Stumble It!
A high-profile UFO search comes to Wise County
This weekend, the search for flying saucers goes back where it all began in Texas 111 years ago: Wise County, grave site of the Aurora Spaceman.
A half-century before Roswell, Texans were talking about the silver "airship" that supposedly crashed into a windmill in 1897 and whether the pilot inside might have been a Martian.
A crew from the History Channel show UFO Hunters will try to dig up at least half of the real story this weekend.
On Saturday, workers were scheduled to unseal a long-covered water well where the windmill’s owner supposedly dumped crash debris. On Monday, crews plan to use radar imaging to examine the pilot’s Aurora Cemetery grave.
County historian Rosalie Gregg is certain what they’ll find.
"Nothing," she said Friday from the Wise County Heritage Museum in Decatur.
"It’s a waste of their time. It was all a hoax. But some people just like the idea of UFOs."
On April 17, 1897, an Aurora merchant spun a alien yarn that was out of this world.
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