1976: Tehran, Iran.
Greetings. The year 1976 brought an interesting historical UFO case, one that has remained controversial to this day. The Tehran UFO Incident was a radar/visual sighting of an unidentified flying object in the night skies over Tehran, the capital of Iran. During the events in question, two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors reported losing instrumentation and communication capabilities as they approached the unknown, unidentified object. Upon withdrawal from the unknown, all of the functions of the two aircraft returned to normal. One of the aircraft also reported a temporary weapons systems failure while the crew was preparing to open fire on the unknown. In the early hours of the 19th of September in 1976, a shining object was reported in the skies above Tehran by at least four civilians. Lieutenant Yaddi Nazeri of the Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF,) plus a backseat weapons officer, were dispatched in an F-4 Phantom II jet interceptor to investigate. Once
