[AppyPappy]

People will believe anything.

[theDentist]

Flashing my badge, I explain I'm doing a story about the alien.

"Flashing a badge"?? Why would a reporter/journalist/whatever have a badge?
They don't need no steenking badges.

[SengirV]

"It would surely be a shame if the good Lord made just this one little planet," he says.

Amen

[texasmountainman]

It is wrong call the visitors from space "aliens". We should call them "space immigrants". Then maybe they could get Bank of America credit cards and social security benefits, and would stop crashing their saucers near small southwestern towns.

[tgambill]

100% sure, there have never been, and will never be actual space aliens on Earth. This hoax goes back to Orsen Wells, and the Princeton Study that he carried out on the Radio, called "War of the Worlds". It was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation as a study on how "gullible" the American public could be. True story actually. I've got the links, names and the details. From there it just goes wild........The most elaborate hoax the government could have ever cooked up. This is not hype, but actual fact. More will be coming out like this...some even more elaborate.

[ansel12]

"Someone else says the alien didn't die in the crash. It survived and drank whiskey and played poker with the locals — until the Texas Rangers got wind of it and shot it dead."






First, it is a tale from Texas, and now I read it on the internet.

It must be true.

[mysterio]

Interstellar traveling space aliens don't exist.

Given this fact, I wish the History Channel would stop with the boring fake alien documentaries. Once they get started with that crap, they play it for days. I'll be sitting down to watch something that looks interesting, and then the announcer starts speaking in a conspiratorial voice and they show some blurry pic of a plate someone tossed in front of the camera. And then here comes plaid shirt guy who swears he got abducted on a hunting trip in 1972.

[Hot Tabasco]

Someone else says the alien didn't die in the crash. It survived and drank whiskey and played poker with the locals — until the Texas Rangers got wind of it and shot it dead.

Thats the story I'm buying......and we all know who was once a part owner of the Texas Rangers now don't we?

[DainBramage]

I live 500 yards from the site of this "ay-leen craysh saht". The only things alien around are mexicans and any chance of good food at Tater Junction.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"a cigar-shaped object crashed into a windmill here"

http://www.bonus.com/contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/subjects/Airlinestuff.HTML

1878 Jul 3, John Wise flew the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
(HN, 7/3/98)

1897 Sep 20, Alberto Santos-Dumont successfully flew his repaired motorized dirigible around the Zoological Gardens in Paris.
(ON, 3/03, p.10)

Early lighter than air craft experiment gone wrong?

Interesting FYI SW Kansas has the largest natural Helium deposits in the world.

[BigCinBigD]

"Do I believe?" she asks. "Oh, why not? It'd be incredibly naive to think we're the only people in the universe."

That about sums it up for me.

[CholeraJoe]

The local Fox affiliate in Evansville, IN had an interview this morning with an author from Laughlin, NV who had written a book about space alien visitation. He was making outrageous claims about thousands of people with alien biomarkers in their bodies and UFOs over DC.

I emailed the anchor and she replied that her producer had booked the guy as a "light-hearted feature." I could almost see her rolling her eyes as she emailed.

[girlscout]

Aurora Cemetery, Grayson Co, TX

According to the local legend the "space alien", that is mentioned on the Historical Marker at the gate, was buried under a round rock under the limb of this oak tree. (See picture below) The rock has been stolen.

The story of the 1897 landing of this alien was made into a movie in 1985 called "Aurora Encounter" staring Jack Elam and Peter Brown.

[BenLurkin]

This town is smart.

They know that digging up this person's grave will debunk the legend forever.

Better to keep the tourists coming by letting then think that maybe, just maybe, there really is an alien there.