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- p. 2 …he fell faa asleep shortly after' .i-' J !"? li
takeoff. , that I pidd hemclearly and. which…
- p. 4 …showed a tiny ball,
Terauchi radioed the FAA
flight control, center in An
chorage. Three controllers…
- p. 8 …The FAA and the military in
Alaska use the same long-range
radar in Fairbanks, Steucke…
- p. 10 …the FAA
spokesman in Anchorage, said
his agency is continuing its in
vestigation Into the incident…
- p. 11 …1987
JAL pilot
sees lights
In the sky
Object doesn't show
on military, FAA radar…
- p. 12 …The JAL crew members were
interviewed by the FAA upon ar
rival in Anchorage. Steucke said…
- p. 13 FAA can't explain
lights in the north
The Associated Press
The Federal Aviation Ad*
ministration…
- p. 15 …Steucke has
said that neither the military
\ nor the FAA puts any faith in
the early…
- p. 16 …But the UFO sighting re
mained a mystery, with FAA
and Air Force sources saying
it…
- p. 17 ubiic interest spurs on FAA's UFO investigation
/-5-77-;Associated Press
he Federal Aviation Ad…
- p. 18 …Radar tapes, transcribed interviews
and radio messages are to be sent to the
FAA in Washington…
- p. 19 …Air Force officlalB have dlimiaied
the Unidentified blipaa "random clut
ter," but Steucke laid the FAA…
- p. 20 …That controller,
:whose name has not been
r^eased by the FAA,.mistak
enly interpreted a…
- p. 24 …told investigators two of the lights were'"' FAA'^ln' Washington;'^^b.C,v, laterr-smaU^ peihapsnd…
- p. 25 …origins.'-He',T:--inand initially told the FAA
in prasslceoun?s^ information M.;see tha object…
- p. 29 …The FAA has discounted the possi
bility that Terauchi might haye halluci
nated the whole experience…
- p. 30 …But when radar tapes covering
the period were replayed by FAA investiga
tors, Steucke says, the…
- p. 35 …Everything but a conclu
sion.
*"The FAA does not have enough
The FAA originally said radar…
- p. 36 …The FAA did not have
ground radar coverage in the
McGrath area, so there was
no…
- p. 40 …Orders continue to roll In despite the
FAA's conclusion-in a separate report
thatcosts nothing…
- p. 41 …J
that itfwas alviblatioa of-aiispacei'^ik
FAA spokesinafli^ul Stetickesi'saiA^
That may sound stran…
- p. 42 …gUw color-*',
photos ofreg^eratedradar(tote. ^
Theipinanfli FAA'mail-brdd' offer
is ah effortto cope withenormous…
- p. 43 2A
FAA Selling Tapes, Drawings On UFOIncidentsighting. Orders of less than $5 are
free*
Information requMte…
- p. 44 …PaulSteucke, a spokesmanfor the FAA inAnchorage,
said that Terauchi told FAA officials in an interview that…
- p. 45 …La Agencta Federal
de Aviacidn (FAA) concedid el
permiso, dando las instruccio-
nes del caso. El…
- p. 46 …He
radioed the sighting to Anchorage
FAA flight controllers; who saw
what they thought wasan objecton…
- p. 47 …The unusual FAA mail-order
offer Is an attempt to cope with
enormous public interest inthe…
- p. 48 …fli^trcreiy (aX^JOpent'copy ofah
;f-.FAA^t coping • I
iV^'^ .heavy pi^Uc intCT…
- p. 49 …Although the Air Force radar
briefly picked up'a second ob
ject, Steucke said, FAA control…
- p. 50 …as "clutter," and a blip-
appeared on FAA screens was considered a co-'
incidental "split image…
- p. 51 …Ihe FAA controller who
monitored the JAL plane,
Flight 1628, reported tracking
the UFOs several times…
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
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