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I Want To Believe

from Pareidolia by Chris Harris

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The Calvine photograph of a UFO being buzzed by a Harrier jet has been something of a holy grail for researchers in the field since its existence first became public knowledge in the 1990s. I was astonished when this year a first-generation print actually turned up thanks to the investigative persistence of Dr David Clarke and was made public!

There's a lot more to this story than the simple account presented here. Buy me a drink sometime, and I'll tell you about it...

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At 9 pm on the 4th of August 1990, two days after Saddam Hussein's forces had invaded Kuwait, two hotel workers (who remain anonymous) were walking in the hills near Calvine, a small village on the A9 just north of Pitlochry in Scotland.

Suddenly, from out of nowhere, an object appeared.

The thing was dark; diamond-shaped; wingless, and hovering in the air. Intriguingly, the object was not alone—for around it was flying what appeared to be a Harrier jump jet. One of the witnesses had a camera with him and he had the presence of mind to take not just one photograph, but six.

One of the two witnesses sent the negatives to the Scottish Daily Record who forwarded them to the Ministry of Defence, asking for an explanation. None was forthcoming and the negatives were never seen again.

The National Archive declassified some of the Ministry of Defence's papers on the sighting in 2009, but there were no photographs. Instead, there was a very grainy copy of a drawing purporting to show the diamond-shaped UFO and the Harrier. That's all investigators had turned up.

However...

After thirty years it transpired that RAF Press Officer Craig Lindsay (who was the first official to talk to the witnesses) had saved a copy of what he considered to be the best print and earlier this year it was announced that the print is now in the possession of Sheffield Hallam University, who have made it public. It clearly shows a Harrier. It also shows something that looks very much like a nuts-and-bolts aircraft.

Aliens? Probably not.

Hoax? Maybe.

Super-secret American spy plane? Mmm... Stranger things have happened.

What do you think?

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from Pareidolia, released October 6, 2022

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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