Teheran, Iran, April 1959April 1959

Insufficient Data

Summary

Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's 22-year UFO investigation program, opened a case file on a sighting reported from Teheran, Iran, April 1959 in April 1959. The full case file (4 scanned pages of witness statements, Air Force memoranda, and investigator notes) is reproduced below as held by the National Archives. The Air Force assigned this case to its broader investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena alongside ~12,600 other reports filed between 1947 and 1969. Citation: NARA Record Group 341, Microfilm Publication T1206, Roll 36.

Reported location

Teheran, Iran, April 1959

Date of incident

April 1959

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 36

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 4

Transcribed text

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD \

| Ege 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

: : ! i 0 Was Balloon i

E : ol Ave BS | Teheran, Iran 0 Probably Balloon

[| 3. DATETIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION shir ily

- FAVE g 0 Was Aircraft ;

- Local Fe 8 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft

: i CMT_= [CURL fo 0 Air Visuol 0 Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft

; 5. PHOTOS | 8. SOURCE i 0 Was Astronomical

a 0 Yes | [I Probably Astronomical |

Lo) O No | aR TE 0-- Possibly Astronomical v= + 1

. 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE |i Other

| ; 0D Insufficient Data for Evaluation
a 0 Unknown

ee 2 Yale! { one South

a 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

4 1 Obj surrounded by bluish-white glow, travigling General description and length

4 at great speed fm North to South. Sources of time in sight are typical of a

E stated that it wasddifficult to ascertain exdef/meteor.

3 shape due to brightness of obj, bub that 4% ‘had

3 a ratio of length to width approx 4 to 1. No

E sound. Glow faded out abrubily south of

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4 ATIC FORM 329 (RY 28 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28983114

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Agencies

United States Air Force

Dates

1959 1959-04-01