John Greenewald- 1976 Tehran UFO Documents.

karl 12

Noble
"Yet, heading back to what the government says, and this statement does come straight from the Pentagon, "no government agency has taken an interest in investigating [UFOs] since the closure of Blue Book in 1969." Something does not line up, because here we are, faced with hundreds of documents slamming right through that 1969 cut off date..'

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Despite the statement above concerning the U.S. Gov's official (yet contradictory) stance on UFO investigation John Greenwald Junior describes below how specific internal government documentation on the (extremely strange) 1976 Tehran UFO case became the motivation for compiling the BlackVault archive.. now at over 2 million declassified pages.





It happened more than 44 years ago. A UFO event seen over Tehran, Iran, defied logic, or explanation to highly trained pilots, tower operators and military officials. The government intelligence report that documents the story is only four pages in length – but back in 1996 – this one document became the motivation to create The Black Vault, and it continues to serve as the inspiration to keep it running now for nearly two and a half decades.



For folks unfamiliar with the case then there's a good breakdown in the vid below in which the unidentified flying object is described by witnesses as changing shape; splitting into two parts; jumping positions in the sky and ejecting a smaller object which moved rapidly towards pursuing fighter jets - another ejected object was also reported to have 'dropped quickly down to earth and landed gently on the ground casting a brilliant glow'.

As the narrator mentions, the incident does involve 'multiple trained independent witnesses with vastly different perspectives on the UFO; visual observations that were corroborated by radar data and several sightings which corresponded with equipment failures and physiological reactions on the witnesses' so no wonder the DIA, NSA, CIA and Joint Chiefs Of Staff were sent information on it (even though they have no interest in UFOs).





For several hours, multiple experienced pilots, air traffic controllers, and ground observers watched a UFO drift over the city of Tehran, and exhibit a wide range of baffling behaviours that they are still unable to explain.



A pretty awesome (and pretty rare) 1994 'Sightings' episode is also mentioned and linked below - it contains both civilian and military eyewitness interviews and also testimony concerning a top secret meeting between the Imperial Iranian Air Force and the USAF (see 8:40) - also reports of a 'calculated disinformation programme' designed to discredit and downplay the incident by manipulation of the Iranian news media.





The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident was a radar and visual sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) over Tehran, the capital of Iran, during the early morning hours of September 19th 1976. During the incident, two F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors supposedly lost instrumentation and communications as they approached, only to have them restored upon withdrawal; one of the aircraft also supposedly suffered temporary weapons systems failure, while preparing to open fire. The incident, recorded in a four-page U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) report distributed to at least the White House, Secretary of State, Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), remains one of the most well-documented military encounters with anomalous phenomena in history, and various senior Iranian military officers directly involved with the events have gone on public record stating their belief that the object was not of terrestrial origin.



• Documents:

THE TEHRAN 1976 CASE:

A declassified document related to the famous Teheran UFO and jet fighter encounter in 1976. This is a capital case, acknowleged by a US intelligence agency, where a UFO encountered an aircraft, and reacted in a superior ant intelligent manner to the aircraft's interception attempt by shutting down temporarily the aircraft's weapons system. The DIA evaluation termed this "An outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets all the criteria necessary for a valid study of the UFO phenomenon." The analysis called the UFO performance "awesome," noting that the objects displayed "an inordinate amount of maneuverability."

REFERENCES:

Title: DIA Defense Information Evaluation Report IR No. 6846013976 To: Censored Author: Major Roland B. Evans, USAF, Military Capability Analyst. Date: September 22, 1976 Length: 5 pages. Classification: Top secret, Declassified CC: None.

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Document Two

Document Three

Document Four

PDF File - Tehran UFO Documents



• Routing Slip:

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Another great find within the NSA files, was the routing slip for the original intelligence document. On it, it outlines the extreme importance of the case as it “met the criteria for a valid UFO study.” The reasons outlined were the credibility of the witnesses, which included an Air Force General; radar confirmation; electromagnetic effects on THREE seperate aircraft; physiological effect on some crew members; and a UFO which displayed in “inordinate amount of maneuver-ability.” Although difficult to read in its entirety, here is the relevant portion of the routing slip

The “1976 Iran Incident” – UFO Encounter over Tehran, Iran



• NSA Professor Michael Swords also mentions how the DIA documents were sent to the National Security Agency and includes an excerpt from the NSA's classified 'secret' intelligence magazine MIJI Quarterly - Senior DIA Analyst Major Henry S. Shields also makes a rather curious admission:



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The Air Force Admits Again That UFOs Are Real and Nobody's Listening. This report leaked through Iranian Air Force sources, or we'd probably never have gotten it. Once "out" however, the retrieval of documents by FOIA or other requests [for instance through Congressmen] gets a little more likely. Ultimately the DIA/NSA decided to release the documents which confirmed everything. In those documents were phrases like "outstanding report", "case is a classic", "meets all the criteria for a valid study of the UFO phenomenon"...I kid you not. The document on the right was an added surprise. The NSA had given the case reports to one of their operatives [also an Air Force officer] to include in the classified "Secret" intelligence magazine, MIJI Quarterly. They apparently had decided that cases like this needed to be known by operatives in the field who were charged with dealing with problems of "electronic countermeasures" such as jamming, signal confusion, instrument interference, etc. Captain Shields tells the whole tale. But what is of greater interest is the casual admission written just below the title: "Sometime in his career, each pilot can expect to encounter strange, unusual happenings which will never be adequately or entirely explained by logic or subsequent investigation. link



• CUFOS PDF File Sourced by Guest101

This link contains an interesting interview with Lt. Gen. Azarbarzin, at that time the deputy commander in chief of operations of the Imperial Iranian Air Force"
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Awesome thread Karl that I've been reading through this morning and this admission really sticks out to me, basically admitting UFOs are real as the title of that link states, "The Air Force Admits Again That UFOs Are Real and Nobody's Listening"...

In those documents were phrases like "outstanding report", "case is a classic", "meets all the criteria for a valid study of the UFO phenomenon"

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karl 12

Noble
A truly interesting UFO case mate and there's a relevant presentation here.





Apparently the unidentified object was 'intensely brilliant' and the flashing strobe lights were arranged in a rectangular pattern - the lights were alternating blue, green, red and orange in color and the flashing was 'so rapid that all colors could be seen at the same time'.

Below is a drawing based on a sketch from one of the main military witnesses:



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UFO debunker Phil Klass once tried to explain the object as the planet Jupiter and here's Kevin Randle's take on it.


Jerome Clark, in his UFO Encyclopedia, probably put it best. He wrote of Klass’ attempted explanations:

No satisfactory explanation for the incident has ever been proposed, though Philip J. Klass, author of several debunking books on UFOs, would attempt one. In Klass’s view, the witnesses initially saw an astronomical body, probably Jupiter, and pilot incompetence and equipment malfunction accounted for the rest…. Klass’s theory presumes, without clear or compelling evidence, a remarkable lack of even rudimentary observing and technical skills on the parts of the Iranian participants. In some ways it would be easier to credit the notion, for which no evidence exists either, that the witnesses consciously fabricated the sighting.

Or, in other words, the skeptical argument against the reality of the sighting fails because of the assumptions made about evidence that does not exist. Klass is forced to invent explanations rather than look at the evidence that is gathered. And this does not address his dismissal of the aircrews as incompetent, based it seems, on their nationality rather than their actual abilities.

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The claims made by the USAF that no agency has investigated unidentified flying objects since 1969 are also covered in these links:


Scrib doc - Secretary Of The Air Force, July, 1996

USAF Fact Sheet (PDF)


If a person believes that then they'll probably buy this one as well.

'No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security'

Cheers.
 
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