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Scans matching “Tehran UFO incident”4 scans

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  Iranian Air Force F-4 at Shiraz AB, August 1977. Same type, not one of the jets involved Scan

  US National Archives, NAID 325597374 ·from The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident (Dogfight over Tehran) (1976)
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  Page 2 of the MIJI Quarterly article on the Tehran case Scan

  Capt. Henry S. Shields, USAF ·from The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident (Dogfight over Tehran) (1976)

  A second F-4 was scrambled ten minutes after the first. The backsenter reported radar-lock on the UFO at 27 NM/12 o'clock high position, and a rate of closure of 150 knots. Upon reaching the 25 NM point, the object began rapidly moving away to maintain a constant separation distance while still visi…

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  Page 3 of the MIJI Quarterly article on the Tehran case Scan

  Capt. Henry S. Shields, USAF ·from The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident (Dogfight over Tehran) (1976)

  adjusting their night vision devices for landing. The landing was further complicated by excessive interference on UHF and a further complete loss of all communications when passing through a 150 degree magnetic bearing from the home base. The inertial navigation system simultaneously fluctuated fro…

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  Page 1 of "Now You See It, Now You Don't!", USAF MIJI Quarterly, October 1978 Scan

  Capt. Henry S. Shields, USAF ·from The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident (Dogfight over Tehran) (1976)

  NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T! (U) Captain Henry S. Shields, HQ USAFE/INOMP 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. The following article recounts just such an ep…