The first of Paul Trent's two May 1950 photographs taken near McMinnville Paul Trent, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paul Trent took two photos of a disc-shaped object his wife Evelyn saw over their farm near McMinnville; a local paper and then Life ran them. A Condon study analyst found them consistent with a real distant object but could not rule out fabrication; skeptics call them a hoax.