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Aurora: The Secret Within

2008 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ55284860 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aurora: The Secret Within is a 2008 adventure game developed by Italian company BluMiAl Studio and published by Lexicon Entertainment.

Production

Italian development company BluMiAl Studio was founded by Michel Palucci and Alessio Restaino; Aurora was their debut project. The game was designed in the Adventure Maker program.

The game was originally promised for the summer of 2007. In addition, a Russian-language version to be released in Russia, the CIS countries and the Baltics was projected for December 2007. On March 13, 2008, Aurora: The Secret Within hit gold status and was set for a release date of April 25, 2008. The game was released by Tri Synergy in North America.

Plot and gameplay

The plot revolves about the UFO crash at Roswell. A detective, named Pileggi, has been called in to investigate the disappearance of a farmer.

The game is a point and click adventure game from the perspective of the main characters.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Aurora: The Secret Within” is 2008 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Aurora, Secret and Within, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Aurora, Secret and Within is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55284860. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aurora: The Secret Within” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.