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The Story of the Calvine UFO photo
In 1990, two men photographed an unidentified object in the sky above the Scottish Highlands. But was the photo real, fake or something stranger?
This is the story of the Calvine UFO photo.
On 4 August 1990, two walkers in the Scottish Highlands snapped a photograph of an unidentified object hovering above a remote glen.
The striking image disappeared, the witnesses were never traced, and the story was never published.
Decades later a forgotten print emerged from a retired official’s garage, reigniting debate about what was seen that day over the small Scottish hamlet of Calvine.
But is the photo real, fake or something stranger?
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