CaseFormation2016

Tehran, Iran

UFO lights above Tehran, capital of Iran. ((NUFORC Note: Image looks to us possibly to be a lens flare. PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-05-16
Where
Tehran, Iran
Shape
Formation
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
35.694, 51.422 · exact
Slug
formation-over-tehran-2016-2a1348
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Tehran, Iran in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iran logged 5 sightings in 2016.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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