What are the McMinnville UFO photographs?

“On 11 May 1950, Paul and Evelyn Trent photographed a disc-shaped object near McMinnville, Oregon. The 1968 Condon Report concluded the photographs showed 'an extraordinary flying object… disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter, and evidently artificial.'”

The McMinnville UFO photographs are two black-and-white images taken by Oregon farmer Paul Trent and his wife Evelyn at approximately 7:30 PM on 11 May 1950, near their farm outside McMinnville. The photographs show a smooth, parabolic, disc-shaped object hovering against the evening sky. They were published in Life magazine on 26 June 1950 and became the canonical reference images for the disc-shape UFO category. The 1968 Condon Report — the U.S. Air Force-commissioned scientific study at the University of Colorado — examined the McMinnville photographs in detail and concluded they showed "an extraordinary flying object… which appears to have been silvery, metallic, disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter, and evidently artificial." The report noted that the photographic evidence is consistent with a genuine sighting but could not rule out a hoax. The photographs are not in PURSUE Release 01.