Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs

The Famous Aurora Spaceship Mystery

Did a UFO really crash in a small town in Texas over a century ago?

When it comes to spaceships and little green men from Mars, most people’s thoughts turn to the notorious events at Roswell, New Mexico, where in 1947 the U.S. government apparently captured an alien who had crashed his flying saucer. U.S. military personnel are then said to have quickly sealed off the area, removed all ?evidence, and engaged in a complete ?cover-?up.

After a thorough debriefing, presumably in sign language, the little green man sadly died. Much later, the film of the ?top-?secret autopsy supposedly carried out on him was sold on the black market, ending up nearly fifty years later, in 1995, on a ?prime-?time TV documentary broadcast around the world. This program, Alien Autopsy, caused a sensation and “Martian?gate” was back on the agenda with a vengeance. As is often the case, those who wanted to believe such a story inevitably did, while those of us really living on planet Earth could smell a rat. In fact, there were rats everywhere.

But it took eleven years before the program maker, Ray Santilli, admitted that the autopsy had been staged, for the most part, in a flat in Camden Town, London. Strangely enough, he owned up to this two days before a humorous parody of his subject was due to be aired on ?television. He confirmed that his props had in?cluded sheep brains set in jelly and knuckle joints and chicken entrails bought from Smith?field meat market.

That should have knocked the Roswell ?mystery on the head for good, and all those UFO enthusiasts who had been obsessing about the whole affair for years should now be quietly ?licking their wounds in their garden sheds, or wherever it is they go to study their favorite subject.

But Roswell ?wasn’t the first time: aliens had been captured before. In 1897, Aurora, a small, unremarkable town near Dallas, Texas, became the site of an astonishing event.

On April 19 that year, ?ten-?year-?old Charlie Stevens was sweeping his backyard when he looked up to see smoke trailing from a large ? silver airship flying overhead toward Aurora. Soon after it had flown out of sight, he heard an explosion and saw a thick plume of smoke rise into the air. He was about to rush off to see what had happened when he was stopped by his father, who told him he had to finish his chores first. Just imagine that something truly momentous has just happened right in your sleepy little town: a strange airborne vehicle— something you have never seen before, maybe even a craft from another planet—crashes just a few hundred yards away from your own back gate and you are told: “Nope. You finish sweeping that there yard first, boy, and then come inside and help your ma with the breakfast.”

In fact Charlie ?wasn’t allowed to go at all. According to him, it was his father who went into town and saw the wreckage scattered about the place. Mary Evans, aged fifteen at the time, also claimed to have witnessed the crash, but stated that her parents ?wouldn’t allow her to visit the scene either.

As H. E. Haydon reported in The Dallas Morning News:

About 6 o’clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than b

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Title of ebook: Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs
ISBN: 9781588368690
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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 03-2009
Released online for download: 03-10-2009
Author of eBook: Jack, Albert

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Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs

The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved
The Famous Aurora Spaceship Mystery

Did a UFO really crash in a small town in Texas over a century ago?

When it comes to spaceships and little green men from Mars, most people’s thoughts turn to the notorious events at Roswell, New Mexico, where in 1947 the U.S. government apparently captured an alien who had crashed his flying saucer. U.S. military personnel are then said to have quickly sealed off the area, removed all ?evidence, and engaged in a complete ?cover-?up.

After a thorough debriefing, presumably in sign language, the little green man sadly died. Much later, the film of the ?top-?secret autopsy supposedly carried out on him was sold on the black market, ending up nearly fifty years later, in 1995, on a ?prime-?time TV documentary broadcast around the world. This program, Alien Autopsy, caused a sensation and “Martian?gate” was back on the agenda with a vengeance. As is often the case, those who wanted to believe such a story inevitably did, while those of us really living on planet Earth could smell a rat ... read full excerpt from: Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs ebook

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