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This FAA Alaskan Region file, released through The Black Vault, collects public affairs material on the November 17, 1986 sighting by the crew of Japan Airlines flight 1628. It includes a 1987 Alaska PRSA Aurora Award entry and Paul Steucke's January 5, 1987 memo, which planned a single release of all data at a March 5, 1987 press conference. It also contains UFO group contact sheets, a Phenomena Research Report newsletter and Anchorage Times clippings, including one attributing a flash over Alaska to Soviet rocket fuel.

  • p. 6 …press conference, publicize that date, and proceed according to the attached plan. I am available at…
  • p. 9 …the same reference point on their monitor, according to Sam Rich, an air traffic controller, and…
  • p. 10 …than the planet Jupiter, according to Phillip Klass , an aviation writer. According to Klass--who was…
  • p. 12 …I wanted you boys to see it so that I would have witnesses," according to the…
  • p. 18 …Tyuratam, the Soviet central Asian space center, according to I a prominent scientist. James Oberg, a…
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