"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…"
To avoid you clicking into the hellscape of The Express… It was the top of a mountain peeking above the clouds.
To avoid you clicking into the hellscape of The Express
Here’s an archive version of the page too.
But, Mike Bara claims to have cracked the case in a completely different way, which will send shockwaves through the UFO community.
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.”
There are some issues but I think this is along the right lines.
It looks a bit too defined to be a mountain peak, although it seems a logical suggestion. Anyway, I enjoyed this bit:
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.
MiBs or just being Scottish?
It’s a mountain peak.
Some nice detective work, looks like.
