I was just looking at one of the McMinnville photos, and I realized that I could get a pretty good idea of the distance of the object from the camera based on the atmospheric haze that makes dark values (like the shadowed area below the object) look lighter as the distance increases. So check this out - first, here's the photo itself:
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Next, I made a copy slicing through the object, and highlighted the area around it in red:
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Then I checked the value of the grey underside of the object, against the grey values of the three regions at the bottom of the photo. First I checked it against the distant foothills:
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The shadowed underside of the object is darker than the foothills, so it's closer than that. So I checked it against the outcropping of trees between the distant foothills and the edge of the yard:
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Bingo - the shaded area below the craft is a perfect match against the grey values of the outcropping of trees in-between the yard and the distant mountain range - the craft seems to disappear when its placed on that grey value. And finally, I checked it against the shrubs at the edge of the Trent's yard:
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It's lighter than the shrubs at the edge of their yard, so the object must have been further away than the edge of their yard. It couldn't have been an object hanging from the power lines in their yard, as fake skeptics like Robert Sheaffer have alleged (without ever trying to explain why the power lines wouldn't sage with something hanging from them) - if the object was within the yard, the greyscales would've been similar to the value of the barn roof on the left. It's not - look how much lighter it is:
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It isn't even close. The object had to have been at least 100 yards away from the camera in order to have that value of grey on its shaded underside.