{"it":{"id":"UFO-CAL1990","name":"Calvine photograph","kind":"ufo","sub":"Historical sighting","place":"Near Calvine, Perthshire, Scotland","lat":56.78,"lon":-3.97,"date":"1990-08-04","rep":"MoD file DEFE 24/1940/1 pp. 113–116.","off":"Unidentified; sceptics suggest a rock reflected in water.","src":[{"t":"Wikipedia: Calvine UFO photograph","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvine_UFO_photograph"}],"tags":["Sightings"],"sum":"On 4 August 1990 someone photographed an object over Calvine, Scotland. The photo sat in an MoD file until 2022.","nsrc":1,"new":1,"qs":["The negatives vanished, the paper never ran it, and the MoD kept the photo for 32 years. If it was a rock reflection, why the silence?","Nick Pope called it a 'solid craft'. Skeptics say a reflected rock. What would settle it, now that the originals are gone?","What else might be sitting in national archives right now, filed and forgotten, waiting thirty years for someone to look?"],"yt":"Flip the photo and test the reflection idea.","rel":["GOV-UK"],"hook":"An RAF press officer kept a Calvine UFO print for 32 years. The other five photos and the negatives are lost.","why":"One surviving print, a missing set of negatives, and named researchers on both sides."},"S":{},"rec":{"id":"UFO-CAL1990","sum":"For 32 years Craig Lindsay, once the RAF press officer for Scotland, kept a black-and-white copy print. In June 2022 he gave it to Sheffield Hallam University. It is the only surviving photograph of the Calvine UFO.\n\nAccording to the research team led by Dr David Clarke of the university's Centre for Contemporary Legend, two young men working at a hotel in Pitlochry took six photographs of an unknown object over the moors above Calvine on 4 August 1990. They took them to the Glasgow Daily Record. The paper made a copy print for Lindsay, who faxed copies to the Ministry of Defence. The ministry got the negatives, studied them and returned them. The paper never ran the pictures, and the negatives are now missing.\n\nIn 2022 the Armed Forces minister James Heappey said the only surviving papers are a file opened at The National Archives in 2009. In 1996, he noted, minister Nicholas Soames had said the negatives held \"nothing of defence significance.\"\n\nMalcolm Speed, news editor at the Daily Record in 1990, told Clarke: \"None of this makes any sense if the photographs were simple fakes.\" Belgian sceptic Wim van Utrecht thinks the object was a cardboard Christmas star hung from a tree. Photographer Andrew Robinson, who analysed the print, has found no sign of strings.\n\nSix photographs were taken and one copy print survives. What would the other five show?","qs":["What would the other five show?","Why did the newspaper never run the pictures?","What would prove a model on a thread?"],"gal":[],"ms":[],"aa":[],"ac":[],"src":[{"t":"Wikipedia: Calvine UFO photograph","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvine_UFO_photograph"},{"id":"VUFO-CAL1990-2","t":"Contemporary Legend (David Clarke): Calvine","u":"https://contemporarylegend.co.uk/calvine/"},{"id":"VUFO-CAL1990-3","t":"David Clarke (2022): The Calvine photographs, MoD response to MP's questions","u":"https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2022/10/23/the-calvine-photographs-mod-response-to-mps-questions/"}],"pts":[{"p":"MoD file DEFE 24/1940/1 pp.113–116.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Calvine UFO photograph","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvine_UFO_photograph"},{"p":"Photo published in the Daily Mail on 13 Aug 2022.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Calvine UFO photograph","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvine_UFO_photograph"},{"p":"Nick Pope called it a \"solid craft\".","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Calvine UFO photograph","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvine_UFO_photograph"},{"p":"The original negatives and prints disappeared; the Daily Record never ran the story.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Calvine UFO photograph","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvine_UFO_photograph"}]},"img":null,"md":{"h":"img/m/UFO-CAL1990-16x9.webp","w":1600,"hh":900,"alt":"Calvine photograph, Near Calvine, Perthshire, Scotland — Calvine - 1999","by":"Helmut Zozmann","lic":"CC BY-SA 2.0","lu":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0","p":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvine_-_1999_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4210583.jpg","g":false,"ct":true,"cap":"","sec":[]},"hh":null,"hs":{}}