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Published Apr 20, 2024, 6:00am
Most people in this Texan town of about 1,300 know the alien as Ned.
Ned was a spaceman who on April 17, 1897, crashed into a windmill near the home of a local judge in Aurora.
He had been riding a cigar‐shaped spaceship travelling north at only 10 or so miles per hour just before 4am, The Dallas Morning News reported.
‘It sailed directly over the public square and when it reached the north part of town and collided with the tower of Judge Protctor’s windmill,’ the Dallas-Fort Worth area newspaper said, adding that the ship ‘went to pieces with a terrific explosion’ scattering debris across the property.