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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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UNCLASSIFIED GREAT RATE OF SPEED. THE F-4 CREW HAD REGAINED COMMUNICATIONS AND THE WEAPONS CONTROL PANEL AND WATCHED THE OBJECT APPROACH THE GROUND ANTICIPATING A LARGE EXPLOSION. THIS OBJECT APPEARED TO COMF TO REST GENTLY ON THE EARTH AND CAST A VERY BRIGHT LIGHT OVER AN AREA OF ABOUT 2-3 KILOMETERS. THE CREW DESCENDED FROM THEIR ALTITUDE OF 26H TO 15H AND CONTINUED TO OBSERVE AND MARK THE OBJECT'S POSITION. THEY HAD SOME DIFFICULTY IN ADJUSTING THEIR NIGHT VISIBILITY FOR LANDING SO AFTER ORRITING MEHRABAD A FEW TIMES THEY WENT OUT FOR A STRAIGHT IN LANDING. THERE WAS A LOT OF INTERFRENCF ON THE UHF AND FACH TIME. THEY PASSED THROUGH A MAG. REARING OF 150 DEGREE FROM EHRABAD THEY LOST THEIR COMMUNICATIONS (UHF AND INTERPHONE) AND THE INS. FLUCTUATED FROM 30 DEGREES - 50 DEGREES. THE ONE CIVIL AIRLINER THAT WAS APPROACHING MEHRABAD DURING THIS SAME TIME FXPFIENCFD COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE IN THE SAME VICINITY (KILO 70LU) RUT DID NOT REPORT SEFING ANYTHING. WHILE THE F-4 WAS ON A LONG FINAL APPROACH THE CREW NOTICED ANOTHER CYLINDER SHAPED OBJECT (ABOUT THE SIZE OF A T-BIRD AT 10M) WITH BRIGHT STEADY LIGHTS ON EACH FND AND A FLASHER IN THE HIDDLE. WHEN OVERIFD THE TOWER STATED THERE WAS NO OTHER KNOWN TRAFFIC IN THE AREA. DURING THE TIME THAT THE OBJECT PASSED OVER THE F-4 THE TOWER DID NOT HAVE A VISUAL ON IT BUT PICKED IT UP AFTER THE PILOT TOLD THEM TO LOOK RETURN THE MOUNTAINS AND THE REFINERY. E. DIPING DAYLIGHT THE F-4 CRFV WAS TAKEN OUT TO THE ARFA IN A HFLICOPTER WHERE THE OBJECT APPEARNTLY HAD LANDED. NOTHING WAS NOTICED AT THE SPOT WHFRF. THEY THOUGHT THE OBJECT LANDED (A DRY LAKE RED) BUT AS THEY CIRCLED OFF TO THE WEST OF THE ARFA THEY PICKED UP A VFRY NOTICEABLE REEPER SIGNAL. AT THE POINT WHERE THE RETURN WAS THE LOUDEST:WAS A SMALL HOUSE WITH A GARDEN. THEY LANDED AND ASKED THE PEOPLE WITHIN IF THEY HAD NOTICED ANYTHING STRANGF LAST. NIGHT...THE PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT A LOUD NOISE AND A VERY BRIGHT LIGHT LIKE LIGHTENING. THE AIRCRAFT AND AREA WHFRF. THE OBJECT IS. RFLWFVFD VO HAYF LANDED ARF BEING CHECKED FOR POSSIBLE RADIATION. MORE INFORMATION WILL BE FORWARDED WHEN IT RECOHES AVAILABLE. P T C C 7 Y U W R U F K J C S 9 7 1 2. 2 6 7 0 8 1 0: 0 1 3 0 - C C C C PRIORITY UNCLASSIFIED
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