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December 11th, 2015

When is the UFO Festival?

McMenamins Hotel Oregon in downtown McMinnville hosts the event during a weekend in mid-May each year.  The festival is a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the reputation McMinnville earned in 1950 when a photograph of an alleged UFO was taken on a nearby farm. The “Trent Sighting” photos were featured in Life magazine.


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