Yeah, and keep in mind this was in the 1890s. No airplanes even. In the 1960s-1970s there was renewed interest in the Aurora, Texas thing- UFO groups and scientists wanting to dig up the grave. Old people in the town started saying it had always been a hoax- maybe because it was true or maybe because they wanted people to leave them & their cemetery the hell alone.
My grandfather who is 73 said he always heard it was true. A professor now teaching at UNT in Denton, found a piece of metal with wierd symbols on it- at the farm where the UFO supposedly crashed and had it tested. About 20 percent of the metal content cannot be identified.