Talk:Aurora Texas UFO Incident

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[edit] Was the well a site of an accident?

The supposed UFO crash site was the windmill and well where an explosion occurred.

An alternative explanation for the explosion might have been a natural gas leak. Aurora is in Wise County, Texas which is part of the core area of the Barnett Shale formation where one would expect to encounter gas or oil if one drilled a well deep enough. There could conceivably be some seepage to the surface. An enclosed well would permit gases to accumulate and some spark might set off an explosion.

Oil well drilling in the US was started by Edwin Drake in 1858.

A terrestrial explanation or accident would be more likely than an UFO incident and would have to be ruled out as a possibility. --Jbergquist 05:56, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article needs overhaul...

So, the way this reads now, there is possible alien DNA that has been collected and analyzed, and the apparent revelation that alien ships are mostly aluminum. the POV here is blatant. I'm going to try to qualify some of these statements. If anyone has any corroborating references that aren't from MUFON, by all means.... Messiahxi (talk) 17:48, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

after perusing the MUFON report, much of the second paragraph seemed outright wrong. I ended up deleting most of what was in there. For example, the word "DNA" does NOT appear anywhere in the 200 page document. Full disclosure: I did not (and probably will not) read the entire 200 pages, so if I missed something please correct me. But I'm not convinced that MUFON qualifies as WP:Reliable, in which case this entire section should be removed, since their report is the only source cited. Thoughts? Messiahxi (talk) 18:17, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

MUFON, is one of the oldest and largest UFO investigative organizations in the United States. Plus that 200-page report used citations from multiple sources and for that reason alone is a very good source to use as a citation for this article and since I have time to read the 200-page report, I am on a 2-week holiday, and I am currently writing a screenplay on the subject matter I will see where I can use it to further expand this article. Plus I've started looking for other sources to use for citations. Nhl4hamilton (talk) 17:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citations & References

See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 10:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)