The Alien. United States

On April 17, 1897, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. He destroyed a windmill owned by Judge J. J.S. Proctor. The pilot, who looked like no man, said the soldier who arrived at the scene from the nearest unit was at the local cemetery. The wreckage from the crash site was reportedly dumped in a well under a damaged windmill, and some were buried with an alien.

Translation of the original article in the newspaper (see photo):

Around 6 a.m., Aurora's early birds were struck by the sudden appearance of an airship that was passing through the village.

It moved north and when approaching was much closer to the ground than it seemed earlier. Obviously, some of his equipment was out of order, as his speed was only ten or twelve miles per hour, and he gradually settled down on the ground. He swam right through the public square, and when he reached the northern part of the city he collided with Judge Proctor's windmill and broke into pieces with a terrible explosion, scattering the rubble on several acres of earth around, destroying the mill and water tank, as well as the judge's flowerbed.

Apparently, only the pilot of the ship was on board, and although his remains were badly damaged, it was still possible to understand that he was not a resident of this world.

Mr. T.H. Wems, a U.S. communications officer and local astronomy specialist, believes the pilot was a native of Mars.

The papers found next to him - apparently records from his travels - are written by unknown characters and cannot be deciphered.

The ship was destroyed too badly to make any conclusion as to its design or mode of movement. It was built of an unknown metal resembling a mixture of aluminum and silver, and had to weigh several tons.

Today, the city is full of people who examine the crash site and collect in the wreckage samples of strange metal. The pilot's funeral will be held tomorrow at noon.

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One of the most famous incidents in recent history, associated with the appearance of UFOs in the sky of our planet, is considered a case in the town of Aurora (USA, Texas). The story took place on April 17, 1897. At that time there were only 3,000 people living there.

SENSATION OR JOKE?

In 1897, the newspapers often appeared notes about all sorts of appearances in the sky of Europe and North America cigar-shaped aircraft of unknown origin, circling in the sky, and then evaporating without a trace in the atmosphere. Such newspaper materials aroused the frenzied interest of the public, as the age of the industrial revolution began, and people expected man-made miracles from scientists and discoverers.

On April 19, 1897, the local Dallas Morning News published an article about the aurora incident, written by local resident and freelance correspondent S. Heydon. Let's give it in its entirety, so that you have a full understanding of this emergency.

« ... Around 6 a.m. on April 17, 1897, fans listening to the singing of the city of Aurora were suddenly shocked by the appearance in the blue of the sky of an unknown aircraft that was slowly floating over the city. The cigar-shaped craft was heading north, sailed at a low altitude, much lower than airships do.

It is obvious that some mechanisms on the air car failed, as the device was flying at a low speed of 20 to 30 km/h. In addition, the machine was always aiming for the ground. The problems were obvious to everyone. The ship sailed over the central square and departed to the northern edge of the city. There he collided with the construction on the estate of Judge Proctor, it was a tower of a windmill.

The air car collided with the mill with a noise and immediately fell into many parts, after which there was a deafening force explosion. Then the mill itself fell apart. Parts of the aircraft were scattered over several acres, destroying Mr. Proctor's beautiful garden. There was only one pilot in the aircraft. His body was disfigured by an explosion ... »

At the crash site was military liaison officer T. Weems from the nearby town of Fort Worth, who, after inspecting the pilot, delivered his verdict: "It's a Martian."

Interestingly, other U.S. newspapers did not even mention the incident. But the inhabitants of Aurora with deep respect for the body of the Martian, burying it in the local cemetery with respect to all Christian traditions.

Just before the incident in Aurora, this city was hit by several misfortunes and troubles, but not abnormal. Shortly before that there was a cotton crop failure due to a powerful invasion of cotton weevil. Then in the western part of the town there was a strong fire, which took several dozen lives and destroyed the entire residential quarter of the city. To top it off, Aurora was hit by an epidemic of typhoid, which has killed about a thousand people.

At that time, a railway was being held near Aurora, implying a separate branch to the city. But because of these incidents, the branch was not held. The author of that article in the Dallas Morning News, Heydon, is said to have written an article in the newspaper to draw attention to the problems of the small town. Plus, he was a big joker.

FLIGHT ANALYSIS THEN

However, some small details of the incident have been revealed here, which do not give ufologists the right to dismiss this case so easily.

In the city archives of Aurora preserved documents pointing to the grave in the local cemetery, where the unknown person is buried (the wreckage of the air car was also laid down). The day after the disaster, the military arrived in Aurora and took the most active part in collecting the wreckage of the aircraft. But a review of the devastation had already been begun by Proctor's workers, who dumped the wreckage of the car into an abandoned well next to the collapsed mill.

On one of the large wreckage of the aircraft found some inscriptions, which were made by unknown characters. Experts worked on deciphering the characters for a long time and to no avail, but never deciphered anything. In the 60s found personal records of a traveler, who just in 1897 was in Aurora and described some scenes of searches at the crash site.

He wrote that it was very difficult to determine the exact size and power of the vehicle by the mangled and charred pieces of the aircraft's hull. And the pieces of metal resembled an alloy of aluminum and silver. It was not possible to establish the approximate power of its engines. Experts agreed that the machine had to weigh several tons. And

Right away

In the 1960s, interest in this unusual story resurfaced. On local television and today are kept videotapes of interviews with some Mary Evans and Charlie Stephens - indigenous aurora. Mary was 15 at the time of the crash and Charlie was 10.

Mary told how an early morning in the sky sailed a huge ship (she did not see it, but her friends described it in detail). Then she heard an explosion and ran out into the yard. Her father was just about to go to the mill to help put out the fire. Mary wanted to run to the scene of the accident with her father, but he smacked her and ordered her to stay at home.

Charlie was more fortunate. He gladly told the TV reporter how a huge cigar-shaped machine, smoking, was approaching the city. His father then sent him to the barn to feed the poultry, and the boy did not see the moment he collided with the mill. Although later was on the ruins and even saw pieces of metal parts of the air car.

It should be explained that since 1970 on U.S. television there have been several large-scale studies on that famous incident. The city of Aurora has changed little in more than a century. The only thing that is alarming - the tiles on the streets of the city is identical to the one that is put on the runways of airfields.

Also raises questions of ufologists and the fact that the local authorities do not allow scientists to exhume an unknown grave in the local cemetery, where all the signs are the remains of an alien. Earlier on this grave there was a small sign that read "The Grave of an Unknown Creature."

Scientists in the 60s of the 20th century noted magnetic waves coming from the ground, as in the grave with the body of the pilot put and several fragments of the ship. At the same time, this group of scientists sent an official letter to the U.S. government asking them to allow the exhumation of the body for scientific purposes. But the government sharply refused scientists, they were forbidden even to approach the grave. Then the stove disappeared from the burial, and later the specialists could not let the street

magnetic signals coming from the ground. Apparently, someone worked in this place.