Dec 14 2006
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Nick’s Pic Of The Day
A couple of weeks ago, I made a trip to the cemetery at Aurora, Texas, the site of an infamous (and alleged, it must be stressed!) UFO crash of 1897. So the legend goes, the UFO slammed into the small hill in town and the locals buried the dead body of the alien pilot in the cemetery. While I saw plenty of wild dogs roaming around the gravestones (no doubt in search of a tasty morsel or two, the rotted corpse of ET was nowhere to be seen. 
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December 15th, 2006 at 10:36 am
There’s a book out with a title something like “Solving the Great Airship Mystery of 1896-97″ that speculates that there was a group of inventors (who actually submitted patent applications on their designs)who built dirigible-type craft and flew them back then. Posits that one of these hit the water tower in Aurora and blew up. Suggests the pilot was human but burned so badly he was likely not recognizable as such. Interesting read, but of course the veracity of the claims is only circumstantial.
Bill
December 15th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Bill
There’s a good summary of this case too in Ryan Wood’s “Majic Eyes Only” book.
It’s an interesting story, but who knows…?
December 15th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
This story has always interested me, although through the years, as I read more I find I’m more inclined to believe it was some sort of newspaperman’s hoax. In the late 1970s I recall, there was a brouhaha over who would get to dig up the supposed “alien”s gravesite. If I remember correctly, it was marked with a headstone that had a flying saucer crudely carved into it. While the debate over disinterring rights heated up, someone stole the marker and shoved probes into the ground over the site. The local cemetery authorities were so horrified that they stopped all efforts to do any more digging.
One nice coda is that the Firesign Theatre used the story as the basis for “Everything You Know Is Wrong!” my favorite album of theirs.
December 16th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Greg
Yeah it’s a weird story. Jim Marrs thinks it’s a strong case. But, who knows…?