Name: Greg Bishop
Occupation: Researcher, Media
Relevance (Aurora): Paramania, *
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Contribution:

“Like many who have enjoyed the Aurora story over the last century, I originally chose to look upon it as a relatively true account. In my most romantic moments, I still do.

Most now accept it as a tall tale from the Dallas Morning News of April 19, 1897.

The story contains many elements of later UFO crash accounts, (explosion, occupants, strange “hieroglyphics”) which we might take as confirmation of its claims.

As author Chris Aubeck has shown in his recent book “Alien Artifacts,” there have been similar accounts since at least the 18th century, all published as fiction or later revealed to be fiction.

The difference with Aurora is that the victim of the crash was supposedly buried in the local cemetery. I visited the location with Daniel and his friend Jim Marrs in 2016, who gave us a thorough description of the incident while we stood at the site. I do not know if the grave was ever exhumed or anything found besides the grave markers, both of which were stolen years ago.

Somewhere along the line, someone apparently named the dead alien “Ned.”

The best fallout from the incident for me was its inclusion as a plot element in “Everything You Know Is Wrong!” (1974), my favorite album by the The Firesign Theatre comedy troupe.”

Greg Bishop