Olin Mooy

Olin Mooy was a U.S. Air Force Colonel with a multi-decade military career, stationed with the Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG) in Tehran. He took part in Major Parviz Jafari's debriefing after the 1976 Tehran incident, conducted interviews with Iranian Air Force pilots and authored the classified teletype memo documenting the incident. The memo went to the CIA, NSA, the White House and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; later declassified via FOIA, it became the primary historical document of the case.

• U.S. Air Force Colonel with a multi-decade military career
• Stationed with the Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG) in Tehran
• Multiple U.S. bases and two overseas tours
• Took part in Major Parviz Jafari's debriefing after the 1976 Tehran incident
• Invited to the official U.S. Air Force investigation; conducted interviews with Iranian Air Force pilots
• Author of the classified teletype memo, distributed to the CIA, NSA, the White House and Henry Kissinger
• Memo later declassified through FOIA requests; primary historical document of the case; told Jafari "You're lucky you couldn't fire"

For the UAP timeline, Mooy is the file producer of the Tehran case: without his memo the incident would remain an Iranian military anecdote — with it, it becomes a formal U.S. intelligence document that even reached Kissinger's desk.