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Last modified: Thursday, 12 April 09:50 am 2012
Iran
1976: September 18
On 18 September 1976, Parviz
Jafari - who later retired as a general in the Iranian
Air Force - attempted to shoot down a UFO with an
air-to-air missile. The UFO had been seen over Tehran and an air force commander ordered a jet to be scrambled. The jet lost instrumentation and communications when it approached the UFO and had to
return to base. Jafari was piloting a second aircraft that was scrambled and as he approached the UFO in his Phantom F-4 jet he locked onto it with his radar. The
object was so bright that Jafari was unable to make out
its shape, though he could see multicoloured lights flashing rapidly, like a strobe light. As he approached, he saw four smaller objects detach from the main craft. One of them came towards his aircraft. Believing he was under attack, Jafari attempted to launch a heat-seeking Sidewinder missile, but at that instant his missile control panel went dead. On his return to base, he was quizzed by an American colonel and years later, Jafari saw a Defense Intelligence Agency document on his encounter, released under the Freedom of Information Act. It stated "This case is a classic that meets all necessary conditions for a legitimate study of the UFO phenomenon". That was interesting, given that the US government's public position is that official UFO investigations ceased in 1969 when the United States Air Force closed down their research programme, Project Blue Book
- by Nick Pope
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