1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:04,900 Hello and welcome to the program, you have full morning 2 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:08,300 and this episode, we're looking at the 1950 Trent UFO, sighting, 3 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:11,900 that's correct. The 1950 Trent UFO sighting. 4 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:14,400 Now this is something we've covered before but we've got a 5 00:00:14,408 --> 00:00:17,800 couple good articles on it and I think it bears looking into. 6 00:00:18,100 --> 00:00:21,200 Of course, the Trent UFO sighting happened over there in 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,300 McMinnville Oregon. This would be about halfway 8 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:29,200 between Portland and Seattle. If you look on the map, I have 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,299 to think back 1950 this place probably wasn't that built up. 10 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:35,800 Had to been pretty rural. I don't know, almost getting 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,200 close to Bigfoot country, I think but what makes this 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,700 sighting so incredible. Is that the people that saw it 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,500 had the foresight to snap a couple pictures back of the 14 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:48,200 house and get the camera? Take the picture, you'll 1950, 15 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:52,700 you still doing with dealing with a lot of rudimentary stuff 16 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:57,700 at least on the retail level but the pictures are pretty good. 17 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:01,900 I mean, some people would say And that's what makes this case. 18 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:06,700 I think. So important, is that we have 19 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:10,300 these pictures and either you believe them, or you, think 20 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:14,000 these two simple farmers were able to pull off. 21 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,000 One of the biggest UFO photo scams known to man, and I don't 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,200 see how that could be the case, because these people, as far as 23 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,700 I know, never really were enriched off of this. 24 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:29,800 But let's get it in the article, it comes to us from k0i n.com. 25 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:32,100 Mom, it's written by Andrew foreign. 26 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:35,800 It says Oregon's extraterrestrial history, the 27 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,600 1950 Trent UFO sighting. He begins by saying Portland. 28 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,800 Oregon and scientists have long been kept up at Night by one 29 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,800 question. Are we alone in the universe? 30 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,800 The McManus UFO Fest, is celebrating its 23rd year this 31 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,500 weekend, but did you know that Oregon's extraterrestrial Roots, 32 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:58,000 Run much deeper. The UFO Fest found its home 33 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:04,200 Emmett Menville and 949 years after a local UFO sighting 34 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,800 became national news. Because on, it says, as the 35 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,900 story goes on May 11th 1950. Evelyn Trent was feeding the 36 00:02:10,900 --> 00:02:13,700 chickens and rabbits on her Farm, just outside of the 37 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:18,700 medieval when she looked up to the sky and saw the disc-shaped 38 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,100 object, floating overhead. She quickly ran back to The 39 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:25,000 Farmhouse yelling for her husband. 40 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,300 Paul Tran to get the camera. Now, that's what you call Quick 41 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:31,500 thinking. So when the pair emerged from 42 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:35,500 their house camera in hand, they said the disc could still be 43 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:39,400 seen in the sky moving West. That is when Paul raise the 44 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,400 camera and took the now Infamous photos, you know, I don't know 45 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,300 why their Infamous I think they're fascinating myself 46 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:49,700 according to the UFOs Fest website. 47 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,000 It took another month for Paul to develop the photos and even 48 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,800 longer to share them with anyone because he was worried about 49 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,900 exposing a government experiment. 50 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:02,200 Our secret project, Remember, this is just after World War Two 51 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:04,500 during the week. The Korean conflict was going 52 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:06,500 on. You didn't have cell phones of 53 00:03:06,508 --> 00:03:09,600 course and you had to send to your film way to get developed 54 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,300 and sometimes it took a while and you know 1950 that's a world 55 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:16,900 away from now. Finally, Paul shared the photos 56 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:19,700 with his friend. Frank Workman who then went on 57 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:22,500 to share the story with the local newspaper, the telephone 58 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:25,600 register. It's got a picture here of the 59 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:28,900 headline Farmers camera, captures movement of flying 60 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:31,600 object. Says the camera pole, Trent 61 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,900 Route, 3 McMinnville captured, the above photo of flying 62 00:03:35,900 --> 00:03:39,100 objects, which might very well. Be the only pictures in 63 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:42,600 existence of the highly controversial and off scoffed at 64 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,200 flying saucers taken nearly a month ago from the backyard of 65 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,600 his farm home. 11 miles, Southwest of McMinnville 66 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:51,800 Trent's. Pictures were Unearthed. 67 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,700 What telephone rust reporter, followed tip given by Ralph and 68 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:58,600 Frank workmen, but Bentonville Bankers? 69 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,800 So okay. Well, local Banker. 70 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,000 This is a guy who has a reputation at risk anyway. 71 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,500 I assist from there. The story blew up spreading from 72 00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:10,300 the small-town paper to other local sources in nearby 73 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:13,000 Portland, and then going National with features from the 74 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,200 Associated Press, in Life Magazine, the whole situation 75 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,800 became a media, circus with the trench traveling and appearing 76 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,899 on multiple national news shows. And of course with the photos 77 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:25,200 popularity came Skeptics of their authenticity. 78 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:28,900 You know, it's hard to believe these guys could affect these 79 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:30,600 things. I don't know, eventually the 80 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,800 media attention settle down but that didn't stop investigators 81 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,500 from the Air Force and Federal Bureau of Investigation from 82 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:40,400 allegedly looking into the situation. 83 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,700 And later sharing that they couldn't find anything. 84 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:45,600 To convince them that the photos were fake. 85 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:51,200 Later the 1960s, the condom committee a US Air Force, funded 86 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,600 UFO research, project based at the University of Colorado and 87 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,700 led by physicist, Edward, you Condon also looked into the 88 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:03,800 citing, the original negatives that Paul had developed in 1950. 89 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,100 Had disappeared sometime during the original frenzy allegedly 90 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:10,500 misplaced by the New York television program. 91 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:14,200 We the People however, it was during tania's investigation 92 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,100 that the negatives reappeared. You know how convenient the 93 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:20,800 condom commitment committee also went on to state that there was 94 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:23,800 nothing leading them to believe that the photos were fake. 95 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,700 There is no way to know for sure if the UFO sighting was real or 96 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:32,400 a hoax but those negatives have still never been debunked to 97 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,200 this day. You know this whole idea that 98 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,900 you have to prove something's not a hoax. 99 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,800 And it's kind of like, you know, proving that you're not guilty 100 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,700 of something, you don't prove, you're not guilty, they have to 101 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:49,500 prove that you are guilty. You know, this whole idea 102 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:53,300 proving a negative, U FS is already underway, various 103 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:55,800 locations, around McMinnville and ends on Sunday. 104 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,700 It is probably the best people-watching you could ever 105 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:02,600 imagine says, Daniel Chisholm director director district 106 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:08,300 manager for mechanics, history hotel, Historic Hotel and board 107 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:11,000 president. McMinnville Downtown Association 108 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:16,300 told k 0i n, 6 News, you'll see some great costumes, you'll see 109 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:20,600 people who speak their own little alien language and you 110 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,300 get to come to one of America's Best downtown's in McMinnville. 111 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:28,400 Looks like a nice small City or I think it's around 34. 35 112 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,600 thousand people. It's interesting how every time 113 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:36,000 you have one of these really famous UFO sightings The city 114 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,600 father, turned it into a weekend UFO event, which is fine, but 115 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,700 that doesn't seem to be a lot of serious discussion going on. 116 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:46,800 Just people when they're having fun, maybe attract some people 117 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,700 that are looking at the lighter side of the whole UFO thing, 118 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,300 really a fascinating case. Now, I want to look at one other 119 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,400 news report on this thing, which I thought was also interesting 120 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,600 about this case, just because we have these pictures and I'll go 121 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,500 ahead and I'll put Links of course, over there and they buy 122 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:09,300 me a coffee website and try to get some up on the UFO, 123 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:11,800 warning.com site as well, and you can take a look at these 124 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,300 pictures for yourself. I think they're fascinating. 125 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:22,000 Now, this other article comes to us from It dig my labs, it's eni 126 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,100 GMA La be s.o and I'll have a link to that over the buy me a 127 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:30,700 coffee website is dated April 28th 2023. 128 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:33,200 It's got a map here on the website. 129 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:34,600 Pretty cool. Shows you where the sighting 130 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,600 happened at? And then it's got the pictures 131 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:40,000 and these things are just I just love them, it's just so classic 132 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,900 1950. I just, you know, I just see two 133 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:48,600 simple farmers are hardworking. People saw this UFO came over 134 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,600 the Wife sees it. She's like, wow, they probably 135 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,800 had heard about Roswell. Maybe, I don't know. 136 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,900 They probably heard about the other Flying Saucer senior in 137 00:07:55,900 --> 00:07:58,600 Washington, but she know what she knew enough to get her 138 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:00,800 camera. And, of course, that's when he 139 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,800 had these little retail cameras, were really starting to become 140 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,100 popular in the 40s and 50s that she snaps his classic black and 141 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:09,500 white photo. Got a couple pictures here and 142 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:11,400 the one close up. It's really neat. 143 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,200 It looks like. I've like you're just classic 144 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,700 classic 1950s. Flying Saucer. 145 00:08:18,900 --> 00:08:22,700 It's got something on top of it, almost like a periscope. 146 00:08:22,700 --> 00:08:27,100 Looks like maybe an antenna weird now. 147 00:08:27,100 --> 00:08:30,600 It says Paul Trent's. First UFO photo that has a 148 00:08:30,608 --> 00:08:35,299 picture of it and then it has a, it has the close-up. 149 00:08:35,299 --> 00:08:38,600 And it says summary, the McMinnville UFO, photographs, 150 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,900 which are also known as a Trent UFO photos, refer to two 151 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:45,900 photographs of unidentified aerial phenomena. 152 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:51,800 UAP, they were taken by farming couple Paul and Evelyn Trent and 153 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,000 Yamhill County near the city of McMinnville Oregon and the 154 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,200 Northeastern United States on 11th of May 1950. 155 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:03,700 The photos were the photos are often considered by some to be 156 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:06,900 among the most famous photographs ever taken of a UAP, 157 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:09,900 a scientific investigation commission by a nuclear 158 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:13,400 physicist. Edward you Condon determine the 159 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,500 photographs to be consistent with eyewitness testimony and 160 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:20,600 that they had indeed seen and it Extraordinary flying object. 161 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:23,400 So, you know, the pretty much the export of the time Edward 162 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,400 conned and like I said, nuclear physicist, looks at the pictures 163 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,800 as yeah. They looks like a UFO to me 164 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:35,300 because on it says, background at around 7:45 p.m. on May 11th 165 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,700 1950, Evelyn Trent claims to have spotted an unknown object 166 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:41,500 in the sky. She had many feeding a family of 167 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:43,200 rabbits in the yard of the couple's form. 168 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,300 Of course, you know, back then people hate rabbits after doing 169 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:49,700 so Evelyn was walking back toward the house House, when she 170 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:52,300 looked up and saw a flying metallic disc moving in her 171 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:54,900 Direction, describing what she saw. 172 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:59,100 Evelyn said the object was like a good-sized parachute canopy 173 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:02,900 without the strings. Only silver bright mixed with 174 00:10:02,900 --> 00:10:05,900 bronze later. She would recall it was as 175 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:09,600 pretty as anything I ever saw. It's funny how people develop, 176 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,800 sometimes you see, emotional connections that these things 177 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,100 you have that they think. Wow, that's beautiful or they 178 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:17,000 think? Well, it's pretty scary Evelyn. 179 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,700 Then ran into the house to find her husband. 180 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:23,300 Karin after finding Paul 11 Evelyn then picked up there. 181 00:10:23,300 --> 00:10:27,700 Cody, their Kodak camera from the car and raced into the yard. 182 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:32,800 Paul described seeing a quote, a round shiny wingless object, 183 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,500 hovering in the sky. It was then that Paul a 43-year 184 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:39,900 old farmer took two photographs of the object before the UFO 185 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:43,100 disappeared, recounting what occurred after the UFO 186 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:45,800 disappeared Evelyn. When speaking to her husband, 187 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,500 Paul said, after you took the picture of it coming in, in and 188 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:56,500 then going back out the win that came down had No mortar or no 189 00:10:56,500 --> 00:11:02,600 smoke or nothing, just like the wind after you the grammar seems 190 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,200 to become disorganized are after you took the picture of a coming 191 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,400 in and then going back out the wind that came down. 192 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,900 Had no motor or no smoke or nothing, just the wind. 193 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:14,600 In other words this thing was moving silently. 194 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,400 Like so many others. No sound no smoke, no mode or 195 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,200 nothing, just moving silently through the air, despite the 196 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,400 photographs being taken in may, they were not Until weeks 197 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,300 afterward, when the roll of film had been entirely used up. 198 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,000 Well, that's what you did back in the day, it says, they lived 199 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,900 12 miles from town, who knows what kind of car they had, and, 200 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:39,400 you know, it just, you just didn't make unnecessary trips 201 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,200 after developing, the photographs, the trance head, 202 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,400 the photographs thinking they had captured secretive military 203 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,600 aircraft, which may get them in trouble. 204 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:50,300 Remember 1950, I can totally understand why they would do 205 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:53,000 that. But the trench did mention the 206 00:11:53,008 --> 00:11:56,800 photographs to some friends. Which led to what, which led one 207 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,500 of them to obtain and put them in the window of Melville's 208 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:02,800 United States. National bank. 209 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,400 I think that friend was actually the banker, it was then that a 210 00:12:05,408 --> 00:12:07,700 reporter spoke to the couple, and persuaded them to provide 211 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:10,400 the - so they could be published to local. 212 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,400 Organ is papers. That McMinnville telephone 213 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,500 register and The Oregonian, published the photos in June 214 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:18,700 1950. A month after pole, Trent took 215 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:21,900 them the McMinnville telephone register, which published a 216 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:24,700 story first, on the 8th of June 1950 added. 217 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:28,200 Editor's note to accompany photographs which started in 218 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,900 view of the variety of opinion and reports attended to the 219 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:34,300 sausage over the past two years, every effort has been made to 220 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:37,400 check transfer photos for our authenticity expert 221 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,200 photographers declared there has been no tampering with the 222 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,000 negatives. The original photos were 223 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,100 developed by a local firm. After careful consideration 224 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:47,200 there appears to be no possibility of hoax or Lucia 225 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,200 Nation connected with the pictures, therefore the 226 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,900 telephone register believes them authentic. 227 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:55,400 Wow, the photographs quickly grabbed National Attention My 228 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,100 Life Magazine, publishing photographs on the 26th of June 229 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:00,500 1950. During this time, Skeptics 230 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:02,700 called the trance liars and poked. 231 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:05,100 So much fun at the couple that Community leaders from the area 232 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:08,100 offered to sign affidavits. Swearing to the trans character 233 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,300 soon after the photographs were published the United States, Air 234 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:14,500 Force and FBI investigators, visited the transform to 235 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:18,100 interview, the couple Paul Trent recalls telling the USAF 236 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:21,000 investigators. The object was coming in toward 237 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,200 us and seem to be tipped up a little bit Trent at it. 238 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,800 It was very Right almost silvery and there was no noise. 239 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:31,500 According to the trends to you, AP was estimated to be 20 or 30 240 00:13:31,500 --> 00:13:34,800 feet in diameter. So they've seen this thing. 241 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,300 They, you know, that that get the pictures out there and it 242 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:42,300 sounds like the debunkers want on it and immediate campaign, 2D 243 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:45,600 person, these poor people, the trench became celebrities for a 244 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,500 brief time. Following the coverage, they 245 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:50,500 were flown to New York to appear on a television show named We 246 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:53,100 the People and Loan the photographic negatives to the 247 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:55,800 international news service. Which Circulated them, 248 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,700 worldwide, the Trent's. Apparently never received any 249 00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:00,800 money for the photos, and the negatives were not returned to 250 00:14:00,808 --> 00:14:03,500 them for decades. Supposedly having been 251 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:05,700 misplaced, got to wonder what happened there. 252 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:10,300 A 1967, the US Air Force, commissioned nuclear physicist. 253 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:12,500 Edward Uconn, and delete an exhaustive. 254 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:16,000 UAP study. The study is 950 page report 255 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,600 title, scientific study of unidentified flying objects, all 256 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,800 known as also known as a condor report. 257 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:24,600 Dismiss most other reported sightings covered but it stayed 258 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,600 Referring to the McMinnville photographs that at least one 259 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,600 showing a disc-shaped object in Flight. 260 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,000 Over Oregon, you guys class is difficult to explain in a 261 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,900 conventional way and otherwise it's a UFO in 1966 a panel 262 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:41,200 headed by Condon had sent an investigator named William K 263 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,200 Hartman to review the Trent. Siding Hartman had been known 264 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,500 for debunking many purported you AP images but he couldn't 265 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:50,800 explain the case Hartman wrote that the McMinnville case was 266 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,600 quote, one of the few UFO reports in which all factors and 267 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:57,700 Vesta gated appear to be consistent with the assertion 268 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:01,200 that an extraordinary flying object, silvery metallic disc 269 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,600 shaped tens of meters in diameter and evidently 270 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,900 artificial flew. Within sight of two witnesses, 271 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,100 one of the most compelling details highlighted by Hartman 272 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,100 involved photometric. Analysis of the images, he noted 273 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:17,200 that the brightness of the underside of the object appeared 274 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,700 to be lighter than the underside of the oil tank seen in the 275 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,500 images. This analysis suggests, the 276 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:27,200 object was further from Camera. Then the tank, which can be seen 277 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,700 in the photographs, not small local objects. 278 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,100 In other words, this thing wasn't some sort of put up deal 279 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:36,400 with a hung up. I can take a picture of it. 280 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,300 He says if the object is a model suspended from The Wire only a 281 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:43,800 few metres away its surface is some 37 percent brighter than 282 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,200 that of the tank and the Shaded side is probably more than 40 283 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:48,800 percent brighter than the side of the tank. 284 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:52,900 But this is nearly impossible to maintain in the face of the 285 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:54,600 foot. Mm, and in the photometry. 286 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:58,600 And although the distance houses surface, although the distance 287 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:02,900 houses surface is roughly twice as bright as a tank surface. 288 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,700 Its shadow can be only a few percentage brighter and trinsic 289 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:10,900 lie than those on the tank. This is basically the problem 290 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:13,200 that was suggested by isil inspection of the photos. 291 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,400 The shadowed side of the UFO appears to be so bright that it 292 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,800 suggests significant scattering between it and the Observer, 293 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:22,300 although refusing to rule out the possibility of a hoax 294 00:16:22,500 --> 00:16:24,400 Hartman concluded that his tests argue. 295 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,400 Against fabrication. So here we have a world-famous 296 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,000 debunker saying doesn't look like it's hoax to me the Condon 297 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,600 report reach this conclusion despite Evelyn French history of 298 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,600 seeing strange objects in the sky. 299 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:39,600 Having told that we're going in 1950 that she had seen flying 300 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,200 saucers by the coast on three separate occasions. 301 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,900 But no one would believe me doesn't make her less 302 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:46,800 believable. I mention more believable to me 303 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,900 because some people just see these things a lot more often 304 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:52,400 than other people do, and then it goes on and it has a little 305 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,600 bit of skepticism. We don't really care about that. 306 00:16:54,700 --> 00:16:57,300 It says, the Legacy, the photographs remain contentious 307 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:00,000 with Skeptics continuing to argue that they were hoaxed or 308 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,700 fake while Believers control contend that the photographer's 309 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,500 show evidence of real UAP is claimed that the Trent's never 310 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,700 change their story up until their deaths, Evelyn died in 311 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:15,900 1997, and Paul and 1998, the interest in the case led to an 312 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:19,099 annual, UAP Festival established and make big bill which is 313 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:21,400 reportedly. The second largest Festival in 314 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,599 the USA after the one held in Roswell, New Mexico, look. 315 00:17:25,300 --> 00:17:27,300 The pictures are there? They're in your face. 316 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,400 You can either believe them, not believe them or say, I just 317 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,400 don't know. But I think this is one of the 318 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:39,600 most convincing recorded UFO cases. 1950, you have a couple 319 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,300 of like I said, simple Farmers out here in the middle of 320 00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:44,100 nowhere. They don't have Photoshop, they 321 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:47,400 don't have computers, they just got there a little Kodak camera 322 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:51,100 and it had the presence of mind to snap a couple pictures and 323 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:54,600 that's why I just love this Trent UFO case until next time. 324 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:56,800 Have a warning over and out. Have a warning over and out.