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If your congregation would like to be a part of this directory, please contact the Cottage Grove Sentinel @ 541-942-3325 farm a little to the northeast. Evelyn ran back into the house to get Paul to come out and look at it. Paul took a moment to hunt up his cam- era — a compact folding-bel- lows-type camera, Universal Roamer brand, a model that took 60-mm roll fi lm (Kodak 120 or 620). He soon found it, and followed Evelyn out of the house. Th e UFO was still there. It was of the classic fl ying-saucer style — a metallic disc, fl at on the bottom and with a post sticking up in the center. It was hovering in the sky, now drift ing steadily toward the northwest. Paul shot a picture, then hurriedly advanced the fi lm — which on one of those old cameras involved turning a small chrome knob three or four full revolutions, a process that took several seconds. By the time he was done, the UFO was accelerating toward the northwest. Paul ran sever- al paces to keep it in sight and clicked off his second expo- sure as it swept on, gathering speed, and then it disappeared over the horizon. Th e Trents thought what they’d seen had been some sort of government experi- ment, possibly a secret one; so they didn’t tell anyone about it. And fi lm was expensive, so Paul wasn’t about to pay for development of a half-shot roll or waste the few exposures he had remaining. Eventually, though, the remaining expo- sures were all taken — a few snapshots at a Mothers’ Day picnic fi nished it off — and Paul took the fi lm in to get prints made. When he showed the two UFO shots to his friend Frank Wortman, Wortman talk- ed him into telling the local newspaper about it ... and so, on the front page of the June 8, 1950, edition of the Mc- Minnville Telephone-Register, both photographs appeared. (Th e Telephone-Register merged with the McMinn- ville News-Reporter in 1953 to form today’s McMinnville News-Register.) Th e photos ignited a nation- wide sensation: what appeared to be the fi rst example of a fl y- ing saucer in action, witnessed by two people and captured on fi lm. Th e national press brief- ly rechristened McMinnville “Saucerville,” and representa- tives of national media started courting the Trents. Th ey fl ew to New York City to appear on live television, on “We the People.” Life Magazine ran a story. Syndicated radio host Frank Edwards, whose pop- ular news-and-opinion show aired nationwide on the Mu- tual Broadcasting Network, was particularly interested in the sighting, and talked about it a lot. Th e media outlets all want- ed to borrow the negatives, of course, and they soon got lost. (Th ey resurfaced sever- al decades later, considerably damaged.) In a fi eld thickly crowded with sketchy characters and clever fakers, and with an equal number of skeptics and debunkers, the Trents’ story and pictures have never quite fi t in. Th e Trents themselves were clearly solid citizens. Al- though they seemed at fi rst to enjoy their moment in the sun, they never much seemed to welcome it and soon be- came obviously tired of the attention. Th e years ticked by. Th e Trents got back to their lives, and the hubbub settled down. Th e topic of UFOs, though, was just starting to heat up. By the end of the decade, thousands of people were claiming to have sighted alien spacecraft in the sky, and the usual hordes of imaginative charlatans were crowding the fi eld with claims and hoaxes of widely varying degrees of believability. During this time, the U.S. Air Force had been trying to get a handle on the issue. Th is was proving hard to do. Near- ly everyone had a strong opin- ion on the subject and a high degree of contempt for the op- posite position. Finally, in 1965, the Air Force found a legitimate uni- versity with a well-creden- tialed physicist who would be willing to undertake a thor- ough study of the matter: Dr. Edward Condon of the Uni- versity of Colorado. Condon’s report was re- leased in 1968, and pret- ty much fi rmly established UFOlogy as a “border sci- ence,” well outside the main- stream. Of course, UFO enthusiasts countered that Condon had had strong con- fi rmation bias to contend with You don’t have to face your problems alone Alan D. Walker A Masters Level Christian Counselor Specializing in: Premarital, Marriage, and Family Grief & Loss, Depression & Anxiety Offi ces in Cottage Grove, Yoncalla, and Roseburg 541-817-6271 AlanWalkerPACO@gmail.com — if he had ended up conclud- ing that UFOs were real, they claimed, his academic reputa- tion would have been ruined. So, he had a strong incentive to minimize the evidence in favor and maximize the evi- dence against. Th ey professed themselves unsurprised when he concluded that there was insuffi cient evidence to con- sider UFOs as a reasonable possibility. Even so, Condon’s report admitted that it was unable to falsify the Trent photographs, or fi nd damaging inconsisten- cy in the story they’d told in the countless interviews they’d given in the year or two aft er their sighting. “Th is is one of the few UFO reports in which all factors in- vestigated, geometric, psycho- logical, and physical, appear to be consistent with the as- sertion that an extraordinary fl ying object, silvery, metallic, disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter, and evidently artifi - cial, fl ew within sight of two witnesses,” the report noted. However, it did leave open the possibility that the object had been a model suspended from an overhead line one or two dozen feet from the cam- era — a theory that continues to resonate with skeptics to- day. By giving grudging praise to the Trent photographs, the Condon Report brought them to the attention of a new cadre of amateur de-bunkers. Over the decades that followed, numerous theories emerged: a trash-can lid on a string, a side-view mirror from a 1947 Ford pickup, and so on. Th e Trents both died in the late 1990s, and both insisted until the end that the photos were legitimate. And, even to- day, amateur analysts are dis- agreeing about whether they were lying. Th e conclusions these analysts have reached, so far, have been very pre- dictable: confi rmed skeptics conclude defi nitively that the whole thing was a hoax, and confi rmed UFO believers as- sert positively that the photos were demonstrably real. All the intense scrutiny over the years has successful- ly proven only one thing: that the photos are extraordinarily resistant to being defi nitively debunked — or, for that mat- ter, confi rmed. But then, the McMinnville UFO sighting is a bit like the D.B. 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