Person
Tom Cooper
- Aviation historian and author on Middle Eastern air forces (incl. Iranian F-14 units)
Tom Cooper is an aviation historian and author on Middle Eastern air forces, including Iran's F-14 units. Through interviews with Iranian aircrew he has reported a 2004 Iranian air-defence task force set up to protect nuclear sites against what Iran believed were CIA spy drones, and encounters with "luminous objects" near the Arak heavy-water plant; no official Iranian documents are available.
Sources: The Aviationist (2013)
Facts and claims
- claimed Through interviews with Iranian aircrew, Cooper reported a 2004 Iranian air-defence task force set up to protect nuclear sites, and an F-14 crew's encounter with a glowing spherical object near the Arak heavy-water plant; no official Iranian documents are available. — Tom Cooper Source: theaviationist.com (archived)