Photographic Case

Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the March 1950 cylindrical UFO photograph over New York City, showing a vintage 1950 black-and-white silver-gelatin night photo of the Art Deco Manhattan skyline with a long smooth glowing cylindrical form hanging in the sky above and faint stars visible across the frame, the cylinder given a streak-like motion-blurred quality; a clipped clinical inset diagrams how a long-exposure camera streak could draw a bright disc such as the Moon into a cylinder, with a note that stars visible over a lit city imply a long or multiple exposure, and restrained cool-cyan tactical HUD overlays mark the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, an anonymous photographer, sourced to Project Grudge and Blue Book files, with the Grudge assessment "the moon" and status Insufficient Data.

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New York Sightings

1950: Cylindrical UFO Photographed Over New York City

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 6, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: The Cylindrical UFO Photographed Over New York City It is one of the more striking images...

Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the May 1950 McMinnville Trent UFO photographs, showing a faithful black-and-white silver-gelatin re-creation of the iconic Trent viewpoint — a rural Oregon farmyard at dusk with a garage eave and overhead power lines crossing the frame, distant hills, and a silvery tilted metallic disc with a small off-center mast hanging in the evening sky — rendered in coarse grainy 1950 photographic texture with no people; clipped analysis insets show a photogrammetry panel noting that the disc's shadowed underside is brighter than the nearby water tank, implying a distant object within about thirty percent accuracy, and a second panel neutrally diagramming the competing hoax hypothesis of a small model suspended from the overhead wire, with restrained cool-cyan tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification DD daylight disc, two witnesses the Trents, sourced to the Condon Committee and Hartmann, Maccabee, and Life 1950, status Unexplained and contested.

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Oregon Sightings

1950: McMinnville, Oregon UFO Photographs

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 6, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: The McMinnville (Trent) Photographs — Oregon Just before sunset on May 11, 1950, Evelyn Trent was...