British UFO researcher and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee claims to have solved one of the UK's most celebrated UFO mysteries – the Calvine UFO mystery.
The story goes that in August 1990 in Calvine, Scotland, two witnesses saw a diamond-shaped UFO being chased by a military jet and took photos of it. These photos were passed on to the Scottish Daily Record for publication, but after the newspaper contacted the MOD, the story was never published.
It wasn’t until 1996 that former MOD UFO chief Nick Pope wrote a candid version of the event in his book – Open Skies Closed Minds – that the story became public. Pope claims he had an enlarged copy of the photo on his MOD office wall, but his superiors removed it.
More recently, in August 2022, retired RAF spokesman Craig Lindsay released what is believed to be one of the original photos to the press.
The question no one has been able to answer is: What was this diamond-shaped object and why was a military jet following it?
“Fortunately, I recently gained access to the UFO archives of retired CID officer John Hanson in Stratford Upon Avon. It’s a treasure trove of UFO sightings going back to the 1940s,” says Lee.
“From an analysis of all these documents, it appears that since the 1970s there have been many reported sightings of diamond-shaped ships, particularly near British military bases.
“There seems to be a connection – is the Calvin UFO our secret military technology or an enemy that is being kept secret? Why is this diamond ship apparently accompanied by military jets?”
From these archives comes an account from April 1978 in which an Essex girl, Janet Bull, reported seeing a diamond-shaped UFO being pursued by two RAF jets.
In 1979, Brett Lyne, a police officer serving at RAF Coltishall in Norfolk, reported:
“At 7 a.m. I had just opened the padlock when a terrifyingly loud bang sounded just above my head. I instinctively flinched, then looked up at the sky where the noise was coming from.
There were occasional clouds now, but moving between two of them was a very large DIAMOND-shaped object… it was certainly several times larger than any aircraft I had ever seen, and its shape was unlike anything I had seen before.
The entire underside of the ship was covered with evenly spaced sets of diamond-shaped lights. Several of the lights were of different colors, such as red, orange, purple, green, yellow, but they were kept in groups of the same color> There was no noise at all, and the ship moved silently in the sky.”
John Hanson, the owner of this UFO archive, wonders if there is a connection between this sighting in 1979 and the later Rendelsham UFO case of 1980, when the US military saw a UFO land in Rendelsham Forest next to RAF Bentwaters. This case was considered by UFO researchers to be the British Roswell.
Brett Lyne added: “Many years later I told another policeman I knew about the incident and he told me about an incident in Rendelsham which I had never heard of before.
“He said that before Rendelsham 2 men were standing on the quay at night in Suffolk about 20 miles from RAF Coltishall and they saw the same diamond aircraft fly over the coast and that was also silent. Their sighting was about 12 months after mine.”
The archive also contains another view of a diamond-shaped flying object, just before the Rendelsham incident in December 1980.
On October 25, 1980, a diamond-shaped UFO was seen over Lowestoft in Suffolk. It was reported by Lowestoft chemist James Edington, who said:
“I had never seen anything like it before. I was standing with my elderly neighbor. We both saw it and noticed a flashing light at each point of the diamond. It was quiet, all we could hear was the whoosh of air as it flew by.”
Further mentions of diamond-shaped products appeared in the 1980s and 1990s.
September 1981 in Lowestoft, Suffolk Anna Sidle and her children were on holiday. As night fell they saw a silver diamond shaped object appear in the sky. She wondered if it had anything to do with the nearby USAF base.
Then in September 1990, a month after Calvine's discovery, Deborah Jones drove from Ipswich to Kirby Cross with her husband and two sons:
“As we were travelling along the road the road opened up and we all saw what looked like a flattened silver diamond, the top half of which was rotating as it flew along the side of the field. It then flew parallel to us for about 10 miles, at about 60-60 miles an hour. Just as we began to see the chimneys of the Ipswich docks it suddenly accelerated at a tremendous speed, disappearing from view.”
Mark Christopher Lee adds:
“Here are some examples of this diamond craftsmanship that began to appear in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It may have been the same type of craftsmanship that was photographed at Calvine in Scotland.
“Are we dealing with our own technology that is still classified, or is it extraterrestrial but the MOD and military know about it? Is this the same craft that was seen in Rendelsham Forest in 1980 – I think so.
“There appears to be a connection between this diamond ship and the military – either it is accompanied by our jets or it has been spotted near areas where military bases are located.”
Lee spoke to Nick Pope about the military connection. Pope said: “While my predecessor in the MoD UFO Unit undertook the original investigation, I inherited the fallout and became involved in the follow-up work. We concluded that six of the images were authentic and that they were of a large, structured craft that remained unidentified.
“Many in the UFO community believe the Calvine UFO was an alien spacecraft, while aviation enthusiasts believe it was a secret prototype aircraft.
“Calvine was only about a hundred miles from the secret RAF base at Machrihanish on the Kintyre Peninsula, and it was there that an American spy plane codenamed Aurora was rumoured to have operated. It is worth noting that the Calvine UFO was spotted just two days after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, so that could be a big clue.”
So was the diamond-shaped object spotted at Calvin and near USAF bases in the UK in fact an Aurora spy plane, and was it this object or an earlier version seen at Rendelsham?
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