# Inspector task sheet

Tehran, 1976: lights, interceptors and reported equipment failures

## 1. Trace the earliest accessible record

For Tehran, 1976: lights, interceptors and reported equipment failures, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable.

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## 2. Investigate the central question

Transcribe each message version with line-level references. Preserve units and ambiguous abbreviations. Seek original flight, radar and maintenance records and compare their clocks before proposing causation. Check ordinary astronomical and aerial candidates against each specific bearing and time rather than using one label for the entire episode.

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## 3. Compare explanations without merging evidence

Compare sky reconstruction and maintenance evidence with each observation. Require synchronised sensor and technical records linking the same source to the failures. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed.

Status: proposed; not completed.
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