Editing McMinnville, Oregon (section)

== McMinnville UFO photographs ==
{{main|McMinnville UFO photographs}}McMinnville is well known among [[Ufology|UFO buffs and researchers]] for photographs originally published on the front page of the June&nbsp;9, 1950 edition of the city's newspaper, the ''[[News-Register (McMinnville)|News-Register]]'' (then known as the ''Telephone-Register''), reportedly of an [[unidentified flying object]]; the photographs were taken nearly a month earlier, on May 11, 1950, at the farm of Paul and Evelyn Trent. ''[[The Oregonian]]'' published the photographs the next day, and were published in the June 26, 1950 issue of  ''[[Life magazine|LIFE]]'' magazine.<ref>[http://brumac.8k.com/trent1.html Dr. Bruce Maccabee Research Website<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321080210/http://brumac.8k.com/trent1.html |date=2013-03-21 }}</ref>

Although these images have come to be known as the "[[McMinnville UFO photographs]]", the Trent farm was actually located in [[Sheridan, Oregon]], around {{convert|13|mi|km|spell=in}} southwest of McMinnville.<ref>"McMinnville Farmer, Wife See 'Saucer,'" ''The Oregonian,'' June 10, 1950, pg. 7.</ref> The heated debate which followed between UFO researchers and skeptics made the town's name famous and has spurred an annual "UFO Festival" in McMinnville, the second largest such gathering in the United States to that of [[Roswell, New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downtownmcminnville.com/event?eventTitle=2014-ufo-festival-and-alien-costume-parade--1324504666--33|title=2014 UFO Festival and Alien Costume Parade|publisher=McMinnville Downtown Association|access-date=January 25, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201210251/http://www.downtownmcminnville.com/event?eventTitle=2014-ufo-festival-and-alien-costume-parade--1324504666--33|archive-date=February 1, 2014}}</ref>