Document · 2 June 2024
Photographic Analysis of the Calvine UFO Photograph (Sheffield Hallam University, 2024)
Also known as Robinson Calvine analysis
A 36-page technical study of the only surviving Calvine print by Andrew Robinson, senior lecturer in photography at Sheffield Hallam University (version 5, June 2024). It examines the paper, film type (a black-and-white print most likely made from a Daily Record copy negative on Ilford XP-1), grain, the object, the jet and the landscape, matches the print to the MoD's 1990 photocopies, and reconstructs the timeline from the sighting on 4 August 1990 to the negatives reaching the MoD on 10 September.
Robinson finds the print genuine and unmanipulated after exposure, suggests An Teampan on Struan Point south of Calvine as a possible location, and leaves open what the object was — including whether something was staged in front of the camera.
Source: local copy of the Sheffield Hallam University report (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Facts and claims
- documented The analysis concludes that the print donated by Craig Lindsay is "without doubt a genuine copy of the original Calvine photograph analysed by the MoD in 1990", and that the image is "a genuine photograph of a scene before the camera": any manipulation would have had to occur in the scene, not in camera or in post-production, and none was found. Source: doc-robinson-calvine-analysis.pdf
- documented It also states that "there is insufficient data to reach any conclusion regarding what the unidentified object might be", that neither date nor location can be derived from the print, and that "if the image is the result of a hoax, no evidence of this is present in the image." Source: doc-robinson-calvine-analysis.pdf
Connected files
Claims
- The Calvine photographs of August 1990 show a large craft of unknown origin (evidence for claim) — The print is a genuine copy of the photograph the MoD analysed, with no sign of later manipulation
Incidents
- Calvine photograph (about)
People
- Craig Lindsay (analyses) — The analysis finds the print donated by Lindsay is a genuine copy of the Calvine photograph
Videos
Mentioned in this file
- Ministry of Defence (UK) (Organization)
More documents
- Hansard: written answer on the Calvine photograph (24 July 1996)
- The National Archives: guides to the Ministry of Defence UFO files (2008–2013)
- Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 20 October 2008 (19 files)
- Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 21 June 2013 (25 files)
- Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 12 July 2012 (25 files)
- Ministry of Defence UFO files: release of 11 August 2011 (34 files)