The latest revelations about the ‘Pitlochry Thing’
The mysterious Calvine UFO photographs are making headlines again – with the latest on my investigations published by the Daily Mail.
My new story opens with the narrative of former chef Richard Grieve who claims he worked alongside the two young men who saw and photographed the diamond-shaped object north of Pitlochry one night in August 1990.
Richard Grieve first came forward in July 2022. He said ‘the two people who took the photograph were chefs at Fishers Hotel in Pitlochry…I know this to be true as I worked in the hotel at the same time’.
Another development in that our ongoing investigation of the mystery has now produced proof that the Calvine photograph is one of the original six images analysed by the Ministry of Defence in 1990.
My Sheffield Hallam colleague, photography specialist lecturer Andrew Robinson, has carried out a detailed computer analysis of the image donated to the university library Special Collections by Craig Lindsay in 2022.
The latest version of Andrew’s report can be downloaded here
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David Clarke is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Arts and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He teaches media law and his research specialism is contemporary legend. Previously he worked as a journalist for The Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post and spent four years working as a Press Officer in local government. His PhD in Folklore and was completed at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, in 1999. From 2008-13 he acted as consultant and curator of the MoD UFO files project with The National Archives. His books include The Angel of Mons (2004) and How UFOs Conquered the World: the history of a modern myth (2015). In 2018 he co-founded the Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University. This blog covers his twin research interests in journalism and folklore. The views expressed in the contents are entirely his own.
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