The two young men were working as chefs at a hotel in the town of Pitlochry, just outside Cairngorms National Park, in Scotland, on August 4, 1990. At 9 pm after a long day in the hot kitchen, they went for a walk in the hills in Calvine, on the edge of the Cairngorms, about 20 kilometers north on the A9 road. However, when they saw a huge, solid, diamond-shaped object about 30 meters long hovering silently above them in the sky, they took shelter in the bushes in fear and began to watch it.
A few minutes later they heard the sound of a jet plane speeding northward. The jet plane then returned and continued on its way after circling around this object.
Later, these two chefs took out their cameras from their hiding places and took 6 pictures. At that time, the object rose rapidly vertically and disappeared into the air.
Confident that they had seen a UFO, the duo submitted their photos to Scotland’s leading newspaper, the Daily Record. However, no news was written and the newspaper forwarded the photos to the Ministry of Defense (SB).
Later, both the photos and the two young chefs disappeared.
However, this photo, which was described as “the most impressive UFO photo ever taken” by a ministry employee, has now come to light. This photo was intended to be kept secret by the SB and the National Archives. While such information would normally be released 30 years later, the ministry did not release the original photo and decided to keep the names of the eyewitnesses sealed for another 54 years, until 2076, due to “confidentiality concerns”.
These photos made their way to the Internet thanks to investigative reporting by David Clarke for the Daily Mail.
Clarke says she tried to contact many sources at SB, but did not get a positive response. But then, by chance, he managed to locate retired RAF officer Craig Lindsay, who first met with the two young chiefs. Furthermore, she learned that Lindsay had broken protocol that day and kept a copy of the photograph for herself before sending the entire file, including the negatives, to the Ministry of Defense in London.
“We can safely say that this black and white photograph printed on colored paper is the best UFO photograph we have come across, although it is both consistent with the story told and could not be definitively disproved by Clarke’s experts,” Dail Mail reported on the subject. I am getting tired.
Speaking to Clarke, Lindsay, who has served in the military for ten years, says she has come across many UFO reports as a press officer for Scotland, and most of them were just lights in the sky, but she could sense that this event was clearly special even at the time.
After sending the photos and negatives to the ministry, Lindsay states that when she visited later in the year, she saw an enlarged version of the Valvine photo hung on the wall of the relevant office and that the incident was “investigated, she was told to leave the research to London” and she emphasized that she has complied with this order for the past 32 years. But now she also states that she wants to know the truth.
Saying that he had the opportunity to review thousands of formerly classified UFO articles in the National Archives in 2008, shortly before the department’s UFO division closed, Clarke said, among hundreds of drawings by people ranging from UFO theorists to schoolchildren, there is a low-quality drawing of a UFO with a Harrier next to it. He says he found a copy.
But he says the most striking thing about his finding was a briefing note for defense ministers during Margaret Thatcher’s government, outlining how they should respond if asked to comment on the sighting. According to this briefing they are asked to say that the jet plane is a Harrier she.
Of course, the mystery of the story does not end there, and the fact that the Daily Record even sent this photo to the Ministry of Defense raises some other mysterious questions.
BELIEVES IT IS AN AIR VEHICLE KEPT SECRET
However, Clarke states that despite the mystery of this whole story, he does not think that what was photographed was a spacecraft from another planet. Reminding that the Cold War with Russia is not over yet and that the Gulf War really started just days ago, Clarke states that these eyewitnesses think that what they saw with a one-in-a-million chance was probably a secret aircraft in a secret hangar, and that’s why it’s still kept secret.
Since the 1980s, rumors have been circulating that the United States has a silent, supersonic, geometrically shaped spy plane called the “Aurora”, which is kept top secret. Although there was no evidence that this plane was actually produced or flown, the unexplained objects and events seen over the years both in the USA and the UK caused the Aurora legend to grow rapidly.
Clarke says that some of the information she obtained under the Freedom of Information Act gives clues that Defense intelligence officers believe Aurora exists, but are prohibited from saying anything publicly.
So, it is possible that this object seen is an Aurora aircraft and was noticed by UK intelligence and placed in the “top secret” category.
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