Hossein Shokri

Hossein Shokri was an officer of the Imperial Iranian Air Force who served as a pilot in the pre-revolutionary force and was involved in the 1976 Tehran UFO incident. As part of the military response to an unidentified object over Tehran, the F-4 Phantom interceptors of his unit experienced weapons-system and instrument failures during the encounter.

• Officer of the Imperial Iranian Air Force
• Served as a pilot in the pre-revolutionary Iranian Air Force
• Involved in the 1976 Tehran UFO incident
• Participated in the military response to an unidentified object over Tehran
• F-4 Phantom interceptors experienced weapons and instrument malfunctions during the encounter
• Active role in the military response to the UFO
• Participated in the pursuit with fighter aircraft

For the UAP timeline, Shokri is one of the accompanying witnesses of the Iranian Tehran episode who — alongside Jafari and Khani — confirms the thesis of operational breadth: it was not just one cockpit but an entire military response apparatus that experienced the same technical anomaly on that September morning of 1976.