A brightly lit object spotted over Tehran has sent social media into speculation mode, with videos appearing to show an unidentified object hovering or moving slowly across the night sky. Whether it was a drone, aircraft or something else remains unclear, as Iranian authorities have not publicly identified the object.
The footage has drawn particular attention because it surfaced almost five decades after a widely documented aerial encounter over Tehran involving Iranian fighter jets and an object that was never conclusively identified.
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The latest videos have prompted a range of theories online, from military drones and aircraft to unidentified aerial phenomena. None of the explanations circulating on social media has been independently established.
