ALIEN GRAVE in Aurora, TEXAS
This small town’s cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
According to a story run in the April 19, 1897, edition of the Dallas Morning News: “a “mystery airship,” as UFOs were known in those days, came sailing out of the sky, smashing through a windmill belonging to Judge J.S. Proctor, before finally crashing into the ground. The debris also destroyed the good judge’s flower garden. Unfortunately the pilot was also killed in the collision, but locals were able to drag what was described as a “petite” and “Martian” body from the wreckage. The body was supposedly buried under a tree branch in the Aurora cemetery, observing good Christian rites.”
The tombstone was stolen twice, and has not been replaced since.
The Texas state historical marker that commemorates the cemetery still mentions the Martian burial among the other honored (and real) dead buried at the site.