Military Chase Over Iran: The Tehran UFO Incident of 1976
On the night of September 18–19, 1976, the Imperial Iranian Air Force scrambled two F-4 Phantom II jets from Shahrokhi Air Force Base after multiple civilian witnesses in Tehran reported a brilliant,…
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Over Tehran a brilliant strobing light outshines every star tonight.
Mehrabad controllers confirm the object visually, scrambling two F-4 Phantoms immediately.
Lieutenant Nazeri's F-4 closes in — every instrument and radio dies instantly.
A luminous sub-object detaches and hurtles head-on at Jafari's F-4 — weapons panel dead.
A four-page DIA report distributed to the White House awarded this encounter its highest rating.
ONE massive luminous primary craft accelerates silently into the deep indigo sky and vanishes.