Here is a new article from Nick Pope giving details of the events surrounding the disappearance of what is described as "the most spectacular UFO photo ever sent to the Ministry of Defence":
"The Calvine UFO Photo
By Nick Pope
The Calvine UFO photo is the most spectacular UFO photo ever sent to the Ministry of Defence. It's also missing. This is the story of what happened.
The saga began on 4 August 1990 when two members of the public out walking in the vicinity of Calvine, near Pitlochry, in Scotland, sighted a massive, diamond-shaped, metallic UFO. The UFO was virtually stationary and hovered silently for what the witnesses believed was several minutes, before accelerating away vertically at massive speed. During the sighting, a military aircraft, believed to be a Harrier, was seen, but it wasn't clear if it was escorting the craft, attempting to intercept it, or whether the pilot was ever aware of it at all.
A number of colour photographs were taken and passed to the Scottish Daily Record, who in contacted the MoD, probably because they were seeking a comment for the story. It’s not clear what happened next, because I didn’t join MoD’s UFO project until 1991 and this investigation was handled by my predecessor. It seems that, somehow, MoD managed to persuade the reporter to part with not just the photos, but the negatives.
The photos were then sent to the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) who then sent them on to imagery analysts at JARIC (Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre). Yet at the time, MoD hadn’t even publicly acknowledged that there was any intelligence interest in UFOs at all. The whole situation was positively Orwellian. One the one hand, our line to Parliament, the media and the public was that UFOs were of “no defence significance”. We implied and sometimes stated that we didn’t “investigate” UFOs, but merely “examined sightings to see if anything reported was of any defence interest” – as if the two were somehow different! I sometimes felt like Winston Smith working for the Ministry of Truth. This was – literally – doublethink. ..."
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