Adramatic photograph showing a huge UFO hovering above a Scottish glen has been found after a 32-year cover-up. The elusive photographs were taken by two frightened hotel workers who were walking on the hills 13 miles (21km) north of Pitlochry when the object appeared from nowhere (see FT409:52-3).
The one surviving print shows a dark, wingless diamond-shaped UFO hovering in an overcast sky, shadowed by a Harrier jump jet. The daylight image is sharp and clear. Overhanging trees and a wire fence are visible in the foreground whilst a line of hills can be seen in the distance. Retired RAF official Craig Lindsay, who saved a print of the original photograph, said: “This story has been with me for over 30 years… now I just want to know the truth.”
THE SIGHTING AND THE PHOTOS
The sighting happened at 9pm on 4 August 1990, two days after Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded Kuwait, and sparked a high-level security alert that went all the way to the Pentagon.
Six negatives showing the Harrier circling the UFO were sent by the two witnesses to the Daily Record, one of Scotland’s leading newspapers. But the negatives went missing after they were sent to the Ministry of Defence and the two witnesses have never again come forward.
Lindsay, who was RAF Press officer for Scotland, was the first official to speak to one of the shocked young chefs who saw the UFO and the jet aircraft. He saved the ‘best’ print of what experts believe is the most impressive photograph of a UFO ever taken.
