While out walking, the two spotted a huge, diamond-shaped flying object, moving silently in the sky. While we don't know what happened to the men who took the photo, we do know what they described happened 32 years ago.Īccording to what Lindsay told Clarke, the two men were working as chefs in a hotel in Pitlochry, in the Scottish Highlands, when, one summer evening, they decided to go for walk in the hills near Calvine. So there's a lot of questions to be answered.' What Does The Photo Show? Now, the Ministry of Defence say that they returned them to the Daily Record, but the Daily Record say they never received them and they have no idea what happened to them. 'The negatives have never been seen since they reached the Ministry of Defence.

'Oddly, despite all the publicity, the two chaps who took the photographs have never come forward,' Clarke told Newsweek. So he went back to the Daily Record, asked the Daily Record to send the negatives to London, which they duly did-quite amazingly-and that's when they disappeared.'Ĭlarke writes that the information linked to the photo, together with the image, should have normally been released by now, as 30 years have passed.īut the identities of the two hikers who took the photo are still unknown and are not expected to be revealed before 2072, as the Ministry of Defence has cited 'privacy concerns.' He passed the print to the Ministry of Defense in London, the Ministry of Defense in London then asked him to obtain the negatives. 'The Daily Record's picture editor at that time sent them to Craig Lindsay, who was the RAF press officer in Scotland. But instead, the newspaper handed the image over to the British Ministry of Defence, which kept it secret until now.

It's the first time the public has had access to the elusive image, which has been described as the best UFO photo ever taken.īack in 1990, the two hikers brought the photo to Scotland's Daily Record newspaper for publication. Sheffield Hallam University/Craig Lindsay

This photo is a copy of one of the original prints, kept by former RAF officer Craig Lindsay. The Calvine photo, taken in August 1990, had disappeared for 32 years before resurfacing.

UFO & IFO by Gardner Soule