AURORA, TX (KTRK) — “With alien themes coming back to television, the folks in one tiny Texas town will be watching the shows — and the skies — even closer,” reports Dave Ward for ABC News.

“Legend has it that residents of Aurora, TX, had their own alien encounter more than 100 years ago – Just north of Fort Worth, Aurora has a population of 376. Something about it is different — mysterious, and some say, down-right weird,” reports Ward.

“It’s just a legend,” said Barbara Brammer, Aurora Historian.

Ward writes, “April 19, 1897 would change this town’s identity forever.”

“They said, ‘Have you heard of the Martian that crashed his aircraft into a well site in Aurora?,’” Brammer said. “And I said, ‘No.”

“A former mayor, Brammer first heard the story of the UFO crash shortly after her arrival in the 1950s,” reports Ward.

“I kept the legend going whenever I was teaching or when we had new people in to the community,” she said.

“Legend has it that in 1897 — six years before the Wright Brothers’ first flight — a number of reports came in from across the country of a cigar-shaped flying machine,” reports Ward. “An article in the “Dallas Morning News” reported that the craft came crashing down in Aurora. Today, the “crash site” is an old well, sealed with concrete.”

“About noon, the fire had gone out enough that they could get in there and see what really happened,” Brammer said.

“According to a purported Army officer from nearby Fort Worth, in the crash debris was the body of the pilot said to be badly disfigured and not of this world,” reports Ward. The full article here located here