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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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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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