{"it":{"id":"UFO-MCM1950","name":"McMinnville (Trent) photographs","kind":"ufo","sub":"Historical sighting","place":"Near Sheridan, Oregon, USA","lat":45.1,"lon":-123.4,"date":"1950-05-11 ~7:30 pm","rep":"Described as a 'real, physical' object.","off":"Disputed: Klass and Sheaffer concluded faked; Condon raised a model hung from the wires.","src":[{"t":"Wikipedia: McMinnville UFO photographs","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs"}],"tags":["Sightings"],"sum":"Two photos taken around 7:30 pm on 11 May 1950 on Paul and Evelyn Trent's Oregon farm show a flat disc. They are still debated over.","nsrc":1,"new":1,"qs":["The disc hangs right under a pair of wires. Is that the smoking gun for a model, or a coincidence skeptics lean on too hard?","Two photos, two expert camps, opposite verdicts from the same negatives. What does that say about how we judge any UFO image?","If the Trent photos are genuine, they show a structured craft over an Oregon farm in 1950. What else would have had to be hidden?"],"yt":"Measure the shadow directions in the photos against a 7:30 pm sun.","rel":["REC-CON1968"],"hook":"The McMinnville saucer negatives turned up under a davenport, where the farm children had been playing.","why":"Two photographs, studied by both sides for decades, that turn on a pair of wires and a shadow."},"S":{},"rec":{"id":"UFO-MCM1950","sum":"Reporter Bill Powell found the negatives \"on the floor under a davenport where the Witnesses' children had been playing with them.\" The two pictures, taken on Paul Trent's farm about 10 miles southwest of McMinnville, Oregon, on 11 May 1950, ran in the Telephone Register on 8 June 1950. Life carried them the next week.\n\nThe couple said the sky was overcast and the time was evening: 7:30 pm in one account, 7:45 pm in others. A metallic-looking disc crossed the sky. Mrs. Trent called her husband, and he took two photographs before it disappeared.\n\nIn the Condon Report's Case 46, William K. Hartmann noted that the object sits beneath roughly the same point of a pair of overhead wires in both photos. Even so, he found the evidence consistent with \"an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter.\" It \"cannot be said that the evidence positively rules out a fabrication,\" he added.\n\nRobert Sheaffer, in an unpublished 1969 paper, read the shadows differently. Sharp shadows on a garage wall point to a sun almost due east, which in McMinnville on 11 May means about 8:20 in the morning. His hypothesis: a small model hung from the telephone wires by two very thin threads.\n\nThe case turns on a clock. If the shadows say morning, what else in the story needs a second look?","qs":["If the shadows say morning, what else in the story needs a second look?","Why would the wires matter more than the witnesses?","What would settle the time of day for good?"],"gal":[{"src":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/UFO_picture_taken_by_Paul_Trent_in_McMinnville%2C_Oregon.jpg/1280px-UFO_picture_taken_by_Paul_Trent_in_McMinnville%2C_Oregon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UFO_picture_taken_by_Paul_Trent_in_McMinnville,_Oregon.jpg","title":"UFO picture taken by Paul Trent in McMinnville, Oregon.jpg","lic":"Public domain","licurl":"","by":"Paul Trent","cap":"Photo of McMinnville (Trent) photographs","alt":"Photo of McMinnville (Trent) photographs"}],"ms":[],"aa":[],"ac":[],"src":[{"t":"Wikipedia: McMinnville UFO photographs","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs"},{"id":"VUFO-MCM1950-2","t":"Condon Report, Photographic Case 46: McMinnville (Project 1947)","u":"https://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/case46.html"},{"id":"VUFO-MCM1950-3","t":"Robert Sheaffer: An investigation of the McMinnville UFO photographs","u":"https://debunker.com/texts/trent1969.html"}],"pts":[{"p":"Trent farm near Sheridan, about 13 mi SW of McMinnville.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: McMinnville UFO photographs","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs"},{"p":"Published in the Telephone-Register on 8 Jun and in Life on 26 Jun 1950.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: McMinnville UFO photographs","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs"},{"p":"Condon Committee noted the object appears beneath a pair of wires.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: McMinnville UFO photographs","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs"},{"p":"Maccabee (1975) studied the negatives and contended a real physical object.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: McMinnville UFO photographs","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs"},{"p":"Sheaffer and others contend a hoax (model hung from the wires).","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: McMinnville UFO photographs","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs"}]},"img":null,"md":null,"hh":null,"hs":{},"lh":{"s":"img/h/UFO-MCM1950.webp","w":1280,"h":1064,"o":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/UFO_picture_taken_by_Paul_Trent_in_McMinnville%2C_Oregon.jpg/1280px-UFO_picture_taken_by_Paul_Trent_in_McMinnville%2C_Oregon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail"}}