The Alien Grave of Aurora, Texas

https://burialsandbeyond.com/2023/01/11/the-alien-grave-of-aurora-texas/

by Amorymeltzer • 4 years ago

85 52 4 years ago

Wikipedia page for the incident - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Texas,_UFO_incident

pram• 4 years ago

There are/were actually a lot of UFO “landing pads” around Texas. There was one in my hometown that was gossiped about often. Pretty wacky forgotten history:

https://caterpickles.com/2017/10/10/official-ufo-landing-pad...

smallmouth3• 4 years ago

Interesting story. As someone who is interested in this, uh, subject, it is astonishing the number of "Air Ship" sightings that were reported in the latter quarter of the 1800's. Sightings on the ground and in the sky of Air Ships that moved very fast, even vertically and against the wind and had powerful search lights that turned night into day so to speak.

Anyway, there is much written about this with some great research done by John Keel.

seanw4443• 4 years ago

There are an awful lot of UFO/UAP sightings by the Navy in the last two decades. And they largely ignore them. There's a consistently-reported "sphere-inlayed transparent/translucent stationary airborn cube" aircraft that the Navy gets hundreds of reports for by its pilots. And the number has been growing year-over-year.

Only a few have been seen with the human eye. The majority are seen via instruments. They know they're the same type of aircraft because their flight styles (or rather, the lack thereof) are identical to the ones seen in person.

They were largely undetected until the Navy rolled out some more advanced sensors/instruments relatively recently, and now they see "flocks" of them flying in formation, or sometimes individuals stationary and unaffected by wind patterns.

Is it aliens? Birds? Foreign drones? Experimental drones from higher echelons of our own government? Nobody knows. That's why it's actually interesting. Because even the Navy can't say it has an answer. But almost nobody seems to be interested in finding out, for some reason, despite them routinely flying in our restricted airspace without permission.

zzzeek2• 4 years ago

What kind of instrument can detect that an object is translucent / transparent that is not in fact a camera, and therefore has photographs ?

LarryMullins4• 4 years ago

Maybe it's all a prank/hoax perpetrated by pilots and tolerated by Navy command, who perhaps see some value in muddying the waters about what's real or isn't real, sowing doubt about the technology America might have, confuse America's rivals.

I've noticed that the people who think the alleged Navy sightings are genuine seem to generally believe that Navy pilots are beyond reproach, all work no play, never perpetrate hoaxes, never misread their instruments, never get deceived by their own senses, etc etc. From listening to them, you'd get the impression that the testimony of Navy pilots is the firmest sort of scientific evidence.

Well I've met a small number of Naval aviators, and I can tell you that although they were professionals, they were also human. Punking the public for shits and giggles is a real possibility with them.

renewiltord• 4 years ago

Sounds more like the new set of instruments has a similar artifacting pattern. It would be like saying "Until we got modern multi-lens cameras, we did not realize there are multiple suns, but they are invisible unless you use our new sensitive equipment. These suns move rapidly around the field as you move the camera and provide light but no heat" about lens flares.

matthewdgreen• 4 years ago

Tyler Rogaway wrote about the possibility that these "cube inside a sphere" floating objects are actually a specific kind of radar reflector. There are patent drawings in the article that are worth more than 1000 words. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-th...

ETA: the balloons are designed to reflect radar beams from surface ships/submarines that make them appear to be performing all sorts of incredible maneuvers on radar, which is pretty much exactly what you describe here.

_-david-_• 4 years ago

Interestingly enough the Navy has a patent to make UFOs that look real on radar and other sensors. [1] This seems like a good explanation as to why the Navy disproportionately has these sightings.

It is possible the people who have made statements don't know about this technology or didn't know it was being used. It would also explain why the higher ups don't seem to really care to find answers.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/05/11/us-nav...

tgflynn• 4 years ago

But almost nobody seems to be interested in finding out, for some reason, despite them routinely flying in our restricted airspace without permission.

Congress seems very interested in finding out. There is legislation in both the 2022 and 2023 Nation Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA) that mandates government investigation of UAP. An unclassified report was supposed to be delivered to Congress last October but for unknown reasons it has been delayed.

shrimp_emoji• 4 years ago

Legends[0] say that the translucent sphere is from light refraction due to the vacuum generated around the craft. The cube inside is the actual craft.

0: https://www.uaptheory.com/#3_Background_Lensing

zzzeek2• 4 years ago

do the navies / air forces etc. of other nations also report events like these? how about USAF? Non-military observers, weather airplanes, etc? I always hear it's "US Navy" but it would seem odd aliens have a predilection for popping in front of only one very specific military organization on the planet.

crapaud23• 4 years ago

Paul Bennewitz & Richard Doty

Bennewitz detailed his assertions to the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, who regarded him as a deluded paranoid. UFOlogist William Moore claims that he tried to push Bennewitz, who had been in a mental health facility on three occasions after suffering severe delusional paranoia, into a mental breakdown by feeding him false information about aliens.[1] In 1988, his family checked him into a psychiatric facility.[3] Former special agent for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations Richard Doty claimed that in the 1980s he was tasked with hoaxing documents and feeding false information to UFO researchers, including Bennewitz.[4] Richard Doty is featured in the 2013 documentary "Mirage Men", a film alleging "how the U.S. government created a myth that took over the world. UFOs, and weapons of mass deception."[5]

That's why it's actually interesting.

No, what grabbed you attention is that their is some governmental authority behind this. If that wasn't the case, your comment reading as someone whose interest in UFO emerged from the Navy stories, you wouldn't bat an eyelid.

thedorkknight2• 4 years ago

Skeptoid did an article on this story. It appeared with a bunch of other stories in that newspaper that were pretty clearly jokes.

In one, an "aerial monster" landed in a field, piloted by men from New York. In another, the crew consisted of lost Jews from the ten tribes of Israel who told a judge they'd come from the North Pole.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4241

twobitshifter• 4 years ago

If there was anything to this they’d surely have exhumed the remains, Christian burial notwithstanding.

ocdtrekkie2• 4 years ago

That's my impression too. If anyone legitimately believed alien remains (or parts of an alien spacecraft) was six feet under that rock, the government would've gotten it either by not caring what people in the area thought about it, or literally tunneling under the earth and taking it covertly.

codetrotter2• 4 years ago

Mulder and Scully need to look into this.

RajT883• 4 years ago

If anyone legitimately believed alien remains (or parts of an alien spacecraft) was six feet under that rock

It is quite possible that nobody really buys into it.

Or - another theory - the powers that be who would have to authorize it understand that their tourist trap angle is over if it is just a normal dead body. Therefore, it's not worth the risk to discover the truth.

beau_g• 4 years ago

It's actually the perfect cover: the last place anyone would expect you to hide an alien is directly under a sign that says "alien here." Ingenious of them to pull it off and play up this "tourist attraction" angle.

vkaku2• 4 years ago

Just when you think there's a real possibility of exhumation and further analysis there's known disinformation circulating. What I would really like to see is X Ray photography.

RajT883• 4 years ago

What's the disinfo?

vkaku2• 4 years ago

That they can't exhume the remains - random stuff like that on the Wikipedia article.

If there is an actual burial of an alien, a government agency will likely cover it up.

retrocryptid• 4 years ago

The offspring and I stopped by our family cemetery plot last summer there in Aurora. He had never heard the story about how my great-grandmother, when living in Boyd, had met a peculiar man from out of town.

The family story is that he was the pilot of the craft and this is what explains my mothers' family's odd behaviour.

Or maybe they just lived in Wise county a little too long.

goodroot• 4 years ago

I'm super pumped they gave the pilot a proper and respectful burial. Way to make a solid impression, Texas.

dylan6042• 4 years ago

Or it could have been insulting. What if the alien wasn't a christian and the poor thing is now doomed in whatever purgatory its religion dooms it to until it gets the proper rites performed? Such a small minded assumption to be made that a foreigner would practice the same rites as the locals.

_nalply• 4 years ago

As a Buddhist I find it respectful. Giving someone who you don't know the last rites anyway. Especially if it is not even the same species as you.

codetrotter2• 4 years ago

Article screenshot text:

A Windmill Demolishes It.
Aurora, Wise Co., Tex., April 17.–(To The News.)–About 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing through the country.
It was traveling due north, and much nearer the earth than ever before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed direct- ly over the public square, and when it reached the north part of town collided with the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went to pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden.
The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one on board, and while his remains are badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.
Mr. T. J. Weems, the United States signal service officer at this place and an authority on astronomy, gives it as his opinion that he was a native of the planet Mars.
Papers found on his person–evidently the record of his travels–are written in some unknown hieroglyphics, and can not be deciphered.
The ship was too badly wrecked to form any conclusion as to lis construction or motive power. It was built of an unknown metal, resembling somewhat a mixture of aluminum and silver, and it must have weighed several tons.
The town is full of people to-day who are viewing the wreck and gathering specimens of the strange metal from the debris. The pilot's funeral will take place at noon to-morrow.
S. E. HAYDON.

LarryMullins4• 4 years ago

The premise of an alien traveling all the way across the galaxy, only to crash into a windmill, is very amusing. Maybe it was a teenage alien joyriding his parental unit's spaceship.

smallmouth3• 4 years ago

I don't think whomever is in control of these objects are aliens from outer space either. And I don't think they make mistakes of crashing into windmills as well. But "they" are here for whatever reason.

sai_c• 4 years ago

The premise of a space craft traveling the long distance from earth to Mars and then crashing because of a unit mismatch is very amusing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...

nothingforsale2• 4 years ago

gathering specimens of the strange metal from the debris

And yet, we have no records of such strange specimens of metal.

BoPET was beyond a strange specimen in the early 1900s, imagine what thin films of alloys were to onlookers then.

nothingforsale2• 4 years ago

If you want a macabre afternoon, search Google Images for "immolated body". They all look quite alien.

manv1• 4 years ago

It's amazing that the deep state was able to embed someone (Etta Peagues) into the narrative that long ago. They've been around for a long time!

nprateem• 4 years ago

I mean whatever you think on the subject you must admit the old school art is odd

https://www.cantab.net/users/michael.behrend/repubs/j_geoman...

pavlov• 4 years ago

1897 is when H. G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds” was published in serialized form on both sides of the Atlantic.

UFOs and Martians were very much in the Zeitgeist when this alleged Texas incident occurred.

valarauko• 4 years ago

Skeptoid episode about this incident:

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4241

thedorkknight2• 4 years ago

Yeah I was gonna say, this story sounded familiar. Props to Brian Dunning on this one for apparently being one of the few to actually look at the context of the publishing of this story. It appeared with a bunch of other stories in that newspaper that were pretty clearly jokes.

In one, an "aerial monster" landed in a field, piloted by men from New York. In another, the crew consisted of lost Jews from the ten tribes of Israel who told a judge they'd come from the North Pole.

shookness• 4 years ago

"Author attempts to jump-start town with fictional UFO story" https://www.tshaonline.org/texas-day-by-day/entry/118

This seems like a likely explanation of the story, but I admit I want to believe...

steponlego• 4 years ago

Fascinating stuff, and yet more evidence that aliens are in fact simply Biblical demons.

The Alien Grave of Aurora, Texas

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