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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.
“Encounters”11 pages
W 1987 / ShpSiA8 Wed., Feb. 25, 19^^_0hP3 case rANCHORAGE;^l^:(APK—K. ;bu want an-iiisMalc^.at'a^Japaiiiv' -4 Airlines pilot's recentclaimthat . iMl sawa IJFpj theFederal Aviation i AdministratiOt^M send ybuA^-. 1 ^rythingyoii.ever wanted to know 1 mut the indd^ for |194.3Pir4'.. a * Hie complete package indudw^p;^ j tapes of interviews with'crew| members* spaceship drawings !^-.v . the JAL pilot.and air controUerir ' statements,'e^ four gUw color-*', photos ofreg^eratedradar(tote. ^ Theipinanfli FAA'mail-brdd' offer is ah effortto cope withenormous . public iht^est hi the Nov^ber sighting,,^kesman PaulSteucke • saidrii f twoaircraft,capers; Heradif^l^e sig'hting to Anchorage FAA'fjf^t controllers, who saw wha.t^^by thought was anobject onth^ra^ ' screens. . * . Philip J. Klass, an' editor . Aviation Week .and Space Te3inol- ogy-and a longtime inyestigamt^f claimed UFO sighting's,IhasinVe^- • gated the inddent and concluj^ed thatthepilot wasactuallyse^ng^ unusually bright image of'the pla&t Jupiter and possibly Mars:; .* The FAA is scheduled to rei^M onThursday the .result of its tigation ofthesighting. •.-vjj -Visrt the Brown Book stor^'><' . '.for the best Selection oTi^t POLITICAL SCIENCe-/ & HISTORY BOO R*g.Prie*] .TODAY ONLY-r NOON to 6R^. j '.O MAIN FLOOR ONLY. * TEXT BOOKSEXCLUDED.' i
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