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This Black Vault FOIA release contains a 22 August 1996 cover letter from the Defense Intelligence Agency and the one responsive document, a September 1976 intelligence report sent from USDAO Tehran to DIA. The report describes a UFO seen over Tehran on 19 September 1976. Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4s were scrambled, and both lost instruments or communications when they approached the object. Smaller objects came out of the main object, and one appeared to land. The crew later picked up a beeper signal, and the area was being checked for radiation.
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U-80,597/PO/FOIA 22 August 1996 Mr. John Greenewald Dear Mr. Greenewald: This responds to your request under the Freedom of Information Act dated 11 August 1996. Therein you requested records concerning the sighting of an unidentified flying object in Iran on 19 September 1976. A search of DIA's systems of records located one document responsive to the subject of your request. Enclosed for your use is the document with only administrative markings withheld. 1 Enclosure a/s Sincerely. ROBERT P. RICHARDSON Chief, Freedom of Information Act Staff
Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.