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32 NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOu DON’ 1! (u) Captain Henry S. Shields, HQ USAFE/INOMP (U) Sometime in his career, each pilot can expect to encounter strange, unusual happenings which will never be adequately or entirely explained by logic or subsequent investigation, The follow- ing article recounts just such an episode as reported by two F-4 Phantom crews of the Imperial Iranian Air Force during late 1976. No additional information or explanation of the strange events has been forthcoming; the story will be filed away and probably for- gotten, but it makes interesting,and possibly disturbing, readi…

. (Cc) A second F-4 was scrambled wer minutes after the first. The backseater reported radar-lock on the UFO at 27 NM/12 o'clock high position, and a rate of closure of 150 knots. Upon reaching the 25 NM point, the object began rapidly moving away to maintain a constant separation distance while still visible on the radar scope. While the size of the radar return was comparable to that ofa KC- 135, its intense brilliance made estimation of actual size impossible. Visually, it resembled flashing strobe lights arranged in a rectangu- lar pattern and alternating blue, green, red, and orange. Thei…

34 mt iN | h bees “adjusting their night vision devices for landing. The landing was further complicated by excessive interference on UHF and a further © — complete loss of all communications when passing through a 150 degree magnetic bearing from the home base. The inertial naviga- tion system simultaneously fluctuated from 30 to 50 degrees, A civil airliner approaching the area also experienced a similar communica- tions failure, but reported no unusual sightings. (C) While on a long final approach, the F-4 crew noted a further UFO. This was described as a cylinder-shaped object (about the s…