Aurora

Mm-hmm

... was here in Texas, and it was the Aurora, Texas UFO crash.

It happened-

Yeah, it was the same

That's weird.

And how would they even know that if they've never had, you know, something that big in the air with a being that wasn't human? It just, it didn't make any sense.

And LA Marzulli, when I asked him about it, I was like, "Hey, what do you think about Aurora?" He was like, "It's probably the most credible UFO story I've ever heard," and he's, like, been on Ancient Aliens.

And I was like, "Dude, that's crazy."

When I was, uh, on active duty in the Army and I lived in Texas, I would go out to the UFO sighting areas in Texas.

In fact, went to, um, Aurora, Texas, to talk to them about the, the UFO crash there in 1897 and actually talk to some people, 'cause this was the early 1970s.

I talked to people who had been alive in 1897 and remembered s- or alleged to have remembered some of the events that took place then.

Uh, so y- I thought that this kind of raw data would be of interest to people and it allowed them to get more engaged in UFO research.

So it's been going on a long time.

In fact, it was the great airship mystery of 1896 and 1897 that And I do believe that the evidence is very strong that something actually crashed in Aurora, Texas back in April 1897.

Something crashed.

It was actually newspaper articles that wrote about this, that reported on this, rather.

And there was a burial.

There was a non-human intelligent being found.

The witnesses, according to the newspaper reports, said it was the pilot of this craft that crashed into a windmill in Aurora, Texas, was not of this earth, and it was dead.

And they buried it in the church cemetery.

Did

an alien crash in North Texas? It happened in Aurora, 30 minutes north of Fort Worth.

Back in 1897, a UFO reportedly crashed into a windmill and fell onto a local farm.

The pilot died, but when people went to check on him, they determined he was not an inhabitant of this world.

Some people think it's a hoax.

Others believe it's a government conspiracy.

So did an alien really crash in Aurora? Well, We may never know.

Reportedly, the alien, who locals named Ned, was buried in a nearby cemetery and the debris from the spacecraft was thrown down a well.

Really? Yeah.

The whole timeline of the alien thing, as far as what we have written in local media stuff, starting around 1897 with the Aurora incident in Aurora, Texas, where it kind of came down.

And what's funny about that is that all of the stuff that was taken from Aurora out of that well was taking the 7th Infantry Army Base, which later became Carswell, which was the birthplace to General Dynamics, which was the birthplace to Skunk Works, because that's where Ben Rich, who eventually developed the SR-22, was there and it was like from 1947 or from 1897 to 1947 there wasn't a whole lot but after Roswell from 1947 to 1963 we were going three times the speed of maw you know of sound that kind of thing and it was all from this little hub and all of these little things that happened lasers, fiber optics, all of that technology came from that stuff.

And people just think somehow, some way out of the industrial revolution, we came up with a microchip.

I just don't think it happened.

It was four feet tall, they say.

There you go.

That's an Aurora.

People would see the airship all over the country, and there were any number of stories of the thing crashing.

Aurora, Texas, for example, which turned out to be a hoax.

And in the book Crash, there was just a little paragraph of an alleged crash in Jefferson, Iowa.

about it and the editor of the jefferson newspaper the current editor not from what 1897 uh sent me an e-mail and asked me what else i knew and i said i didn't really have much other information and he went back into the files and there was a long story about it which eventually um i put together an article on my blog so if you look up the jefferson UFO crash, you'll get to read all the information we got.

So it's helpful to see where a particular grave was and how it was made.

But if they were to visit the old historic cemetery in Aurora, Texas, they'd find something no other burial site seems to have.

There's an unmarked grave under an old oak tree.

The ground is covered in flowers, gifts, and coins from visitors from all around the world who've traveled there to pay their respects.

Welcome back to So Supernatural.

[mysterious music]

If we told you to picture a frontier town in the Old West, you'd probably imagine a place just like Aurora, Texas.

It was established in the 1850s as a tiny farming community.

This is a very specific situation I'm putting you all in.

Aurora, Texas is about 30 miles northwest of Fort Worth.

In 1897, that meant nothing but rolling limestone hills, mesquite, live oak, and fields of cotton trying their best to survive the heat.

The sun at the time was barely peeking over the horizon, casting that long, pale, yellow Texas light across the pastures.

Newspapers like the Dallas Morning News and the Chicago Times Herald were running breathless front-page columns about mysterious inventors, secret government patents, and Thomas Edison supposedly testing flying dynamos in the desert.

Edison actually had to release a public statement telling everybody to calm down and clarifying that he was doing no such thing.

Most people assume that these mystery airships were built by eccentric human millionaires, but Aurora took that narrative and threw it into deep space.

On April 19th, 1897, two days after the explosion on Judge Proctor's yard, the Dallas Morning News ran a dispatch on page 5 written by an Aurora resident named S.E. Hayden.

Okay.

Um, but I'm gonna talk about the Aurora UFO crash.

Okay.

Nice.

I know.

Yeah.

Okay, so Aurora is a small city in Texas with a population of roughly 1,400 today.

Okay.

I, I, in a book I did call Crash: When UFOs Fall from the Sky, and there's a listing of the number of times the, um, airship crashed.

You know, supposedly blew up in, in Aurora, Texas, for example.

Right.

Uh, there was supposedly a crash near Jefferson, Iowa, and, uh, that was in my book.

So I have a lot of the, uh, information about the great, the great airship from 1897.

And I will, I will stay here to irritate as many people as absolutely possible.

The Aurora, Texas crash never happened.

It was invented by a, what they call a newspaper stringer for the Dallas Morning News.