Aziz Khani

Aziz Khani — formally Captain Mohammad Reza Azizkhani — was an officer of the Imperial Iranian Air Force who piloted an F-4 Phantom from Shahrokhi Air Force Base during the 1976 Tehran UFO incident. He scrambled at 1:30 a.m. on 19 September 1976 to intercept an unidentified luminous object whose extreme brightness was visible from roughly 70 miles away, making him one of the central military witnesses in one of the best-documented UAP encounters in the world.

• Officer of the Imperial Iranian Air Force
• Held the full rank Captain Mohammad Reza Azizkhani
• Piloted an F-4 Phantom from Shahrokhi Air Force Base
• Involved in the 1976 Tehran UFO incident on 19 September 1976
• Scrambled to intercept at 1:30 a.m.
• Object visible from approximately 70 miles away due to its brightness
• Encountered the object's extreme brightness during his approach

Khani is, for the UAP timeline, the second Iranian fighter pilot alongside Parviz Jafari who can testify to the 1976 Tehran case from the cockpit of an F-4 Phantom — and thereby further strengthens the robustness of one of the best-documented aviation UAP cases in history.