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f(cid:1) ~ .". MIDDLE EAST UFO INCIDENTS CIA, NSA, Secretary of State and the. told citizens it was only stars and had 1. Iran, 1976 White House. talked to Mehrabad Tower, he decided to The source for the following is Fawcell The following hegins on page 82 of the look for himself. He noticed an object in & Greenwood's The. UFO Cover-up, a book: the sky similar to a star [but] bigger and compilation of documents released under "This report forwards information con. brighter. He decided to scramble an F-4 .the Freedom of Information Act. cerning the sighting of a UFO in ban on 19 from Shahrokhi AFB to investigate. These are authentic documents released Septemher 1976. "B. At 0130 hrs on the 19th, the F-4 by the Defense Intelligence Agency of the "A. At about 12.30 am on 19 Sep 76. the took off and proceeded to a point about 40 USA. and several researchers have filed for [deleted] received four telephone calls from NM north of Tehran. Due to its brilliance. their release. The original sighting report citizens living in the Shemiran area of the object was easily visible from 70 miles and one follow-up comm!lntary were Tehran saying that they had seen strange away. As the F-4 approached a range of25 released. while follow-up investigations objects in the sky. Some reported a kind of NM, he lost all instrumentation and com were exempt from disclosure under the bird-like object while others reported a munications (UHF and intercom). He FoIA. The distribution list for the docu helicopter with a light on, There were no broke off the intercept and headed back to ment detailing the incident included the helicopters airborne at that time. After he Shahrokhi. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. At 0140 hours; a second F-4 was launched. The backseater aGqulred a radar lock-on at 27 NM 12 o'clock high position with the VC [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 10 dis cern because of its intense brilliance. The light that it gave off was that of flashing strobe lights arranged in a rectangular pat tern and alternating hi ue, green, red, and orange in colour. The sequence of lights was so' fast that all the colours could be DECEMBER 1995 -JANUARY 1996 NEXUS·6S