Thanks for taking my call. Listen, I've been researching military UFO encounters for over fifteen years now, and there's one case that I keep coming back to. And here's the thing, this case has everything. Military witnesses, radar confirmation, weapons system failures. It happened back in September of 1976, over Tehran, Iran. And I need to tell you about it because the main witness, a fighter pilot named Farhad Jahani, he passed away a few years back. Someone needs to keep telling his story. So here's what we know. It was the night of September 18th, 1976. A clear autumn evening in Tehran. Around ten thirty at night, an experienced air traffic controller named Reza Karimi was working at Mehrabad International Airport. He was running a training session for some junior controllers when the phone started ringing. A woman calling from northeast of the airport, from the Shemiran district, she's frantic. She's describing this luminous object in the sky, glowing red, yellow, and orange. She said it was shaped like a four-blade fan, and here's the strange part, it seemed to split in two. Now, Karimi, he's a professional. He's not going to panic over one call. But then a few minutes later, another call comes in. Different person, same area of sky, same description. This caller says the object split in two and then rejoined as one. Then two more calls in the next half hour. Four separate witnesses, all describing the same impossible thing.
So Karimi decides to see for himself. The tower radar was under repair that night, so he couldn't confirm anything electronically. He steps outside with a pair of binoculars and looks in the direction the callers had been pointing. And what he sees, I mean, this is coming from his own testimony, he described a luminous cylindrical object sitting horizontally in the sky, about 6,000 feet off the ground. He estimated it was roughly 26 feet wide. Each end was glowing blue, and there was a red light making an orbit around the center every second or two, pausing at 90-degree intervals. The whole thing was rocking back and forth like a seesaw. But here's where it gets really strange. As Karimi watched, the object slowly changed shape. It transformed into what he called a drooping star shape with a green body and a red glowing core. The arms of the star were dark orange, fading to yellow at the tips. When his trainees looked through the binoculars a few minutes later, they saw a semicircle. The thing was constantly changing form. And sometimes it would drift north, sometimes south, and at one point it seemed to instantaneously disappear and reappear a few kilometers from its original position. Around twelve thirty in the morning, now September 19th, Karimi called the Imperial Iranian Air Force and got through to Brigadier General Mehdi Rashidi, the Assistant Deputy Commander of Operations. Rashidi went up to the roof of his house in northern Tehran, looked for himself, and confirmed it wasn't a star. His exact words were, it isn't a star. At one thirty in the morning, Rashidi called Shahrokhi Air Force Base in Hamadan, about 175 miles west of Tehran, and scrambled an F-4 Phantom jet. Air Force Base personnel heard about this incident - Cora'
The first pilot, a man named Hamid Tehrani, he could see the object distinctly from over 70 miles away. Think about that. 70 miles. He said it was radiating violet, orange and white light and appeared to be about 12,000 feet off the ground. But he couldn't make out its shape because it was just too bright. Tehrani was only supposed to get a visual inspection, but when he approached within about 29 miles of the object, it moved further away. Even pushing his Phantom to Mach 2, over 1,500 miles per hour, he couldn't close the distance. The thing was toying with him. And then, when he turned back toward Tehran, another smaller object flew up from behind and darted past him, racing back to the city while he was still 150 miles away. But here's what really got my attention when I first read the reports. Every time Tehrani approached the object, he lost all his instruments and communications. Radio, navigation, everything went dead. But the moment he turned away, everything came back online. It happened multiple times. On his last approach, he lost his radio and intercom completely. He also picked up an emergency beacon signal that four other aircraft had heard earlier that night, even though there was no record of any crash. Running low on fuel, he had no choice but to return to base.
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