Aurora Texas 1897 UFO Crash

On the morning of April 17, 1897, residents claimed a cigar-shaped UAP was seen flying slowly over the town. It reportedly collided with a windmill on Judge J.S. Proctor’s property, causing a loud explosion. The crash scattered debris across several acres, wrecked the windmill and a water tank, and damaged the judge’s flower garden. According to a local newspaper report in the Dallas Morning News, townspeople found the badly damaged body of the craft’s pilot in the wreckage. They described th...