" BONE!", written by Ken Farmer & Buck Stienke and directed by Ken Farmer is inspired by actual events and the personality of real life former police officer, Charles David Bone. Names were changed to protect the guilty.
SYNOPSIS FOR "BONE" Pilot,
'LEGEND OF AURORA'
A gifted, irascible small town crime scene detective, retired Recon Marine, with a rather warped sense of humor, Darrell Ulysses Bone, known by all as just 'Bone', becomes involved in a 100 plus year old mystery surrounding an alien space craft crash near the north Texas town of Aurora.
Bone befriends a diminutive woman being threatened by the heavy handed tactics of an unscrupulous oil exploration company trying to grab her land for a gas play. Bone's godfather and shaman, Padrino, deduces that the diminutive woman is actually a survivor of that legendary 1897 space craft crash in Aurora, Texas and is stranded on our planet.
"Legend of Aurora" was inspired by the 'Texas's Roswell Incident', see newspaper article below. The incident has been featured in three different episodes of 'UFO Encounter' airing on the History Channel in recent months.
From the Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897:
SPACE CRAFT CRASHES NEAR AURORA, TEXAS, PILOT KILLED.
E. E. Haydon
Aurora, Wise County, Tex. April 17, 1897.
(To the News) - "About 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth.It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden. The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.
Mr. T.J. Weems, the U.S. Army Signal Service officer at this place and an authority on astronomy gives it as his opinion that the pilot was a native of the planet Mars. Papers found on his person -- evidently the records of his travels -- are written in some unknown hieroglyphics and cannot be deciphered. This ship was too badly wrecked to form any conclusion as to its construction or motive power. It was built of an unknown metal, resembling somewhat a mixture of aluminum and silver, and it must have weighed several tons. The town is today full of people who are viewing the wreckage and gathering specimens of strange metal from the debris. The pilot's funeral will take place tomorrow."
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