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Aurora UFO crash remains a Texas alien mystery

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« on: February 28, 2015, 12:41:53 am »

Aurora UFO crash remains a Texas alien mystery
By John Boyd | April 17, 2014 | Updated: May 9, 2014 8:09pm



A newspaper clipping from a neighboring city covers the 1897 Aurora, Texas UFO incident

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.
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« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2015, 12:42:13 am »

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."
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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2015, 12:48:09 am »

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.

In the 1970s, a group from the International UFO Bureau showed up to exhume the body – media in tow – but were turned away by angry residents.

"There was quite a mess," one resident, Karen Tedrow, told Peralta. "The residents had guns and everything, because they didn't want them to do it. And I understand, because my parents are buried there, and I don't want them digging around. Earthly body or not, they ought to let it rest in peace."
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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2015, 12:49:27 am »




    Photo By Joe Holley/Houston Chronicle
    A Texas Historical Marker at the Aurora Cemetery documents the strange tale of a 19th century “undocumented alien.”, Monday, April 22, 2013, in Aurora, Texas.

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« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2015, 12:49:55 am »

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Aurora-UFO-crash-remains-a-Texas-alien-mystery-5410990.php#photo-6180957
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