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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.
“Encounters”11 pages
ubiic interest spurs on FAA's UFO investigation /-5-77-;Associated Press he Federal Aviation Ad- istration has stepped tip irts ' to determiaie the rce of wavering lights that ged a Japan Air Lines to jet across Alaska's it s^ for nearly an hour November. We're looking at it to en- that somebody didn't vi- e ainpace we control," Vspokesman Paul Steucke Sunday. "We looked at it ut six weeks ago, but e then we've gotten a lot 'Ublic interest, so we went Vjt the lights went down with him "in for mation," Steucke said. South of Fairbanks, Terau chi turned the plane in h complete circle to see if the lights would follow. "That was pretty clever," Steucke said "It allowed him to elint- inato any natural phenome non which would have stayed stationary." The li^ts vanished, head ing east, when the JAL jet was about 60 miles north of Anchorage, Steucke said.
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