The Aurora UFO in 1897 was the first UFO sighting in Texas.
A cotton buyer, S.E. Haydon, saw a slow moving space ship crash into a windmill, bursting into pieces. As the debris was searched through, supposedly the body of a small alien was discovered. The lifeless "little green man" was buried in Aurora Cemetery. The crash occurred 60 years before the Roswell UFO Incident and for that matter, six years before the Wright Brothers became a household name.
News of the UFO crash appeared in the April 19, 1897, edition of the Dallas Morning News. Aurora resident S.E. Haydon wrote that the alleged UFO hit a windmill on a local judge’s land. Haydon described the pilot as "not of this world," and a "Martian," who didn’t survive the crash.