It's a solid point and that scenario would have to be in the realm of possibility. There is evidence that we've been attempting to reverse engineer UFOs for somewhere around 60 years and
maybe we've managed to figure out how to make a clean, quiet, controlled fission engine that can defeat gravity, inertia and, I suppose, time. That's a lot to wrap your head around.
Thing is, a technology like that could be used for a lot more than flying. I've seen speculation that the power inherent in one such engine, about the size of a lawnmower engine, could power a major city for decades. It wouldn't just be about getting an edge in space or dominating the skies over Earth. IF we've figured out how to do this then the question becomes WHO controls the tech? Is it our Government or is it some military industrial giant(s) who aren't inclined to share with anybody for selfish reasons.
It's pretty easy to go off the deep end into various theories, but I certainly don't believe that all the stuff people have seen and experienced going way back in History are from
some American black budget time travel operation. If we've got it now then we stole it from a different species and somebody will, in turn, steal it from us.
The 1897 Aurora, Texas incident was interesting. Who figured out you could hoax people over UFOs back when nobody had even heard of one? 50 years before Roswell.
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One example of these inconsistencies is that the airship was supposed to have hit a windmill on Judge J.S. Proctor’s farm. There was, however, no windmill on his farm at the time that the collision was supposed to have happened.
Furthermore, there is no evidence of personal records related to the event, such as bills for removal of debris material, or any records of the pilot’s body being placed in the Aurora cemetery. Also, there are no museums, historical societies, or private individuals that have any examples of the pieces of the debris or the writings they supposedly found on the pilot’s person containing
alien hieroglyphs.
Additionally, the supposed authority on Astronomy, T.J. Weems, was not a signal service officer but the town blacksmith.
The most famous early example of a story about a UFO crash landing is the Roswell incident of 1947. This event is known to have helped spark the modern UFO subculture and the idea that Earth is being regularly visited by intelligent beings.
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It turns out that for four days prior to the Aurora crash, Texas newspapers had been abuzz with reports of balloons and airships. By 1897, when this happened, hot air balloons had been flying for more than a century, and their appearance over Texas may well have been a curiosity but hardly unknown. But Texas newspapers were in the habit of outdoing each other. The
Texas Almanac gives this account of 38 newspaper reports covering 23 counties:
Newspapers of the day reported the sightings straight-faced, although one can read more than a little tongue-in-cheek writing into some of the dispatches from community correspondents... In Farmersville, an eyewitness saw three men in the cabin and heard them singing "Nearer My God to Thee." The trio reportedly also was passing out temperance tracts... Texans always have to one-up each other, and the "airship" craze provided a perfect setting.
And so it was only after nearly a week of this colorful storytelling that the
Dallas Morning News decided to run a full page featuring the best of all these stories. Page 5 of the April 19, 1897 edition contained the editors' sixteen favorite yarns, each a silly story from a different town. In one, an "aerial monster" landed in a field, piloted by men from New York. In another, the crew consisted of lost Jews from the ten tribes of Israel who told a judge they'd come from the North Pole. Another of the stories was the following, given here in its entirety:
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The 1897 article was written by S. E. Haydon, a cotton buyer in Aurora, left over from the town's boom times prior to 1890. Judge J. S. Proctor, upon whose property the crash took place, was a local justice of the peace and a friend of Haydon's. Both men often submitted satirical essays and poems to local papers. Proctor even wrote his own version of Haydon's alien tale and published it in his own paper called the
Aurora News, and when town constable J. D. Reynolds read it, he "roared with laughter" and said "The judge has really outdone himself this time."
Porterfield even tracked down T. J. Weems, described in Haydon's article as a "United States signal service officer... and an authority on astronomy." This was, evidently, a joke on a friend; as T. Jeffrey Weems was Aurora's blacksmith and farrier, and knew no more about astronomy than his average equine customer.
Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas.
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Sorry man. I'm not trying to dis you're belief.
I ended up here because my "assumption" was that it was a zeppelin, which were just being developed, patented, and flown at exactly that time...so I started by researching zeppelin development and any crashes that occurred.
It wouldn't surprise me if zeppelins weren't the inspiration for the story.
I know that the era of the mid to late 19th ceentury, and early into the 20th, was also an era of imagination and sensation, beginning with the mostly fictional "wild west", fictional stories written as news, and culminating in pulp fiction, both horror and science fiction, all things supernatural was very popular once the west was more or less settled, which continued until the advent of WW2.
Don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly belief in extra terrestrial life, I just don't believe they are here, flying around and kidnapping crazy cat ladies or whatever...and I certainly don't believe that an interstellar species would crash into a windmill, and if they did, I am pretty confident they could retrieve the debris, the bodies, and clean it up. They would treat it like we treat a "Broken Arrow" a nuke lost in a foreign country that we don't want to have nukes.
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