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UFO case file · UFO-17091

Near Tabriz — reported removal of two people

CE4Iran1976-09-18

NEAR TABRIZ, IRAN, AZR, Iran

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Near Tabriz — reported removal of two people
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Near Tabriz — reported removal of two people

Case description

At approximately noon on September 18, 1976, two people near Tabriz, Iran, reportedly encountered a glittering object that landed about one hundred metres from their car. The brief catalogue account does not give their names or identify the road. Figures described as resembling mummies were said to emerge from the object. The account then alleges that the two people were taken away. It does not preserve their own description of an interior, explain how they were moved, or give the length of their absence. The available narrative ends at that reported removal. No return sequence or later statement from the participants is supplied, so those portions cannot be reconstructed from this digest.

Recorded details

Local time
12:00
Craft description
Craft / Vehicle
Entity description
Humanlike, Other Nonhuman Biological
Coordinate precision
SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

Case videos and witness interviews

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The Tabriz September 18 case is a brief additional account during the Iran discussion. Simon Taylor and Raza’s longer September 16 mountain encounter is separate. The programme names the Tabriz witnesses; the historical Atlas digest leaves them unnamed. This is the brief Tabriz account within the Taylor/Reza segment, not their camping encounter. The film supplies a name but no detailed interior, duration or return sequence; noon in the Atlas digest is not verified here.

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