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I dunno, the McMinnville, Oregon craft didn't look too much like a U2:

Instantly thought of that as well. After all these years, those photos have never been debunked. In fact, nearly every test has determined that McMinnville object is big, and distant. Whatever else it may be, it’s real.

http://brumac.8k.com/trent1.html
The Trent Farm Photos
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(This paper was originally published in the proceedings of the 1976 ufo conference of the center for ufo studies. This version has been modified slightly in april 2000 for this Publication. This is the first of two technical and historical papers on The trent photo case that were presented to and published by The center for ufo studies (cufos), which is located in Chicago, Illinois. On the possibility that the McMinnville photos show a distant unidentified object (UO)
During the Air Force funded investigation of UFO reports at the University of Colorado in 1967-1968 (the “Condon Report”), photoanalyst William Hartmann studied in detail photographic and verbal evidence presented by two former residents of McMinnville, Oregon, Paul and Evelyn Trent. He concluded, mainly on the basis of a simplified photometric analysis, that “all factors investigated, geometrical, psychological and physical, appear to be consistent with the assertion that an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disk shaped, tens of meters in diameter and evidently artificial, flew within sight of two witnesses.” An important part of his analysis included calculations of the expected brightness of the image of the bottom of the Unidentified Object (UO) that appears in the first photo. He pointed out that the elliptical image of the bottom was brighter than expected if the object were close and therefore a small model. The excessive image brightness led him to conclude that the object was at a great distance (over a kilometer), His conclusion was criticized by Philip J. Klass and Rober Sheaffer who argued that veiling glare (caused by surface dirt and imperfections in the lens which scatter light from bright areas of the image into all other areas of the image) could have increased the brightness of the image of the UO, making it appear distant.

SEE enlarged photos:
http://brumac.8k.com/images/trent/trnt_2_blwup.jpg
http://brumac.8k.com/images/trent/trent1.jpg
http://brumac.8k.com/images/trent/trent2.jpg
http://brumac.8k.com/images/trent/trnt_1_blwup.jpg

RE: "I dunno, the McMinnville, Oregon craft didn't look too much like a U2:"

Yep. I think you are spot on there...

I dunno, the McMinnville, Oregon craft didn't look too much like a U2:

It looks more like a saucer from George Adamski's kitchen cabinet.