William Hartmann

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...