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I was looking through clips of an old TV show called "The extraordinary", when the story of the disappearance of Frederick Valentich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich) came up.

Frederick Valentich was an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile (232 km) training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft, registered VH-DSJ, over Bass Strait. On the evening of Saturday 21 October 1978, twenty-year-old Valentich informed Melbourne air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him and that his engine had begun running roughly, before finally reporting: "It's not an aircraft."

Although I had heard of the case previously, I didn't recall anything about a photo of a supposed UFO, which had been taken by an amateur photographer named Roy Manifold, whilst he was photographing the sunset, during the evening prior the disappearance of the Australian pilot.

The clip starts at 3:08, where Roy describes, when and how he took the photograph, and how Kodak found no issues with the negative or its development.

Clip: The Extraordinary E02 (https://youtu.be/mjrhIa0fQ0A)

Link to the photo (https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Frederick_Valentich?file=Uf…)

Link to the article where the photo is embedded: (https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Frederick_Valentich)

Six weeks after Frederick's disappearance, amateur photographer Roy Manifold came forward. He claimed that on that evening, he had set up a camera at Cape Otway, planning to take pictures of the sunset. In the last one, there was a black spot in the upper right corner. At first, he believed that it was a developing error. However, a photo examiner found no dirt or damage on the negative. The strange mark was determined to be in the photograph. American photo analysts determined that it was a metallic object, apparently in a cloud of exhaust. It was apparently a mile from the camera. The Kodak lab in Coburg studied the negative and reported no problem with the emulsion or the development of the negative. To date, Frederick's disappearance has never been adequately explained. The object that he apparently sighted has never been identified.