In 1990, two hikers in Scotland claimed to have seen a diamond-shaped UFO, which was then pursued by a Harrier jet. The incident, along with the accompanying photographs, sparked a decades-long investigation by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), leaving many questions unanswered.
n a misty evening in August 1990, two men hiking on the moors surrounding Calvine, a pretty hamlet in Perth and Kinross, claimed to have seen a giant diamond-shaped aircraft flying above them. It apparently had no clear means of propulsion and left no smoke plume; it was silent and static, as if frozen in time. Terrified, they hit the ground and scrambled for cover behind a tree. Then a Harrier fighter jet roared into view, circling the diamond as if sizing it up for a scuffle.
Clarke became aware of the Calvine UFO in 1996 when Nick Pope, a former civil servant with the MoD, published Open Skies, Closed Minds, a book on ufology. Pope is sometimes known as “the real Fox Mulder” because of his work on the MoD’s “UFO desk”. In the book, he touches on Calvine, describing the case as “one of the most intriguing in the Ministry of Defence’s files”.
Over the next decade, Clarke continued to visit the National Archives to browse UFO files as they became declassified. In 2018, he struck gold: he discovered that the MoD had failed to redact the name of a former official from its Defence Intelligence department. “If there was a UFO investigator, it was him,” Clarke says.
It seemed unlikely that a hotel chef would have thought to claim copyright, Clarke thought. Maybe Russell was a Record photographer who had become involved, or perhaps a picture editor had scribbled on the name. Clarke checked with the newspaper, which said that no one called Kevin Russell had ever worked there, either as staff or as a freelancer. Allen, the former picture editor who had sent the images to the MoD, might have been able to clear things up – but he died in 2007.
From alien spaceships to secret military projects, the more lurid conspiracy theories are bolstered by the fact that the Record’s editor in 1990, the late, was a member of the MoD’s D notice committee. D notices, known since 2015 as DSMA notices, are issued by the Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee to prevent the publication of news stories that may jeopardise national security.
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