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Hello and welcome to the program
UFO Warning. 

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In this episode we're looking at
the Aurora, Texas UFO crash. 

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That's correct, the Aurora Texas
UFO Crash. 

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As you might know, this crash 
happened clear back in April on 

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April 17th, 1897 with this UFO 
just came flying out of a clear 

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blue sky in a small town of 
Texas crashed into a windmill. 

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The the locals responded. 
They found the dead pilot, which

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they buried in a local cemetery 
and that marker that eventually 

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disappeared. 
This whole thing is surrounded 

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by all kinds of of conjecture 
stories and parallel narratives.

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It's really, it's really strange
how even clear back, you know, 

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over what, 120 years ago, the 
way these stories run seem to be

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the way they run the day. 
Now even we can go to Wikipedia.

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The story's been around for so 
long and it says the Aurora, 

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Texas UFO incident occurred on 
April 17th, 1897 when, according

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to locals, a UFO crashed on a 
farm near Aurora, Texas. 

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The incident, similar to the 
more famous Roswell UFO incident

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50 years later, has claimed have
resulted in a fatality of the 

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pilot. 
The pilot was not of this world 

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and was said to be an alien. 
The pilot was buried at the 

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Aurora Cemetery. 
A stone was placed as a marker 

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for the grave but has since been
removed and that's where the 

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sketchiness really kicks in at, 
so it says. 

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On April 19th, 1897, an article 
on the Dallas Morning News 

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written by SC Hayden described 
the UFO crash. 

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The UFO is said to have hit a 
windmill on the property of 

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Judge S Proctor two days earlier
at around 6:00 AM Central Time, 

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resulting in his crash. 
The pilot who was reported to 

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be, quote not of this world in a
quote Martian, according to a 

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reported army signal officer 
named TJ Weems from nearby Fort 

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Worth, did not survive the crash
and was buried with Christian 

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rights at the nearby Aurora 
Cemetery. 

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The cemetery contains the Texas 
Historical Commission marker 

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mentioning the incident. 
While I like the fact that they 

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did these Christian rights, this
is kind of the same thing we 

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heard about in that crash in 
Missouri when they reportedly 

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were multiple dead aliens was at
Cape Girardeau and you, you had 

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the pastor called out to pray 
for the dead aliens that were 

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that were dead or dead and 
dying. 

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I guess it just points to the 
humanness of people, at least 

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back then. 
Reportedly, wreckage from the 

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crash site was dumped into a 
nearby well located under the 

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damaged windmill, while some 
ended up with it with the ailing

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in the grave. 
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windmills would have been used 
to pump water, not just to kill 

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birds like today. 
So it would be natural that 

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there was a well, there was a 
well under there. 

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Maybe this was a shallow well 
that wasn't really putting a lot

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of water or whatever, but it 
was, it was considered serious 

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enough situation. 
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this stuff and the quickest way 
to do it was to put it in a hole

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that had already been dug, goes 
on, it says. 

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Adding to the mystery was the 
story of Mr. Brawley Oats, who 

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purchased Judge Parker's 
property around 1935. 

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Oats cleaned out the debris from
the well in order to use it as a

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water source, but later 
developed an extremely severe 

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case of arthritis, which she 
claimed to be the result of 

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contaminated water from the 
wreckage dumped into the well. 

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As a result, Oats sealed up the 
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placed in an outbuilding atop 
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And if you've seen picture of 
this guy's, his hands just look 

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like they're, I mean, they're 
all swollen and and gnarled. 

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It's just terrible. 
Now, there's a theory says here 

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that that was based on a 1980 
Time magazine. 

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Wow, look at this. 
So the actual crash happens in 

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1897, and it takes these 
debunkers 83 years to get around

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to writing a parallel narrative.
It's hilarious. 

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I mean, they're not quick 
thinkers. 

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The Hook series primarily based 
on a 1980 Time magazine 

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interview with Etta Pigs, an 86 
year old or resident who claimed

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that Hayden had fabricated the 
entire story, stating that 

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Hayden wrote it as a joke and to
bring interest to Aurora. 

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The real bypassed us and the 
town was dying. 

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Think about this is 83 years 
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This woman's 86. 
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old. 
What would she have known about 

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this as? 
A three-year old other than 

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hearsay passed on down here by 
the people. 

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So to me you're calling somebody
an expert witness who was a 

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three-year old. 
Really. 

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Pegs further claim that Judge 
Proctor never operated. 

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The windmill launched property, 
a statement later refuted as 

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part of the UFO hunters episode 
which found the base of a wooden

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water pump tower constructed 
around the well. 

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So, you know, they can't even 
get their story straight. 

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You know, the Democrat has to go
out there 83 years after the 

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fact, talked to an 86 year old 
woman who was 3, three years old

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at the time. 
She repeats some incorrect 

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information and some speculation
and there's your theory. 

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Wow, doesn't take much to 
satisfy these guys. 

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And then it says investigations.
The incident has been 

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investigated on numerous 
occasions and one report was 

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broadcast by local television 
station KDKDFW Fox 4 and two 

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other reports aired on cable 
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Yeah, there's some good content 
out there about this stuff on 

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YouTube even, it says. 
In 1998, Dallas based TV station

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KDFW aired A lengthy report 
about the Aurora incident. 

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Reporter Richard Ray interviewed
former Fort Worth Star Telegram 

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reporter Jim Mars. 
What Jim Mars? 

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Let me miss him the late, great 
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said something crashed in 
Aurora. 

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However, Ray's report was unable
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extraterrestrial life or 
technology. 

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Ray reported that the State of 
Texas erected an A historical 

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plaque in town that outlines the
tale and labels it legend. 

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Well, what else could they do, I
suppose. 

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And then it says that UFO Files 
investigates. 

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On December 19th, 2005, UFO 
Files first aired an episode 

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related to this incident titled 
Texas Roswell. 

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The episode featured a 1973 
investigation by Bill Case, an 

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aviation writer for the Dallas 
Times Herald and the Texas State

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Director of MUFON. 
MUFON uncovered 2 new 

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eyewitnesses of the crash, and 
one was Mary Evans, who was 15 

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at the time, and she told about 
her parents, went to the crash 

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site but wouldn't let her go. 
And then she also told about the

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discovery of an alien body. 
Now Charlie Stephens, who was 

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age 10, told how he saw the 
airship trailing smoke as it 

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headed north toward Aurora and 
he wanted to see what happened, 

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but his father made him finish 
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Later, he told how his father 
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saw the wreckage from the crash.
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been from, I suppose, a 1973 
investigation, so that would 

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have been, what, 70-6 years 
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So the one old boy would have 
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have been 91, so I would find 
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believable now, it says. 
Mufon then investigated the 

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Aurora Cemetery and uncovered a 
grave marker that appeared to 

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show a flying saucer of some 
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its metal detector. 
So there you've got two sources 

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of information coming in here. 
MUFON asked for permission to 

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exhume the site, but the 
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permission and the MUFON invest,
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investigation, the marker 
mysteriously disappeared from 

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the cemetery and a three inch 
pipe was placed into the ground.

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Mufon's metal detector no longer
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the grave. 
Thus it was presumed that the 

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metal was removed from the 
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Wow, that is, that is sketchy is
all get out. 

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So they go there, they run the 
metal detector over, they tell 

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the authorities, hey man, 
there's metal buried in this 

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grave. 
Something weird is going on. 

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There's a marker there with a 
spaceship on it, you know? 

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And what happens? 
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position, deny them permission 
to open the grave, which you can

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almost understand that. 
But then the grave marker 

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disappears and they come back 
and there's no more metal 

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detected. 
Mufon's report eventually stated

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that evidence was inconclusive, 
but did not rule out possibility

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of a hoax. 
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interview with Mayor Brammer, 
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history. 
Well, you know you can never 

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disprove a negative Canyon when 
you talk about ruling out the 

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possibility of a hoax. 
I mean, that would be a pretty 

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elaborate hoax. 
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Hunters first aired another 
television documentary regarding

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the Aurora incident titled First
Contact that was pretty good 

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too, if you can catch that on 
YouTube somewhere. 

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The documentary featured 1 
notable change from the UFO file

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story. 
Tim Oates, grandson of Brawley 

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Oates and the now owner of the 
property with the sealed well 

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where the UFO wreckage was 
reportedly buried, allow the 

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investigators to unseal the well
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possible debris. 
Water was taken from the well 

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which tested normal except for 
large amounts of aluminum 

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present. 
The well had no significant 

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contents. 
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that any large pieces of metal 
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by a past owner of the property,
But you know, aluminum has 

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value, somebody might just hold 
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Further, the remains of a 
windmill base were found near 

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the well, which allegedly, well,
it doesn't do nothing alleged 

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about it. 
That refutes Miss Pegasus 

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statements from the 1979 Time 
magazine article that Judge 

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Proctor never had it when the 
launch property, so they proved 

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that she was mistaken about 
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Or maybe this reportage lied 
about it, who knows. 

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In addition, there were cemetery
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Although the cemetery 
association still did not permit

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exhumation using ground 
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from prior visits, an unmarked 
grave was found in the area near

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the other eighteen 90s graves. 
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grave was badly deteriorated and
the radar could not conclusively

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prove what type of remains 
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So either this has been dug up 
and remains have been taken out,

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or whatever was in there is just
totally decomposed. 

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The landowner gave them pieces 
of metal that contained mostly 

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aluminum and an unknown element.
How was that? 

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Not a big deal. 
An unknown element. 

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What? 
Can't find it on our periodic 

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tables. 
Well, it must not have come from

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here, then, huh? 
Not talking about an unknown 

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molecule or an unknown 
combination of metals. 

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An unknown element. 
There's only so many elements, 

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right? 
Where did this one come from? 

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It's unknown. 
Oh, well, we'll just ignore it. 

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And then it talks about the fact
that this instance has been, you

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know, popularized in culture and
they've had some different 

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movies done on it. 
I just think it's one of the 

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most fascinating cases out 
there. 

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Now I want to look at another 
article on this. 

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Now I found this article here on
scttx.com, SC scttx.com, and 

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that's Shelby County today. 
It looks like it's a website 

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maybe originating out of here in
Texas and it says it's submitted

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by Neil Murphy. 
Now they add the title says the 

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Texas UFO by Neil Murphy and he 
begins he says April 18th, 2023.

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Unidentified flying objects have
been around for a long time now,

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the most notorious of these 
being the Roswell, NM event. 

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On July 7th 1947, a UFO crashed 
northwest of Roswell on a cattle

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ranch, scattering debris over a 
white area. 

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Several bodies of 
extraterrestrial beings were 

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more reportedly recovered and 
autopsied. 

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The event was explained by the 
military as a weather balloon 

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crash. 
There were no beings, and thus 

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began the most notable cover up 
in American history. 

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Got to say, I like this guy's 
writing style. 

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The New Mexico event, however, 
was not the first of its kind. 

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Some 50 years earlier, a UFO 
crashed in Aurora, Texas, but 

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never received much notoriety. 
Around 6:00 AM on April 17th, 

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1897, a cigarshaped UFO crashed 
near the small town of Aurora, 

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Texas. 
The UFO had been seen flying 

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over Missouri and Arkansas 
earlier before it crashed. 

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We must remember that this event
happened some five years before 

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the Wright Brothers successful 
airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, 

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NC. 
I'll just interject here for 

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people who could who might want 
to say, well, this is some sort 

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of blimp, Just imagine the 
amount of work and resources and

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cash that would be involved in 
creating a blimp of this size in

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1897. 
I think we can rule that out. 

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It says there were a number of 
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In fact, one of them, SC Hayden,
wrote an article for the Dallas 

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Morning News on April 19th, 
1897. 

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Mr. Hayden reported about 6:00 
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The early risers of Aurora were 
astonished at the sudden 

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appearance of the airship which 
has been sailing through the 

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country. 
It was traveling due north and 

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near the earth than ever before.
Evidently some of the machinery 

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was out of order, for it was 
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or 12 miles an hour and steadily
settling toward the earth. 

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It sailed directly over the 
public square and when it 

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reached the north part of town, 
collided with the tire of Judge 

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Parker's windmill and went to 
pieces with a terrific 

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explosion, scattering debris 
over several acres of ground, 

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wrecking the windmill and water 
tank and destroying the judge's 

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flower garden. 
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supposed to have been the only 
one on board, and while his 

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remains are badly disfigured, 
enough of the original has been 

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picked up to show that he was 
not an inhabitant of this world.

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Mr. TJ Weems, the United States 
Signal Service Officer at this 

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place and an authority on 
astronomy, gives it as his 

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opinion that he was a native of 
the planet Mars Papers found on 

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his person. 
Evidently the record of his 

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travels are written in some 
unknown hieroglyphics and cannot

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be deciphered. 
The ship was too badly damaged 

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to form any conclusion as to its
construction or motive or motive

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power. 
It was built of an unknown metal

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resembling somewhat a mixture of
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have weighed several tons. 
The town is full of people today

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who are viewing the wreck and 
gathering samples of the strange

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metal from the debris. 
The pilot's funeral will take 

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place at noon tomorrow. 
Wow, now think about that, he 

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says. 
Here. 

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This is written at the time it 
was made of aluminum, must have 

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weighed several tons. 
I think that would rule out any 

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known blimps or zeppelins or 
anything like that, that could 

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have possibly remotely existed 
at that time. 

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Even today, we don't have 
anything like this. 

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Records indicate that the pilot 
was indeed buried in Aurora 

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Cemetery with Christian rights. 
Today, the cemetery contains the

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Texas Historical Commission 
marker mentioning the incident. 

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Reportedly, wreckage from the 
crash site was dumped into the 

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well located under the damaged 
windmill, while some ended up 

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with the alien, while some ended
up with the alien in the grave, 

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a large stone was placed at the 
head of the grave to mark the 

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spot. 
That's interesting that they say

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here. 
That would explain why I guess I

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should say that there was there 
were hits for metal at that 

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grave site and then of course 
they go back. 

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No metal found. 
Wow, some clandestine grave 

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digging going on there. 
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story of Mr. Bradley Oates, who 
purchased Judge Parker's 

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property around 1945. 
Oates cleaned out the well in 

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order to use it as a water 
source, but later developed an 

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extremely severe case of 
arthritis, which he claimed to 

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be the result of contaminated 
water from the wreckage dumped 

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in the well. 
As a result, Oats sealed up the 

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well with a concrete slab and 
placed an outbuilding atop the 

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slab in 1957. 
The event was eventually 

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forgotten for many years. 
In fact, there there, in fact, 

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there was a developed hoax 
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Well, yeah, you give them 50 
years and they'll come up with a

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parallel narrative. 
The hoax theory is primarily 

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based on historical research 
performed by Barbara Brammer, a 

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former mayor of Aurora located 
30 miles northwest of Fort 

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Worth, TX. 
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alleged crash, Aurora had been 
beset by a series of tragic 

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incidents. 
First, local cotton cop was the 

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local cotton crop was destroyed 
by a bullying infestation. 

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Second, a fire on the town's 
main West side claims several 

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buildings and lives. 
And 3rd a spotted fever epidemic

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hit the town, nearly wiping out 
the remaining citizens and 

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placing the town under 
quarantine. 

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Finally, a planned railroad got 
within 27 miles of Aurora but 

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never made it into the town. 
You know, a lot of times these 

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UF O's seem to be attracted to 
places where there's an awful 

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lot of trauma happening. 
The theory was that Mister 

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Hayden was known in the town to 
be a bit of a jokester, and her 

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conclusion is that Hayden's 
article was the last titch 

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attempt to keep Aurora alive. 
Yeah, so you look back, you 

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know, 50 years after the fact or
whatever, and determine what 

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somebody's motives were. 
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event was re was resurrected by 
Dallas TV station KDFW, who 

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aired A lengthy report about the
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The investigation revealed that 
something had crashed in 1897, 

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but could find no evidence of 
extraterrestrial life or 

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technology. 
Well, since people weren't 

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flying and this thing came out 
of the air, you got to assume 

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that it probably wasn't people. 
Now, yes, they did have hot air 

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balloons and that sort of thing,
but you know, hot air balloons 

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don't work that well when you're
trying to use a giant metal 

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craft that weighs hundreds if 
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In 2005, UFO Files aired an 
episode related to this incident

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titled Texas Roswell then 
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the crash. 
Mary Evans, who was 15 at the 

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time, told about her parents, 
went to the crash site and the 

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discovery of the alien body. 
Now remember, this is the 2005 

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investigation that was in that 
was based on the 1973 

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investigation, so it wasn't like
they were interviewing these 

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guys in 2005 that have been like
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Should have been 110 I believe. 
And someone can correct me if 

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I'm wrong, but I believe that 
these sightings they're doing 

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are based on 1973 interviews. 
So that those would have been, 

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what, 70-6 years after the fact?
Still, they were quite old. 

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Mary Evans was 15th the time. 
Told her how how her parents 

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went to the crash site and the 
discovery of the alien body. 

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They refused to allow her to go 
with them. 

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Charlie Stevens, who was 10, 
told how he saw the airship 

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trailing smoke as it headed 
north toward Aurora. 

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There you go. 
There's your eyewitness right 

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there. 
He wanted to go see what had 

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happened, but his father made 
him finish his chores. 

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He later went to the site and 
saw the wreckage from the crash.

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What would he have to lie about?
In 2008, UFO Hunters aired 

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another documentary regarding 
the Aurora incident titled First

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Contact. 
This film featured 1 notable 

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change from the UFO file story. 
Tim Oates, nephew of Brawley 

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Oates and the new and the now 
owner of the property with the 

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sealed well where the UFO 
wreckage was purportedly buried,

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allow the investigators to 
unseal the well in order to 

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examine it for possible debris. 
That's a great episode. 

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I can't think of the young guy's
name that always had to do all 

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The Dirty work, but they lowered
this dude down in that well and 

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I think there might have been a 
snake down there or something. 

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And this would have been really 
not my favorite place to be at 

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at the bottom of well in Texas 
like that, but it's a great 

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episode. 
Water was taken from the well 

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and tested normal and tested 
normal except for large amounts 

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of aluminum present. 
Not sure that could be good for 

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you. 
The well had no significant 

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contents as any large pieces of 
metal had been removed from the 

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well by a past owner of the 
property. 

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Further, the remains of a 
windmill base were found near 

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the well site, as earlier 
reported by witnesses. 

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In addition, the award cemetery 
was again examined, although the

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cemetery association refused 
exhumation of the body. 

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An unmarked grave was found in 
the area near other 1890s 

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graves. 
However, the condition of the 

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grave was badly deteriorated and
radar could not conclusively 

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prove what types of remains 
existed. 

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Well, you wouldn't be able to. 
Although the Aurora UFO incident

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was never commercialized, as was
a Roswell event, there still 

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remains questions as to exactly 
what happened over 116 years ago

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in the tiny town. 
Today in the town of 1044, 

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people about half believe that a
real UFO crashed and an alien 

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was buried there, and half 
believe the event was one huge 

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hoax. 
What do you believe? 

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What a great article, man. 
Thank you very much to the 

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fellow that wrote this, Neil 
Murphy. 

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I wish we just had more material
like this online because he just

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puts it out there. 
Anyway, that is the Aurora UFO 

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crash from April 1897. 
What a strange trip it is. 

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Until next time this is UFO 
warning. 

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Over and out.