Tehran UFO Documents - 1976.

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• "Yet, heading back to what the government says, and this statement does come straight from the Pentagon, "no government agency has taken an interest in investigating (UFOs) since the closure of Blue Book in 1969." Something does not line up, because here we are, faced with hundreds of documents slamming right through that 1969 cut off date..'

John Greenewald Junior - BlackVault FOIA Document Archive

Despite the statement above concerning the U.S. Gov's official (yet contradictory) stance on UFO investigation John Greenwald Junior describes below how specific internal government documentation on the incredibly bizarre 1976 Tehran UFO case became the motivation for compiling the BlackVault archive.. now at over 2 million declassified pages.

It happened more than 44 years ago. A UFO event seen over Tehran, Iran, defied logic, or explanation to highly trained pilots, tower operators and military officials. The government intelligence report that documents the story is only four pages in length – but back in 1996 – this one document became the motivation to create The Black Vault, and it continues to serve as the inspiration to keep it running now for nearly two and a half decades.

For folks unfamiliar with the case then there's a good breakdown in the vid below in which the unidentified flying object is described by witnesses as changing shape; splitting into two parts; jumping positions in the sky and ejecting a smaller object which moved rapidly towards pursuing fighter jets - another ejected object was also reported to have 'dropped quickly down to earth and landed gently on the ground casting a brilliant glow'.

As the narrator mentions, the incident does involve 'multiple trained independent witnesses with vastly different perspectives on the UFO; visual observations that were corroborated by radar data and several sightings which corresponded with equipment failures and physiological reactions on the witnesses' so no wonder the DIA, NSA, CIA and Joint Chiefs Of Staff were sent information on it (even though they have no interest in UFOs).

For several hours, multiple experienced pilots, air traffic controllers, and ground observers watched a UFO drift over the city of Tehran, and exhibit a wide range of baffling behaviours that they are still unable to explain.

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A pretty awesome (and pretty rare) 1994 'Sightings' episode is also mentioned and linked below - it contains both civilian and military eyewitness interviews and also testimony concerning a top secret meeting between the Imperial Iranian Air Force and the USAF (see 8:40) - also reports of a 'calculated disinformation programme' designed to discredit and downplay the incident by manipulation of the Iranian news media.

The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident was a radar and visual sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) over Tehran, the capital of Iran, during the early morning hours of September 19th 1976. During the incident, two F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors supposedly lost instrumentation and communications as they approached, only to have them restored upon withdrawal; one of the aircraft also supposedly suffered temporary weapons systems failure, while preparing to open fire.

The incident, recorded in a four-page U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) report distributed to at least the White House, Secretary of State, Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), remains one of the most well-documented military encounters with anomalous phenomena in history, and various senior Iranian military officers directly involved with the events have gone on public record stating their belief that the object was not of terrestrial origin.

• Documents:

THE TEHRAN 1976 CASE:

A declassified document related to the famous Teheran UFO and jet fighter encounter in 1976.

This is a capital case, acknowleged by a US intelligence agency, where a UFO encountered an aircraft, and reacted in a superior ant intelligent manner to the aircraft's interception attempt by shutting down temporarily the aircraft's weapons system.

The DIA evaluation termed this "An outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets all the criteria necessary for a valid study of the UFO phenomenon." The analysis called the UFO performance "awesome," noting that the objects displayed "an inordinate amount of maneuverability."


REFERENCES:

Title: DIA Defense Information Evaluation Report IR No. 6846013976
To: Censored
Author: Major Roland B. Evans, USAF, Military Capability Analyst.
Date: September 22, 1976
Length: 5 pages.
Classification: Top secret, Declassified
CC: None.


Document One

Document Two

Document Three

Document Four

PDF File - Tehran UFO Documents

• Routing Slip:

Another great find within the NSA files, was the routing slip for the original intelligence document. On it, it outlines the extreme importance of the case as it “met the criteria for a valid UFO study.” The reasons outlined were the credibility of the witnesses, which included an Air Force General; radar confirmation; electromagnetic effects on THREE seperate aircraft; physiological effect on some crew members; and a UFO which displayed in “inordinate amount of maneuverability.”

Although difficult to read in its entirety, here is the relevant portion of the routing slip


The “1976 Iran Incident” – UFO Encounter over Tehran, Iran