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It's 1897 and a cigar shaped craft crashes into a windmill in Aurora Texas. The pilot is killed and buried in the Aurora Cemetery.  Or is it all a hoax perpetrated in an attempt to save the town?

In 1979, Time magazine interviewed Etta Pegues who claimed that [Aurora resident] Haydon had fabricated the entire story, stating that Haydon 'wrote it as a joke and to bring interest to Aurora. The railroad bypassed us, and the town was dying.'" EDIT: For what it's worth, the town still exists although its population is only around 1,000 people so to what degree the town is still alive is debatable.