1976 iran part 1 mufon case file

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCEHEADQUARTERS. 1947TH ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT GROUP

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A HF C 1981

Mr. Peter A. CerstenRothblatt, Rothblatt and Seijas191 East 161st StreetBronx, New York10451Dear Mr. GerstenPlease refer to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated 28September 1981 nd our letters 5 and 20 November1981.The document "NowYou See It, Now You Don't", has been reviewed, determinedreleasable, and is attached.

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Sometime in his career, each pilot can expect to encounterstrange, unusual happenin gs which will never be adequately oren tirely explained by logic or subsequen t invest igation. The follow-ing article recounts just such an episode as reported by two F-4Phantom c rew s of th e Imperial Iranian Air Force during late 1976.No additional information or explanation of the strange events hasbeen forthc'oming; the story will be filed away and probably for-gotten, but it makes interesting,and possibly dist urbing, reading.

Until 0030 on a clear autumn morning, it had been anentirely routine night watch for the^mperial Iranian Air Force'scommand postjin the Tehran area. In quick succession, four callsarrived from one of the city's suburbs reporting a series of strange


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adjusting their night vision devices for landing. The landing wasfurther complicated by excessive interference on UHF and a furthercomplete loss of all communications when passing through a 150degree magnetic bearing from the home base. The inertial naviga-tion system simultaneously fluctuated from 30 to 50 degrees. A civilairliner approaching the area also experienced a similar communica-tions failure, but reported no unusual sightings.

While on a long final approach, the F-4 crew noted a furt herUFO. This was described as a cylinder-shaped object (about thesize of a T-33 trainer) with bright steady lights on each end and a -flasher in the middle. It quickly approached and passed directlyover the F-4. In answer to the pilot's query, the control towerreported no other air traffic in the area, although they subsequently


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A second F-4 was scrambled ten minutes after the first.The backsesiter reported radar-lock on the UFO at 27 NM/12 o'clock

"high position, and a rate of closure of 150 knots. U p o n reaching the25 NM point, the object began rapidly moving away to maintain aconstant separation distance while still visible on th e radar scope.W h i l e the size of the radar return was comparable to that of a KC-135, its intense brilliance made estimation of actual size impossible.Visually, it resembled flashing strobe lights arranged in a rectangu-lar pattern and alternating blue, green, red, and orange. Theirsequence was so fast that all colors could be seen at once.

As the F-4 continued pursuit south of Teh ran, a secondbrightly-lit object (about one-half to one-third the size of the moon)detached from the original UFO and headed straight for the F-4 at ahigh rate of speed. , The pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile atthe new object but was prevented by a sudden power loss in his-weapons control panel. UHF and internal communications were


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the hills b e l o w . He describ*ed it as a " r o u n d b od y " w i tha ci rcumference o f a b o u t 4 .5meters w hich w ou ld indicatethe reoprted UFO was ofqu it e m a s s i v e s i z e .The G e n d a r m e r i e post atA m i n a b a d outside o f R e y ,

w as immediately alerted andan all-night se arch too kplace ove r the hills in the re-gion to try and find the ob-ject.L a t e Sunday night reportson w h e t h e r or not the Gen-darmerie sea rch party hadf o u n d anything were con-flicting. One source saidtha t noth ing h ad b e e n f ou n din t h e h u n t t ha t cont inuedo n in to Sunday m orningw h i l e o t h e r s renorted t h a t" someth ing" had b e e n found.


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(KAYHAN INTERNATIONAL, September 21,1976.

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^ The newspaper reports alsosaid t h a t w h e n the object c a m e to\wthin five" kilometres Q F t h e jets,alUelectncaJ ajjpliances^on-theaircraft1 went^ out o f .action, theyIdst'radio'contact5withftfie ground (and could not fire on the object asthey intended^ < ' * 'Not so, said the official. The0,pilots made no attempt to open jfire 'and at no time did the air-crafts ' electronic gear fail to func-tion. ' c


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U F O R E P O R T :By Robert Barry, Director;.20th Century UFO Bureau

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" I n o u r l a s t co l um n w e t o ld o f a n '"Iranian A i r fo r c e pilot's pursui t of anunident i f i ed br i l l ian t flying o b j ec t o nS e p t e m b e r 1 9 . ,1976. n e a r th e city o f -T e h r a n . A s h i s p la n e d r e w c lo s e r t o t h eobject , h is c o m m u n i c a t i o n s e q u i p m e n ta r u T i n s t r u m e n t a t i o n b e c a m e i no pe r a t i v e , (s o th e pilot deuJed t o r e t u r n to h i s b a s e .S h o r t l y af t e r t h i s , w h e n h e w a s r e t u r n i n gto S h a h r o k h i A ir F o r c e B a s e , n e a rTehran^ al l co m m un i cat i o n s / l aan dinst rumentation, , in , th e plane once gainp e r f o r m e d n o rm al l y .

c o mmu nic a t io n o ccur ed t o t h e f i r s tp l a n e , , the ' ETI ( E x t ra -T e r r e s t r i a lIntelligence) craft beg an to accelerate at afas le : pace than the je t w as trave l ing . A na t t e m p t w a s m a d e b y th e p ilo t ( L tFafa ri ) t o c lo s e t h e d i s t ance o n th e UF O .H e co n t in ued t o chase t h e o b j ec t t h r o ug ht h e n ig h t sk y o ve r I r an.Something unusual no w takes place.T he UFO ejected a smal ler br il liant obje ctan d i t immediately became apparent , t oo ,that this m y s t e r y J i g h t w a s z e r o i n g in ont h e F - 4 i n t e rc ep t o r . W h a t w o u l d y o u d o~ if you w e r e in command?T h e o b j e c t w as ap p ro ach i n g at a highra t e o f speed. T h e deci sion w as m a d e by

L t F af a r i t o cu t lo o s e w i th an AIM-9missile.Was this your decision also? Let'ss e e if i t w as a co r r ec t o n e .Whe n th e pilo t at t empted to f i re themissi l e , immediately th e w e a p o n s co n t r o lpanel became inoperative and at the same'^ / t ime h e also lost all communicat ions . H ew as no w ex p e r i en c in g t h e sam e th i ng t h ef ir s t in te rc ep t o r ' s c r ew w en t t h r o u g h .N o w w e have a r ea l p r o bl em . H e co u l d

.. no t contact h is base to call fo r assistance,fo r h is communicat ions uni t is dead . H ecould no t fire h is missile, because th e

th e r e s u l t o f w a t ch i n g th e brof t he landed UFO. While r e tnot iced t h e U H F radio u ni t h aheavy i n t e r f e r en ce . A t t i m es c o mm u nic a t io ns each t ime passed t h r o ug h a c e r t a i nbearing. Another plane w a s an d it, t o o , ex p e r i en ced th e- w ith its co m m un i cat i o n s un i ts am e magnetic bearing.

T he n ex t m o rn in g a h e l idispatched t o t h e a r e a w h e r eUF O s e t tl ed . N o t h i ng co u l dbut a st range beeping tone wt hei r communicat ions uni t he l icopter . A .nearby farmnoticed and they landed thap p ro ached th e farm h oquest ioned i ts o ccupant i f he an yt h in g un us ual t h e n ig h t be fdid. H e s a w a brilliant l ighte do n h is property some distanch o u s e an d also h ea rd a loud becoming f rom i t, ,Is i t po ss iblanded h ad something to "homing device"? And if so,be used fo r? Though they coulth e landed object f r om t h e nthe bee ping tone w as s till be inthe military plane's communi

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- Sftptenber ?.! (Australian Associated Press) - Iranianauthorities confirmed hrs today that tw o M . r Force Phinton Je tchased a flying sauaer ovr the capital on Saturday ,Francs* Pressa reporr.ad. *h tw o pj.lota reported xheyc h a s e d in t - he i r turn by Kjftriuu8 objects, ^htt interceptorsJ ;pok off after L^lir'abad < 2 i v i irpors oontrol .ers spotted around oh joet ^ivini? off red, hlufl and preen iifn\t *h e *ehraB^press


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Aue- 5, 1979To: Dialogue/FORUM, Omni Magazine.UFO Over Iran

James 0|berg's article for UFO Update in the August i : sueis rhetorical prose at its worse. He has used inuendo, guiltby association, introduced facts that were not part of the orstory and shown them to be false, introduced the presence ofJupiter and all but ".stated that it is the cause of the eventwhile choosing to ignore radar lockons by the F-^ chasing theobject. I could go on but it would serve no purpose. Thoseof us who have studied the Iranian case know that O^berg's"pr~ese~ntation of the~case^is distorted- -by- h = i s - = p e respective.^Thefact of the matter is that neither o|berg nor the NationalEnquirer's Blue Ribbon Panel were in Iran that night. The eveoccured 3 years ago and are becoming dim memories in the mindsof the people who experienced them. All we have left are


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To: Omni torum JLw, Aug.5,19subject: UFO Over Iran (continued)-2-

The tentative clues that 1 got irom t h i s sighting are thefollowing. electrical and electronic gear can be selectivelyturned off or jammed at a distance of 15 to 25 miles. The UfOwas observed to change shape by the air traffic controller atMehrabad airport. We have several sketches by the same observFurthermore the object was observed " t o disappear and reappearsome distance away. Another, but much weaker clue, comes fromone version of the story which says that 20 degree swings ofthe indicator on the inertial guidance system were noted along

irections^of^jflight._ Ijf J b h e guj.dancje_system_operateg^ -a fairly stable gyroscope, then we may be seeing distortions othe gravitational field. The fact that smaller objects wereseen emerging from the main UFO whose estimated size by radarwas about that of a Boing 707 is a further clue. Let mespeculate about these clues. Feeble forms of psychokinesis


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To: Omni Forum JL. , Au. 5, 1979Lubject: UFO Over Iran (continued)-3-

Olberg t i . i l es the Enquirer's Blue hibbor Panel to task: forendorsing the Iranian case without a thorou^ h investigation.The Panel is not a scientific investigative body. It is aCgroup of scientists who meet one or twice a year to discussAstories selected by the Enquirer's Minipanel of representativesfrom the major civilian organizations: NICAP, APRO and MUFON.toehave not seen a reported case strong enough to be considereproof that UFOj are vehicles, but we have seen many cases thatprovide us with tentative scientific clues which may helpe .-someone-in_=the=iuture_the reward money is to encourage more people to make goodreports, i.e., multiple witness, investigated by governmentsanctioned bodies like the police or Air Force, demonstratingnew physical effects.

What would be scientific proof? The only acceptable


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PHILIP J. K L A S S56O "N" S T R E E T . S. W.

W A S H I N G T O N . D. C. 2OO24 Sept. 2, 1978Mr. W. Todd ZechelPrairie du Sac, Wise. 53578

Because I am about to depart for a brief holiday and a business trip tothe mid-west, I will reply here only to one of the gross errors and falsehoto be found in your recent White Paper FL-3 of unknown date. This is yourthat I resorted to falsehoods in matters pertaining to the Iranian UFO inciin communications with you and Stan Friedman. You claim:To Summarize.- Klass told Friedman o n Dec. 21, 1977, that h e had received" full,.unexpurgated version of th e 'Iranian UFO Report' a few weeks befthe Pentagon finally got approval f rom Iran to release it." This wouldthat Klass possessed a classified document which had been transmitted tthrough the mail, which i s i n serious violation of the national securityespionage laws. One certainly would expect that "the commander of th eMilitary Assi stanc e Group i n Iran" would not violate these laws merelyord er t o prov id e Klass with a copy o f t h e m e s s a g e .

On 07 August 1977, Maj. Gen. Kenneth P. Miles, Chief of MAAG in Iran, in repto my request, wrote to enclose several items about the UFO incident. (See


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Mr. W. Todd Zechel: -2- Sept. 2, 1978

I assume that after you have carefully examined the three enclosed exhiyou will publicly admit that you made a serious error in charging me with fhoods on this issue.While examining Exhibit "B" you will discover you made still another erThe debriefing summary was not written by USAF Col. Frank McKenzie, as youbut by Lt. Col. Olin Mooy, who signed the report. When I interviewed Mooyhis home last December, he told me that he and Col. Jerry Johnson (now retiwere invited to the debriefing by the Imperial Iranian Air Force. Mooy sai

that Johnson wrote the original draft report and that Mooy wrote the final When I return from my mid-west trip on Sept. 8, I would hope to find aof the tape recording of our telcon of May 16, 1977, which can quickly resomany of the issues you have raised about Cmdr. Vtorygin and my relations wihim to allow all interested parties to compare what I actually told you witwhat you claim I told you. I find it interesting that you never quote verbfrom that telcon of 5/16/77 -- only paraphrase in your wordsalthough youdelight in quoting verbatim elsewhere in FL-3, including portions of my tel

conversation with Allan Hendry on Aug. 10, 1978. Even here, you omit imporportions of our conversation to warp the impressions.

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IIH E A D Q U A R T E R S

UNITED STATES M I L I T A R Y M I SS I O N WITH I R A N I A N A R M Y"-'- A ND

U N IT E D S T A T E S M I L IT A R Y A S S I S T A N C E A D V I S O R Y G R OU P T O I R A NA P O N E W Y O R K 09205

C 7 A U G 1977Office of the Chief

Mr Philip J. Klass560 "N" Street, S.W.Washington, DC 20224

Dear Mr Klass:Attached is all the information that we in the MAAG-Iran haveregarding the UFO incident which occurred 19 Sep 76. I am unableto provide any additional information or insights beyond the


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FROM: ARAF-0MEMGRAND'JM FOR RECORDSUBJECT: UFO1 SightingTO: ARCG

1. At about 1250 AM 19 September 197-6 the IIAF Command post received atelephone call from the ADOC representative at f-'ehrabad. He said thatMehrabad had received four telephone calls from citizens living in theSheniran area saying that they had seen strange objects in the sky. Onelady described them as a kind of bird while another lady said, "please tellthis helicopter with a light on to get away from my house because f l mscared," (there were no helicopters airborne at that time). The c tizenswere told it was probably stars.2. The Command post called Brigadier General Yousefi, Assistant DeputyCommander of Operations. After Yousefi talk ed to Mehrabad tower anddetermined Babolsar and Shahrokhi radar did ^ot have the object he decidedto look for himself. He noticed an object in the sky similar to a starbut bigger and brighter. He decided to scramble and F-4 from Sharokhi to


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I I f - . 'weapons control panel went off ,md he lost all communications (UHF andInterphone). At this point the pilot initiated a turn and negative Gdive to get away. As he turned the object fell in trail at what appearedthe be about 5-4 NM. As he continued in his turn away from the primaryobject the second object went to the inside of his turn then returned tothe primary object for a perfect rejoin.7. Shortly after the second object joined up with the primary objectanother object appeared to com? out of the other side of the primary objectgoing straight down, at a great rate of speed. The F-4 crew had regainedcommunications and the weapons control panel and watched the object approachthe ground anticipating a large explosion. This object appeared to cometo rest gently on the earth and cast a very bright light over an area ofabout 2-3 kilometers.8. The crew descendec from their altitude of 26 M to 15 M and continuedto observe and mark the object's position. They had some difficulty inadjusting their night visibility for landing so after orbiting Mehrabad afew times they went out for a straight in landing. There was a lot ofinterference on the UHF and each time they passed through a Mag. bearingof 150 from Mehrabad they lost their communications (UHF and Interphone)and the INS fluctuated from 50 - 50. The one civil airliner that wasapproaching Mehrefbad du ring this same time experienced comr.Linicationsfailure in the sane vicinity (Kilo Zulu) but did not report seeing anything.


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OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSEWASHINGTON, D. C. 20301

PUSUC Aff AIM 2 SEP 1977

Mr. Phillip KlassAviation Week &Space Technology425 National Press BuildingWashington, B.C. 20045Dear Mr. Klass:Attached is a copy of the message regarding Iranian F-4pilots' reports of "UFO" sightings in September 1976, whichyou requested. This message was declassified and releasedAugust 31, 1977.

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Six Iranians have been awarded $5,000 for pro -viding The E N Q U I R E R ' S Blue Ribbon Panel on Un-valuable U F O c ase report-e d in 1977

Engraved plaques w e r egiven to th e I r ani ans be -c ause th e y ar e m i l i t a ry andg o v e r n m e n t p e r s o n n e l w h oar e no t pe rm i t te d to ac c e ptc ash aw ards , and the $5,000

w e n t to T h e R e d L i o n a ndS u n a n I r a n i a n c h a r i t ysimilar to the Red Cross., T h e y w e r e a c c e p t e d byI r a n ' s A m b a s s a d o r t o t h eUnited S t at e s , A r d e s h i r Z a -he d i , o n behalf of h i s c o u n t r y -m e n a nd t h e c h a r i t y .The case i n v o l v e d a UFO

U F O C a s et h a t w as s p o t t e d o v e r T e h r a n ,I r a n , a n d c h a s e d b y t w o I m -pe r i a l I r a n i a n A ir Force F -4P h a n t o m jets o n Sept . 18 , 1976T h e p la q u e s w e n t t o t h epilots and c r e w m e m b e r s o ft h e t w o j e t s , t o an a i r t ra ff icc o n t r o l l e r w h o w i tn e s s e d m u c ho f th e c o n f r o n t a t i o n b e t w e e nth e I ranian jets and the U F O ,a nd t o a n I r a n i a n A i r F o r c eg e ne r a l ." T h e case w as pa r t i c u l a r l yi m po r t a n t b e c a u s e i t p r o v i d e de v i d e nc e o f l o ng - r a ng e j a m -ming of f i re cont ro l e l ect ronicso f t h e F - 4 , " s a i d D r . JamesH a r d e r , a B l u e R i b b o n P a n e lm e m b e r an d p r o f e s s o r o f e n -g ineer ing a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y o fCal i fornia a t Be r k e l e y .E a r b e r t h i s ye a r L i e u t . G e n .AbdiUah A z a r b a r z i n , d e p u t yc o m m a n d e r o f o p e r a t i o n s fo rth e I m p e r i a l I r a n i a n A irForce, told T h e E N Q U I R E Rt h a t v i r t u a l l y al l c o m m u ni c a -t i ons , naviga t ion and w e a p o n sc o n t r o l s y s t e m s a b o a r d t h e tw oP h a n to m j e t s w e r e j am m e d b yt h e U F O ." Y o u ca n a l w a y s ja m c o m -m u ni c a t i o n s , " D r . H a r d e r s a i d ." B u t to jam the e l e c t r o n i c s o ff ire c o n t r o l w i t h i n th e pl a ne iss o m e t h i n g t h a t h a s no t b e e nf i r m l y e s t a b l i s h e d be f o r e . "Sho rt ly af t e r t h e U F O w a ss po t te d o v e r T e h r a n a t 1 0:3 0p m . o n Sept . 18 , 1976, an F-4

I R A N ' S A M B A S S A D O R to the US., Ar( r ight )- , a c c e p t s $5,000 c h e c k f r o m E N Q UTropeano at The Iranian Embassy in Wat h e y c h a s e d t h e U F O a l l o v e rth e s k y ; t h a t t h e U F O e j e c t e da smaller UF O w h i c h chasedo ne o f t h e j e t s ; a nd that th eUF O f inally sped off and v a n -i s h e d w h i l e be i ng c h a s e d a ta l m o s t 1 ,4 00 m i le s a n h o u r .W h e n t h e s e c o nd j e t r e t u r ne dto base, its e lect ronic sys temsw e r e a l s o j a m m e d ."This t e c h no l o g y it ( t h eU F O ) u s e d fo r j a m m i n g w ass o m e t h i n g w e h a v e n ' t h a d b e -fo re a n d w e don' t have," saidL i e u t . G e n. A z a r b a r z i n " I tw as e x t r e m e l y s t r a ng e a nd un -e x p l a m a b l e . "

D r F r a nk B . S a l i s bu r y , a n -o t h e r m e m b e r of the B l u e R i b -bo n P a ne l and a pr o f e s s o r atUtah State Univer s i ty , - c o m -m e nt e d o n t h e I r an ian UF O

s a i d . " T h i sc r i te r i o n . T o oin h i g h l y respw e r e i n v o l vh o a x e s o r haM e m b e r s oP a n e l m e t twh a l f - d o z e n UF$1 m i ll io n r e wb y T h e E N Qtive p r o o f tf r o m o u t e r s pna t u r a l p h e n oThe pane l mnone o f t h e c$1 mi l l i on au n a n i m o u s l yI r a n i a n c a s ep r o v i d e d th ely valuable U F O s e x i s tO t h e r m e m


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Enclosed is The Enquirer's story on the UFO over Tehran that waschased by two Iranian Air Force jets. It is " b a s e d on two files, by a free lance journalist in Tehran and the other by John Checkla roving editor for the En-uirer based in London, plus a telephointerview by John Gathcart with an Iranian Air Force general. Wedeleted the Iranian journalist's name because one of the conditiunder which he obtained the story was that he not be identified wi' in any way. We do not have transcripts of The interviews conducteither him or Checkley. However-, the details of what they wrotefairly well known anyway. Perhaps the most interesting item inpackage w^s C^thcart's interview with the Iranian general. Severathings the general said were ouite interesting but the most-signiwas a statement to the effect that the Iranian and U.S. air forcexchange information on UFOs. We were never able to verify anythinthis nature fromthe Pentagon or the Air Force or the Military Assand Advisory Group (MAAG) in Tehran. The best we could get out oU.S. military inTehran was that the Iranians invited"MAAG- to hav s c x x r t sit in on the debriefing of the two jet pilots. An Army colin charge of public information for MAAG told us that two relativlow-ranking staff officers fromthe U.S. Air Force did sit in on tdebriefing but no report was ever made on the session and none wassent to the Pentagon. Bob Pratt 3/15/77


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It's Following Me, C r i e s Fighter Pilot a sUFO Jams Jets'Electrical Systems in Supersonic C h

By JOHN M C A T H C A R T ; . . T h e U F O spl i t in tw o and ag l o w i n g s e c t i o n of i t s h o t o u t_ a t th e P h a n t o m j e t f i g h t e r !:< ' I t ' s a b o u t 20 m i l e s be h i nd! ".the a l a r m e d ' a i r force , pilot. r a d i o e d th e t o w e r . "It'sf o l -lowing me! Oh! Now .'.>"jhe r ad i o w e n t de ad . : ' - ' ' _

; ' ; - S t u n n e d ai r t r a f f ic c o n t r o l -lers sa t in d i s b e l i e f a s . t h e y-, w a t c h e d t h e j e t s c r e a m lo w;'pver t h e c o n t r o l t o w e r . t h ebr i l l iant ob j ec t n o w a d a r k rec-t angle a t op t h e j e t p lane . .' ] . The bizarre incident w as only p a r t of the m y s t e r i o u sseries o f e v e n t s t h a t o c cu r r e d, l a s t S e p t e m b e r w h e n a U F O* staged a s p e c t a c u l a r a e r i a l dis-1 play in f u l l ' v i e w o f a i r p o r tI t o w e r p e r s o n n e l and baffled1 c o m m a n d e r s o f the. I m p e r i a l" .' I ranian A ir Force.." T h e U F O j a m m e d c o m i m m i -. cat ions o n tw o I r a n i a n f i g h t e r": p l a n e s s e n t up to i nte rce pt ' . i t.'- and l a u n c h e d a" smaller ;. U F O t o c h a s e o n e p la n e a w a y .: "Two j e t s w e r e s c r a m b l e d

a n d ' t h e y l o c k e d o n t o t h e tar-. ge t ( w i t h radar) b u t t h e y re-c e i v e d v e r y s t r o n g j a m m i n g, - ", s a i d d e p u t y c o m m a n d e r - i h -') c h i e f o f o p e r a t i o n s L t . ; " G e r i .

" PHANTOMJETS like th e ones that encountered U FO s i t on apron a t T ehr an A i r p o r t . -!; .;; ; ' ' -xBSraS tev- ; . ' . . .' i p e n e d to b o t h o f t h e m ' and U F O - s h o w i n g " f a n t n s t i c s pe e d s:;'';:''-'. / ^TjHL2?^K' ;' . V^-, o ne a i r l iner w h i c h , w a s f lying a nd s e e m i n g t o ' d i s a p p e a r a n d

. " * . , ' ' -J/ //I ~ ~ \\\ VVvt. . , .*." * . In4 Vrt ' m*no A! 1 linenrintJ \tft l/irMnnt* l. . * ' . , . r . ' ' '

S K E T C H of ..UFO.1: w h i c h "one . 'eyewitness' said was . ' -."like a fan with .blades/'.]o n t h o p o r c h o f h i s h o u s e an do n th o t e l e ph o ne said to' m e :' Y e s ; I can s ee s o m e t h i n g . HI s n ' t a ' ' "

in th e a r e a at th e s a m e t i m e .' - . " T h i s t e c h n o l o g y t h e y ( in th eU F O ) w e r e u s i n g fo r j a m m i n g w a s s o m e t h i n g w e h a v e n ' t h u d. b e f o r e a n d w e d o n ' t h a v e it. H' . w a s " e x t r e m e l y s t r a n g e - ' a n d. - ' . u n e x p l a i n a b l e . ": T h c . , g e n e r a l d e s c r ib e d " t h e'

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UF O v ' as b e i n gk n o w n a i r c r a f t . H e s a i d : " I tw a s q u i t e c i r c u l a r . and j u s tlike a s a u c e r and t h e s h a p e o fth e c o c k p i t w a s a ball .:>half' a ' bal l . " - ; . .,;'. / " . ;-". 'rV'>.. iV: -^:i" -:1.

r e a p p e a rP i r o u z i ' s a i d - t h e ^ " s e c o n dP h a n t o m p i lo t r e p o r t e d t h a tt h e U F O h a d e j e c t e d a l u m i n -o u s o b j e c t a t h i m , nn d t luil h ew as f l y i n g - b a c k . T h e n t h e r a -di o w e n t d e a d a s t h e P h a n t o mj e t - r e a c h e d the c o n t r o l l o w e ran d s c r e a m e d - p a s t a d a r kr e c t a n g u l a r o b j e c t a p p e a r i n gto b e o n t o p . o f i t . Radio communication w i ththe plane ;was later reestab-lished. . { > > ) : ' ' .'.,! , : . ' ; . - : ' '. .. : A f t e r s e v e r a l m o r e a t t e m p t s

by th e s e c o n d P hp r o a c h t h e U F O e l ect r i cal s y s t e me v e r y t i m e tho r d e r e d to r e t u r nw a s t h e n 4 a.m.A l t h o u g h th e o bby, t h e U F O w a ss c e n d t o t h e g r o uw a s e v e r f o u n dw a r d . (W h e n t h e s e c oleft th e area, t h e to c l i m b h i g h e r au n t i l i t e v e n t u a l lyin th e sky. .B u t , incred ible v e n t s w e r e , t h e ra b i z a r r e s e q u e l .S o m e 45 m i n uUF O l o f t th e I rBoe ing 707 j u t o f lino l e a v i n g L i s b m o r e I l i i i n 3,20T e h r a n a l m o s ta b r i g h t l y li t o b ja c r o s s it s c o u r s eT h e . E N Q U I R Et h i s h a i r - r a i s i ng ea U F O i n i ts i s s u1 9 7 G .A nd ( l i e o b j e c ta s d e s c r i b e d by c r e w o f t h e 707,r e s p o n d s w i t h dth e U F O s e e n e a r l i e r t h a t n i g h

. . . , _ , -Imperial Iriznian .VIr Force, headquarters, Tehran, Iran, 345-000,interview 1/4/77 with John Cathcart, exclusive.


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0 ,.. The sto'y that v/e have indicates that two jets v/ere scrafter a UFOis that true?A. That is true. They " b o t h were scrambled and they locked on the"but they received a very strong jamming. An^ then they lost almosavionics systems they had on the airplane,Q. Is it true that they were unable to fire their missile?A. No, they could not because they had a very strong jamming*Q. Jammingsome jamming youobviously couldn't find a reason for?A. No we couldn't because that has happened to three^different aiV / e had two fightersthat happened to both of themand one airliwas flying in the area at the same time',Q. Right, The equipment on the airliner was also jammed?A, Well, yes, it was jammed. Of course, they only had radio, .0. Was the order given to the fighters to shoot andA. No, no. We have not given such instruction.We asked the pilot'I have everything locked on,z2a but when I reached firing rang

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0. "es, we had sone c^anents from t h e re .-: - n The control tower.A. Jell, in addition to the control tower we had four crews that iihave reported and of course one of the general officers.0. When you say four crews, Sir, what do you mean by four crews?A. Well, there were two F-4s. Two Phantons and each one of them hacrews (crewmen).Q. S you had four crews all together?A. Yes.Q. And these crews have reported the object as the same as reportpeople on the ground?A. Yes.Q. Are you planning to take any further action?A. No, no, we do not but we h aveall we have done we have giveninformationof course that was the request from U.S. We have givethis information to our HI\| rffV). think they send it to the orgain the States andwe haven't done anything since that time.Q. You mean you passed the information to the United States Air Fo

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0. Do you know what heights the pilots ven~ TO?A. That I don't have all these details.Q. We understand he was about 50,000 feetis that s e e r a reasonablA. That might be but I can't say definitely. But according to thereport they said they were about 30, 35,OCC feet high. Since they20,000 feet high (?) that might be 45,000 feet.Q. But as far as you were concerned, we had one report there was went out to fire the missiles but you say in fact that wasn't truA. Oh, no! Why should we,Q. They were posing no danger ~ t o anybody?

A. No, why should they? And actually since it was unknown we justto identify it, so we did,Q. But so far you haven't been able to identify these U?0s and asyou're concerned they go down as unexplainable?A. No, that's true. But I think that if you get the report from oattache, it would give you more information and more detail. So wto send this information to (military attache) .0 .o

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cc-kpit was a "ball, a half a b?ll, ar.d -hen the color of lightingthe cockpit v;as different with what it haf. on the outside. It wasyellow.Q. Nothing like any vehicle we have up in ^-he sky?A. No, no, no. Not at all.Q. 2 ifhey were Phantoms were they?A. Right.Q. la understand that at times the UTOs were extremely more fast,speed than the Phantoms themselves?A. Oh, yeah. We were estimating at 3 Mach.Q. 3 m'achs? How fast is the Phantom cabale of? , .A. Well, it much depends on the targetsQ. But certainly not 3 MachA. ?nd the configurationsQ. certainly not 3 Mach, though? - \ *

" A . No, it's not. But it'sthe way we saw it it could go faster.faster, his is what we estimated and calculated,0. Have you spoken to any of the people in the control tower?

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a serach " by the gendariaesrie. V / a s there any truth to bhat or wasfound?A. Well, that I cannot answer at the moment "because I don't have tI'd have to look in the file. So, these are the things we're sendmilitary attache, , . I don't have that informat on here right nQ. But if something had been found, J T F Z presumably you would know A. Well, we have mentioned somet ing in that report. But we haven'anything?0. You haven't sifound anything?A. No^ ..zxi^expia:fcszH3C02ss2x # ' '

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Ienr=nf December 22, 1976

A J u l i i c J I - i G I J T H S ago a ;J?) was reported over 2ehran, the capitalof the Middle j3ast country of Iran. J_ e r.e::t day t.isre wereexcited but sketchy reports in the Persian. newspapers, quot-ing the airport control tower supervisor^ and other eye-witnesses including an elaborate cnase by two Pnairboia js-tsoz the Imperial Iranian Air ?orce, A s e a r c h partr was. sentto look for "a luminous object" which landed on the groundsouth of Tehran. There were reports of the Phantioas tryingto shoot down the U?0 with air-to-air nissiles but: failing;


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UFO-tTehran, Decenbar 22, 1976.

IT WAS10.30 at nijht in the busy I rani 921 capital of Hehran.this night on September 18was not IJuce any otiier: in. the noeastern part of xhe city, hovering ab^ui; 1,000 feet above grothere was an object that didn't belong -heAt: the Mehrabad Airport control tower, night shift supervisorHossaln Pirouzi was not aware of anything unusual: the radarwas under repair and the small soreen near him was bl

And then the telephone rang, it was a wonan, and in an. excit

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u_"0 -2 l 1 i B a M f l il f f l! jy i l % Tehran*X lATeXc^-in - c h e sky. Within the next half hour "chereVs -'anotb.er two

sucli calls,

Pirouzi had asked then all for tneir general addresses. Theyall lived in, the northeastern part of the city.

"3y the fourth call," he says, "I was worried. I tookbinoculars and went to the terrace area next to the

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j_.'0-3 "OPBBHSSa* Tehran,

But back to Pirouzi for his account of what happened next: " jwas amazed, flabbergasted, i didn't know what to think.There definitely was a very strange object there in the skyright over Tehran.

"I could see the details I've described only through the binoculars. To the naked eye, f r o J i the distance J L was at, itlooked like a very large star low in. t r i e sky, but without titwinkle, of course. j j f ~

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it was now past midnight, and Pirouzi >s.s worried enough, to cthe Air Porce and pass the responsible" on to tuen. Soon.,of the deputy Air .force cormanders was o tne pnone wanting, tknow wHaat was going on.

Pirouzi says he tola the general about tne object ne and hiscolleagues had seen and its strange benaTiour, 2 ' c . 3 general,,thim to hang on while he went up to the roof of his north.~3?ehrhouse to have a look for himself. When he was- back on jfeSe li_ ^the general v/as brief: "Yes, I confirm it, There is somethithere.."


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aircraft. I he Phantom pilot was ,10%"er aoj-e ~ c o see it; on hiown radar screen. Says Pirouzi: "i ordered the pilot toapproach the object and recognize it, r u - s not to ~3a>e anyaction,

"But when the pilot got to within aoo:r; 15 miles of the u?0,his communication system and some of tie electronic equipmenwent out of action. Then, with the plane still o2 "Gourset'tobject suddenly disappeared. When the pilot had lais radaroperating again the uFO was now 50 nil33 away."


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w a s - r / e - i . ' -ble to see it on hislays Pirouzi: "1 ordered the pilot tof-d recognise it, but not to take any' '

- c o within about 15 miles of the uTO,snd some of the electronic equipment, with the plane still orf~~course, the

^cpeared. W h e n the pilot had his radar"v / a s now 50 miles away."~: f tf&ffX fr^rrv

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U i J ' 0 - 7 J S y a B B R O f f l B * Tehran.

The following account is based on >^a~ ~ne second Phantom piltold Pirouzi after it was all over:

"When I first went; -cowards it, it suddenly shifted to the rigAs i changed course it kern; shifting -asi^ions. We went arounlike this for a full 70 degrees, it was obvious to me that ththing was very, very powerful and could do anything.."When, it was obvious to it that x meant to continue foliawing,* ,== . * * ,the UFO ejected a luminous object au me. That's wnn. I headedstraight back for Mehrabad Airport."


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U P O - 9 T J I i l i i i B B U B i i i l l l j Tehran*

A quick briefing v / a s given to t r i e Air Force general waitingthe ghone. He ordered the pilot to go back in at 6,000 feet midway between the object on. the ground and the mother shiabove. But it was the same story all over again: when thePhantom came within about 15 miles of the UFO, the pilot losthis navigational aids, S:s:sH3 This, second pilot was also or

UFO. But he also could not activate' ' . _ _ " ' ""':.:>' .the -oilot waa ordered to retura tobase* - It was 4 o'clock in the Horning now. The -light;, from,tground was no longer visible. The sky was clear of. all.-'flyin


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5.1 ^ o -- Air ?o_ce general wsiuing onthe oilo~ to go b = i c k in at 6,000 feet

Abject on t'.ie ground and xhe aother shipIInsane story all over again: when the$ u - i 15 niles of the UFO, the pilot lost all _

XjSThis second pilot was also ordered to try and shoot do'wn, t '

on gas a f t e r it s c h a s e .G e n . A z a r b a r z i n s a id t ha tw he n e v e r t h e p lan e s g o t w i t h -in 15 m i l e s o r s o o f the U F O ,m o s t o i t h e i r e lec t r ic an d elec-;rpnic. s y s t e m s w e r e . s u d d e n l yan d m y s t e r i o u s l y - k n o c k e d . ' o u t until they moved a w a y . , :,'"That h a p p e n e d t o H h r e e dif-f e rent p l an e s , " , h e n o t e d . / " Wehad t w o f i g h t e r s t ha t hap-

. /'I'm going to Mach 2 ( ab o u t1 , 4 0 0 m i l e s an h o u r ) and I'm50 miles behind th e .object, ; Ic an ' t c a t c h h im . It's n o u s e t ofol low a n y m o r e ; ' I can ' t catchh i m : " - . ' - ' ; ' . ' , - . : . ' - - ;'..F r o m t ha t t ime o n,1 P i r o u z isaid, th e P h a n t o m a nd ' i t s re-p lac e me n t . w e r e ' cha s in g t h eobjec t al l ove r , th e I r an ian s kyto t h e n o r t h arid w e s t , ' w i t h ' the

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the law. , a w a y f r o m w h a t th epeople o f A me r ic a w an t i t ' t ob e ^ * , . , . ; . . ' , ,.;;:.::t'-", . : . ; ' : - : '. ' " L a w y e r s ' n av e a do m in an trole - j n ; A m e r i c a n^ ; s o c ie t y , "Davis said.. .- . " > . . , , >" S o m e h o w t h e y wind up asp r e s i d en t s , g o v e r n o r s , m a y o r s ,c o n g r e s s m e n an d s e n a t o r s an dt h e y tend to:dominate politicall ife: A . :^ v / ; V ' ' ' " " -," ; "they, v tend :; to be v e r ybright, 1 ' .we l l-educated p e o p l e ye t th e ne t product o f t h e i rw o r k as a g r o u p d o e s n ' t s e emto contr ibute m a t e r i a l l y o n abalanced;'-basis to a ll A m e r i -cans. ' , ""'r^^;'i;- , / ; " v . - : ' ' -:). " T h o y ' r e < an' 'lnt0grai s part ofi s y s t e m b u t i . :t h e y ' v e . ' ' s t r ay c d a l o n gw ay f r o m the l r ' r e sponsibl | i t iosin tho ' c r i m i n a r f i e l d . T h e y dovi r tual ly , . no t h i ng:- to T : e n han c eth e r ig h t s . - o f t h e , v ic t im s .o fc r ime . ; ! . ' It -^ c h a r g e d l l i o judicials y s t e m ' w i t h b e in g to o l e n i e n tbii"c r iminals ' and 'c i ted a ' p e r -

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