In May, 1950 Paul Trent, a farmer in rural Oregon, took two photos of something in the sky. He and his wife were outside when they spotted the strange object and he rushed inside to grab the camera. The two pictures he took before the craft sped off to the west became known as “The McMinnville UFO photographs.”
The McMinnville paper printed them and the photos also appeared in Life magazine and in newspapers all across the nation. To this day, they are often considered to be among the best photographs ever taken of a UFO.
The McMinnville UFO photographs
Although they’re known as the “McMinnville UFO Photographs”, the farm owned by the Trents was actually just outside of Sheridan, Oregon—which just happens to be the home town of I Spy Radio Show‘s producer, Karla Davenport. But McMinnville was bigger and its paper first carried the story, so “Mac” gets the credit.
While skeptics scoff, they were never officially debunked. No wires, no tampering with the negatives. They remain a mystery. Others in the area also said they saw the craft before it sped off.
What do you think?
UFO photo taken near McMinnville, Oregon. Click for full size image.
A close up of the craft in the McMinnville UFO photo. Click for larger image
The second McMinnville UFO photo, giving a slightly different angle of the craft. Click image for full size.
You can read the Wikipedia article about the McMinnville UFO photographs here.
And be sure to check out our show on UFO Disclosure with author, film maker, and UFO researcher, L. A. Marzulli.
McMinnville UFOfest
McMinnville holds an annual UFO festival. In 2021, it will be in September, the weekend of the 23rd – 25th. A parade, vendors, and guest lecturers. Find out more at ufofest.com.
UFO Disclosure | Who is Really Piloting Them? Implications for Christians
Show Summary: The official Defense Department’s UFO Disclosure is due before June 25. Will we learn the truth? And could UFO Disclosure shake Christians’ worldview? UFO researcher, L.A. Marzulli exposes the real pilots. Is the truth of UFOs in the Bible?
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Original Air Dates: June 5th & 6th, 2021 | L. A. Marzulli
This Week: We take a turn to the, well, a bit unusual. For us at least. But with the official UFO disclosure looming, we wanted to give you some information and grounding. Because for some people, especially Christians, the Defense Department’s UFO Disclosure could be upsetting. Even worldview shaking.
UFO Disclosure: What is it?
The Rhodes Photograph of a UFO over Phoenix, 1947. Click for full size.
You may have seen videos of UFOs (or UAPs as they’re now known—”Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”) zooming across the water on shows like Tucker Carlson. Some videos have been leaked over the last few years. Navy
pilots broke their silence about what they’ve seen. But here’s the odd part. The military was okay with it. Not only that, but they even authenticated the leaked videos. What is going on?
For decades, the military and intelligence kept silent about UFOs. They ridiculed people who came forward. They punished leakers. But now they’re confirming these stories?
Did you know? Some of the best photos of UFOs, which haven’t been debunked, was taken right here in Oregon? See the McMinnville UFO photographs.
When President Trump signed the covid relief bill into law on December 27, 2020, it included a deadline. The Defense Department had 180 days to put together an official, unclassified UFO Disclosure. And release it to the public. And 180 days puts it on June 25th, 2021.
What can we expect from the UFO Disclosure?
A Dec 2020 UFO picture. Note how the basic shape is similar to the 1947 Rhodes photo. Click for full size.
No one knows. At least not for certain. It’s an unclassified report so there’s a chance it could be quite tame. But given the videos already released, it could be quite explosive.
The Senate is to receive their own classified version of the UFO disclosure. That nay focus more on national defense aspects. Or it could contain even more sensational, more earth-shattering details that they just don’t think the public is ready for.
What could UFO Disclosure mean for Christians?
Of course, a lot of it depends on what’s in the UFO disclosure. If it’s a giant nothing burger, it won’t mean anything to Christians — or to anyone else. But right now, that’s looking unlikely. Why? Given what’s already been released (and confirmed) to the public, this is likely going to up the ante.
So, given that, Disclosure could shake Christians’ worldview. After all, the Bible even says (paraphrasing here) that what’s coming upon the Earth could deceive even the Elect. If the Bible says it could shake the faith of Christians, perhaps Christians should take this seriously.
As Christians, our faith is in the supernatural – and yet isn’t it odd that so many Christians are reluctant to talk about the supernatural? But we need to in order to combat the coming secular narrative which will undoubtedly attack the Christian worldview. Here’s just one example.
Did Aliens, not God, Create Us? And are They Coming Back?
If you’ve watched the Ancient Alien show on the History Channel, you know that secular ufologists (people who study UFOs), believe we’ve been visited by aliens since the dawn of humanity. And these aliens posed as (or were assumed to be) the gods of the ancient past.
Mainstream scientists have picked this up and have recently adopted panspermia as an alternate theory to explain our origins. In part, this is due to the inherent weaknesses of both the big bang theory and the theory of evolution. Why? Because life is far, far too complex to have happened by mere chance.
Basically, panspermia is the theory that mankind didn’t evolve. We were instead “seeded” here by advanced alien races. Which falls in line with the Ancient Aliens theory that a race of beings known as the Annunaki created us because they needed manual labor.
Are they coming back now? Is that what Disclosure will expose?
L. A. Marzulli, UFO Researcher — From a Biblical Point of View
L. A. Marzulli is an author, film maker, and researcher. And that includes UFOs. Why? Because who (or what) is driving those UFOs is, he believes, answered right there in the Bible.
Tune in to hear why L. A. believes the UFOs are not being piloted by little green men (or gray) from other planets. Instead, UFOs are advanced technology, from fallen angels. Why?
It makes sense from a Biblical standpoint. And answers so many questions Christians have about the seemingly “cruel” God of the Old Testament. Why, for example, did a “loving God” want the Israelites to completely wipe out entire tribes of people? Men, women, children—in some cases even their animals.
The reason starts with Genesis 3:15. And is later expanded on in Genesis 6. And without understanding these elements of the Biblical story, the rest of the story, including the coming of the Messiah, doesn’t make sense.
Don’t miss this show to get all the answers.
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Links Mentioned
L. A. Marzulli
BE SURE TO watch L. A. Marzulli’s film, UFO Disclosure: The Coming Great Deception and the Luciferian Endgame. L. A. is making this available for free because the information it contains is so important for Christians prior to the military’s UFO disclosure due on or before June 25th.
L. A. Marzulli’s main website has more videos and books on his research into the Nephilim, “aliens”, ancient sites, fallen angel technology, and much more.
Want to know more? We recommend L. A.’s guest appearances on the Prophecy Watchers program. Here are some of our favorites:
The Apostle Paul caught a glimpse of the 3rd heaven. God rides on the backs of the Cherubim. Ezekiel saw a magnificent craft, a wheel within a wheel, that defies human imagination.
Air Force pilots are coming forward describing their personal UFO encounters that they claim are “not of this world.”
Gary Stearman and L.A. Marzulli they take a Biblical dive into the Scriptures. Full UFO disclosure appears to be imminent—when we go up, they show up?
Could the UFO disclosure be opening the door to a grand deception? A worldwide UFO appearance that convinces people that our “ascended masters” have returned to save their creation from self-destruction.
Tall Tales: Two Christian thrillers rediscover the ‘giants’ of Genesis 6 (and Enoch). [Includes a book by L. A. Marzulli, Nephilim: The Truth is Here] (Christianity Today, Feb 4, 2002)
L. A. Marzulli’s mentor was Dr. I. D. E. Thomas, who wrote The Omega Conspiracy. Good write up about it on Before It’s News, Feb 6, 2014.
The Coming UFO Disclosure
US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs, thanks to the Covid-19 relief and spending bill (CNN, Jan 10, 2021)
That report must contain detailed analyses of UFO data and intelligence collected by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI, according to the Senate intelligence committee’s directive.
It should also describe in detail “an interagency process for ensuring timely data collection and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting for the Federal Government” and designate an official responsible for that process.
Finally, the report should identify any potential national security threats posed by UFOs and assess whether any of the nation’s adversaries could be behind such activity, the committee said.
The briefing will cover “observed airborne objects that have not been identified” and feature “detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by: a. geospatial intelligence; b. signals intelligence; c. human intelligence; and d. measurement and signals intelligence,” according to the request.
No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public (NY Times, July 23, 2020)
Are We Ready To Accept That UFOs Are Real? (WNPR, May 2021)
How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously: For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo (The New Yorker, April 30, 2021)
Some of these extraterrestrial spaceships had been “downed, retrieved and studied since at least the 1940s and possibly as early as the 1930s.”
The CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-1990. Naturally, it involved deception and lying to the American people. Even psychological warfare on our own people. (Studies in Intelligence, Vol 1, No. 1, 1997)
UFOs, Roswell, and More
You probably have heard about the Roswell UFO crash. But did you know there were over 100 sightings all across the Southwest in the days leading up to and even after the crash? See New Mexico Area UFO Reports — June/July 1947 (RoswellProof.com, Apr 11, 2014)
Counter Intelligence Report & Photographs of UFO Captured On Film Over Phoenix, Arizona, July 7, 1947 (The UFO Chronicles, June 2010)
More on the Rhodes photograph: Chronology of the Blue Book files on Incident #40, The Rhodes Photographs, and the relevant FBI Reports (Foreshadower.net, May 2012)
“The photographs taken by William A. Rhodes remain an enigma. Despite sixty years of commentary on them, no one has been able to identify the object, nor has anyone found evidence they were faked.”
