The year is 1976.
An Iranian F-4 Phantom fighter jet engages
an unidentified flying object.
The UFO is projecting multi-colored strobe
lights, when suddenly, it releases an object
that shoots towards the Iranian pilots.
The pilot gets a lock on the object, but before
it can be destroyed the plane’s weapon communications
go down.
The pilot takes immediate evasive actions.
Fast forward to the 2000’s.
Iranian F-14 Tomcats engage another UFO, this
time there are casualties.
The UFO evades the fighter jets and flies
out of the atmosphere at Mach 10.
It would seem that Iran and UFOs have an interesting
history together.
When you hear stories of unidentified flying
objects you may imagine a flying saucer or
little green aliens.
Not only that, but the person who is giving
the account seems to always be someone who
is not quite all there.
They tend to have crazy hair and wild eyes.
But the UFO accounts from Iran are detailed
and provided by respected military personnel.
The information comes from eye witness accounts
and classified documents that have been leaked
to the public.
The first contact between a UFO and the Iranian
military occured in 1976 above the city of
Tehran.
It was a cool desert night.
There were no clouds in the sky.
The Milky Way stretched across the heavens
like an oasis in a black desert.
The sound of shopkeepers closing up their
stalls for the night filled the air.
Then suddenly the skies over Tehran lit up.
It was just after midnight on September 19th.
Tehran residents began telephoning the local
airport frantically relaying the same message.
They were seeing bright lights in the sky.
The lights seemed to hover in place and then
move rapidly to a different location.
It was as if the lights were looking for something…
or someone.
The military and airport personnel checked
the radar, but nothing showed up.
General Yousefi, the man in charge of the
airfield, stepped outside and looked up at
the sky.
Sure enough he saw the bright lights for himself.
He witnessed the lights jetting across the
sky.
They looked like shooting stars being controlled
by some unseen entity.
He scrambled back into the airport and found
his best pilots to investigate further.
General Yousefi ordered Lt. Yaddi Nazeri and
a backseat weapons officer to take off and
have a look at the object in the sky.
It was time to get up close and personal.
The F-4 Phantom fighter plane took off at
1:30 A.M. and leveled off at the altitude
of the unidentified object.
Upon approach the F-4 lost all navigational
instruments and communications.
The dials and screens in the aircraft went
haywire.
Nazeri was flying only using his instincts
and what he could see.
He kept his eyes on the UFO and his aircraft
pointed at the horizon.
Nazeri made the decision it was too dangerous
to continue this way and was forced to turn
around and return to base.
As soon as the plane began moving away from
the UFO the instruments came back online.
It was as if the UFO had some sort of electronics
jammer.
A second F-4 Phantom was launched at 1:40
A.M. piloted by Lt. Parviz Jafari.
He approached the UFO and acquired a radar
lock.
This meant that there was definitely something
tangible in the sky.
The UFO was a solid mass that reflected the
radar, and therefore, couldn’t have been
ball lightning or any form of pure energy.
Upon getting closer to the UFO Jafari reported
that its lights were alternating in color
from blue, green, red, and orange.
They were strobing so quickly that they almost
appeared to be solid.
The UFO began to move south and Jafari pursued
the vessel.
All of a sudden the UFO stopped in midair.
It just sat there unmoving, as if the Law
of Gravity was a force that it could choose
to obey or not.
Jafari veered around the stopped aircraft,
so he wouldn’t collide with it.
He turned his jet back around and headed back
towards the unidentified vessel at a slower
speed.
On the return approach by Jafari something
even stranger happened.
The UFO dropped a bright object out from its
main hull.
Jafari reported that the object was headed
straight for him and his F-4 Phantom.
It looked like a torpedo made of light.
He attempted to lock on to the incoming projectile
with his AIM-9 Sidewinder infrared guided
missiles.
But just after getting a lock he lost all
communications with the weapons console.
Jafari was forced to take evasive actions
and turn away from the projectile.
He jammed the flight stick to the side.
The F-4 did a barrel roll and avoided the
incoming object.
Jafari leveled off again and when he turned
back to look for the object shot at him, Jafari
said he saw the device reverse course and
rejoin the main UFO.
It then seemed to dock with the “mothership.”
Jafari then witnessed another bright object
coming out of the main UFO and descending
straight down toward the ground.
It left a bright trail of light as it descended.
The ambient light lit up an area of around
three kilometers.
Then as if it was done with the business it
came to Iran to conduct, the UFO accelerated
and shot out of the atmosphere.
Jafari watched as the strobing lights faded
into the night sky.
As the F-4 Phantom prepared to land it experienced
more communication and navigational failures.
Upon further investigation a commercial airliner
in the area also reported communication failures
at the same time as Jafari, but the airliner
did not see the UFO.
Ground troops were sent to recover the fallen
object, but as they approached the area their
equipment started to malfunction.
No trace of whatever the UFO shot towards
the ground was ever found… as far as we
know.
Approximately three decades went by without
any reports from Iran about UFOs in their
airspace.
Then in 2004 strange aircraft were once again
encountered by the Iranain Air Force.
At this time Iran was still using a few F-14
Tomcats that they had purchased from America
before the revolution.
The Iranian military used the Tomcats to protect
their nuclear facilities.
Considered one of the most successful fighter
jets ever built, its speed, maneuverability,
and weapon capabilities make it an aircraft
to be feared and respected.
The encounter in 2004 went something like
this.
An alarm was raised when an unidentified flying
object was picked up on radar.
The UFO entered the airspace above one of
Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Fighter pilots ran to their jets.
Mechanics shouted to one another as they prepared
the planes for takeoff.
The pilots were secured in the cockpits by
the support crew and the hatch was sealed.
The only contact with the outside world was
through their helmet.
Pure oxygen was being pumped into their facemask
to keep them alert.
Over their coms head military personnel were
barking orders.
“An attack on our nuclear facilities could
be incoming!
We need planes in the air now!” the commander
shouted.
The Iranian pilots flicked the afterburner
switch on their engine controls.
The F-14 Tomcats accelerated off of the runway
and into the black sky as flames shot out
the back of their jet engines.
As they reached Mach 2 the sonic booms could
be heard throughout the desert below.
The Iranian military launched eight F-14s,
eight F-4 Phantoms and two large reconnaissance
aircraft to intercept the UFO.
The task force encountered objects that they
claimed had “astonishing flight characteristics.”
One of the F-14 Tomcats tried to lock onto
the brightly shining objects only to have
his radar disrupted.
The pilot who was tracking the object described
it as being spherical and having a green afterburn.
It was recorded that whatever engines were
producing the green aura were leaving considerable
amounts of turbulence behind them.
It was like flying through a lightning storm.
The planes shook and convulsed uncontrollably.
The task force swung out of the turbulent
wake of the UFO and tried to flank it from
the sides.
Before they could get into position the spherical
object shot off like a comet, leaving a tail
of green light behind as it exited the atmosphere.
The eerie glow was ingrained into the minds
of the pilots who were in the task force that
day.
The Iranian Air Force remained on high alert
for any further UFO activity after the 2004
event.
Then in 2012 another strange phenomena occurred.
A UFO was spotted in Iranian airspace.
It did not show up on radar at first.
But then all of a sudden a blip appeared.
It was like the ship was cloaked and had just
appeared out of thin air.
The military scrambled the F-14s and pursued
the vessel.
But then tragedy struck.
As one of the F-14s took off it exploded in
midair.
The aircraft was consumed in a fireball.
The smoldering metal fell from the sky and
landed in the sands below.
Some accounts claimed that the UFO attacked
the F-14 right after it took off.
Perhaps using laser beams or a highly advanced
weapon that ignited the fuel in the plane’s
tanks.
Both of the crewmen in the plane were killed
instantly.
Reports by the Iranian government seem to
suggest that the UFO had something to do with
the mishap, but it is unclear the role the
unidentified aircraft played in the catastrophe.
The other F-14s flew after the unidentified
object.
Every time they tried to get a lock on the
UFO their armament systems would malfunction.
The dull green light of their screens would
appear to be working perfectly one moment
and as soon as a lock was achieved everything
went black.
The pilots would try rebooting the systems
mid flight, but nothing seemed to work.
The UFO quickly outpaced the F-14 Tomcats
as it reached Mach 10, a speed faster than
any aircraft currently produced can fly.
It was almost like the UFO was toying with
the F-14s.
With the afterburners on the Tomcats pursued
their enemy at a top speed of just over Mach
2.
This is 1534 miles per hour.
The encounter ended similarly to the one in
2004.
The UFO shot out of the atmosphere with a
glowing tail of exhaust behind it.
Each of the unexplained encounters recorded
incredible capabilities of the UFOs.
In all three cases radar was jammed and weapons
systems malfunction when the UFO was present.
It seems that once the UFO left the general
area the instruments started to work properly
again.
You have to wonder what whoever was controlling
the UFOs was after.
Their radar jamming capabilities seem highly
sophisticated, yet they still allowed the
Iranian military to know they were there.
Was it an accident all three times?
Or was it the UFO testing Iran’s Air Force
capabilities?
Another common factor between the encounters
was that the UFOs all left the atmosphere
after encountering the Iranian aircrafts.
They seemed to launch away at Mach 10, which
is ten times the speed of sound, or 7,612
miles per hour.
The closest any known human aircraft has gotten
to that speed was Mach 9.68.
This was achieved by a NASA experimental hypersonic
aircraft called the X-43.
And why did they shoot out of the atmosphere
instead of just leaving Iranian airspace?
Was there some other vessel waiting for them
in orbit around Earth?
Was there a large mothership waiting to launch
to lightspeed once the reconnaissance ships
returned?
All of the accounts also mention the UFOs
hovering, which means that they could remain
in the air with a velocity of zero.
The massive acceleration it would take to
go from 0 to Mach 10 in seconds, is not possible
with our current technology.
All of the UFOs were also described as “luminous
objects.”
They emitted some kind of light, whether it
was the strobes from 1976, or the green afterburn
glow of the 2000’s.
Could the lights be some sort of undiscovered
propulsion from an advanced alien race?
Or is there a country on Earth that has discovered
an advanced propulsion system that the public
is unaware of?
There are several theories as to what the
UFOs might have been.
Iran has claimed that they were secret United
States spy planes.
They have also suggested that the aircraft
were state of the art drones that the U.S.
military was using to spy on Iran.
However, the United States does not have the
technology or capability for achieving Mach
10.
It also seems unlikely that a spy aircraft
would emit bright lights that would give its
position away.
Could the UFOs that Iran encountered be extraterrestrial?
Is there any evidence to support that aliens
have a special interest in Iranian nuclear
sites?
At this point in time, all we know is that
on three separate occasions, skilled Iranian
Air Force pilots encountered unidentified
flying objects with advanced technological
capabilities.
There seems to be no definitive explanation
for the UFOs encountered by Iranian military
personnel.
Whether the United States has advanced secret
technology, or Iran has encountered extraterrestrial
UFOs, the three events still remain a mystery
to this day.
What do you think the UFOs in Iranian airspace
were?
Do you think they were secret spy planes or
alien spaceships?
Let us know in the comments!
