UFO Sightings in Oregon

Oregon is the state of the McMinnville UFO photographs — the most analyzed civilian UFO photographs of the 20th century. On 11 May 1950, Paul and Evelyn Trent photographed a disc-shaped object hovering near their farm in McMinnville. The two original photographs were published in Life magazine the next month and became the canonical reference images for the disc-shape UFO category. The U.S. Air Force-commissioned Condon Report in 1968 examined the McMinnville photographs 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." PURSUE Release 01 does not include the McMinnville photographs. Oregon's modern UAP record clusters around Klamath Falls, the Cascade Range, and offshore Coast Guard reports along the northern California-Oregon border.

“An extraordinary flying object… disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter, and evidently artificial.”

PURSUE catalog coverage

Oregondoes not have any incidents publicly geolocated to it in the PURSUE catalog. The Pentagon's catalog covers 29 named incidents geographically; many “Western United States (undisclosed)” PURSUE entries — including the 2023 “Eye of Sauron” federal-agent encounter and the 2025 ODNI senior-intel-officer helicopter encounter — may include Oregon locations that were redacted to protect facility identity.

Famous historical sightings in Oregon