Two Lake Tahoe sisters go missing after attending huge solar eclipse festival along with more than 30,000 people in Oregon

  • Melissa Lea and her sister attended the Symbiosis festival in Prineville, Oregon
  • Their family from Lake Tahoe reported the pair missing after the festival 
  • Crook County Sheriff's office have appealed for information about the pair  

By DARREN BOYLE, DATA JOURNALIST

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Police are searching for two sisters who went missing while travelling to see this week's solar eclipse. 

Melissa Lea, 18, and her younger sister whose identity has not been revealed were last seen at the Symbiosis eclipse festival near Prineville, Oregon on Sunday. 

Their family, from Lake Tahoe, reported them missing to Crook County Sheriff's Office who have launched an appeal for information. 

Melissa Lea (left) and her younger sister have not been seen since going missing at an Oregon festival

Detectives have determined Lea's debit card was last used at the Symbiosis festival on Tuesday. 

According to KGW.com, more than 30,000 people attended the event, which is held at the Big Summit Prairie in the Ochoco National Forest. 

Lea was driving a black Toyota Sequoia on Californian licence plates. 

Anyone with information on the girls is asked to contact Crook County Sheriff's Office on 541-447-6398.   

People watch the last phase of the total solar eclipse at the Symbiosis Oregon Eclipse Festival at Big Summit Prairie ranch in Oregon's Ochoco National Forest

People watch the last phase of the total solar eclipse at the Symbiosis Oregon Eclipse Festival at Big Summit Prairie ranch in Oregon's Ochoco National Forest

Emotional sky-gazers stood transfixed across North America Monday as the Sun vanished behind the Moon in a rare total eclipse that swept the continent coast-to-coast for the first time in nearly a century

Emotional sky-gazers stood transfixed across North America Monday as the Sun vanished behind the Moon in a rare total eclipse that swept the continent coast-to-coast for the first time in nearly a century

 

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