Bill Case
Bill Case was a MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) investigator who in 1973 led the organization's official investigation into the Aurora Texas UFO Crash of April 1897. His investigation, conducted 76 years after the alleged incident, uncovered new eyewitness testimony and produced physical anomalies at the supposed burial site that MUFON deemed worthy of further inquiry — though the organization's final report was inconclusive.
| Role | MUFON investigator |
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The Aurora Investigation
Case's 1973 investigation identified two previously undocumented witnesses to the alleged 1897 crash:
- Mary Evans, whose parents visited the crash site and told her they had discovered an alien body.
- Charlie Stevens, who as a ten-year-old saw an airship trailing smoke heading toward Aurora; his father later went into town to see the wreckage firsthand.
Case's team examined the Aurora Cemetery, where the alleged craft's pilot had reportedly been buried with a stone slab. They found:
- A grave marker that appeared to bear an engraved image of a flying saucer.
- Anomalous metal detector readings at the gravesite, suggesting metallic material was buried with the remains.
MUFON formally requested permission to exhume the site; the cemetery declined. After the investigation concluded, the grave marker disappeared from the cemetery, and a pipe was placed over the gravesite. Subsequent metal detector readings at the location produced no anomalous readings, leading Case and MUFON to suspect the material beneath the grave may have been removed.
Case's report classified the investigation as inconclusive but explicitly declined to rule out the possibility of a hoax.