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1. Iran, 1976 White House. : The source for the following is Fawcett The following begins on page 82 of the & Greenwood's The,UFO Cover-up, a book: : compilation of documents released under "This report forwards information con- .the Freedom of Information Act. cerning the sighting of a UFO in Iran on 19 These are authentic documents released September 1976. by the Defense Intelligence Agency of the "A. At about 12.30 am on 19 Sep 76, the USA, and several researchers have filed for [deleted] received four telephone calls from their release. The original sighting report citizens living in the Shemiran area of and one follow-up commentary were Tehran saying that they had seen strange released, while follow-up investigations objects in the sky. Some reported a kind of were exempt from disclosure under the bird-like object while’ others reported a FolIA. The distribution list for the docu- helicopter with a light on. There were no ment detailing the incident included the helicopters airborne at that time. After he Boeri~ SNORING HANDKERCHIEF . MIDDLE EAST UFO INCIDENTS CIA, NSA, Secretary of State and the. told citizens it was only stars and had talked to Mehrabad Tower, he decided to look for himself. He noticed an object in the sky similar to a star [but] bigger and brighter. He decided to scramble an F-4 from Shahrokhi AFB to investigate. "B. At 0130 hrs on the 19th, the F-4 took off and proceeded to a point about 40 NM north of Tehran. Due to its brilliance, the dbject was easily visible from 70 miles away. As the F-4 approached a range of 25 NM, he lost all instrumentation and com- munications (UHF and intercom). He broke off the intercept and headed back to 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 acquired 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 to 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 blue, green, red, and orange in colour. The sequence of lights was so fast that all the colours could be fe . MIDDLE EAST UFO INCIDENTS 1. Iran, 1976 The source for the following is Fawcett & Greenwood's The,UFO Cover-up, a compilation of documents released under .the Freedom of Information Act. These are authentic documents released by the Defense Intelligence Agency of the USA, and several researchers have filed for their release. The original sighting report and one follow-up commentary were released, while follow-up investigations were exempt from disclosure under the FoIA. The distribution list for the docu- Ment detailing the incident included the Boeri~ SNORING HANDKERCHIEF NEXUS © 65 DECEMBER 1995 - JANUARY. 1996