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The Kirkcaldy Diamond

Kirkcaldy, Fife

A silent diamond of light vanishes like a switched-off lamp.

A policeman's wife in Kirkcaldy reported a very bright, diamond-shaped object hovering silently about 200 feet up. After around three minutes it vanished, she said, as if someone had turned off a light.

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When
1990
Where
56.1100, -3.1600
Group
UFO cases

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A coastal town on the Firth of Forth.

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UFO Cases of Britain

The sighting lasted around three minutes in total before the object vanished abruptly, a disappearance she described in terms striking enough that investigators decades later still quote her words directly: it was, she said, as if someone had simply switched off a light.

Fifty-four real and closely examined British UFO cases, weighed with honesty rather than hype. From Rendlesham Forest, the best-documented UFO case the United Kingdom has ever produced, to the Berwyn Mountains, the Broad Haven schoolchildren, the Calvine photograph and the Bonnybridge hotspot, each case sets out what was seen, who saw it and what the explanations are.

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