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.
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.
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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?
Now, UFO researcher and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee believes he has solved the mystery by extensive research of an archive of UFO sightings.
Mr Lee said: “Luckily I have recently had access to retired CID Officer John Hanson’s UFO archive in Stratford Upon Avon. It’s a treasure trove of UFO sightings going back to the 1940’s.
“From going through all these documents there seems to have been a lot of sightings of diamond shaped crafts since the 1970’s and especially around UK military bases.
“There seems to be a connection – is the Calvin UFO a secret military technology either of ours or an adversary that has been kept secret? Why is this diamond shaped craft seemingly accompanied by military jets?”
From these archives there is a sighting from April 1978 where an Essex girl called Janet Bull reported seeing a diamond-shaped UFO being chased by 2 RAF jets.
In 1979 Brett Lyne, a police officer serving at RAF Coltishall in Norfolk, reported: “At 7am I had just unlocked the padlock, when there was a terribly loud boom directly over my head.
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“I instinctively flinched down and then looked up at the sky where the noise had come from.
“There were now intermittent clouds but moving between two of them was a very large diamond-shaped craft.
“It was certainly several times bigger than any aircraft I had ever seen and its shape was like nothing I’d seen before.
“The whole underside of this craft was covered in equally spaced sets of diamond patterned lights.
“Several of the lights were different colours. such as reds, oranges, purples, greens, yellows but kept in groups of the same colour. “There was no noise at all and the craft moved silently across the sky.”
Mr Hanson wonders if there could be a connection between Mr Lyne’s 1979 sighting and the subsequent 1980 Rendelsham UFO case, dubbed the British Roswell.
US military officers saw a UFO land in Rendelsham Forest next to RAF Bentwaters with mysterious events over a number of days.
Mr Lyne added in his report at the time: “Many years later I recalled this sighting to another police officer friend and he told me about the Rendelsham incident, which I had never heard of.
“He said there was a sighting prior to Rendelsham by two men standing on the seafront at night in Suffolk about 20 miles from RAF Coltishall when they sighted what appears to be the same diamond shaped craft fly over the coast and this too was silent. Their sighting was about 12 months after mine.”
Also in the archive is another sighting of a diamond shaped craft just prior to the Rendelsham Incident of December 1980.
On 25 October 1980 a Diamond shaped UFO was seen over Lowestoft in Suffolk. It was reported by Lowestoft chemist James Edington who said: “I have never seen anything like it before. I was standing with an elderly neighbour of mine. We both saw it and noticed a flashing light at each point of the diamond. It was silent. All we could hear was the swishing of air as it passed over.”
There are further records of diamond-shaped crafts seen in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
In September 1981 in Lowestoft, Suffolk Anna Sidle and her children were on holiday. As night fell they saw a silver diamond-shaped object appear overhead in the sky. She wondered if it had anything to do with the nearby USAF base.
In September 1990, the month after the Calvine sighting, Deborah Jones was driving from Ipswich to Kirby Cross with her husband and two sons:
She wrote: “As we continued on our journey, the road opened and we all saw the object, which resemble a squashed silver diamond, with the top half revolving, as it headed along the side of a field.
“It then flew parallel to us for about ten miles at a speed of about 60 miles per hour. As we began to see the chimneys of Ipswich Docks, it suddenly accelerated at tremendous speed out of sight.”
Mr Lee said: “Here are just a few examples of this diamond-shaped craft that started appearing in the late 1970s into the 1980s and was maybe the same craft or type of craft that was photographed at Calvine in Scotland.
“Are we dealing with our technology that is still secret or is it extra terrestrial but the MOD and the military know about it?
“Also, is this the same craft that was witnessed in Rendelsham Forest in 1980?
“I do think so. There does seem to be a connection of this diamond-shaped craft with the military, as either it has been seen being accompanied by our own jets or has been spotted near areas that have military bases.”
Mr Pope said: “While my predecessor on the MOD’s UFO Desk undertook the original investigation, I inherited the fallout, and got involved in follow-up work. We concluded that the six photos were genuine, and that they showed a large, structured craft that remained unidentified.
“Many in the UFO community believe the Calvine UFO was an alien spacecraft, while aviation enthusiasts think it was a secret prototype aircraft.
“Calvine was only about a hundred miles from the secretive RAF base at Machrihanish, on the Kintyre Peninsula, and this was where a US spy plane codenamed Aurora was rumoured to be operating.
“It’s noteworthy that the Calvine UFO was spotted just two days after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, so that may be a big clue.”
“So was the diamond shaped craft spotted at Calvin and near USAF bases in the UK actually the Aurora spy plane and was this the craft or earlier version of it that they saw at Rendelsham?”
Last month retired chef Richard Grieve said that he had worked with the two hikers who took the Calvine pictures at a hotel in Calvine, and that a few days after the sighting a “dark car” allegedly pulled up and two people dressed in black suits emerged, to have a “chat” with the two men.
He recalled that they were “visibly shaken” by the approach and their behaviour changed with them often not turning up for work and one began drinking heavily.
He said they later left and he never saw or heard from them again.
But, Mr Grieve said strangely, he could not remember their names, despite being friends with them, so his claim is hard to check.
The identities of the two hikers have not been publicly released by the MOD and are not expected to be revealed before 2076, as the Ministry of Defence has cited “privacy concerns” about public release of its Calvine files.
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “In over 50 years, no sightings of extra-terrestrial intelligence, Unidentified Flying Objects and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena reported to us indicated the existence of any military threat to the United Kingdom.
“It remains more valuable to prioritise MOD resource towards other Defence-related activities.”
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