I hope I haven’t told you all this before – if I have excuse
me, I’m getting old. The first time I saw a UFO, I was driving down a small
farm to market road in deep East Texas – FM 1. It’s narrow with big trees
planted close to the road, at times forming a canopy overhead. But there’s one spot
with a pretty good arial view and that’s where I saw it. At first, I thought it
was a blimp but the more I looked at it, the more I realized it wasn’t. This
was a cylindrical shaped craft of unearthly origin – I just knew it was.
Anyway, I pulled off the side of the road to get out for a better look. When I
moved to the cleared spot and looked in the sky – it was gone. There was no
earthly way that thing moved fast enough to get out of my sight. My answer – it
cloaked. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Another time, we saw one dance
over the tops of the pine trees like a firefly, only much bigger. It shot up,
then right, then left, before shooting straight up and disappearing in a flash.
One other time, I saw one in Colorado on the side of a mountain in Estes Park.
We stood at our hotel room and watched it. We could even see in the windows located
on the sides of the craft. My mother tried to tell us it was a building of some
sort, but there was no building on the side of that mountain and once the sun
rose there was no alien ship either. It was just a steep rocky surface with not
even a tree to be seen.
Those are my personal accounts – which you can take or
leave. But I have something even better for you. In north Texas not too far
from Fort Worth, there’s a small town called Aurora. Very appropriate name, I
think. From this small town comes one of Texas tallest tales, but the residents
of Aurora will swear on a stack of Bibles that it’s true. Their claim to fame
is the day an alien spaceship crashed in Aurora and took down a windmill in one
fell swoop.
Currently, the community is small, just over 1200 people. It
used to be bigger, over 5000. But an epidemic came through and the railroad
bypassed the town and the population dwindled. Not much happened in Aurora
until one day in 1897 when a spaceship from outer space crashed nearby. What
makes this tale different from others is the recovery of the little green man.
Unfortunately, he didn’t survive the crash. The
citizens of Aurora carefully retrieved the body from the wreckage and gave him
a Christian burial in the local cemetery. Below is a copy of the actual
newspaper article: The report tells how the airship flew over the town square
going about ten or twelve miles an hour. Many watched it go by and were
horrified to see it crash into Judge Procter’s windmill and explode. Debris was
scattered over several acres, completely destroying the judge’s flower garden.
An army communication officer declared the deceased
pilot was not of this earth and most probably a resident of Mars. Papers were
found on the ship, but no one could read the hieroglyphs. The ship was built of
an unknown metal and much of the wrecked remains was tossed into a nearby well.
The report ends with the announcement that the funeral for the little alien
pilot would be held the next day.
This next photo is the historical marker at the Aurora
Cemetery and if you enlarge it you can read that the cemetery was known for
several things – one of them being the resting place of a visitor from a
faraway galaxy.
Over the following years there was much contention over this
story. Skeptics abounded and folks did their best to disprove the account. Some
wanted to dig up the little pilot and let science have the final say. The
residents of Aurora refused the attempt at desecration, and the grave remains
untouched.
Of course, that was then – this is now.
People aren’t laughing at UFO’s so much anymore.
Who knows? The crash at Roswell might not have been our
nation’s first visit from the stars. The first might very well have been in
Aurora, Texas.
Thanks for putting up with me!
Love, Sable
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I think you have to put that into a story! Kudos for the Aurora townsfolk for refusing to disturb the gravesite. Some things are better left alone.
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