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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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- 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
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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
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That dam UFO, says a feh-' ,a;. l»n…
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- 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…
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Anchorage Daily News•65 96 PAGES ANCHORAGE. ALASKA. FRIDAY. MARCH 6.1987
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FAA qwkcsman PiulSttueiw waits ts rsportsrs rsad his sgtney's findings sbout thsJAL pilot's sighting ofa UFO.
FAA has no conclusion about UFOBy HAL BERNTON
Oaiy News reporter
Tlie Federal Aviation Administra
tion Unirsday released the results of its
investigation of the celebrated Nov. 17
sighting of UFOs by a Japanese Air
I^es crew. There was first-person tes
timony from the JAL crew members,
statements from controllers and reams
of radar data. Everything but a conclu
sion.
*"The FAA does not have enough
The FAA originally said radar data
confirmed a UFO sighting in the area.
But after a lengthy review of tapes, the
agency determined that three control
lers on duty that day were mistaken —
the radar did not pick up an object.
However, reporters who flock^ to
the press conference from as far away
as Japan and Philadelphia did not go
away empty-handed. Each received a
free copy of the FAA's anthology of the
event, a thick packet^" of documents.
flying over McGrath. As two pilots
examined a weather radar, they notic^
a "target" out in front of them.
"Up at our altitude, (35.000 feet)...
you haven't had any" UFO reports
lately?" one of the pilots radioed the
FAA controller.
The crew reported the target quickly
moved off their radar screen' at an
estimated speed of 300 miles a minute.
They reset their screen from a SO-mile
to a 100-mile radius. Thev brieflv snied
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