"Alien gravesite in TX" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 22 Sep 2025 6:24 a.m. PST |
…This site is also well known because of the legend that a spaceship crashed nearby in 1897 and the pilot, killed in the crash, was buried here. FindaGrave: link |
79thPA  | 22 Sep 2025 8:29 a.m. PST |
Good to know that airship pilots from Mars wrote things down on paper. |
| robert piepenbrink | 22 Sep 2025 10:03 a.m. PST |
Nah. The article also says "airship." As for the pilot looking like nothing human and having handwriting no one can read, I think you can find specimens of both in any flying squadron. There's a David Drake short story set about that time. Drake observed in an afterward that there were a large number of airship reports from roughly that period in local newspapers. |
| Zephyr1 | 23 Sep 2025 2:49 p.m. PST |
If an airship/UFO indeed crashed, seems to me that there would still be debris around somewhere (farmers wouldn't throw anything possibly useful away, and if small enough, simply plow it under.) A better search to do than digging up a graveyard… ;-) |
| robert piepenbrink | 28 Sep 2025 5:18 p.m. PST |
I should have been more clear. No powered balloons until 1898, and the first rigid airship was 1900. There were reports in newspapers earlier, but as today, that doesn't mean anything really happened. If an airship crashed in Texas in 1897, it was manned by one or more time travelers, which was the point of Drake's story. |
 miniMo | 29 Sep 2025 8:25 a.m. PST |
Mystery airship sightings were a thing in the years immediately before the first powered balloons:
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Perhaps zeppelins were reverse-engineered alien technology! |
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