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This Joint Chiefs of Staff message, released by the National Security Agency, forwards a September 1976 intelligence report from the US Defense Attache Office in Tehran about a UFO sighting over Tehran on 19 September 1976. It says citizens in the Shemiran area reported strange objects, and two F-4 jets were then scrambled. Both jets lost instruments or communications as they approached the object, and a second object came out of the first and headed toward one of them. The report adds that the landing area and the aircraft were being checked for radiation.
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456554 AT THEY HAD SEEN STRANGE OBJECTS IN THE SKY. SOME REPORTED KIND OF BIRD-LIKE OBJECT WHILE OTHERS REPORTED A HELICOPTER IN A LIGHT ON. THERE URF NO HELICOPTERS AIRBORNE AT THAT HEF-1. AFTER HE TOLD THE CITIZEN IT HAS ONLY TARS AND HAD TALKED TO MEHRASAD TOWER-HE DECIDED TO LOOK FOR HIMSELF. HF NOTICED AN OBJECT IN THE SKY SIMILAR TO A STAR IGGER AND BRIGHTER. HF DECIDED TO SCPAHRLF AN F-4 FROM HANROKHI AFR TO INVESTIGATE. HF NOTICED AN OBJECT IN THE SKY SIMILAR TO A STAR IGGER AND BRIGHTER. HF DECIDED TO SCPAHRLF AN F-4 FROM HAHROKHI AFB TO INVESTIGATE. R. AT 0130 HRS ON THE 19TH THE F-4 TOOK OFF AND PROCEDED A POINT ABOUT 40 NM NORTH OF TEHPAN. DIF TO ITS BRILLIANCE OBJECT WAS FASTLY VISIBLE FROM 70 MILES AWAY. THE F-4 APPROACHED A RANGE OF 25 NM HE LOST ALL INSTRUMENTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (UHF AND INTERCOM). HF ROPKF OFF THE INTERCEPT AND HEADED RACK TO SHAHROKHI. WHEN THE F-4 TURNED DAY FROM THE OBJECT AND APPEARNTLY WAS NO LONGER A THREAT TO IT THE AIRCRAFT REGAINED ALL INSTRUMENTATION AND COM- MUNICATIONS. AT 0140 HRS A SECOND F-4 WAS LAUNCHED. THE ACKSFATFR ACQUIRED A RADAR LOCK ON AT 27 NM. 12.0 CLOCK ISH POSITION WITH THE VC (RATE OF CLOSURF) AT 150 NMPH. THE RANGE DECREASED TO 25 NM THE OBJECT MOVED AWAY AT A PFFD THAT WAS VISIBLE ON THE RADAR SCOPE AND STAYED AT 25NM. THE SIZE OF THE RADAR RETURN WAS COMPARABLE TO: THAT OF 707 TANKER. THE VISUAL SIZE OF THE OBJECT WAS DIFFICULT O DISCERN RECAUSE OF ITS INTENSE BRILLIANCE. THE RIGHT THAT IT GAVE OFF WAS THAT OF FLASHING STRORE LIGHTS arranged IN A RECTANGULAR PATTERN AND ALTERNATING BLUE-GREEN FD AND ORANGE IN COLOR. THE SEQUENCE OF THE LIGHTS WAS SO AST THAT ALL THE COLORS COULD BE SEEN AT ONCE. THE OBJECT AND THE PURSUING F-4 CONTINUED ON A COURSE TO THE SOUTH OF HAHROKHI. ANOTHER BRIGHTLY-LIGHTED OBJECT ESTIMATED TO BE HALF TO ONE THIRD THE APPARENT SIZE OF THE MOON. CAME OUT OF THE ORIGINAL OBJECT. THIS SECOND OBJECT HEADED STRAIGHT QUARD THE F-4 AT A VERY FAST RATE OF SPEED. THE PILOT TFMPTED TO FIRE AN AIM-9 MISSILE. AT THE OBJECT BUT AT THAT. INSTANT HIS WEAPONS CONTROL PANEL WENT OFF AND HE LOST ALL COMMUNICATIONS (UHF AND INTERPHONE). AT THIS POINT THE PILOT INITIATED A TURN AND NEGATIVE G DIVE TO GET AWAY. AS HF INRNED THE OBJEAZ FFLL IN TRAIL AT WHAT APPEARED TO BE ABOUT -4 NM. AR HE CONTINUED IN HIS TURN AWAY. FROM THE PRIMARY OBJECT THE SECOND OBJECT WENT TO THE INSIDE OF HIS. TURN THEN RETURNED TO THE PRIMARY OBJECT FOR A PERFECT REJOIN. D. SHORTLY AFTER THE SECOND OBJECT JOINED UP WITH THE PRIMARY OBJECT ANOTHER OBJECT APPEARED TO COME OUT OF THE YLIGUIT UNCLASSIFIED
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