Talk:1976 Tehran UFO incident/Archive 1

GA review (Fail)

1. Well-written. The writing needs work. It needs to be more engaging and more concisely written. See WP:MOS, WP:LEDE and WP:IA.
2. Factually accurate and verifiable. This article has very few sources and almost no inline citations. This article needs significant work sourcing its claims. See WP:CITE and WP:ATT.
3. Broad in its coverage. The breadth of coverage is decent, though more detail could be added.
4. Neutral point of view. This article does reasonably well at balancing the claims, but does seem to spend a lot of time with an apologetic approach. A more neutral tone reporting the facts and specifically attributing claims is needed.
5. Stable. No problems with stability.
6. Use of images. Needs more images to compliment the article.

This article needs significant work to reach GA standards. Vassyana 05:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Emergency squash

Would someone knowledgable amplify what the term "emergency squash" means, used in the Jafari quote...

We could hear emergency squash all the way, which was reported by other airliners flying at the time and continued for another couple of days.

Is it a radio comms term, like squelch? JBel (talk) 12:30, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Article needs heavy editing/improvements

This entire article reads like something you would find on one of those horrible UFO Hunter shows. Clearly written by true believers without a shred of objectivity. I'm going to try to research some and edit the page, but I could use some help.JoelWhy (talk) 18:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm finally getting back to this page and see that the page continues to violate NPOV. It relies extensively of UFO books, which only meet Wiki requirements for purposes of showing what UFO believers think. They simply cannot be used as a neutral source for demonstrating what events transpired. I'm trying to track down the Klass book, which, from what I understand, is misrepresented in this article. Will try to edit more once I can obtain a copy.JoelWhy (talk) 18:17, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

It depends on what UFO sources you're using. Timothy Good isn't very reliable, as he believes "contactee" claims, and Fawcett is also suspect. Jerome Clark, however, is much more reliable, and he uses primary sources, such as newspaper accounts. Philip Klass is just as biased in the other direction, as he's a hard-core UFO debunker (and not a credentialed scientist, for that matter). I do think his views need to be more prominently included in the article, however, as this article does have little or no balance, and certainly some skeptical viewpoints would greatly improve the article. However, while skepticial views need to be more prominently mentioned, I don't think replacing a supposedly "pro-UFO" viewpoint with a completely debunking one is an improvement, and would still violate Wiki's neutrality clause - just as the article currently does. It seems a better and more informative approach for a general reader of this article would be to include both pro and con views from the most reliable sources, and thus would remove any NPOV. Just a thought. 70.145.229.162 (talk) 04:53, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Reliability?

Guys please try to understand what reliability is? In case of UFO the debunkers are probably as unreliable, if not more, as the believers. You should use the account of Jafari to report what the incident was. Anybody else other than Jafari (and the other Iran's defense officers involved and perhaps the document which showed US involvement at heighest level and which was confirmed by Jafari) is secondary source. In fact all UFO debunkers in this case are tertiary sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.84.195.181 (talk) 17:52, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

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UFO flying like object was seen in India

in the month of July 1978 flying object with emitting sparkles and lights and pipe like seen by me. in the east- north corner of the Sky. I was standing with friend in the street of Rajkot City, Gujarat India. Next day local daily had reported flying pipe seen in the sky. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.211.120.41 (talk) 14:18, 28 April 2016 (UTC)