Unexplainable Sightings – Iran 1978
The political situation between the United States and Iran had become a crisis in the late 1970's as the Islamic fundamentalists overthrew the country's Shah who had been a good friend to US interests. With a 180-degree turnabout in diplomatic relations between the two nations, it was feared that war could break out at any moment. The United States began constant routine surveillance of the airspace over Iran while the Iranian military kept watch on the sky against possible foreign attack.
In June of 1978, a student, Jamshid Saiadipour, then 16 years of age, had been studying for an exam when he was distracted by the vision of an unidentifiable aircraft he saw from his family's apartment where they lived in the city of Sheraz. While they did not come to light until three years later, the Iranian youth, Franklin Youri, also spotted and photographed a similar looking craft on October 8 of 1978 near the western Iranian Lake Urmia.
Some years later a "Freedom of Information" lawsuit against our federal government exposed the extreme interest being taken in these photographs shot by two young men in what was in all but fact a hostile country. Ufologists have long claimed that Iran is a "hotbed" of UFO sightings. The interest in this case became critical on September 19, 1978 when two American-made F-4 fighters of the Iranian Air Force encountered, once again, a craft of the type photographed by the two boys. They attempted to fire upon the unknown craft but reported that the missile fire-control systems kept malfunctioning.
There has been made the suggestion that the reason the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff were so interested in the photographs and reports of this particular type of craft is due to its uncanny resemblance to the front profile of their, then still secret, stealth bombers and fighters. It is thought they were desperately searching to know if the same technology had been created by another country. That the unknown craft seen and photographed in Iran was either white or of a metallic silver contrasts with the usual matte black we paint our stealth aircraft only increased the position that it was a never before seen type of vehicle.
Ufologists demand more investigation into these sightings although it is a very cold trail that leads back to the photos. Every nation involved knew it was not one of theirs nor who it could have been that sent it over Iranian airspace at least three times. To this day, the strange craft is listed among the top unknowns in the history of watching what flies in our skies.
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