Iranian JETS Scrambled To Track A UFO Experience POWER FAILURES
Iranian JETS Scrambled To Track A UFO Experience POWER FAILURES by Bill Knell One of the most well documented and investigated UFO incidents of the 1970s took place on September 19, 1976 over Tehran, Iran. It began around 12:30 AM when several people reported an unusual bright light, "similar to a star, but much brighter," moving around in the sky. These reports were processed by Tehran Air Traffic Control. A supervisor in the control tower at Mehrabad Airport initially dismissed the reports until he saw the object himself and confirmed it on radar. He verified the presence of the object by 1:30 AM and passed on the information to the Iranian military. They dispatched an Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II from Shahrokhi Air Base to investigate. Once the aircraft was within 25 nautical miles of the object it lost power to the jet's instrumentation and communications systems. At that point the pilot turned away from it and his power and systems were i...