报道称,自6月14日起,24小时飞行追踪 (FlightRadar24)网站显示,至少有五架航班从中国飞往伊朗。据《每日电讯报》报道,这些“神秘的运输机”沿中国北部向西飞行,随后进入哈萨克斯坦,向南穿越乌兹别克斯坦和土库曼斯坦,在接近伊朗时从雷达上消失(Starting on June 14th, FlightRadar24 shows that at least five flights traveled from China to Iran, and The Telegraph reported that the "mystery transport planes" had flown westward along northern China before crossing into Kazakhstan, south through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and then fell off radar as they approached Iran)。
报道说,一些人对这些航班飞行表示怀疑,包括美国大西洋理事会研究员图维亚·格林(Tuvia Gering,图2),他在X上发帖称,一位航空专家告诉他,对这些航班“不必小题大作的”( the flights are "nothing to write home about.")。格林写道,总部位于卢森堡的货运公司定期从中国的几个地方飞往欧洲的货运航班,在土库曼斯坦(距离伊朗边境只有几十公里)中途会停留。