Ancient Aliens: An Alien is Buried in this Cemetery?! (Season 3)

Aurora, Texas. This rural southwestern town covers an area of just over 3 square miles. Headstones at the local cemetery mark the final resting places of the area's hardworking ranchers and farmers. But one body, allegedly buried here, has no marker at all. The Aurora cemetery was founded in 1861 right at the start of the War Between The States. Texas State Historical Commission has a marker here. This states the cemetery is well known because of the legend of a spaceship crashed nearby in 1897. And the pilot killed in the crash is buried here. NARRATOR: 50 years before, the United States Army announced that a flying disk had crashed at Roswell, New Mexico. There was a report of a strange unidentified object that crashed on the property of a local judge. JEFF DANELEK: On an April morning in 1897, an airship supposedly ran into a windmill on the property of a gentleman named Judge Proctor. The ship exploded in flame. And it was burnt to a crisp, essentially. JIM MARRS: There was an explosion. In those days-- this is before television, before jet aircraft-- any big noise got your attention. Plus the ground shook so they knew something tremendous had happened. JEFF DANELEK: A local reporter arrived on the scene. He reported that there was a large debris field and also that there was the charred remains of what appeared to be to him an alien from another planet. The occupant, described as unworldly by witnesses, was given a Christian burial and put in an unmarked grave. JIM MARRS: In 1897, this was six years before the Wright brothers actually made heavier than air craft work. So this is why I consider the Aurora spaceship crash the smoking gun of the UFO controversy, because this occurred six years before there was anything manmade in the air. NARRATOR: Witnesses claimed that debris from the crash was recovered by local law enforcement and never seen again. Others claim that Judge Proctor buried it at the bottom of a deep well. For decades, the incident remained largely forgotten until, in 1945, a man named Brawley Oates, who had purchased Proctor's land, reportedly was cleaning out the debris from the well when he later developed an extremely severe case of arthritis, which he claimed to be the result of the contaminated water. JEFF DANELEK: He believed that the water from the well contained some sort of element to it that gave him a severe case of arthritis. It was a bad enough case of arthritis it eventually killed him. So a lot of people today wonder if the well wasn't contaminated with some sort of radioactive agents, which was the rationale behind his arthritis. PHILIP COPPPENS: We find that people who are using that well actually get ill. And so what happens at a moment in time is that the descendants of these people actually decides to cement the well. NARRATOR: The incident at Roswell in 1947 also began stirring controversy about the Aurora incident, this time concerning the strange body supposedly still resting in an unmarked grave. JOHN WHALEN: Researchers wanted to exhume the body but the local cemetery association wouldn't let them. MARSHALL TRIMBLE: My first question is why not. What's it going to hurt? As a historian, it makes me suspicious when somebody is trying to hide something from you or tells you you can't do something. JIM MARRS: I first got onto the Aurora story back in 1973 and was there before the tombstone went missing and actually probably one of a few people around who still remember where the actual gravesite was. Now the little grave is located right here. It was a short little grave, that of a child or very small person. And the little headstone, the marker, was right about there. A few years ago, scientists with ground penetrating radar established that there really had been a short grave here. Now back in 1973, Bill Case was the aviation writer for the "Dallas Times Herald." I was working for the "Star-Telegram." We met up here. He had a metal detector. And we found three readings of metal in the grave. A couple of months after the headstone went missing, Bill invited me to meet him up here. We went over the grave and there was no readings in the grave. He showed me three little holes that had been drilled in the grave. Someone extracted the metal out of the grave. NARRATOR: In recent decades, further investigation of the crash site has turned up inconclusive evidence, including unusually high traces of aluminum at the bottom of the now sealed well where Judge Proctor had supposedly disposed of the wreckage.

Channel: HISTORY

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Id: 7v7M7al8qxc

Length: 6min 14sec (374 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 01 2024