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From: Peregrine Mendoza <101653.2205@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 97 11:01:21 EST
Fwd Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:34:26 -0500
Subject: Re: Mendoza's Secret Life - (Trent pix)

> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 23:35:02 +0100 (MET)
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: Jean van Gemert <jeanvg@dds.nl>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Mendoza's Secret Life

Jean van Gemert enquired:

> I've got a question about one of your books. In it, you address the Trent
> photos, but you also print a color photo of a similar, but not identical,
> object taken at the same? site, but with completely different foliage. Do
> you have any verifiable source for that picture? I.e. references to other
> *reliable* UFO literature? What's the exact story behind it?

Well, looky here. This ought to tell us something about memory and observation.
You're dead right. On page 52 of "UFO: The complete sightings..." (O how I hate
that title) there does indeed appear a photograph strikingly similar to one of
the Trent photos but not the same as either of those usually presented...
Certainly the tree's grown a lot!

The photo printed came from the Mary Evans picture library, but where they got
it from I don't know. However! I've spoken on the electric telephone to Hilary
Evans, who will start tracking it down on Monday when he's back in the library.
He is reasonably sure that the color is added, not in the original. He hadn't
noticed the discrepancies either. This means the picture has cropped up
elsewhere purporting to be the real thing... Groan. I'll let you know ASAP
whatever Hilary finds out.

Meanwhile, a couple of tentative hypotheses. Bruce Maccabee implies in his
article in Ronald Story's "UFO Encyclopedia" that he took photographs at the
Trent farm in July 1977, but doesn't print them there and doesn't say if he
strung up a model as well for comparison. A picture exists too of William
Hartmann (Condon's investigator, who visited the Trents in June 1967) stringing
up a model, but my source doesn't indicate whether this was done on the premises
or elsewhere or even if the exercise related to the Trent case. His account in
Condon doesn't mention running such a test; he seems to have relied on
photometry. Maybe someone else out there knows of others who may have tried a
reconstruction on-site.

Apart from all that, thanks very much for pointing this out. One more caption to
re-write. No doubt it's good for the soul.

best wishes
P. Mendoza Darkhorse-Brandyscribe