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McMinnville (Trent) photographs
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The visual record
Illustrations, recordings and archival references — each with its own provenance. A documented source is a starting point for investigation, not a verdict on its explanation.
The first Trent photograph
An archival photograph of a disc-like object. Its size, distance and interpretation remain debated.
Paul Trent · 11 May 1950 ↗Public domain (US) — published in 1950 without copyright noticeLicence terms ↗Resized and WebP-converted for display; content unchanged.The second Trent photograph
The second exposure in the Trent sequence. Compare the object and scene between the two images. A period photograph presented as the reported object; what it shows remains undetermined.
Paul Trent · 11 May 1950 ↗Public domain (US) — published in 1950 without copyright noticeLicence terms ↗Resized and WebP-converted for display; content unchanged.American Alchemy · 0:49:06
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 1:49:20
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedJesse Michels · 0:51:21
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedTwo photographs taken by Paul Trent at his farm near McMinnville, Oregon on 11 May 1950, showing a disc-shaped object above the yard. Printed in the local paper and LIFE. In the corpus the skeptic describes the object as resembling a tossed hubcap while conceding the case is hard to debunk.
The recording
| Shot | |
|---|---|
| Shot by | Paul Trent, farmer, with a Roamer camera civilian |
| Released | 8 June 1950 — McMinnville Telephone-Register; then LIFE magazine, 1950-06-26 |
| Official status | The 1968 Condon Report listed the photographs among cases it could not explain, while later analysts argued the object was a small model suspended from overhead wires. |
| Kind | photograph |
| Where | 45.210, -123.199 approximate |
| Media rights | See each item in the visual record |
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) 9 July 2026
The Man Sitting On More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive 21 February 2026
NASA & UFOs: Pagan Rituals, Secret Science & Time Travel 20 September 2025
- 0:51:21 ▶ Jesse Michels
The other went to McMinnville, Oregon, the site of one of the most famous UFO photographs ever taken in 1950. All slightly schitzo coincidences?
- 0:51:21 ▶ Jesse Michels
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Sources on this record
- 0:49:06 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) ▶
There are other cases like McMinnville where you it's really hard to debunk. >> The McMinnville one. I mean, really, this looks like a hubcap tossed into the >> but there's no way to ultimately debunk it. It's unfalsifiable in
- 1:49:20 The Man Sitting On More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive ▶
the McMinnville. >> that's like a holy grail you know that's >> it's very hard to find a picture can say that wow this
- 0:51:21 NASA & UFOs: Pagan Rituals, Secret Science & Time Travel · Jesse Michels ▶
The other went to McMinnville, Oregon, the site of one of the most famous UFO photographs ever taken in 1950. All slightly schitzo coincidences?
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