Aurora, Texas, UFO incident
[8]) Reportedly, wreckage from the crash site was dumped into a nearby well located under the damaged windmill, while some ended up with the alien in the grave.
"[5] Pegues further claimed that Judge Proctor never operated a windmill on his property, a statement later refuted as part of the UFO Hunters episode, which found the base of a wooden water pump tower constructed around the well.
[citation needed] Paranormal researcher Jerry Drake on the April 12, 2020 episode of the Monster Talk live podcast challenged that finding, noting the well was clearly a bucket well of modern construction (estimated to be built sometimes after 1940) and not a well designed for use with a windmill.
Ray reported that the State of Texas erected a historical plaque in town that outlines the tale and labels it "legend."
[citation needed] The episode featured a 1973 investigation led by Bill Case, an aviation writer for the Dallas Times Herald[b] and the Texas state director of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Mary Evans, who was 15 at the time, told of how her parents went to the crash site (they forbade her from going) and the discovery of the alien body.
MUFON then investigated the Aurora Cemetery and uncovered a grave marker that appeared to show a flying saucer of some sort, as well as readings from its metal detector.
The documentary featured one notable change from the UFO Files story – Tim Oates, grandson of Brawley Oates and the now-owner of the property with the sealed well where the UFO wreckage was purportedly buried, allowed the investigators to unseal the well, in order to examine it for possible debris.
An independent short movie co-written and co-directed by musician and historian Thomas Negovan and Aaron Shaps simply entitled Aurora dramatizes the incident as well as combines it with the Nazi conspiracy theory of Die Glocke.
[14][15] The incident is satirized in The Firesign Theatre's 1974 comedy LP Everything You Know Is Wrong, performed from about 3:00 to 4:42 on Side A, with following thematic references.
