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Aurora, Texas, UFO Incident
The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897. According to a contemporary newspaper account, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas, resulting in the death of the extraterrestrial pilot. Supposedly, the alien was buried in the Aurora Cemetery. Background During the last two decades of the 19th century, there were reports from around the world of mysterious airships. In the United States, numerous newspaper accounts of airship sightings were published in late 1896 and early 1897. Some claimed that the occupants of the craft identified themselves as being from Mars. Original report An article written by S.E. Haydon and published in the ''Dallas Morning News'' on April 19, 1897, described the crash two days earlier of "the airship which has been sailing through the country." The craft suddenly appeared over Aurora at about 6 a.m. local time on April 17, 1897. It was "much nearer the earth than ever before", and "evidently some of the machinery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haydon Article, Aurora, Texas, UFO Incident, 1897
Haydon may refer to: Place names *Haydon, Dorset, a village and civil parish in Dorset, England * Haydon, Northumberland, a civil parish in Northumberland, England * Haydon Bridge, a village in Northumberland, England * Haydon, Somerset, a village in England People with the given name * Haydon L. Boatner (1900–1977), American army general *Haydon Hare (1869–1944), English composer *Haydon Kilmartin (born 1973), Australian rules footballer * Haydon Manning, Australian political scientist *Haydon Roberts (born 2002), English footballer *Haydon Smith (1901–1948), English cricketer *Haydon Spenceley (born 1984), English Christian musician * Haydon Warren-Gash (born 1949), British diplomat People with the surname * Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846), English painter and writer * John A. Haydon (1830–1902), American civil engineer and civil war veteran * Elizabeth Haydon, fantasy author * Jimmy Haydon (1901–1969), English footballer * Jodie Haydon (born 1979), Australian financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything You Know Is Wrong
''Everything You Know Is Wrong'' is the eighth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre. Released in October 1974 on Columbia Records, it satire, satirizes UFO conspiracy theories and New Age paranormal beliefs such as Erich von Däniken's ''Chariots of the Gods?, Chariots of the Gods'' and claimed psychic Uri Geller, which achieved wide public attention by that time. Characters The four main characters are pictured on the album cover: *"Happy" Harry Cox (Phil Austin) — narrator of the album; purveyor of New Age fringe theory, fringe theories. Cox calls his followers "Seekers" and runs a recording studio he calls "Nude Age Enterprises" from his mobile home in a Naturism, nudist trailer park located in the fictional town of Hellmouth, California (surrounded by the towns of Hooker and Heater). Although Cox is depicted on the cover and in the accompanying video as clothed, he apparently is a nudist, as Gary asks "Why are you naked?" when meeting him face-to-face. *Gary (Peter Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 In Texas
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin City, Benin. * January 7 – A 1897 cyclone, cyclone destroys Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UFO Sightings In The United States
This is a list of alleged UFO sightings in the United States. See also * List of UFO sightings This is a partial list by date of sightings of alleged unidentified flying objects (UFOs), including reports of close encounters and alien abductions. Second millennium BCE Classical antiquity 8th century 16th–17th centuries 19th ce ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ufo Sightings In United States United States aviation-related lists UFO-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wise County, Texas
Wise County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 68,632. Its county seat is Decatur. Wise County is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth– Arlington metropolitan statistical area. Its Wise Eyes crime-watch program, eventually adopted by mostly rural counties in several states, was started in 1993 by then-Sheriff Phil Ryan. History On November 10, 1837, the Battle of the Knobs was fought in what is now Wise County between about 150 Native American warriors and 18 Republic of Texas soldiers under Lieutenant A. B. Benthuysen. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Texan soldiers held their ground, killing or wounding an estimated 50 Native Americans and losing 10 of their own men. More settlers began coming into the area not long afterward, with people relocating from both the Upper South and Deep South. Wise County was not founded until 1856. It was named after Virginia Congressman Henry A. Wise, who had supported annexation of Texas by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UFO Crashes
An unidentified flying object (UFO), more recently renamed by US officials as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon), is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. On investigation, most UFOs are Identification studies of UFOs, identified as known objects or atmospheric phenomena, while a small number remain unexplained. Scientists and skeptic organizations such as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have provided prosaic explanations for a large number of claimed UFOs being caused by natural phenomena, human technology, delusions, or hoaxes. Small but vocal groups of ufologists favour unconventional, pseudoscience, pseudoscientific hypotheses, often claiming that UFOs are evidence of Extraterrestrial hypothesis, extraterrestrial intelligence. Beliefs surrounding UFOs have inspired parts of UFO religion, new religions. While unusual sightings have been reported in the sky throughout history, UFOs became culturally prominent after Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 In The United States
Events from the year 1897 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: Grover Cleveland ( D-New York) (until March 4), William McKinley ( R-Ohio) (starting March 4) * Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson I ( D-Illinois) (until March 4), Garret Hobart ( R-New Jersey) (starting March 4) * Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Brackett Reed ( R-Maine) * Congress: 54th (until March 4), 55th (starting March 4) Events January–March * January 2 – Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded at Barnard College in New York City * February 19 – United States Copyright Office established as a department in the Library of Congress. * February 22 – Black Hills National Forest is established. * March 4 – William McKinley is sworn in as the 25th President of the United States, and Garret Hobart is sworn in as Vice President of the United States. * March 9 — Cordelia A. Greene Library is established i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Reported UFO Sightings
This is a partial list by date of sightings of alleged unidentified flying objects (UFOs), including reports of close encounters and alien abductions. Second millennium BCE Classical antiquity 8th century 16th–17th centuries 19th century 20th century 1909–1948 1950–1974 1975–2000 21st century By location See also * List of alleged extraterrestrial beings * List of unexplained explosion events * Space jellyfish, a type of UFO also containing a list of sightings. * Table of reports during the 1947 flying disc craze * UFO sightings in outer space UFO sightings in outer space are sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by astronauts while in space that they could not explain at the time. These sightings have been claimed as evidence for alien visits by ufologists. Some of the al ... Notes and references {{DEFAULTSORT:Sightings, List Of Ufo UFO-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sounds
BBC Sounds is a Closed platform, walled garden streaming media and audio download service from the BBC that includes live radio broadcasts, audio on demand, and podcasts. The service is available on a wide range of devices, including mobile phones and tablets, personal computers, cars, and smart televisions. Media delivered to UK-based listeners does not feature commercial advertising. Service The BBC Sounds website replaced the BBC iPlayer, iPlayer Radio service for UK users in October 2018. An initial beta version of the BBC Sounds app was launched in June 2018, with both the new app and the iPlayer Radio app supported until September 2019, when the iPlayer Radio app was finally decommissioned in the UK. Since 22 September 2020, BBC Sounds has been available to international users; it replaced BBC iPlayer Radio for international audiences at the end of October 2020. An app for Connected TVs (including Amazon Fire TV) was released in March 2020. An Apple tvOS app is also in de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Glocke (conspiracy Theory)
(, "The Bell") was a purported top-secret Nazi scientific technological device, secret weapon, or . First described by Polish journalist and author Igor Witkowski in (2000), it was later popularized by military journalist and author Nick Cook, who associated it with Nazi occultism, antigravity, and free energy suppression research. Mainstream reviewers have criticized claims about Die Glocke as being pseudoscientific, recycled rumors, and a hoax. and other alleged Nazi "miracle weapons" have been dramatized in video games, television shows, and novels. History In his 2001 book ''The Hunt for Zero Point'', author Nick Cook identified claims about as having originated in the 2000 Polish book ("The Truth About The Wonder Weapon") by Igor Witkowski. Cook described Witkowski's claims of a device called "The Bell" engineered by Nazi scientists that was "a glowing, rotating contraption" rumored to have "some kind of antigravitational effect", be a " time machine", or part of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Negovan
Thomas Negovan (born November 8, 1971) is a writer, musician, and art historian from Chicago. He regularly lectures on Art Nouveau and Weimar-era Berlin cabaret. Biography In 1995, Negovan formed a rock band, Three Years Ghost, which released one album, ''Sidhe'' (1995), and performed infrequently in the Chicago area until 2003. He has also collaborated with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and R. Kelly, and has recorded and performed under the ensemble name Ver Sacrum. In 1999, Negovan founded Century Guild, an art gallery and seller exclusively representing artists Gail Potocki and Jeremy Bastian. In 2006, Negovan released ''The Union of Hope and Sadness: The Art of Gail Potocki'', with an introduction by Jim Rose of The Jim Rose Circus. The book was an analysis of the Symbolist paintings of Gail Potocki, and also included essays from Richard Metzger and Marina Korsakova-Kreyn, and portraits of Jim and Bébé Rose, Joe Coleman, Grant Morrison, and Claudio Carn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Aurora Encounter
''The Aurora Encounter'' is a 1986 American Weird Western film directed by Jim McCullough Sr., written by Melody Brooke and Jim McCullough, Jr., and starring Jack Elam, Mickey Hays, Peter Brown, Carol Bagdasarian, and Dottie West. Its plot follows the residents of a small Texas town at the turn of the 20th century who are visited by an alien being after a UFO crashes in their town. The screenplay was based on the Aurora, Texas, UFO incident that allegedly occurred in 1897. Plot In 1897 Aurora, Texas, schoolteacher Alain Peebles inherits the town's failing newspaper after her father's death. Meanwhile, a UFO appears in the woods outside the town. Late at night, local resident Irene is startled by the appearance of a short alien-looking man at her window, followed by beams of light. Alain begins to investigate Irene's story to publish it in the newspaper, which causes Irene to become a pariah in town. Shortly after, one of Alain's students, Sue Beth, witnesses the UFO near a rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
