A Ministry of Defence (MoD) insider has addressed claims of a "deep state assassination" after Brits reportedly took the best UFO photo ever before they "vanished.".
A spokesperson for the MOD told MailOnline: "The MOD has no opinion on the existence of extra-terrestrial life and no longer investigates reports of sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or Unidentified Flying Objects.
But after sending the image to now-Mirror affiliate the Daily Record, the pair vanished without a trace and the image did not emerge until it was published by the Mail in 2022.
A former MoD insider who worked on the department's UFO desk shared his view about what he believes happened with the chefs.
He made the comments after a former colleague of the chefs at Fisher's Hotel, in Pitlockry, told the Mail it was as thought the pair had "vanished off the face of the Earth.".