“It was the first serious discussion of maybe there being life. Bills, an author who wrote about the Aurora incident in his book Texas Obscurities.
New telescope technology had allowed people to see the face of Mars more clearly than ever, though maybe not quite clearly enough.Īn Italian astronomer in 1888 announced he’d seen evidence of canals on the red planet. This wasn’t the only UFO sighting in Texas in the spring of 1897. “And that’s how the cemetery association got the court injunction in 1972 to keep them from exhuming the remains.”Īuthor Tui Snyder gave a presentation on the numerous reports of mysterious airship sightings in Texas in the spring of 1897.
“You cannot exhume a grave unless you notify the next of kin,” Wheeler says with a smile. In the 1970s, Wheeler says people even tried to exhume the remains. Researchers have looked into the story for years, testing water in the well where the wreckage was said to be stored, digging metal out of trees at the crash site as proof something exploded, and using radar to see if there really is a Ned in Ned’s grave. It was part of the Aurora Alien Encounter conference she helped organize. On Saturday, Wheeler spent the day leading bus trips to the crash site and the old town cemetery. She’s been Aurora’s city administrator for more than a decade. Wheeler’s family has been in Aurora for several generations. Wheeler came up with the name - and it stuck. He's the extra-terrestrial pilot that is said to have been buried in in the town. He loved to tell tall tales anyway, and he really got on telling all kinds of stories, and Ned’s story was one of them.” “And my grandmother said 'it’s hogwash.' But my uncles would discuss it. “Then I started asking my grandfather about it and he would snicker about it,” Wheeler said. An older neighbor would sit on his porch and tell stories. Toni Wheeler first heard the story of the crash when she was a kid growing up in Aurora. Folks have different opinions about what happened nearly 120 years ago. The Wise County town recently hosted a conference to commemorate the UFO crash. The pilot – from Mars, people thought at the time – was allegedly buried with Christian rites at the nearby Aurora Cemetery. The airship, it is said, was not of this world. Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.According to legend - and a Texas historical marker - early in the morning on April 17, 1897, something strange happened in the small town of Aurora, about 30 miles northwest of Fort Worth.Ī cigar-shaped airship was seen falling from the sky when it crashed through a windmill and exploded. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. NASA, June 25, 2021, NASA’s Search for Life: Astrobiology in the Solar System and Beyond.Cheryl Warner, April 25, Email exchange with USA TODAY.Waterford Whispers News, accessed April 25, Disclaimer page.26, 2016, NASA Admits It Has Known About Alien Life For Years, Just Forgot To Mention It PolitiFact, June 25, 2018, No, NASA has not communicated with aliens.USA TODAY, June 21, 2020, Scientists are searching the universe for signs of alien civilizations: 'Now we know where to look'.USA TODAY, March 25, Fact check: False claim that a Florida millionaire was arrested for burying 700 bodies.NASA, accessed April 25, Latest NASA News Releases.NASA has not made contact with alien civilizations to date. Our rating: Falseīased on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that NASA has publicly acknowledged alien civilizations exist. The claim originated from a satirical website. As a result, viewers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here. This is an example of "stolen satire," in which something published and labeled as satire is reposted in a way that makes it appear to be legitimate news. However, the new version of this story contains no such disclaimer and is being shared on social media as fact. 26, 2016, article from Waterford Whispers News. The site's disclaimer page says it is a "is a satirical newspaper" that uses "invented names in all its stories."įact check: Image shows bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres, not city on the Moon USA TODAY did not find any press releases on NASA's website or credible news reports that indicate NASA has made contact with aliens.
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