of the well (was water samples ever taken?) if there was an impact.
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Post by auntym on Apr 18, 2014 10:58:09 GMT -6
www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Aurora-UFO-crash-remains-a-Texas-alien-mystery-5410990.php Aurora UFO crash remains a Texas alien mysteryBy John Boyd April 17, 2014 Photo By COURTNEY PERRY/FOR THE CHRONICLE Legend has it that the alien grave in Aurora lies underneath the bent arm of an old tree, far left, in the Aurora Cemetery. Requests to exhume the body in the past have been denied by the cemetery board. Aurora, Texas was Roswell before Roswell: a middle-of-nowhere town that suddenly became surrounded by legend when an alleged alien visitor crash-landed from outer space. On this date in 1897 the alien UFO allegedly smashed into a windmill belonging to Judge J.S. Proctor. It's pilot, who an officer from a local Army outpost described as a "Martian" and "not of this world" died and was buried in the cemetery nearby. The reported crash was one of several American alien mysteries of the mid-1890s, but the most notable one (if not only) recorded in Texas. Today, the only reminder of the visit, which occurred on this date in 1897, is a small historical marker near the Aurora Cemetery. Buried deep in its stories of town founders and war heroes is a single line about the visitor supposedly buried in an unmarked grave there: "The oldest known graves, here, dating from as early as the 1860s, are those of the Randall and Rowlett families. Finis Dudley Beauchamp (1825-1893), a Confederate veteran from Mississippi, donated the 3-acre site to the newly- formed Aurora Lodge No. 479, A.F. & A.M., in 1877. For many years, this community burial ground was known as Masonic Cemetery. Beauchamp, his wife Caroline (1829-1915), and others in their family. An epidemic which struck the village in 1891 added hundreds of graves to the plot. Called "Spotted Fever" by the settlers, the disease is now thought to be a form of meingitis. Located in Aurora Cemetery is the gravestone of the infant Nellie Burris (1891-1893) with its often-quoted epitaph: "As I was so soon done, I don't know why I was begun." This site is also well-known because of the legend that a spaceship crashed nearby in 1897 and the pilot, killed in the crash, was buried here. Struck by epidemic and crop failure and bypassed by the railroad, the original town of Aurora almost disappeared, but the cemetery remains in use with over 800 graves. Veterans of the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts are interred here." The single line seems about as interested as Aurora is in becoming famous from the supposed crash. On the 110th anniversary of the crash, former Houston Chronicle writer Eyder Peralta (now with NPR) visited Aurora, 30 miles north of Fort Worth and found the townsfolk mostly apathetic about the alien visitor then, or the scores of new human visitors who have come to visit the infamous crash site. The visitors had been fun at first, but when they began trampling the cemetery and stealing headstones and other artifacts from the city museum, the town's notoriety became a nuisance. CONTINUE READING: www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Aurora-UFO-crash-remains-a-Texas-alien-mystery-5410990.php
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Post by auntym on Apr 2, 2018 14:46:01 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/04/reward-offered-for-return-of-stolen-martian-pilot-grave-marker/ Reward Offered for Return of Stolen Martian Pilot Grave Markerby Paul Seaburn / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/paulseaburn/April 3, 2018 Aurora, Texas alien grave markerThe Dallas Morning News has been around long enough to report on a truly interesting UFO story from 1897 and is still here to follow up on the most current news about the incident. In Aurora, Texas, there was – until 1972 – a stone marking the grave of what many locals claimed was the body of a Martian pilot whose spacecraft crashed into a windmill there on April 17, 1897. The marker was replaced, but that stone was stolen in 2012. A Dallas attorney who recently visited the site and learned of the missing markers is offering a $1,000 no-questions-asked reward for the return of the original simple-yet-unique gravestone. If you’re the person possessing it and are thinking about holding out for more money, he’s also paying for a top investigator to look into the case. The Aurora UFO incident is special because it not only predates the Roswell UFO incident by 50 years, it also occurred before the Wright brothers first flew their flying machine in 1903. According to the Dallas Morning News, the alleged UFO hit a windmill on the property of Judge J.S. Proctor in Aurora, which is about 55 miles west of Dallas and 27 miles northwest of Fort Worth. The pilot was allegedly examined by an Army officer from Fort Worth and declared to be dead and “not of this world.” The body was said to have been buried “with Christian rites” in the Aurora Cemetery. The grave was marked with an asymmetrical stone showing a drawing of a saucer or cigar-shaped spacecraft with three holes on the side. (photos here) According to later conflicting reports, the wreckage was either dumped in a nearby well or buried with the mysterious body. Those who believe it was in the well point out that the man who bought the property in 1935, Brawley Oates, began using the well again but stopped when he developed arthritis which he believed to have been caused by whatever was in the water. It’s reported that he put a concrete slab and a building over the well. What exactly happened in Aurora, Texas, on April 17, 1897? Many investigations have been conducted and most point out that there were a number of sightings of a “mystery airship” in 1896 and 1897. While there were no airplanes yet, navigable balloons and dirigible-style airships were flying — the Luftschiff Zeppelin LZ1 made its first flight in 1900. There’s some thought that the town may have created the report to stimulate tourism to help recover from recent diseases (spotted fever), crop failures (boll weevils) and bad news (railroad line bypassing it). Suspiciously, there doesn’t appear to have been any follow-ups or investigations in the years immediately following the incident. Later investigations in the 1990’s and 2000’s didn’t find much more. No one has been allowed to exhume the gravesite. MUFON’s metal detectors detected metal, but on a return visit the second grave marker was gone, a pipe was in its place and there were no more metal readings. In 2008, the TV series UFO Hunters was allowed to unseal the well but found nothing unusual. It also detected no metal at the gravesite. Despite no evidence, no grave marker and conflicting stories, Aurora still promotes the incident with an annual festival, information on the city’s website and a sign at the cemetery. Those are what brought Dallas civil defense attorney Stratton Horres there recently. He apparently has more than a passing interest in this case. In addition to hiring a top investigator to help locate the gravestone, he plans to search for who drew the markings on it and where the stone came from. If the original turns up, he will help Aurora keep it from getting stolen again. Is Stratton Horres just a guy with an interest in UFOs, aliens and the Aurora UFO incident … or is he stocking up on goodwill points in the event of an alien invasion? mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/04/reward-offered-for-return-of-stolen-martian-pilot-grave-marker/Reward offered for return of stolen UFO alien grave marker in Texas: www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article207085784.html
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Post by skywalker on Apr 2, 2018 14:54:37 GMT -6
I know a dude who claims to know a dude who claims to know where the marker is. I've never personally seen it though so who the heck knows for sure?
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