1976 Tehran UFO Incident #4 for Sightings TV

CLIENT: The "Sightings" TV series aired on Paramount Television Network aboard Paramount Studios, executive producers Henry Winkler and Michelle S. Davis.

THE SEGMENT FOR SIGHTINGS: The UFO small craft eluded all military response was eventually seen by a number of early morning witnesses interacting with the ground at the crest of the the Alborz mountain range north of the Downtown of Tehran, the Capital of Iran. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his government was still the supreme authority in Iran at the time as the Iranian Revolution spurred by the renegade Ayatollah Rudolla Khomeni and his fellow Shi'ite Ayatollahs was still three years away in the future.

Client: Henry Winkler and Michelle S. Davis, Executive Producers, "Sightings," Paramount Television, 1993 and 1994.

Materials: Illustration rendered with India ink, F/W ink pigments, Prisma pencils and acrylic tube paints.

Facts: 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 19 September 1976. During the incident, two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors reported losing instrumentation and communications as they approached the object.

One of the pilots was none other than Amir Hossein Rabii, Sepahbod, Imperial Iranian Air Force. the other pilot was his wingman. Four crewmembers in two planes engaged the bogies in the skies over Tehran. Their flight instrumentation in both aircraft were restored upon withdrawal. THe general had to dive away twice after illuminating his UFO target with his attack radar. General Rabii's aircraft also reported a temporary weapons systems failure while the crew was preparing to open fire on their first attempt to engage.
An initial report of the incident was relayed to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff on 19 September 1976. One pilot's report of "bright objects" that "came at him, and that shot straight down into the ground."

Stripped of details, a couple of F4 jets from the Iranian air force were scrambled to investigate some sightings of lights in the sky. Reports vary, but at least one jet suffered grave electrical failures, tried to fire a missile at something and had something fired at it. A nearby jet airliner also suffered radio failure.