The ET debate should have ended in 1897

A silver cigar-shaped object crashed into a windmill located in the small rural Texas town of Aurora in April 1897. The craft exploded and its lone extraterrestrial pilot was killed in the crash. The being was identified by witnesses as not an inhabitant of Earth and buried in the local cemetery, along with pieces of the wrecked craft. The whole debate of whether there's an extraterrestrial presence on Earth should have ended at that moment, but incredibly the story never attracted the interest it deserved.