UAP EP 237 Cold Case Files vol. 3 - The Iranian Incident 50 Years Later

On the night of September 19, 1976, civilians in Tehran began calling in reports of a strange, brilliant light in the sky—something that looked "similar to a star, but bigger and brighter." Within hours, the Iranian Air Force scrambled an F-4 jet to investigate, and what followed became one of the most credible and least-discussed UFO incidents on record. Fifty years later, podcast host Steven Deaner revisits the case, drawing on newly surfaced testimony from the pilot who was there, and connects it to modern reports of orbs, motherships, and a pattern that refuses to go away.

The Encounter at 25 Miles

The first F-4 pilot to approach the object lost all instrumentation and communications when he got within 25 nautical miles. As soon as he turned back, his systems returned to normal. A second jet was scrambled, piloted by squadron commander Parviz Jafari, who would later become a general in the Iranian Air Force. Jafari described the object as flashing with "intense red, green, orange, and blue" lights in a rapid strobe-like sequence, so bright he could not make out the craft's body. His radar locked onto an object the size of a Boeing 707 tanker. When he closed to 25 miles, the object moved away at visible speed and maintained that exact distance—as if enforcing a perimeter.