The mystery of the best photography made to a UFO is still unresolved. And the United Kingdom Government has the fault

In the set of UVNI eventsacronym for unidentified flying object that over time has been slightly modified to UAP, there are some more relevant than others. Obviously, those who have not been able to answer for lack of information They are the ones who have caught the public’s attention. Without going very far, Incidents revealed by New York Times In 2017 with The pentagon fighters avistando “something”They have turned the world around. And if we stick to a photograph, none like Calvine’s.

Encounters in the moors of Scotland. Historius took place One night of August 1990when two hikers who worked as chefs in a nearby hotel claimed to have witnessed an inexplicable event in Calvine’s moors, a remote town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. While they walked between the fog, They noticed the presence of a huge diamond -shaped object floating in the sky“A stranger” without sound or visible propulsion signs. Its metal structure remained static in the air, challenging common sense itself on the behavior of a conventional aircraft.

The astonishment and fear of witnesses increased when A combat plane Harrier appeared on the scenesurrounding the object as if it were in a recognition maneuver. Before the men could process what they saw, the mysterious artifact amounted to high speed and disappeared. One of the witnesses managed to capture several photographs of the moment, images that, years later, would become one of the most enigmatic visual tests in the history of this type of events and considered as Better photography ever made to a UFO.

The Ministry of Defense intervenes. Days later, hikers They sent the photos and their testimony to the newspaper Daily Record of Scotland. Andy Allen, image editor of the newspaper, was hit by the clarity of the photographs and decided to send the best to Craig Lindsay, then press officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF) at the base of Pitreavie Castle. Lindsay, surprised by the sharpness and realism of the image, referred it to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (MOD), that immediately requested the negatives and other copies. In addition, he instructed Lindsay to contact the witnesses and collect more details.

Again and according to the story of one of the hikers, the ship had a metal appearance and levitated without any source of visible propulsion. The conversation with Lindsay was the last time the witnesses gave statements about the event, and His identity was never publicly revealed. Shortly after, the MOD instructed Lindsay to cease any investigation and to leave the case in his hands.

Photography disappears. That same fall, during a meeting at the MOD offices in London, Lindsay noticed that the best of UFO images had been extended to poster size and hanging on a wall. He was also able to observe the other five photos, in which the Harrier was seen moving around the object while he remained motionless. When consulting with the Ministry analysts, they confirmed that there were no indications of fraud, but that they could not identify the object.

Despite the apparent initial interest, Calvine’s case was quickly filed. The Daily Record never published the story, and The photographs disappeared from any public registry For more than 30 years. It is unknown if the newspaper decided not to publish the article on its own initiative or if it received pressures from the British government to hide the incident.

Where is the photo? It appears then The figure of the journalist and researcher David Clarkewho was aware of the case in 1996 through the book Open Skies, Closed Mindsby Nick Pope, a former MOD official who worked at the Ministry’s UFO investigation office. Pope described the case as one of the most intriguing in the MOD files and said that the analyzes had determined that the images were genuine, although the object remained without explanation.

In 2009, Clarke began to examine declassified documents in the national archives of the United Kingdom and found a memorandum aimed at Ministers of Defense of the time of Margaret Thatcher. In this document, under the title “Defensive Lines to Take”, it was claimed that The mod had not reached definitive conclusions on the objectbut that the plane in the image was undoubtedly a Harrier. In addition, the memorandum indicated that there were no records of unusual activity in the area.

The (re) discovery. Over the years, Clarke tried to locate the original image without success, until In 2018 he found the name of a former defense intelligence department in government documents. After locating it on LinkedIn and contacting him, he confirmed that he remembered Calvine’s case and that at the time caused a stir within the ministry. According to his testimony, the most likely explanation was that it was an American experimental aircraft.

This revelation led Clarke to Craig Lindsay, who still retained a copy of the photograph inside an old book in his garage. Thus, in 2022, after more than three decades of mystery and After examining with experts if the photograph was realClarke made the image public to the entire world, generating enormous media interest.

What the hell happens here? The big question is still unanswered, although obviously there is hypotheses and possible explanations about the nature of the object. The most popular are three. The first is that, yes, That day an extraterrestrial ship was seen. In this regard, some ufologists argue that the object does not resemble any known aircraft, which reinforces the theory that it could be a ship of extraterrestrial origin.

The second most commented option speaks of A United States Secret Project. This tip theory to which the object was an American aircraft prototype, possibly from the Aurora program, an alleged hypersonic spy developed by the United States Air Force. Although the existence of the dawn has never been confirmed, some believe that it was tested on British soil with knowledge of the mod.

The last of the three most repeated hypotheses speaks of A simple optical fraud or illusion. The skeptics suggest that the image could be a montage, perhaps an ornament hung from a tree, although photographic analysis have ruled out this possibility. It has also been stated that the image shows the reflection of an island in a lake, but there are no close bodies of water in the sight.

Witnesses disappear. The Guardian had a few days ago That one of the most enigmatic aspects of the case is what happened with the witnesses. Richard Grieve, who worked with hikers at Fisher’s Hotel, He reported in a documentary that both were visited by men dressed in black In a car. According to Grieve, the agents spoke with them for several minutes and, after the brief meeting, the hikers were visibly altered. In the following weeks they missed work, saw them sleeping in their cars and drank in excess. Finally, they disappeared without a trace.

Grieve also argues that men were never seen again, which has led to speculation about whether they were threatened, bribed or even eliminated to prevent more details from disclosing.

The enigma “Kevin Russell”. Another of the most disconcerting aspects in Calvine’s history is An inscription on the back of one of the photographswhere you read: “Copyright Kevin Russell c/o Daily Record, Glasgow”.

Despite multiple investigations, Evidence was never found that someone with that name worked in the newspaperwhether as a photographer or journalist. Some researchers believe that it could be a pseudonym used by someone involved in the case. Others suggest that it was a deliberate strategy to hide the identity of the true photographer. Again, only speculation.

The silence of the government. It is the last of the legs to be treated, and perhaps the one that has defined the entire incident. To date, The MOD has refused to comment on Calvine’s case and his analysis of the photographs. Nick Pope has confirmed that the Ministry abolished the images to prevent Daily Record from publishing history, since, if they had been made public, they would have refuted the official position that UFOs did not represent a relevant phenomenon.

As the Guardian explainedthe fact that the Daily Record editor in 1990, Endell Laird, was a member of the Government Security and Defense Notice Committee (in charge of censoring sensitive information in the press) has fueled suspicions that history was deliberately suppressed. Although there is no conclusive evidence that the newspaper received an official order to censor the history, the retention of the photos and the disappearance of the witnesses suggest that the Calvine case was treated with an unusual level of secretism.

Be that as it may, thirty -five years after the sighting, the mystery is still not resolved. The object in photography remains an unknown and the refusal of the United Kingdom government to disseminate information, together with the disappearance of witnesses and uncertainty about the nature of the object, They have turned the case into one of the most fascinating enigmas of the islands, especially for the most “believers.”

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