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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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“The Times”10 pages

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  • p. 3 …The 10:00 am time was chosen to fit the regular work schedule of the ABC…
  • p. 6 …up" via "the Government". I suggest we cease releasing infonnation at this time, set a reasonable…
  • p. 7 …The 10:00 am time has been chosen to fit the regular work schedule of the…
  • p. 9 …Rich said none of the controllers, at the time, thought that was the case. As the…
  • p. 11 …I tried several times to pursuade him to stay.fl In 1985 Deardorff added the flleaky…
  • p. 12 …member and one of the most influential s enators at the time of his death in…
  • p. 14 …The two objects circled the small airplane about 50 times in five minutes, then broke away…
  • p. 16 …The exact date, time, and frequencies are published in the MUFON UFO JOURNAL. A master file…
  • p. 18 …1sn t the first time a h ng t hght in th~ northern sky r~~k…
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