The Aurora UFO Incident is an alleged UFO crash that occurred on April 19, 1897 in Aurora, Texas. An unidentified flying machine was said to have hit Judge J.S. Proctor's windmill before coming down in the small town. What makes this event so important in UFO lore is the report that an occupant from the craft survived the crash and was cared for by a doctor before dying of its injuries. The survivor, described as "not of this world" by the townsfolk, was thought to have been buried in an unmarked grave at the Aurora cemetery. A plaque, pictured below, mentions the story of the crash and still stands today as an eerie reminder of the crash.
Some Aurora residents claim that this story was a hoax invented by local news correspondent S.E. Hayden to bring notoriety to the dying community that had been bypassed by the railroad. However, in 1995 an investigation by MUFON turned up a mysterious, rare metal. The MUFON team was not permitted to exhume a grave they found in the Aurora cemetery which they believed was the UFO pilot's resting place. This evidence, along with reports of another piece of metal with strange hieroglyphics and contaminated well water, makes the Aurora incident an important UFO case.
Original Newspaper Article by S.E. Hayden
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