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This FAA file, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, collects 1987 newspaper clippings about Japan Air Lines Flight 1628. Capt. Kenju Terauchi reported that lights and a huge walnut-shaped object followed his 747 cargo jet over Alaska on November 17, 1986. The articles quote FAA spokesman Paul Steucke saying the radar returns were a split image and military clutter, and report Philip Klass's explanation that Terauchi saw Jupiter and Mars. Terauchi's second sighting in January was attributed to village lights reflecting off ice crystals.

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“Encounters”11 pages

  • p. 4 …have to keep this record...." Terauchi's encounter began with his sighting of the two belts…
  • p. 15 …In the early 1960s, as he began studying visual optics in space, he encountered niany reports…
  • p. 27 …airline pilot Kenju Terauchl says that he encountered a UFO in U.S. airspace KIN 80…
  • p. 29 …Both sighted a peculiar light tracking their plane, but neither wit nessed the closer encounters with…
  • p. 30 -^j,?vy '*^"- - ' V' V ••vl^tV'^.^-''«r^^**5iT"^ NATIONAL AFFAIRS Strange Encounter Over Alaska^ with his…
  • p. 40 …the JAL crew during the 50-minute encounter, and a $.56 set of glossy color photos…
  • p. 43 …In an encounter that lasted about 60 minutes, Terauchi also reported seeing a third alrcr^t…
  • p. 46 …In an encounter that lasted about SO minutes, Terauchi also re ported seeing a third airdnfl…
  • p. 47 …In an encounter that lasted . about 50 minutes, Terauchi also re ported seeing a. third, aircraft…
  • p. 48 …j . .Icdand to Anchora^ Duiing the ^i ':^^0-minute encounter^ /Terauchi >. ' al0M'.vikM/\»fa/1 eaiktntt…
  • p. 51 …In the early 1860s, as he began studying visual optics in space, he encountered reports from…
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