Published: 2:59 PM 8/1/2009 by the UFO Casebook

At the beginning of June, famed UFO researcher Nick Pope did an interview on Fox News. As usual, his information was very intriguing, and of great interest to all of us who seek the truth about the UFO mystery.

I have had an opportunity to talk to Mr. Pope, and I have posted a question and answer session with him on my guide site at about.com. Check out the full session at UFO Guide's Interview with Nick Pope.

During Mr. Pope's interview with Fox News, he alluded to a photograph (s) that "... had British officials worried." The photographs were allegedly taken near Pitlochry, Scotland, in August, 1990, and show a diamond-shaped UFO which hovered for around ten minutes before zooming up and away.

Some reports state that there were six color photographs taken. This immediately brought some questions from our readers about these photographs. This is one of the questions that I posed to him, and below is his response, and a depiction of the photograph, according to the information that Mr. Pope related to me.

B J Booth: In a recent interview on Fox News, you are quoted as saying that there is a photograph of a UFO that has British officials worried. Can you elaborate on the photo, and has it been released publicly?

Mr. Pope: The photograph you mention was taken in Scotland in 1990. Details were released recently by the National Archives in the UK, as part of the ongoing program to release the Ministry of Defense's UFO files.

Because I worked at the MoD and am now working with the National Archives on the file release (in a consultancy role) I was asked to comment on this on FOX News and in other media interviews.

This was a sensitive issue, as it involved the Defense Intelligence Staff and other agencies, and because the MoD now claims to have lost the photographs.

It was also sensitive because defense ministers were briefed on the images at the time. The images were taken in daylight and showed a metallic, diamond-shaped craft about 200 feet above the ground, with military aircraft in the background, apparently shadowing it.

The Defense Intelligence Staff briefed me on the conclusions of the scientific/technical analysis of the photographs, which were as follows:

a. The images were genuine and not fakes.

b. The object was apparently metallic and about 25 meters in diameter.

c. The object was of unknown origin.

d. The object had no wings and may have had an unusual/exotic propulsion system that was of immense interest to us. Information about this was the number one priority in our investigation/analysis.