Aurora, Texas, UFO incident

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The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897, when, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. The incident, similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident 50 years later, is claimed to have resulted in the fatality of the pilot. The pilot was "not of this world" and was said to be an alien. The corpse was buried at the Aurora cemetery. A stone was placed as a marker for the grave, but has since been removed.

Read on Wikipedia · Image S. E. Haydon (Life time: fl. 1897), Public domain