The Libri GmbH Aviation UFO Files-The Tehran UFO Incident of 1976

On the night of September 18, 1976, a command post serving Tehran logged a string of calls about a brilliant light hovering over the city-one no witness would accept as a star or planet. Within hours, an F-4 Phantom roared off the runway at Shahrokhi air base toward something visible from seventy miles away. Then the weapons failed.

Reconstructed minute-by-minute from intelligence files and official memoranda, this account follows the tower operators, the deputy commander who stepped outside to see for himself, and the fighter crews scrambled into the dark. Two jets. One impossible adversary. A night an air force aimed at the unknown-and what its instruments recorded.