McMenamins UFO Festival

McMenamins UFO Festival
Friday, May 17, 2024 at 10:00am
Various Venues In McMinnville, OR

Schedule Of Events

10-11:30am- Into The Parabnormal: Live Podcast Recording By Jeremy Scott At Hotel Oregon
In The Paragon Room
Jeremy Scott Interviews Some Of The Featured Speakers At This Year’s Festival.
Cost : Free

11:30am Doors, Noon Start - Suzanne  And Scott Ramsey At Mcminnville Community Center
The Aztec, New Mexico UFO Crash/Landing
In The Early Hours Of March 25, 1948 Near Aztec, New Mexico, A Craft Approximately 100 Feet In Diameter Soft Lands – Or Crashes. This Incident Sets Off A Chain Of Events That Is The Focus Of Scott And Suzanne Ramsey’s Research.

The In-Depth 35+ Year Study And Documentation Of This Event Have Taken The Ramseys To 30 States And Multiple Archives, Interviewing Of Dozens Of Witnesses And Reviewing Documents From The Air Force, Army, FBI, CIA And More. This Boots-On-The-Ground Research Has Revealed Sightings In The Area Before The Aztec Crash, At The Crash Site, Inside Of The Craft, Of The Beings Inside, As Well As Possible Physical Evidence. It Uncovered The Scientist Who Worked On The Craft, Clean-Up Of The Incident, Removal Of The Craft And Subsequent Cover-Up.
Cost : $25 Advance, $30 Day

10-11:30am- Into The Parabnormal: Live Podcast Recording By Jeremy Scott At Hotel Oregon
In The Paragon Room
Jeremy Scott Interviews Some Of The Featured Speakers At This Year’s Festival.
Cost : Free

11:30am Doors, Noon Start - Suzanne  And Scott Ramsey At Mcminnville Community Center
The Aztec, New Mexico UFO Crash/Landing
In The Early Hours Of March 25, 1948 Near Aztec, New Mexico, A Craft Approximately 100 Feet In Diameter Soft Lands – Or Crashes. This Incident Sets Off A Chain Of Events That Is The Focus Of Scott And Suzanne Ramsey’s Research.

The In-Depth 35+ Year Study And Documentation Of This Event Have Taken The Ramseys To 30 States And Multiple Archives, Interviewing Of Dozens Of Witnesses And Reviewing Documents From The Air Force, Army, FBI, CIA And More. This Boots-On-The-Ground Research Has Revealed Sightings In The Area Before The Aztec Crash, At The Crash Site, Inside Of The Craft, Of The Beings Inside, As Well As Possible Physical Evidence. It Uncovered The Scientist Who Worked On The Craft, Clean-Up Of The Incident, Removal Of The Craft And Subsequent Cover-Up.
Cost : $25 Advance, $30 Day

11:30am Doors, Noon Film - Screening Of Trent UFO Documentary At  Hotel Oregon
Mattie's Room At Hotel Oregon
The Story Of The Trent UFO Photos
On May 11, 1950 An Uneventful Afternoon Became, In Just A Few Chaotic Seconds, A Life-Transforming Experience In The Lives Of A Family Near Mcminnville, OR. It Was Also A Moment That Completely Altered The Debate Surrounding The Search For Extraterrestrial Life And Ufos.

On That Day, Evelyn Trent Went Out To Feed The Chickens And Rabbits Behind The Farmhouse Where She And Her Husband Paul Lived. Evelyn Was Astonished To See A Large, Metallic-Looking, Disc-Shaped Object Hovering Silently In The Sky To The Northeast. She Called For Paul, Who Grabbed Their Camera.

The Disc Was Moving Slowly To The West, And Paul Clicked Off Two Snapshots. As It Gathered Speed And Disappeared Near The Horizon, The Trents Said It Created A Silent “Wind.”

The Couple Was Quiet About The Strange Encounter For A While, Thinking They May Have Witnessed A Secret Government Project, And It Would Be Another Three Weeks Before Paul Had The Film Developed. Eventually, He Showed The Pictures To His Friend Frank Wortman, Who Alerted The Local Paper. The Telephone Register Dispatched A Reporter To Interview The Trents.

Long Story, Short: The Story Was Picked Up By The International Press And A Firestorm Ignited. A Story Appeared In LIFE Magazine, And The Trents Were Flown To New York To Appear On The Popular TV Show, We The People. Interestingly, The Show’s Producers Instructed Them To Bring The Negatives Along; The Show “Borrowed” Them, And The Trents Never Saw The Negatives Again. National Radio Personality And Self-Described UFO Authority Frank Edwards Claimed To Have Personally Taken Two Enlargements Of The Photos To The Pentagon. “I Was Told,” He Said On His National Radio Program, “They Were The Best Civilian Photographs Of An Unidentified Flying Object That The Air Force Had Ever Seen.”

While The Media Frenzy Soon Calmed Down, The Controversy Surrounding The Pictures Never Did. The Photos Became Some Of The Most Hotly Debated UFO Photographs Ever, Attaining Status As Evidence Of One Of The Most Reliable And Well-Documented Cases In UFO History. The Photos Have Been Subject To Intense Scrutiny, Reinvestigation And Reanalysis By Investigators And Scientists, But The Images’ Authenticity Has Been Upheld.

The Trents Never Did Try To Get The Negatives Back. In His Last Interview, Paul Trent Indicated That The Images Were More Of A Hassle Than Anything, And Evelyn Agreed, Citing, “Just Too Much Publicity.”

The Historic Photos Are Still Relevant Today. On The Internet And At Meetings Around The World, The Case’s Authenticity Is Still Argued, Defended And Debated. Perhaps We Will Never Know What Exactly Hovered Above The Farms Outside Mcminville That Day. In Fact, The Trents Themselves Were NeverSure.

Cost : Free

2:30pm Doors, 3pm Start - Ron James At Mcminnville Community Center
Beyond Accidental Truth: UAP And The Nature Of Reality
Cost-$25 Advance, $30 Day

4-10pm - Landing Party At Hotel Oregon Tent
Cost : Free

6pm Doors, 7pm - Speaker Presentation Ryan Graves At Mcminnville Community Center
In His Presentation, Ryan Graves Will Share Insights From His Encounters With UAP As A U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot Between 2014 And 2015, Leading Up To His Congressional Testimony In July 2023. Graves Was The First Active Duty Pilot To Come Forward Publicly About Regular Sightings Of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). He Will Explore Both Historical And Current Developments In The Field, Highlighting The Contributions Of Organizations Like The American Institute Of Aeronautics  And Astronautics (AIAA) UAP Integration  And Outreach Committee (UAPIOC) And Americans For Safe Aerospace (ASA) In Advancing Our Understanding Of UAP And Future Exploration.
Cost :  $30 Advance, $35 Day

7-10pm - Kirby Swatosh  And The Moon Rock Patrol At Hotel Oregon
In Mattie's Room
Live Music From Spaced Out Rock Band, Kirby Swatosh  And The Moon Rock Patrol!

A Child Of The NASA Generation, Swatosh’s Catchy Pop/Rock Melodies And Clever Lyrics Introduce A Startling Original Imagination Informed By The Faith Of One Whose True Musical Home Might As Well Be Outer Space. Despite His Affinity For Interterrestrial Themes, Swatosh’s Repertoire Also Includes Down-To-Earth Pop — Grounded By A Childhood Spent Listening To The Beatles, Pink Floyd And James Taylor.
Cost : Free