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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.
“split”9 pages
- p. 4 …tape showed the object
to be a split-image of the jAL
plane. Rich said none…
- p. 8 …At the FAA center in Anchorage,
controllers following the flight
noted occasional second blips, or
"split…
- p. 15 …Steucke said that the FAA
controller mistakenly inter
preted a split-image of the
cargo plane…
- p. 18 …FAA scre^ was
analyzed as a coincidental "split
image" of the aircraft, Steuckesaid.
Radar tapes, transcribed…
- p. 20 …missing it as a split or dou
ble-image of the JAL plane.
Rich confirmed that…
- p. 36 …the
controllers mlstakenlj t inter
preted a split-image of the
JAL plane as a second…
- p. 40 …The Split-Radar Returns Did It
By Ken Wells
staff Reporter o/The Wall Street Jovrnal…
- p. 50 …FAA screens was considered a co-'
incidental "split image" of the plane, Steucke said
"His main…
- p. 51 …Steucke said that the FAA
controller mistakenly inter
preted a split-image of the
cargo plane…
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