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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.

  • p. 3 100 PAGES ANCHORAGE. ALASKA. THURSOAV. JANUARV IS. 1987 Capt, Kenju Terauchi: "It was like a dream…
  • p. 4 …Terauchi has lived quietly in o comfortable house in Anchorage, his base for the last three…
  • p. 5 …Arliss Sturgulewski; R- Anchorage, and co-sponsored by 18 other senators. . A.major.angle of state…
  • p. 8 …V.A oaur fVtA aIa tn COA if ll (Thts U/nlllH fn1 ANCHORAGE (AP)—Federal…
  • p. 10 …the FAA spokesman in Anchorage, said his agency is continuing its in vestigation Into the incident…
  • p. 11 …Terauchi radioed word of the sighting to an air traffic controller in Anchorage. "His statement to…
  • p. 12 …17 as the JAL plane was headed for Anchorage on awas headed for Anchorage on a…
  • p. 13 …The JAL crew members were interviewed by the FAA upon arrival in Anchorage. Steucke said they…
  • p. 15 …Haines said he hopes to fly to Anchorage to investigate the Nov. 17 sighting by Capt…
  • p. 16 as ie s- B2 Anchorage Dally News Sunday, January 4, 1987 By ROBERT ENGELMAN Scrtpps Howard…
  • p. 17 …head ing east, when the JAL jet was about 60 miles north of Anchorage, Steucke said.
  • p. 18 …Ter auchi and his crew boarded the Boeing 747 in Iceland for the Anchorage leg of…
  • p. 19 …Alaskan Airqwce United PreM lotematiooil ANCHORAGE, jin. 3—The Fed: AviitioQ AdninifitraUon hiu re> opened iti…
  • p. 20 …He said the JAL crew first contacted fiie Anchorage air controllers as their plane flew over…
  • p. 25 …investigating in Anchorage for 12 yeara and the Incid^t. . . • • .JJ •long enough to be confinned…
  • p. 28 …4 At Anchorage airport Terauchl demonstrates how agiant object maneuvered tofly in formation with his plane…
  • p. 29 …Just last week, flying a similar cargo mission from Europe to Anchorage, he said It happened…
  • p. 30 …According to FAA spokes- - man Paul Steucke of the Anchorage re gional oflice, Terauchi located the…
  • p. 31 ANCHORAGE TIMES - DATE_ jAM2^987 WELL, shucks. ^ That dam UFO, says a feh-' ,a;. l»n…
  • p. 35 Mfel mO EDItlOHl p Pornography and coBiimunity standard^ Natibnalteam UAA Anchorage Daily News•65 96 PAGES…
  • p. 39 …have been trumpeting stopover - bustoesss at the Anchorage and US will be hurt," says Dale Fox…
  • p. 40 …at the request of Anchorage flight controllers, flew near the path of the JAL jet at…
  • p. 41 …T.' -• Alaskan Airspace; • United PrMs.&ternation^:'' ,, j. ANCHORAGE/Jam-3^Tii6"/FedJ eral A^tion'Aidministratifln…
  • p. 42 …capers; Heradif^l^e sig'hting to Anchorage FAA'fjf^t controllers, who saw wha.t…
  • p. 43 …AwoelatwJPmi anchorage, Alaska —Hyou want to know more about a Japan Air Lines (JAL) P"®'® claim…
  • p. 44 …The lights finally vanished at 6:53 p.m., and flight 1628 landed in Anchorage without…
  • p. 45 …taba volando sin novedad entre islandia y Anchorage, Alaska en ruta al Japdn, a S25 oudos…
  • p. 46 …He radioed the sighting to Anchorage FAA flight controllers; who saw what they thought wasan objecton…
  • p. 47 …Is Selling Kits On UFO Sighting Anchorage ' •' If yon want an inside Idok at a Japan…
  • p. 49 UFO follows plane across Arctic Circle, crew claims by United Press International ANCHORAGE, Alaska — : The crew…
  • p. 50 …The lights- vanished, heading east, when the.-, JAL jet was about 80 miles north of Anchorage…
  • p. 51 …Haines said he hopes to fly to Anchorage to investigate the Nov. 17 sighting by Capt…
100 PAGES ANCHORAGE. ALASKA. THURSOAV. JANUARV IS. 1987
Capt, Kenju Terauchi: "It was like a dream. Unbelievable.'
Ancrcrace Daily News/jim Lavrahas
pRCESsceNn
J^pan Air Lines pilot Kenju Terauchl provided to Anchorage Illustrator William Hays of'the laVei^raft
•^hich he^estimated to betwice thesize ofan aircraft carrier and2 to 3 miles away.
A night flight
to remember
Veteran JAL pilot who never
believed In UFOs does now
By HALBERNTON
Daily NewsOusiness reporter
A full moon shone in the arctic sky as Capt.Kenju Terauchi took off from Iceland Nov. 17
in a Japan Air Lines cargo jet loaded with
French Beaujolais wine. He was bound for
Anchorage on a route across Greenland to Elsmere
Island. Canada, over the Beaufort Sea, then into
Alaska air space above Fort Yukon.
For the first two and a half hours, the flight —
crewed by Terauchi, co-pilot Takanori Tamefuji and
engineer Yoshio Tsukuda —was uneventful. The sky
was clear and the winds —except for some light gusts
over Greenlanid — calm. Then TeraucU's jet cruised
into Alaska, and be first saw the two belts of light.
They were an estimated three miles ahead of the
plane, slightly to the left of the pilot's cockpit seat,
and 2,000 feet lower than the plane. They e^tted a
steady amber glow. They hovered almost stationary,
shifted from side to side, then pulsed across the sky in
abrupt bursts of speed.
The objects, Terauchi believes, "were not made by
human kind. They were of a very high technology and
Intelligence."
The events recounted by Terauchi in the 50 minutes
See Back Page, FLIGHT

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