Cryptids and UFOs in Oregon

Creatures reported in Oregon

Flying sauceraka Disc, Flying discThe classic disc-shaped UFO that launched the modern era of sightings.

Famous cases

1. 1950McMinnville photos
   Flying saucer · McMinnville, Oregon

UFO files

• 165 US Air Force Project Blue Book files from Oregon, 1947 to 1969
• 3 FAA pilot reports of lights and objects over Oregon, 2007 to 2024
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From the old newspapers

Strange creatures, sea serpents and mystery airships reported in Oregon papers before 1927.

1. 1888A maned serpent off the Umpqua River
   Reedsport
2. 1896A horse-headed thing in the Columbia
   Clifton
3. 1904A seven-foot wild man in Coos County
   Myrtle Point
4. 1904The hairy 'wild man of the Sixes' shakes miners' cabins
   Sixes

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Places to visit

• North American Bigfoot CenterBoringCliff Barackman of TV's Finding Bigfoot runs this museum near Mount Hood, packed with footprint casts, field gear and a walk-through history of Sasquatch resear...
• McMenamins UFO FestivalMcMinnvilleBorn from the famous 1950 Trent farm saucer photos, this long-running festival brings speakers, an alien costume parade and a lot of beer to McMenamins Hotel Or...
• The Bigfoot TrapApplegateA big box trap built in 1974 to catch a Sasquatch. It only ever caught bears and now sits open on the Collings Mountain Trail.

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