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merlyn's and gentlemen my name is

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Parviz Jafari and I'm a retired General

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of Iranian Air Force at about 11 p.m. on

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the evening of 18 September 1976

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citizens were frightened by circling of

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an unknown object over Tehran the

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capital city of Iran at a low altitude

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it looked similar to Assad but bigger

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and brighter they reported it to the

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tower and was seen by tower man too he

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alerted their first command post and

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deputy general Youssef II decided to

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scramble and f4j to investigate the

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pilot in the first jet last

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instrumentation and communication when

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he got too close to the brilliant object

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so he headed back about 10 minutes later

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they scrambled a second jet which I was

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piloting at the time I was a squadron

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commander I approached the object which

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was flashing with intense red green

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orange and blue the light was so bright

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that I was not able to see its body the

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sequence of flashes was extremely fast

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like a strobe light we lock on it with

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radar at it was at 30 degrees left as

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range of 25 miles the size and the radar

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scope was

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today is 707 tanker for other object

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with different shapes separated from the

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main one at different times during the

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this close encounter whenever they were

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close to me my weapon were jammed and my

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radio communications were garbled one of

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the object headed toward me I thought it

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was a missile I tried to launch a

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heat-seeking missile to it but my

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missile panel went out another followed

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me when I was descending on the way back

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one of the separated object landed in an

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open area radiating a high bright light

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in which the sands on the ground were

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visible

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we could hear mergency squash at all the

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way which was reported by other

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airliners flying at the time and

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continued for another couple of days

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during my interview at headquarters

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after the incident the American

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lieutenant-colonel alla Moy took notes

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but after it was over I could not find

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him to talk with later at once later

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once classified document was released

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here in America through the Freedom of

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Information Act the Defense Intelligence

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Agency documented the event in a great

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detail and it was sent to NSA the White

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House and the CIA the DIA assessment

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said please case is a classic that meets

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all necessary conditions for a legend

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tape study of the UFO phenomena

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dan dye that would be happy to answer

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question and tell you more thank you