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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.

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“Sightings”8 pages

  • p. 6 …an organized release of information regarding the sighting of unidentified air traffic by the crew of…
  • p. 8 …file of more than 3,000 UFO sighting by pilots in past 20 years. Hobby, not…
  • p. 9 …11 The events recounted by Terauchi in the 50 minutes after that first sighting of lights…
  • p. 11 …The catalog--published on com~uter tape--lists 3S,bi8 unidentified objects sighted by the satellite…
  • p. 12 …Hathaway led off his account of the sightings by sa-ying: "I doubt if your going…
  • p. 13 …Th e fireball vanished from sight in a fe w aeccn.Qs. On ~ebru.ar~ 2…
  • p. 16 …Investigators are volunteers who conduct research at their own expense, and attempt to document sighting infor…
  • p. 18 …The villagers reported sight- ing some kind of space vehicle, described by many as a UFO…
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