Editing Aurora Texas UFO Incident — Master Case File (section)

=== Primary Case Identification ===

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! Field !! Detail
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| Incident name || Aurora, Texas, UFO Incident; Aurora UFO Crash; Texas's Roswell
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| Date || April 17, 1897 (reported April 19, 1897)
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| Time || Approximately 6:00 AM local time (Central)
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| Location || Aurora, Texas; Wise County; approximately 20 miles northwest of Dallas
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| Object description || Cigar-shaped airship; described as "built of an unknown metal, resembling somewhat a mixture of aluminum and silver"; weighing several tons
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| Crash location || Windmill tower on property of Judge J. S. Proctor; north part of town
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| Impact description || "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"
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| Pilot description || "Not an inhabitant of this world"; badly disfigured; remains described as small; papers written in hieroglyphics recovered from body; speculated to be a "native of Mars" by T. J. Weems
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| Pilot fate || Killed in crash; buried "with Christian rites" at Aurora Cemetery
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| Primary source || Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897; article by S. E. Haydon
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| Wreckage disposal || Dumped into well located under the damaged windmill; some material went with the pilot's body into the grave
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| Grave marker || Crude rock headstone with etched design resembling a saucer shape and portholes; stolen in the 1970s
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| Grave status || Unmarked; Aurora Cemetery Association refuses exhumation; ground-penetrating radar detected possible remains
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| Official recognition || Texas Historical Commission marker at Aurora Cemetery acknowledges the legend
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| Aurora nickname for pilot || "Ned" — informal local name given to the alleged alien
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| Investigation status || Ongoing; unresolved
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