The Calvine Photo, allegedly the clearest UFO photograph ever obtained, has finally been made public 30 years after it was captured by two hikers in the Scottish Highlands.
On August 4, 1990, a photograph of what was purported to be an Unidentified flying object (UFO) was taken and provided to Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper. It was eventually assigned to the nation’s Ministry of Defense (MoD).
According to reports, the image has never before been in the public domain.
What do reports say about the images?
Six images were taken of the item, which was reportedly roughly 30 meters long, by the photographers, whose identities are still unknown. After that, it appeared to fly straight up into the sky without being seen again or being captured on camera. Although a fighter jet can be seen in the background of the photo, it is unknown whether the aircraft was following the UFO.
When the Scottish Operations Record Books were examined in October 2021, no mention of any aircraft flying over that location on the incident day could be found.
The photograph was reportedly taken on August 4, 1990, close to Calvine, around 35 miles northwest of Perth. Since the hikers reported witnessing the flying object, their identities have remained a mystery.
The photograph shows a gigantic diamond-shaped object hovering in the hazy sky, with a plane flying behind it.
The hikers reportedly watched as the UFO remained in the sky for ten minutes before rising into the air and disappearing. The Sun said that it measured roughly 100 feet in length.
What do researchers know about the 30-year-old image?
The two climbers delivered the photograph to Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper in 1990 so that it might be published. However, the publication instead gave the picture to the British Ministry of Defense, which has kept it a secret up until this point.
During this time of discovery, Craig Lindsay, the RAF press officer in Scotland, obtained the pictures from the Daily Record’s picture editor and transferred them to him. The Ministry of Defense in London requested him to get the negatives after receiving the print he had sent them. He then returned to the Daily Record and requested that they send the negatives to London. Amazingly, they duly did so, and that is when they vanished.
The scandal around the UFO picture
People including politicians, retired workers, and former officials are now openly talking about this scandal– even a landmark hearing on Capitol Hill.
American officers have conceded there are things in the universe that one cannot simply define– and the buzz around UFOs is finally being brought back. The majority of the Calvine Photo legend is gathered from reports of a spread-out version of the picture which is asserted to have once swung on the wall at the MoD’s apparent UFO office.
However, the image was concealed away leaving no evidence of the disappearance. Hence, for something like that to be exposed now is a pretty big deal.
The tale was first told by Nick Pope in his 1996 book Open Skies, Closed Minds. Pope investigated UFOs for the MoD in the 1990s and worked in Whitehall until 2004.
Pope asserts that once the UK questioned the US if the picture showed an experimental aircraft, the picture was removed and never again seen.
The MoD also chose to keep some information about the case secret until 2076, which will only heighten the mystery.
However, it is believed that this was done to safeguard the file’s names and addresses rather than as part of a larger cover-up.