Tehran F-4 Phantom Intercept, Instrument Failure and Weapons System Malfunction, Iran, September 18–19, 1976
On the night of September 18–19, 1976, the Imperial Iranian Air Force scrambled two F-4 Phantom II fighters from Shahrokhi Air Force Base to intercept an unidentified luminous object reported by…
Narration
Over Tehran's pre-dawn skyline, a brilliant UFO blazed brighter than any star.
Brigadier General Yousefi confirmed the blazing primary UFO and ordered the scramble.
The first F-4 closed to twenty-five miles — every instrument and radio died instantly.
Radar locked on a KC-135-sized return — then the weapons panel went completely dark.
A four-page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report rated this encounter highly credible.
No wreckage, no crater — the primary UFO outran supersonic jets and silenced every weapon.