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From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 08:13:18 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 14:38:51 -0400
Subject: Re: Two Skeptical Papers On The Trent Photos On



>From: Keith Woodard <qwoodard@worldnet.att.net>
>To: UFO UpDates <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Two Skeptical Papers On The Trent Photos On Line
>Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 10:53:28 -0700


>The 1999 revised version of Robert Sheaffer's unpublished "An
>Investigation of the McMinnville UFO Photographs" at:

>http://hugin.imat.com/~sheaffer/texts/trent.html

>together with Phil Klass's 1995 "What Bruce Maccabee DOESN'T
>Tell You About His Investigation of the Famous McMinnville/Trent
>UFO-Photo Case" at:

>http://hugin.imat.com/~sheaffer/texts/BSMtrentPJK.html

>will, I trust, put this "Trent" business to bed once and for all.

Dear Keith:

Time to get out of bed and become informed. Sheaffer's _1969_
paper (recently "revised" and put on the web) was thoroughly
discussed.... some might say "dismissed" .... by my work in 1976
and again in 1982. Sheaffer's arguments have been shown to be
wrong.

As for Mr. Klass...... after all these years the strongest
argument he has against the Trent case seems to be that a lady
of "not exceptional" (!!!) intelligence could make mistakes in
recalling events when she was questioned 24 or more years after
they occurred.

Incidently, the Trent's have died recently: Evelyn in 1997 and
Paul in 1998. They were interviewed in 1995 and presented the
same story they told in 1950.

When the sighting occurred these people were poor but
industrious farmers. During the years of interviews and numerous
publications of their pictures they were still poor but
industrious farmers (raising several children). When they died
they were (retired ) poor farmers.

It was very interesting to me to see that, even though there
were literally world famous because of their pictures, certainly
the most famous people in the McMinnville area, the obituaries
said exactly nothing (!) about their UFO sighting.

It was certainly my impression, and I gather that also of
numerous others who interviewed the Trents (or were teir
neighbors) that the UFO sigting was not of great importance to
them and, that the resulting publicity, etc. was a considerable
annoyance.