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Tag: Texas

2 case files, newest first.

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  Oct 19, 2026 Disputed

  Levelland, Texas, 2–3 November 1957: The Egg That Stalled Cars

  Over a few hours one stormy night, motorists around Levelland called the sheriff to report a glowing egg-shaped object that killed their engines and lights. The Air Force blamed ball lightning and a storm. It came a day before Sputnik 2.

  • UFO
  • Texas
  • vehicle interference
  • Blue Book
  • 1957
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  Oct 3, 2026 Hoax

  Aurora, Texas, 1897: The Martian Who Hit a Windmill

  On April 19, 1897, The Dallas Morning News printed a dispatch saying an airship had crashed into a judge's windmill in Aurora, Wise County, killing a pilot 'not an inhabitant of this world.' The Texas State Historical Association calls it what it was: a fictional story written to put a dying town back on the map.

  • airship-wave-1897
  • hoax
  • mystery airship
  • Texas
  • newspaper archive
  • 1897