1976-09-19•1970s•Tehran, Iran•Iran

Tehran UFO Incident

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WITNESSES
15
SHAPE
light
COORDINATES
35.6892, 51.3890

Skeptic Philip Klass attributed the light to Jupiter and the failures to equipment malfunction; the pilots and the DIA report contradict this. SOURCE →

INCIDENT REPORT

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