Are the Trent photos legit?

What are the Trent photos

  • A real craft?

    Votes: 6 50.0%
  • A hoax?

    Votes: 6 50.0%

  • Total voters
    12
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The shadow

The shadow knows!
The Trent UFO Photos—‘Best’ of All Time—Finally Busted? | Skeptical Inquirer
I'm torn on this. The best of the best.
Proof of an alien craft..
A truck mirror?
We have an object hanging in such a position that it seems to be hanging from a power line. The angles suggest it has not moved. It suggest that Trent crouched to give the impression of distance. Then the shape of the object.
The slight bend of the "conning tower "
Suggest it's a truck mirror.
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I open and invite debate real?
Or a hoax?
Keep in mind Trent never sought fame or cash. That they swore it was true to their deaths.
No support strings have been seen in the photos.
 

dr wu

Noble
Voted hoax.....just a gut feeling ...I have read the pros and cons over the years and so many of these just seem unbelievable to me .
 
There was the photographer from Life Magazine, I think it was, who visited. His examination of the negatives proved interesting, with the "UFO" photos appearing about mid-roll with other, more typical pictures ahead and behind. Some investigators described the Trents as very unlikely hoaxers, even going so far as to say they didn't think them capable of pulling off such a hoax.

As usual, some hacks have done silly things, like making the astounding discovery that the Trents owned a stepladder! Zounds! There it is, in another picture they took! A farmer with a stepladder! Anyway, even if they were simpletons, they'd have known how dangerous it would be to mess with a power line, if their six foot stepladder would get one high enough to hang a truck mirror on the wire.

As usual, in terms of anything being proven, we got bupkis. Yeah, it looks sorta like a truck mirror. If I were going to try to hoax a UFO picture with a truck mirror, I'd sure try to take advantage of its circular nature, and not photograph it side-on.

I have not voted. I don't know what it is. I don't like to guess.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
I believe its the real deal, one of a few legitimate photos of non-human aircraft or spacecraft...

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HAL9000

Honorable
Sure I've seen an enhanced version of that picture and a thread is just detectable that appears to be holding it up.

Can't remember where I saw it; years ago.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Sure I've seen an enhanced version of that picture and a thread is just detectable that appears to be holding it up.

Can't remember where I saw it; years ago.

that's about what the Skeptical Inquirer had to say in the link from #1
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
And that's the problem with these photographs the Trent's never ever tried to capitalize on them. They never tried to get rich over them. They never saw fame or popularity the trent's claimed that they were real to ther dying day.
 

dr wu

Noble
And that's the problem with these photographs the Trent's never ever tried to capitalize on them. They never tried to get rich over them. They never saw fame or popularity the trent's claimed that they were real to ther dying day.

Well...as far as I know no one has ever made any serious money in the old days from ufo pics. Hoaxing for the most part has never been profitable. You might make a few hundred from selling them to Life mag back in the day. ;)
 

Todd Feinman

Show us the satellite pics...
The negatives were taken by the military or a government agent, iirc, and when they were returned the line had been added! They aren't in the original negatives.. Also the pic with the kid standing on a ladder by the lines was staged by a photographer. The photos were in the possession of the local newspaper for a long time. The Trents didn't seek fame and even waited to have the film developed.
 

August

Metanoia
"Maccabee calculated the UFO to be over 1 kilometre away, and about 30 meters in diameter and 4 meters thick."

Pre-Photoshop UFO Photograph #11 ~ The Classic McMinnville, Oregon Shots of 1950 | Alternative | Before It's News (beforeitsnews.com)

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nivek

As Above So Below
Sure I've seen an enhanced version of that picture and a thread is just detectable that appears to be holding it up.

Can't remember where I saw it; years ago.

Seems I remember someone else said something about that enhanced picture years ago but never did show the image described which was similar to your description...Can you find that picture?...

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The shadow

The shadow knows!
Seems I remember someone else said something about that enhanced picture years ago but never did show the image described which was similar to your description...Can you find that picture?...

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I'm working on finding that. In the meantime..
I been going over carefully the images in the photos. I looked at photos of a truck mirror. I'm not sold it's a truck mirror. Mainly because the bottom of the object is dark it's not shiny or reflective like a mirror. Also the bottom is smooth not hollow as a mirror would be with the glass removed.
 

Todd Feinman

Show us the satellite pics...
Here is Bruce Maccabee's analysis of the photos:
Dr. Bruce Maccabee Research Website

Here is Evelyn Trent describing the object:


Real. The photos are completely real, for me. The light scattering / atmospheric perspective, and no line visible in the real images is consistent with a real UFO, and of course the witness testimony to give the pictures meaning.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
The negatives were taken by the military or a government agent, iirc, and when they were returned the line had been added! They aren't in the original negatives.. Also the pic with the kid standing on a ladder by the lines was staged by a photographer. The photos were in the possession of the local newspaper for a long time. The Trents didn't seek fame and even waited to have the film developed.

I know I can be very flippant about this with the truck mirror thing but also know it's possible to be proven wrong and that you take this one seriously. Just read through quite a bit of Bill Munn's analysis of the Patterson-Gimlin footage and he goes into extreme detail about the film in use in that era, how and where it got processed. I know nothing about photography so maybe this is a grade school question, but is it even possible to modify original negatives like that? If so wouldn't it leave some sort of evidence if examined forensically? What kind of skill, equipment and effort would it take and how likely would that be? It would be a lot more time and cost effective just to float a story like 'he's a drunk' even if locally that was known to be false, repeated often enough it would create doubt and get the job done.

Could be my ignorance showing, maybe this has all been covered somewhere. Thanks
 
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