Following on from my previous post about discrepancies in the accounts of the Tehran incident, it seems that the assumption that Lt Jafari was in the plane that achieved radar lock is a very widespread one on the internet. This may be due to the influence of the possibly fallacious Wikipedia page, but I note that General Jafari (retd) as he now is known, has been appearing for the Disclosure project as a witness. I don’t know the details of his testimony, but one wonders if he has been claiming to have actually been in the plane which achieved radar lock. That might explain the widespread nature of this belief.
If so there are three (or more) possible scenarios which might explain this strange conflict of data.
1/ Jafari was in the second plane which apparently achieved radar lock; this means that the Wiki article is right, and Maccabee and Pratt are wrong.
2/ Jafari was in the first plane, which in fact was the one which apparently achieved radar lock, in which case Wiki, Maccabee and Pratt are all wrong, but in different ways.
3/ Jafari was in the first plane, which did not apparently achieve radar lock, in which case Maccabee and Pratt are right, Wiki is wrong, and many people discussing Jafari’s testimony on the ‘net are wrong too.
If Jafari does in fact claim to have achieved radar lock, he may either be right, or if Maccabee and Pratt are correct, his recollections are in error. In fact it is possible that Jafari has subconsciously transferred the experiences of First Lt Damirian into his own recollections, a process which could easily happen after three decades.
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