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This page from IUR (International UFO Reporter) presents a Pentagon teletype message, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by researcher Charles Huffer, about a UFO sighting over Tehran on 19 September 1976. The message says two Iranian F-4 jets lost instrumentation, communications and weapons control while intercepting a brilliant object, and a smaller object seemed to land. IUR notes that the report went to the CIA, White House and military chiefs as routine Middle East traffic. A short item on a 1977 Guatemala City videotape follows.
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In the interim, rumors began to circulate that a government document de- tailing the incident was being ex- amined by high government officials. UFO researcher Charles Huffer took an interest in securing a copy of this document while in Germany, but all his efforts met with official rebuffs. This past summer on a -trip to the United States, Mr. Hufrer managed to obtain a copy of the original teletype message reproduced below which gives details of the case from the Pentagon, under the auspices of the Freedom of Information Act. What is particularly interesting about the document is the list of official agencies which received copies of the message. Briefly trans- lating the official acronyms, the document was received by the fol- lowing offices and agencies: the Secretary of Steste, the Central Intel- Iigence Agency, the White House, the Air Force and Army Chiefs of Staff, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Commander in Chief of U.S. Naval Forces in the Middle East, the Commander in Chief of the U,S. Air Force in Europe, the European Defense Air Command, and the Commander in Chief of Forces in Europe. An impressive list! IUR and others have been intrigued by the fact that this particular UFO report seems to have become the con- cern of the "top brass" in the U.S. military defense structure. Do all UFO reports undergo this sort of distribu- tion and what happens to them .once they reach these prestigious offices? IUR contacted the local state sen- ator's office Military Liaison Officer who was able to be of some assis- tance in the matter. She called the Army, Navy, and Air Force offices in Washington as well as the Depart- ment of Defense and addressed these very questions on behalf of IUR. The answers were il,uminating: all these agencies agree:d that the "top brass" mentioned in the distribution list were routinely Informed of every item of interest which comes out of the sensitive Middle East area. Hence. it is not. unusual at all that copies of the report should have made their way to these offices. All correspondence that makes the military wires from this area is so relayed. As to whether or not all UFO reports from every area are conveyed to these sources, that question must remain unanswered at this time except by implication; any report from a ."hot" area would be . relayed. What happens to them once. they reach the top brass is another thing, IUR was not able to glean any information on whether or not there exist any files, or a normal procedure in dealing with UFO sightings. IUR was also able to find some information on the allowed inter- national lighting configurations and colors. The initial, primary object, ac- cording to the report had alternating blue, green, red and orange lights. FAA Federal Aviation Regulation 43 (91.1 ) on General Operation and Flight Applicability states that blue lights are not authorized on U.S. planes. Furthermore, .the Inter- national Civil Aviation Organization states that blue lights -are Illegal and that only certain stringently specified light cQnfirguations are allowable on aircraf ... However, IUR must point out that e~en in past sightings personally investigated, the witnesses have per- ceived the green navigat :onallights of planes as blue or blue-Jreen.
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