How I tracked down the UK’s “most spectacular UFO photo”

After 30 years immersed in the world of ufology I had grown cynical after viewing hundreds of unconvincing photographs and films. Most were blurred, grainy and out-of-focus shots of what could have been frisbees, streetlamps or even seagulls. But when retired RAF officer Craig Lindsay showed me the only surviving print of the Calvine UFO photo he had kept safe for more than three decades, I knew I was looking at something exceptional. My quest for the truth behind this photograph began back in 2009 when I was curating the release of thousands of once secret MoD UFO documents at The National Archives (see FT199:30-31, 218:31, 248:28). One of the files contained a poor-quality photocopied drawing of a UFO with a Harrier beside it, produced by the RAF’s photographic experts…

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