CaseLight2011

Tehran (Iran), Iran

A flying Orange Light in the cloudy sky of Tehran in 03/13/2011

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-03-13
Where
Tehran (Iran), Iran
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
35.694, 51.422 · exact
Slug
light-over-tehran-iran-2011-bf8543
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Tehran (Iran), Iran shows up 24 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Iran in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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