Sean Whitley

Sean Whitley (left) with Daniel Alan Jones (right) at the Texas Bigfoot Film Festival in 2021
Marshall, Texas

Name: Sean Whitley
Occupation: Researcher, Director (Media)
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Contribution:

Everything’s bigger in Texas, and that includes its mysteries. One of its most famous is centered around the tiny town of Aurora, where legend has it that a spacecraft crashed in 1897, and after perishing in the disaster, its alien pilot was given a proper burial by the kindhearted locals. But was this just an old-fashioned Texas tall tale spun to sell newspapers? Or was it an actual account of an encounter with a strange visitor from another world? What draws people – ranging from UFO researchers to fans of the bizarre – to the town’s cemetery to visit the alleged final resting place of an otherworldly being? Join Daniel Alan Jones as he sifts through fact and fiction to uncover one of the strangest stories to call the Lone Star State home!
– Sean Whitley, Director, Southern Fried Bigfoot