A British UFO researcher claims to have solved one of the UK’s most intriguing UFO mysteries 34 years after it was spectacularly captured on film.
Dubbed the “Calvine UFO” it was snapped in the Scottish area of the same name by two hikers on August 4 1990.
Six staggering photographs they took are said to show an odd diamond-shaped object in the sky, seemingly tailed by one or two Harrier jets.
The images were reportedly handed to the the Scottish Daily Record by the witnesses for publication.
The newspaper handed the prints and negatives to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for comment, which is said to have returned them, but bizarrely, the story was never published.
The images and negatives also disappeared.
The story only became public in 1996 when Nick Pope, a former MOD civil servant, responsible for investigating UFO phenomena, wrote an unclassified version of the event in his book, Open Skies Closed Minds.
Mr Pope stated that he had a copy of the photo enlarged on his office wall at the MOD but this was later removed by his superiors.
In August 2022 retired RAF press officer Craig Lindsay released what was purported to be one of the original photos to the press.
A handwritten note on the back, named the photographer as Kevin Russell, but attempts to trace him have so far proved fruitless.
This image was analysed by Andrew Robinson, a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallum University, who concluded there had been no manipulation of the photographs or editing and it was a genuine print from the time.
But, the question nobody has been able to answer is what was this diamond shaped craft and why was a military jet following it?
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