A half-century before Roswell, Texans were talking about the silver "airship" that supposedly crashed into a windmill in 1897 and whether the pilot inside might have been a Martian.

A crew from the History Channel show UFO Hunters will try to dig up at least half of the real story this weekend.

On Saturday, workers were scheduled to unseal a long-covered water well where the windmill’s owner supposedly dumped crash debris. On Tuesday, crews plan to use radar imaging to examine the pilot’s Aurora Cemetery grave.