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
Part of a wave
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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