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a UFO crash in Aurora Texas by Charles

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Lear in last week's blog we looked at

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researcher investigator Hayden Hughes in

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some of the cases he looked into one of

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those was in Aurora Texas where UFO was

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reported to have crashed in 1897 killing

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its not of the squirrel pilot the pilot

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was said to have been buried in the

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local cemetery and an enthusiastic use

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attempted and failed to get an

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exclamation order the case is endured in

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the UFO Mythos despite the likelihood

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that the story was made up by a reporter

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trying to raise some publicity for a

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dying town in the midst of the publicity

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stirred up by Hughes and other

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investigators Jim and coral Lorenzen of

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the aerial phenomena research

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organization expressed their doubts in

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their publication the Opera boughten the

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original article describing the incident

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headlined a windmill demolished it and

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written by SC Hayden prepared in the

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April 19 1897 edition of the Dallas

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Morning News according to Hayden on

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April 17th at 6am the early risers of

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Aurora were astonished at the sudden

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appearance of the Airship which has been

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sailing through the country as most

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readers are probably aware articles

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describing mystery airships have been

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appearing in newspapers throughout the

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us at this time Hayden describes the

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Aurora ship as possibly having had

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mechanical problems as it was only

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traveling about 10 or 12 miles per hour

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and gradually settling toward the Earth

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according to Hayden after passing over

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the Town Square it crashed into a

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windmill in the property of Judge

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Proctor in the north of town it is

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described as exploding scattering debris

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over several Acres of ground wrecking

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The Windmill and water tank and

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destroying the dentist flower garden it

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is reported that there was a single

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pilot whose remains were badly

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disfigured but enough of the original

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has been picked up to show that he was

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not an inhabitant of this world

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according to Hayden TJ Weems the local

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U.S signal service operator and

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Authority on astronomy gave his opinion

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opinion that the pilot was from Mars the

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strewn medal was said to have been

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several tons worth of aluminum and

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silver the town is described as being

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full of people viewing the wreck and

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Gathering specimens of the strange metal

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from the debris the funeral for the

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pilot was reported to be scheduled for

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the next day apro's investigation into

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the case is described in the article

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headline the Aurora Texas case on the

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front page of the May June 1973 issue of

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the April bulletin after summing up the

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story Aurora is described as having been

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in pitiful Straits in 1896 and 1897 due

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to a spotted fever epidemic the failure

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of the cotton crop and the fact that the

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railroad had bypassed the town Hayden is

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described as being a cotton buyer and as

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bad a fix as anyone else the March 12

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1973 issue of Time Magazine has an

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article on the case an 86 year old Etta

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pegs is quoted as saying that Hayden

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wrote the article as a joke to bring

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interest to Aurora the railroad

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bypassers and the town was dying

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according to the bulletin the Aurora

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story laid dormant for 70 years until it

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was brought up again by UFO researchers

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during the fuhrer of the 1966 flat when

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the content committee was commissioned

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to investigate UFO reports historians in

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the area called the story of hoax and a

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scientist Dr Alfred E Krauss swept the

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area with a metal detector and

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interviewed people there who were alive

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in 1897 and he found nothing to

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substantiate the story addressing the

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1973 investigation Hughes we presume

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because he is not mentioned by name is

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described as a UFO buff who has a

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reputation as a godfly there were

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stories about the case and the

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investigation in the Dallas Times Herald

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when the Los Angeles Herald examiner

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according to an article headlined Aurora

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UFO site probe near climax in the June

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3rd 1973 Dallas times held investigators

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from the mutual UFO Network North Texas

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State University and the herald had

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gathered metal samples in the area and

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were having them tested at various Labs

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an article headlined Texas woman recalls

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UFO crash in 1897 in the May 31st 1973

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Los Angeles Herald examiner quotes 91

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year old Mary Evans is saying she

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remembered the excitement caused by the

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crash but her parents wouldn't let her

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go to the site it is reported in the

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bulletin that the aluminum found that

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the site was a fairly common aluminum

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alloy according to former Project Blue

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Book scientific consultant J Allen

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heineck who knew a scientist who had

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tested a sample in Canada it's pointed

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out that the local Historical Society

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hadn't recorded the event that the

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aluminum Alloys showed up after krauss's

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1967 investigation that the only Weems

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in the area was a blacksmith and not a

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U.S signal service operator and met two

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people claiming to remember the crash

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each send investigators to separate

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grave sites the determination by apro is

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that it seems certain that we should

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relegate the story of the 1897 Aurora

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Texas Airship crash to the hopes bin

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Charles Lear is the author of The Flying

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Saucer investigators available at

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