MCMinnville 10th Annual UFO Festival

My half alien (not illegal) son Tim keeps me entertained with one adventure after another. This year he invited me to join him at the 10th Annual McMinnville UFO Festival which celebrates and features the first Oregon UFO sighting and well known photo's taken by a local farmer 59 years ago. This was before the digital age and the photographs have been scrutinized for years and are found to be authentic my many authorities in the field.

The festival is sponsored by McMenamin's who have established their Bar and Grill in the old Oregon Hotel downtown McMinnville. First of all Tim took me to lunch on the 5th floor Rooftop Bar from which the view of this wonderful little town is breathtaking. We had a fun time visiting and people watching. We were amazed at the huge crowd that gathered for the parade.

As Tim says, "we are both vertically challenged" so when we got to the Parade Route we were holding our camera's as high as possible and shooting with our fingers crossed. There were lots of amazing and fun costumes. Being long time fans of Star Wars we especially enjoyed the clone army and Darth Vader! It was a blast.

After the Parade we went for Ice Cream!

Then we walked to the lecture hall to hear Linda Moulton Howe, a renowned journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient speak about documented events in New Mexico. The hall was packed with about 500 people. Lots of interest in the possibility that we have never been alone!

Thanks Tim for another outstanding Adventure!