The U.S. Government & 'The Iran' Case

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This report forwards information
concerning the sighting of an UFO in
Iran on 19 September 1976.
A. Atabout12: 30 AM on 19 Sep. 76
· the received four
telephone calls from citizens living
in the Shemiran area of Tehran saying
that they had seen strange objects in
the sky. Some reported a kind of bird-
like object while others reported a
helicopter with a light on. There were
no helicopters airborne at that time.
After he told the citizen it was only
stars and taad talked to Mehrabad
Tower he decided to look for himself.
. He noticed an object in the sky similar
"'to a star bigger and brighter. He
decided to scramble an F-4 from
Shahrokhi AFB to investigate.
B. At 0130 hrs on the 19th the F-4
took off and proceeded to a point
about 40 NM (nautical miles-Ed.)
North of Tehran. Due to its brilliance
the object was easily visible from 70
miles away. As the F-4 approached a
. range of 25 NM he lost all instru-
mentation and communications (UHF
and intercom). He broke off the inter-
cept and headed back to Shahrokhi.
When the F-4 turned away from the
object and apparently was no longer a
threat to it the aircraft regained all in-
strumentation and communications.
At 0140 hrs a second F-4 was
launched. The backseater acquired a
radar lock on at 27 NM, 12 o'clock
high position with the VD (rate of
closure) at 150 NMPH. As the range
decreased to 25 NM the object moved
away at a speed that was visible on
the radar scope and stayed at 25 NM.
C. The size of the radar return was
comparable to that of a 707 tanker.
The visual size of the object was
difficult to discern because of Its
intense brilliance. The light that It
~;ave off was that of flashing strobe
ights arranged in a rectangular
pattern and alternating blue, green,
red and orange in color. The se-
quence of the lights was so fast that
all the colors could be seen at once.
The object and the pursuing F-4
continued on a course to the south of
Tehran when another brightly lighted
object, estimated to be one half to
one third the apparent size of the
moon, came out of the original
object. This second object headed
straight toward the F-4 at a very fast
rate of speed. The pilot attempted 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 Inter-
phone). At this point the pilot
initiated a turn and negative G dive to
get away. As he turned the object fell
in trail at what appeared to be about
3-4 NM as he continued In. his turn
away from the primary object the
seco~d 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 other side of th~ primary object
going straight down at a 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 come 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
25M to 15M and continued to observe
and mark the object's position. They
had some difficulty in adjusting their
night visibility for landing so after
orbiting Mehrabad a few times they
FIRST PHOTOS OF GUATEMALA VIDEOTAPE
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In IUR, Vol. 2, No. 11, the Foreign
Forum feature mentioned a case
wherein a Guatemalan· camera crew
videotaping a car commercial turned
their camera towards a "UFO" which
fortuitously flew into their field of
view. The Incident took place on Oct.
5, 1977 at 10:(~ AM, In Guatemala
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went out for a straight In landing.
There was a lot of interference on the
UHF and each time they passed
through a mag. bearing of 150 degree
from Fhrarad they lost their com-
munications. (UHF and lnterphone)
and the ins fluctuated (instruments
-Ed.) from 30 degrees-50 degrees,
The one civil airliner that was ap-
proaching Mehrabad during this same
time experienced communications
failure In the same vicinity (KILO
ZULU) but did not report seeing any-
thing. 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 [10,000 ft.-
Ed.] with bright steady lights on each
end and a flasher in the middle. When
queried 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 between the moun-
tains and the refinery.
E. During daylight the F-4 crew was
taken out to the area in a helicopter
where the object apparently . had
landed. Nothing was noticed at the
spot they thought the object landed (a
dry lake bed) but as they circled off
the the west of the area they picked up
a very noticeable beeper signal. At the
point ""W1lere the return was the
loudest was a small house with a
garden. They landed and asked the
people within if they had noticed any-
thing strange last night. The people
talked about a loud noise and a very
bright light like lightning. The aircraft
and area where the object is believed
to have landed are being checked for
possible radiation.
More Information will be.forwarded.
when it becomes available. · ··
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City and If" the first incident, to our
knowledge, of a color videotape
recording a "UFO." Through the
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