McMinnville and the Trent Photographs
On 11 May 1950 Evelyn Trent went out to feed the rabbits on a farm outside this Oregon town and saw a metallic disc drifting slowly over the field. She called her husband, who managed two photographs before the object went off to the west. The Trents did not try to profit: they finished the roll, left it at the local chemist, and the pictures reached a newspaper through a banker they knew. The frames have been argued over for decades — a 1969 analysis for the Condon Committee found no sign of a suspension or a montage, while later work points to a possible model hung on a wire under the power lines. They remain the two most famous photographs in the subject, and the argument has not closed.
Cape Otway and Valentich's Last Transmission
On 21 October 1978 a twenty-year-old pilot, Frederick Valentich, was flying a Cessna 182 alone over Bass Strait south of this cape and told Melbourne control that a large object with four bright lights was accompanying him. His last words were "it is not an aircraft"; then seventeen seconds of metallic scraping on the air, and silence. Neither aircraft nor body was found. Five years later a cowl flap from that production run was recovered off King Island; it could not be tied to his machine. The official finding is that the cause is unknown. Disorientation and inverted flight, and a staged disappearance, have both been considered; neither has been shown.
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