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.
A 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 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?
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Last month UFO researcher and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee said he believed 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?”
He was convinced the photographed UFO was an experimental craft being escorted by military jets.
But, Mike Bara claims to have cracked the case in a completely different way, which will send shockwaves through the UFO community.
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Shockwaves as a result of how mundane the explanation is, that is.
But, after extensive analysis of the photograph, Mr Bara has destroyed the theories of alien or experimental military craft in a 35-minute YouTube video.
He looked at images of the area where the UFO was snapped and found there should have been hills and mountains in the background.
After checking weather conditions from the time the photograph was taken, Mr Bara discovered there was cloud cover from 1,500 feet to 2,500 feet at the time, meaning it was very low and getting lower.
He then overlaid the UFO picture on the new image of the area, matching up fenceposts and found what he claims is the UFO was an optical illusion.
He said the diamond-shaped object in the famous image is actually a mountain peak covered by fog.
He said: “What you are looking at here is not a flying UFO, but something else. The Calvine UFO lines up with the mountain in the background perfectly. So what happened?
“I think it is pretty obvious what happened. There was an inverted cloud layer here, fog, down on the ground in the valley, probably right up to the fence and they took a picture of the Harrier Jet, which was streaking around for whatever reason, maybe doing exercises, and the peak of this background mountain was sticking through the clouds, probably at about 2,500 feet.
“Two guys took a picture of a Harrier and then realised there looked like there was a UFO and probably thought why don’t we turn it into the press to maybe get some money.
“The Calvine UFO is not a UFO, it is not a flying object. I understand that for some people this is going to be hard to take but you have to go where the evidence goes. We can say the Calvine UFO mystery is solved.”
Some viewers supported his theory, with one posting: “It even looks like a mountain peak now that we know what it is.”
However, despite his forensic analysis, some UFO buffs were not convinced.
One said: “I suppose the D notice and the MoD moving to classify this image and preventing it from being published originally, was because they didn’t want the Soviets/Argentinians to know that the MoD was confident enough with the Harrier and its navigation equipment to fly at 1,000 to 1,500ft with heavy cloud cover.”
Another posted: “If it was a mountain peak showing above a temperature inversions there should be some contrast above the inversion, between the inversion and the sky.
“Or the inversion and another cloud layer. Also a temperature inversion is inconsistent with the diamond shape of the object. Temperature inversions don’t make mountain peaks look like diamonds.
Triangles perhaps. But not diamonds. Unless there was a shadow from the sun behind the peak. In the photograph it is clear that the source of light is not coming from behind the object.
“Also when clouds obscure objects they done usually make extremely clear lines. The lines have a fluffy look to them or a misty look.”
In July 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.
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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.
Sourse: www.express.co.uk
