UFOs in Tehran

Map of Tehran and Hamadan, where two F-4 jet interceptors were launched

Midnight on the 19th of September 1976, for the employees in the watchtower of Mehrabad airport it was a boring night until they received frequent calls from the inhabitants of the northern part of Tehran about an unknown object flying over the sky.

Within moments, two fighter planes left Hamedan airport toward Tehran to research about the unknown object.
The next day the newspaper of the capital, in a brief report presented of unidentified flying objects over Tehran and the efforts of "Lieutenant Jim" to pursue them. 

Tirty-one years later, second Brigadier pilot Parviz Jafari, which newspapers gave the nickname "Lieutenant Jim" traveled from Tehran to Washington along with some authorities, official and military officers of nine other countries to ask the US government to publish documents that had been classified investigations of the unknown flying objects to the international research media.

Parviz Jafari (Lieutenant Jim) who was responsible for two phantoms in Shahrokhi station in an interview with BBC Persian in Washington talked about his memories of the night of event.
According to brigadier Jafari, after the official the command post found that there were no helicopters airborne at that time, they called BG Yousefi. He saw a very bright object larger than a star. At that point he decided to scramble an F-4 jet from Shahrokhi AFB.

The size of the object was difficult to determine. The lights of the object were alternating blue, green, red, and orange he said.

Interview of Gen. Parviz Jafari UFO encounter over Iran.

As the object and the F-4 continued on the path, the second object appeared. The pilot suddenly lost all instrumentation, including weapons control, and all communication. The object fell in behind him for a short time, and then he turned and rejoined the primary object. Then the communications were regained. The crew saw another brightly object detach itself from the other side. Mehrabad tower reported no other aircraft in the area, but tower personnel were able to see the object when given directions by the F-4 pilot.

The next day, crew went to the place they saw objects the night before. It was over a dry lake bed, but no traces could be seen. Further investigation was apparently done, but the results were never made public.

One of the most interesting things about this event is that it was apparently detected by a military spy satellite. Since this event occurred before the fall of the Shah, any records in Tehran itself may be lost.

This is considered one of the top 10 best evidence of UFO sightings in the world by the best UFO investigators since it was detected by radar and the military !