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Today In UFO HIstory - The Willamette Pass Photo Hoax
November 22, 1966 - Diamond Peak, Oregon
1/9:00–10:00 a.m. A biochemist and consultant to a logging company and his wife are traveling on State Highway 58 through the Willamette Pass, Oregon
2/, when he decides to stop and take photos of some scenery. He stops at the Diamond Peak overlook, takes 2 photos, then pauses to take a third. Suddenly, he claims, a disc-shaped object with a domed top ascends into his field of view. After stopping for 3 seconds, it shoots off
3/toward the right and disappears into a cloud bank. When he develops the roll of film, the photos show a blurred disc-shaped object with two black bands beneath and sitting atop a seeming column of vapor. NICAP is given the photo but is not impressed. In 1989, physicist Irwin
4/Wieder performs a detailed analysis of the photo and determines that it is a blurred photo of the “Diamond Peak” sign taken from a passing car. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Cerny, Paul. “The Oregon UFO Photo Identified.” MUFON UFO Journal 309 (January 1994): 14-15;
Sources cont.:
“Oregon Photo Fails Validation Test.” UFO Investigator (November 1971): 3;
“Oregon Photo Still in Doubt.” UFO Investigator (August 1972): 2, 4;
“Postscript on the Oregon Photograph.” UFO Quarterly Review 1, no. 1 (January/March 1973): 18–24;
Sources cont.:
Vance, Adrian, “UFOs and ‘The Oregon Photo.’” Petersen’s PhotoGraphic Magazine 1 (January 1973): 35–37.
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rdEd, pg.1281-1283;
Hynek, J. Allen. “The UFO Phenomenon: Laugh, Laugh, Study, Study.” Technology Review 83, no. 7 (July 1981): 50–58;
Irwin Wieder, “The Willamette Pass Oregon UFO Photo Revisited: An Explanation,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 7, no. 2 (1993): 173–198;
scientificexploration.org/docs/7/jse_07_…

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Denver Post, June 29, 1947, p. 6;
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"Getting the Record". Flight Magazine. Flight Global. 23 March 1956.
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