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The Calvine photographic archive
The surviving print and analysis. The archive specifies non-profit availability with joint credit; linked here rather than copied. Held at the source; linked, not reproduced here.
Craig Lindsay / Sheffield Hallam University ↗Link only — rights with the publisherPhotographic analysis
A technical examination of the surviving Calvine print. Print provenance is distinct from identifying the object. Analysis of the record — context, not new footage.
Andrew Robinson / Sheffield Hallam University ↗Link only — rights with the publisherCalvine, Perthshire (1999)
The hamlet of Calvine on the A9 in Perthshire, where two hikers said they photographed a large diamond-shaped object and a jet in August 1990. Location photograph · context — the photograph itself is held elsewhere and is linked, not copied.
Helmut Zozmann · 1999 ↗CC BY-SA 2.0Licence terms ↗A daylight photograph taken near Calvine, Scotland on 4 August 1990, reported to show a large diamond-shaped object with a military jet in frame. The Daily Record received the photographs but did not print them; the MoD kept the file closed. One print was made public in 2022. The corpus does not discuss it.
The recording
| Shot | |
|---|---|
| Shot by | Two hikers (one identified in 2022 as Kevin Russell) civilian |
| Released | 12 August 2022 — Sheffield Hallam University (Dr David Clarke) after a copy was located with a former RAF press officer |
| Official status | The UK Ministry of Defence said in 1990s files that the object was 'probably a hoax' or unexplained, withheld the original negatives, and extended the file's closure to 2072 before the copy print surfaced in 2022. |
| Kind | photograph |
| Where | 56.720, -3.950 approximate |
| Media rights | See each item in the visual record |
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