Bushehr, seen from both sides
The 2020 US reports placed in the Strait of Hormuz actually sit on Bushehr: three grid references fall on the nuclear plant. Independently, the Iranian Air Force logged about 180 sightings around Bushehr, Natanz and Arak in 2003-05 and lost an F-14 on a Bushehr scramble in 2012.
- Cases
- 7
- Countries
- 2
- Span
- 2003–2020
- Found by
- Cross-match
The cases
- 2003Iran's Air Force and the luminous objects over its nuclear sitesBetween 2003 and 2005 Iran's Air Force logged nearly 180 sightings of luminous objects, clustered around the Bushehr, Natanz and Arak nuclear sites.
- 2020Three separate UAP observations on one ISR mission over the Persian Gulf (16 July 2020)This mission report covers a 21-hour-17-minute ISR flight that took off from OKAS at 0443Z on 16 July 2020.
- 2020Range Fouler: one object overtaken by another, then three on screen (31 August 2020)A 482nd Attack Squadron pilot (rank O-2) on an ISR mission at dusk on 31 August 2020 saw an object fly through the sensor screen and started tracking it.
- 2020Range Fouler: a solid white object makes "erratic moments" over the northern Gulf (14 May 2020)On a night ISR mission on 14 May 2020, the crew's infrared sensor (black hot) caught a solid white object passing through the field of view at 20:40Z.
- 2020An ISR crew records one UAP "transitting" over the Persian Gulf (8 August 2020)This is a mission report (MISREP 4592219) from the 482nd Attack Squadron.
- 2020A "formation of unknown flying objects" tracked along the coast for two minutes (27 August 2020)This is a mission report (MISREP 4685903) from the 482nd Attack Squadron.
- 2020One UAP on full-motion video off Bushehr, Iran, on a mission with two lost-link events (16 September 2020)This is a mission report (MISREP 4782130) from the 482nd Attack Squadron.
What if?
If both sides saw the same thing, it was watching the plant, not the aircraft watching Iran.
What would settle it
Full grid plots of every 2020 report, and the IRIAF files behind the 2003-05 counts.