McMinnville (Trent) photographs

Black-and-white photo of a disc-shaped object in the sky above power lines
The first of Paul Trent's two May 1950 photographs taken near McMinnville Paul Trent, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Paul Trent took two photos of a disc-shaped object his wife Evelyn saw over their farm near McMinnville; a local paper and then Life ran them. A Condon study analyst found them consistent with a real distant object but could not rule out fabrication; skeptics call them a hoax.

Sources

  1. OfficialUn exemple d'analyse de cliches d'OVNI: l'etude des photographies de McMinnville (C. Poher, GEPAN) (opens in a new tab)CNES / GEPAN (France) / 1977-06-07
  2. OtherScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Condon Report), Case 46: McMinnville, Oregon (opens in a new tab)University of Colorado for the U.S. Air Force (copy hosted by Project 1947 / Sign Historical Group) / 1969

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