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We're looking at the 1897 Aurora, Texas, UFO crash, that's
correct. The 1897 Aurora, Texas, UFO
crash and we've covered this before in the podcast, but this
is such a fun and fascinating case to look at.
I found this article on, think about it docks.com and I thought
it was pretty well done. I wanted to just go over it a
little bit at the top of the article, they got some pictures
here and the headline. This newspaper says, discovery
of evidence surrounding 1897 UFO, crash baffles scientist.
Of course, we know the crash happened in 1897, they were
eyewitnesses and then it was one of those cases where there was
actual debris found from the UFO reportedly.
Not only that, but there was a dead alien on board.
This craft, that was also buried in the local Cemetery were told
that things got all kinds of twists and turns but we'll just
take a look at this report right here and it says, think about it
crash report. The crash happened, April 19th,
1897 at 6:00 in the morning near or Texas.
This is a rural area and then it goes on here.
It says, for the summary from the Dallas Morning News quote at
about 6:00 this morning, the early risers were astonished at
the sudden appearance of the Airship which has been sailing
around the country. So that tells you there's been
multiple reports of this UFO sighted around the country and
this is part of those Airship. Sightings that happened in the
very late 1800s. It says It was traveling due
north and much near the Earth than before.
Evidently some kind of the Machinery was out of order for
it was making a speed of only 10 or 12 miles an hour and
gradually settling toward the Earth itself all over the Public
Square and when it reached the north part of town, it collided
with the Tower of Judge Parker's Windmill and went into pieces
with a terrific explosion, scattering debris, over several
Acres of ground wrecking, The Windmill and water tank and
Drawing the judges flower garden, the pilot of the ship is
supposed to have been the only one on board.
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. Well, that's a mouthful you know
you would think in this is prominent judge local judge.
If this was just a bunch of bunk that he would have come forward
to said, no, this is not true. This is not what happened, but
it's odd this thing, hit his Windmill and it attracted enough
of a crowd that people showed up and discovered, this dead alien
who apparently had been killed in the crash of this vehicle and
says mr. TJ Weems the u.s.
Army signal service officer at this place and in the Authority
on astronomy. Gives it as his opinion.
That the pilot was a native of the planet.
Mars papers found on this person papers found on his person.
Evidently their records of his travels are written in some
unknown, hieroglyphics and cannot be deciphered.
Here we go. Out the hieroglyphics again.
This ship was too badly wrecked to form any conclusion as to its
construction or motive of power. It was built of an unknown
metal, resembling somewhat, a mixture of aluminum and silver.
It must have weighed several The town is today full people who
are viewing the wreckage and Gathering.
Specimens of strange metal from the debris.
The pilots funeral will take place tomorrow and that's that
is Reap is a reprint from the UPI in 1973.
Now, it says goes on. And says, quote, a grave and is
small North Aurora. Texas.
Cemetery contains a body of an 1897 astronaut who was not an
inhabitant of this world. According to the international
UFO, Bureau the group, which Which investigates unidentified
flying objects as already initiated legal proceedings, to
exhume the body. Of course, we find out later
that, that they were not allowed to do that.
After checking the grave with metal detectors and Gathering
facts for three months, we are certain we are certain as we can
be at this time that he was a pilot of a UFO which reportedly
exploded the top of well on Judge JS.
Part displace. April 19th 1897.
You said he was not an inhabited.
This world a few days later. Other UPI count Dateline, Aurora
recorded a 91 year old who had been a girl for who had been a
girl of 15 in a row at the time of the reported incident.
She said she had all, but forgotten the incident until it
appeared in the newspapers recently.
She said, her parents had gone to the site of the crash, but
had refused to take her along. She recalled that the remains of
the pile of small man had been buried in the Aurora Cemetery,
not to be outdone the Associated Press, and a story.
Dateline Denton, Texas reported a Northstate, text University,
Texas University Professor who had found some metal fragments
near the oats gas station, the former partner Farm.
One of the fragments was said to be most intriguing because it
consisted of primarily of iron which do not seem to exhibit
magnetic properties. The professor also said he was
puzzled because a fragment was shiny and malleable instead of
dull and brittle like iron the Aurora Cemetery Association.
Association was successful in blocking the attempts to dig up
the grounds in search of the quote-unquote Martian.
Pilot look, doesn't sound like metal to me, but that we know of
this is unlike iron. That would have been rusted away
after 100 years. Secondly, a lot of people have
said, well, this could have been some unknown person in airship.
That's that's just doesn't make any sense.
If you do any research at all, find out how much work went into
building. One of these, you know, giant
blimps that they're almost the same thing that was being flown
in World War. 1 say a tremendous amount of resources they took.
I didn't it was it was in the dozens of cows, as I remember
that they had to go in and the used Cal stomach or cow bladder
to create the surface of these things.
So this is 18 now. 87, imagine the amount of Natural Resources,
it would even take to build an Airship.
And then, is he feeling it? Filling it with helium hydrogen.
Is it hot air? I mean, how is this a one-man
operation? This is not something that
somebody could just do as a hobbyist.
Clearly, this was an unidentified flying object.
Now it goes on here, says as far as the forward Port goes, Texas
Roswell. Well, the most famous UFO crash
story of all time, might be one. Describing, the Roz might be
describing the Roswell New Mexico.
I said it is not the first on April 17, 1897 a mysterious
Airship would promote the town of Aurora, Texas to Legendary
UFOs at Roswell Fame. It was not the first time that
the Texas Airship had reportedly been seen.
Nor was it, the last, the significance of the Aurora
encounter is that there was an alien body left to be studied,
along with hydrogen. Reported sightings of the same
description across the central United States.
At that time. The Dallas Morning News, carry
the story, but his current expectations would have at the
story was not a headline, nor was it even on page one.
So if they were trying to sell papers with this thing, why
wouldn't it have been on the front page?
This toy was on page, five listed among more than 12 other
articles, discussing sightings of mysterious airships.
And the two days prior to this incident, there were none of the
16 articles describing sightings by reputable people, and the
area of Central, Texas and late November 1896, there were
thousands of witnesses reporting a sighting of airships over
California. Some 1,500 miles to the West
between November 1896, and 8 in April 1897 many additional
Airship. Sightings were documented in
several States from California to Michigan between April and
May of 1897 an Airship. Sightings continued and more
than 30 Texas counties reported by By hundreds of real Texans
with the most common element being that it was cigar-shaped
and could do things that today's airships can barely do.
What they saw may never be determined, but did they see
something of an extraterrestrial origin fly?
Overhead, we'll look, it's simple answer that question,
just through a process of elimination, we had no
technology that could do that 1997.
Now, whatever these people saw wasn't something that we could
just simply explained away as a blimp or some type of drinkable
I mean the technology and the resources just weren't available
back. Then for there to have been this
many sightings just actually what it was was a UFO swarm that
was going on. As far as I'm concerned, these
things were simply taking on the appearances of these airships.
Now, the article goes on and says Granted, many UFO,
sightings and pictures were hoaxes.
But at the turn of the century, people had no motive to make up
a story such as this other than simply stating that they were,
that they saw something and wanted to others about it.
The story was all, but forgotten until 2005, when Hayden Jesus,
the founder of the international UFO Bureau would arrive in
Aurora to reopen the UFO investigation, the Aurora crash
differs from the Roswell crash in that original documentation,
was not tampered with by the military nor Were the
still-living eyewitnesses debriefed or told to keep quiet
by the military. Well, why is that?
Well, the Deep State hadn't been established yet, this is prior
to Woodrow Wilson coming in and setting up all these alphabet
agencies. So people had a lot more
freedom, they had a lot more. A lot less intimidation when
they did report one of these things and a lot of ways it was
a much Freer country. It says Hughes found that many
residents. Wanted very little, if anything
to do with the story of the crash but three or more people.
Who were alive at the time? War willing to talk to
investigators, Robert Robbie Hanson, although not a direct
witness, considered the incident to be untrue, simply because
your father left at the story, thought it was a hoax to other
Witnesses, provided first-hand, accounts of the sighting
contradicting, Robbie Hanson Mary Evans who was 15 at the
time, recalled that something did crash.
Her parents went to see the crash, but would not let her
view the scene. Charlie Stevens was 10 years old
at the time. He says he saw the smoke
trailing an Airship fly overhead and disappear near Aurora.
He heard an explosion and saw the smoke plume.
The young mr. Stevens wanted to go and view
the site but his turn-of-the-century father would
not let him because there were chores left to complete.
Well, this is 1897. These guys were farmers.
Your livelihood depended upon your animals if you had to milk
cows, the cows. Couldn't just wait three or four
hours. The cows had to be milked at a
specific time. The animals need to be fed, they
If they need to be fed at that time, it wasn't like they had
the luxury of flexible schedule like we do today, you are bound
to the land so you can see why, hey, we haven't got time to go
look at some space, some, you know, possible UFO crash.
They weren't even thinking about that there are thinking about
surviving to another day. He says the following day.
After returning, from town is father, told him about all of
the scattered wreckage. He saw at the scene, twist to
the legend, was added in 1945 and Rowley, oats move to Aurora,
Texas needing water. He had the well that reportedly
had two pieces of the spaceship thrown into it more than 40
years. Earlier, cleaned out under the
presumption that radiation from the will, or the well, water
caused him to develop severe arthritis, conditions is
Left-Handed. And after more than 12 years of
getting drinking water, from the well, he's sealed it off with a
6 inch concrete slab. It had been suggested that the
bulk of the debris was hauled away to a currently unknown
location. And the remaining smaller items
were thrown down the well. Of course you know they did what
people do in these situations, they wanted to clean the craft
up. There's no Pentagon to send this
stuff to, I guess. Tom DeLonge is not around in
1897 to sell the craft to. So what do you do when you throw
the stuff down? A well and abandoned?
Well and that's what they did. They just wrapped up all the
garbage from this UFO site. This crash toss it in the well
buried it That was the end of that.
It says it has been suggested the bulk of the debris was
hauled away to a concurrent to currently unknown location.
And the remaining smaller items were thrown down the will and
1973 is small yet significant piece of metallic debris was
found by an investigator from Corpus Christi Texas which is
unlike anything that could have been developed either then.
Or now the item was tested twice, once at a specialized
Aeronautics Aeronautics failure, analysis lab, which prefers to
remain anonymous and a Second time at a analysis, technical
service laboratory in Houston, Texas, both studies, reach the
same conclusion showing that the item had been there for a long
time, a long, long time. And that it was composed of 95
percent aluminum and five percent iron iron and aluminum,
do not normally mix that way in nature.
Alas iron, normally contains zinc and other materials of
which there were none. In this particular sample, the
theory is that. Upon impact the explosion
resulted in molten materials being flown away from the site.
The structural analysis of the material showed that it was
molten and that. And then air-cooled on the
ground, this material, which was found in analyzed in 1973, could
not have been made at that time on that farm in the town of r or
anywhere around there, it would have had to been made in a very
sophisticated laboratory using Ultra Pure Refinery techniques,
which Typically found today a second set of samples were sent
to dr. Tom Gray, a professor at Kansas
State University. The set included an interesting
Stone, like article, which was identified as a water pump.
Propeller empower, the other items were found to be mostly
compliant. Comprised of iron testing on
this item, resulted in a lack of magnetic attraction, which
could, which could seem unusual, this is not the case.
Is depending on how there aren't cool.
It may or may not have magnetic properties.
These items were certainly what you might expect to find on a
farm at that time, period, that it goes on and says, alien
burial site. So now we've we confirmed that
there were Witnesses, who said, yes, we saw this UFO crash.
It looked like some kind of an Airship.
We saw it crash. There was talk about the alien,
the dead alien being found on board.
There was talk about all the material that's left over from
the crash. We have confirmation that you
have us thrown down this, well, it was excavated the person that
drink out of the water, their hand.
If you watch the some of the documentaries, this guy's hands
are all authorized. They look terrible.
It looks like there could have been some kind of health issues
because of this. They go on to talk about the
metal, they had tested and 95 percent aluminum, five percent
iron, there's no way they could have been made anywhere in or
around Aurora, Texas, back in 1897, you can hold them, you
know, it would take a, it would take a modern, Facility to do
this. And so we have the crash, we
have the metamaterial, we have witness reports of the alien
body. And now what happened to that
alien body, it says alien burial site.
The story includes that the spacecraft had a single occupant
who was found dead. The town folk had a Christian
burial for the badly mangled body.
And there were Texas Cemetery at the same time, an
interesting-looking headstone was found, which could have been
the marker for the burial site using Detectives investigators
discovered that they got the same decibel reading from the
grave site as they did where they found mysterious or a
fragment, the fact that they detected metal in the grave
indicated, that someone must have buried the metal fragments
from the crash site along with the body.
This gives the gravesite more importance as it shows a direct
relationship between the two locations.
A certified letter was sent to each member of the cemetery
Association requesting to exhume the body.
By the Association was dead set against his from happening.
And had the Wise County Sheriff post deputies at the cemetery to
prevent any excavation from happening now, think about that,
think of a cost involved. So you've got you've got these
sheriff's officer setting up their full time watching a
graveyard for crying out loud. What was so important to these
people that they were worried about mufon suffered, a crushing
blow to their efforts due to the two-week delay, the head stone
had been removed along with the Metal that had been previously
detected, this metal detectors were no longer able to locate
any metallic debris at the burial site.
According to experts, someone at managed to drive a 3-inch pipe
into the ground. And then removed the metal
debris from the ground. Sounds like somebody know there
were doing. So this is what we see.
So often is UFO cases. Somebody raises questions.
They try to do an investigation and then they are impeded at the
local level. And by local law enforcement and
it seems like it's for some greater reason.
It says, legendary status like 1947 Roswell story, The Legend,
describing the encounter at Aurora has grown over the years.
Skeptics challenge, the story in the investigation seeking to
disprove the research by organizations like move on and
international UFO. Bureau the anti UFO stories
range from saying it was a hot air balloon to the idea that the
story was merely a publicity stunt to save a dying town, the
most prevalent Being the most prevalent being the hot air
balloon Theory, unfortunately for the nicer.
There is no physic there is physically.
No way could have been a balloon.
There are no balloons that can rise or fall.
With lightning speed they can't turn right?
Angles or go to or go vertically up or down due to the detailed
descriptions of the Airship available at the time.
It is unlikely that it was a balloon is that should have been
easily recognizable as such by any of the multiple viewers that
had seen this particular Airship all across.
Ross the state as well as the nation.
The secondary belief is that the story was concocted by the
author of the original Dallas Morning News article of April
19th. 1897 SE Hayden had a reputation as a great practical
joker and a hoaxster. Jim Marrs an investigative
journalist reports that he was that he has found.
No hard evidence supporting this idea nor has he found any
article written by Mr? Hayden, that turned out to be
wrong if Hayden was acting as a reporter as opposed to a
huckster. Why wouldn't he fold?
The story with the liner to saying that people showed up for
the funeral service Barbara brahmer.
The mayor of Aurora, Texas, has spent many years researching,
the town's history and believes, she may have have an answer to
the Aurora Legend, according to her, the Legends Roots can be
traced to after can be traced to after several disaster suffered
by the town. And of course she goes on and
says that this theory is that the town was in dire need of
money and they were looking to create tourist dollars.
Come on, it's 1897, you know. In the dart achill, it finishes
up here, it says the once thriving community of Aurora,
Texas, began to downhill track at this time, which could be
reason for creating such a story in an effort to boost local
morale and bring some new interest in the community.
You know, I'm sorry, the idea that this thing, which is a
made-up story, just seems like a stretch to me.
If it was it certainly didn't work.
What compels me about this story?
My keep coming back to it. Is these three Witnesses?
They found but didn't all agree. One of them was the debunker But
the other two said, yeah, my parents saw something, or I saw
something that their stories had the same basic agreement.
The fact that also, the fact that this article was placed on
page 5 of the newspaper if they were trying to create a hoax, or
if they were trying to get the story going, as a way to promote
tourism to this little out-of-the-way town, you would
have thought they would have paid enough to get the story put
in a paper in such a way that people would know.
Notice it this Aurora, Texas Tech checks, a UFO crash and
1897 to me, has all the Hallmarks of a UFO crash people.
See it people reported people talk about it and then you have
the parallel narrative kicks in. And this case, the personal
narrative being that will, it was a balloon.
It was some sort of a home-built bridgeable even though there's
no way that one person is going to have enough resources at
their disposal to do this, you know, in the u.s. even though
there have been multiple multiple sightings of this, very
same type of craft and then you got another knit, another
narrative. Well it was just done to promote
tourism it's 1897 how much tourism is going on.
When you compare the alternative narratives to the facts that was
reported in the paper and what people said happen.
And you compare that to the evidence of this, what appears
to be a discrete Disturbed? Grave the to the evidence of the
material being thrown into this abandoned.
Well covered up the wall gets cleaned out, the material, gets
relocated, but the people drinking out of the, well,
becomes sick. This guy has such a terrible
case author, itís, Arthritis, being whatever, and immune
system issue, all, all the things that kind of add up to be
like, yes, this was a UFO. This UFO did crash in Aurora,
Texas, 1997. It caused significant damage to
this, windmill. Yes, people did go and see it.
There was wreckage everywhere. Yes, people did bury the alien
and a graveyard. Yes, people did throw the
wreckage into an abandoned. Well, yes, later on that.
Well, was dug back out again. The material was moved again.
And the In that consumed water all that well water became quite
sick developed. A terrible condition of
arthritis. Yes, people did investigate.
Yes, people did go to the reported graveside of this
alien. Yes, the grave stone for that
alien disappeared. Yes.
The local authorities there did send in law enforcement to guard
that grave site for two weeks until the evidence was
Mysteriously gone. So yeah.
Is there a conspiracy? Well, it certainly looks that
way. Until next time, this is UFO
morning over and out.