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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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M') • I' : i'M^'. • Sv>'> 55.«vji »vfjr» pv |C:fer- '•'W- life'' %,rJwill recall that Capt. KenftiulTerauchi reported on Nbtel| that -he-saw a giant s^^fiip thb-size of two air- di^l^^erewhich looked alot like a^ant walnut.. The appari- (like most of them) haa a : light from'a UFO behind him.) second job to make.ends meet,. . t . . : he fell faa asleep shortly after' .i-' J !"? li takeoff. , that I pidd hemclearly and. which got, louder^ as it ap- rd better not say widch air- proached me. scared, I port we left from sincethe FAA don't niihdtelliiigiybu. 1started might be able to track him , to wake upmy in^ctor buthe down and, I don'tw^t togetthe. r. gave me strict.bfders to leave, old ^y ill trouble. Besides, he's him alone unless I got lost and hardly skipped any of the AA was almost out offuel, ineefingslately; : :, , , ' i I kiiiiildf pt trans- A ix .. fixed by. watching this uniden tified' object bareeliiig toward Anyway, it was about eight > o'clock at night — also last.No-" vember—and 1was cmising toj our destination of Santa Monica spotted on radar Airport at about 3,000 feet. ,1 and .Air Force radar was marveling atthe sight ofall V= . •••j'l' • -^ - ,, . just have to have this l^ipackage (or are just a fan df^giarif walriuts), .write to the FAAi^bl C. St., Box 14; Art- chorage, Alaska 99513. the Los Angeles lights twirikli trolleS.There's also tour glossy, mi^nrtrUdOTWTh mrbW ..EnMi!"'®"" wh0re,;tlie py cqloerphotos; Of regenerated J /jike most of them) had a ' whfere^,the guy in me because I didn't do anything for>aIohg time.:;just stared at it wishing 1 had ta camera. Biit - then it began toidawn on me that maybe it intended to ram OUR PLACE OR Yni>»:n-- • t«ia- fy\:- v.'i: turbulence fronifHe«OFO throwing us aro'uiid re^ plane survived the/CT- okay and I'm '* jri^ructor is expected to Ife the hospitm in ,,a .few m glad that he had d^ •1 pulled the. power bacjc and nosed theplane over into a.diye, watching the li^ts of CantufV Citynia.up toward me.-rdqii know exactly how.low I^ot^; ' since 1coulcmH ^ the altimeter': because1didn't have any lights—but Ivkis looldngjuji.dt; the Hollywood flgn. • " ^ Anyway, I dldvX'-jenmbjbb because. the UFO -just kept going a terrible,WHOOSH and roar as it passed overhead. It hadisdihe sortofalieflT'^ting oh it that, of course, I coulidh't read but.-it/icibkedj'Sqmethirig -like thisf-^'Ortedj; .ir..ih 1 ' stai^'td wake my'inirtrudtpr upbiltT.didri't need.tb sin'cej^e^ 'Vip.' ••A-V* w'K
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