Aurora Cemetery

What the Show Claims

• ›Ancient Astronaut theorists point to local claims that Aurora, Texas cemetery holds the body of an alien whose spacecraft crashed there in 1897. They suggest this incident represents documented extraterrestrial visitation to the American West.

What Archaeology Says

Aurora, Texas has a local legend of an 1897 UFO crash and alien burial, but this is an unsubstantiated folklore claim. Cemetery records and historical documentation do not support the existence of an alien grave; the story likely emerged in the late 20th century.