This incident is Case 47 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 55 of the books covered by that article.
This incident featured as the second best incident in a documentary produced by Paul Kimball entitled “Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Cases”, purportedly based on the results of a survey conducted by Paul Kimball in 2005/2006 of “a select group of the world’s leading UFO researchers”.
This incident came sixth in an online poll conducted in March/April 2006 by Paul Kimball of “the UFO case with the ‘best evidence’ ever”.
This incident featured in a document (“the Rockefeller Briefing Document”) endorsed by Dr Mark Rodeghier (President of CUFOS), Richard Hall (Chairman of FUFOR) and Walter Andrus (President of MUFON) as containing “the best available evidence for the existence of UFOs”.
The National Enquirer reported that it had decided to award $5,000 to six Iranians in relation to this incident, following the recommendations of the members of its “blue ribbon” panel of UFO experts. Unfortunately for the relevant Iranian individuals, they were not permitted to accept the cash award which was instead awarded to an Iranian charity similar to the Red Cross.
This incident has also featured in lists by various UFO researchers of the top UFO cases, including the following:
- a list of the ten “best” case published by Ronald Story in his book “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981).
- a list of twenty UFO cases produced by Bruce Maccabee in 1999 in response to a challenge to produce “the best evidence for an extraterrestrial origin for the UFO phenomenon”.
- a list by James Carrion, the International Director of the Mutual UFO Network, of the “top 10 cases” in an interview in 2006.
- a list of cases produced by Stanton Friedman for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.
- a list of cases produced by British ufologist Nick Pope for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.
- a list of cases produced by British ufologist Jenny Randles for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.nicap.org/tehrandir.htm
Wikipedia article at : Jet chase near Tehran, Iran (1976)
This incident is discussed on the AboveTopSecret.com (“ATS”) internet discussion forums in Thread 179840.There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...
The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.
Book References
The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.
Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.
For discussion of the Tehran jet case incident see the following:
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Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 198-201 (in Chapter 7) of the Orion softcover edition. |
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Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-104 (in Part 2: Case Histories, section entitled “1976: UFO Dogfight Over Tehran”) of the Dell paperback edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 431-432 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel and Boar, Roger in their “The World’s Greatest UFO Mysteries” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 170-171 (in the chapter entitled “Encounters of the Aerial Kind”) of the Octopus hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Hamlyn softcover edition). |
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Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in Chapter 5) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 82, 83, 84 (in Chapter 4) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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Cawthorne, Nigel in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 254 (in the chapter entitled “Weird and Wacky”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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Cawthorne, Nigel in his “The World’s Greatest Alien Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 185-186 (in the chapter entitled “Weird and Wacky”) of the Hamlyn softcover edition. |
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Charles Lock in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Force To Be Reckoned With”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 535-537 of Volume 1:A-K (in an entry entitled “Iran CE2”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 203-208 (in Chapter 8) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 309-313 (in an entry entitled “Iran CE2”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 267-269 (in an entry entitled “Iran CE2”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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COMETA report (1999) at Chapter 2.3, pages 15-16 of the translation of the report appearing at: http://www.etcontact.net/newsite/files/COMETA_part1.pdf |
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Davenport, Marc in his “Visitors from Time” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 78 (in Chapter 6) of the 1994 revised Greenleaf softcover edition. |
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Fawcett, George and Greenwood, Barry in their “Clear Intent” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81-86 (in Chapter 6) of the Spectrum softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Fireside softcover edition published under the title “The UFO Cover-Up”). |
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Friedman, Stanton in an interview in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 25 (in Chapter 1) of the 2002 Group softcover edition. |
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Gansberg, Alan and Gansberg, Judith in their “Direct Encounters: The Personal Histories of UFO Abductees” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-112 (in Chapter 6) of the Walker & Co hardback edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 313-316 (in Chapter 13) , with the image of relevant contemporaneous document at pages 493-496 (in the Appendix), of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 283-286, 290 (in Chapter 13), with the image of relevant contemporaneous document at pages 297-289 (in Chapter 13), of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 302-303 (in Chapter 20) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition. |
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Greer, Steven in his “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 142-144 (in Chapter 21), 485-490 (in Part 4) of the Crossing Point softcover edition. |
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Haines, Richard in “Investigating the Paranormal” (1997) (Edited by Bill Fawcett) at page 6 (in Section 1) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Haines, Richard in his “CE-5 : Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 175, 228-232 (in Chapter 4) of the Sourcebooks softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 49 (in Section 1), 94-95 (in Section 2, “Military Witnesses”) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 202 (in Chapter 13), 288-289 (in Appendix A) of the Aurora Press paperback edition. |
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Hansen, Kim in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-88 (in Chapter 2.3.2, entitled “UFO Casebook”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Hough, Peter and Kalman, Moyshe in their “The UFO Files: Alien Abductions” (1999) (previously published under the title “The Truth About Alien Abductions) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-13 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Huneeus, Antonio in “Of Heaven and Earth: Essays Presented at the First Sitchin Studies Day” (1996) (edited by Zecharia Sitchin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-147 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Exploring the Anunnaki-UFO link”) of the The Book Tree softcover edition. |
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Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-124 (in Chapter 14 generally, “UFOs over Iran”) of the Prometheus softback edition. |
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National Enquirer (Editors of) in “UFO Report” (1985) at pages 37-38 (in Chapter 2) of the Pocket paperback edition. |
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NICAP and Hall, Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 358-360 (in an entry entitled “Tehran (Iran) jet chase”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Nixon, Neil in his “Pocket Essentials : UFOs” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-62 (in Chapter 4) of the Pocket Essentials softcover edition. |
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Oberg, James in his “UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries” (1982) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 7 (in the Introduction) of the Donning paperback edition. |
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Paget, Peter in his “The Welsh Triangle” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 153-155, 156 (in Chapter 10) of the Grafton paperback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 244-248 (in Chapter 20 generally) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 103-104 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Beyond Our Scope?”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-75 (in Chapter 11) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-97 (in Chapter 8) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 86 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Reality” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 135-136 (in Chapter 9) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 1) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Redfern, Nicholas in his “A Covert Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 279-282 (in Chapter 19) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 202 (in an entry entitled “Tehran incident”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 76-77 (in Chapter 3) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 319-320 (in an entry entitled “Teheran, Iran”), ix (in a list entitled “Chronological list of UFO sightings”) of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Shough, Martin Lawrence in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 228 (in Chapter 3.4.4, entitled “ |
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Stone, Clifford E in his “UFOs are Real“ (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-23 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 573-574 (in an entry entitled “Tehran (Iran) jet chase”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 561-562 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 686-688 (in an entry entitled “Tehran (Iran) jet chase”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Story, Ronald in his “UFOs and the Limits of Science” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 141-143 (Chapter 9 generally), 21-22 (included in a list of ten “best” cases) of the NEL Hardback edition. |
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Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100-102 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer (i.e. Lord Clancarty) in The House of Lords UFO Debate (1979.0118) at columns 1249- |
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Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science : Volume 2 (Journals 1970-1979)” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 376-377 of the Documatica Research hardback edition. |
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Von Buttlar, Johannes in his “The UFO Phenomenon” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 184-185 (in Chapter 15) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Welfare, Simon and Fairley, John in their “Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 253 (in Chapter 10) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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