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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. 15 …Haines* interest in UFOs results from his more than two decades spent working in NASA's…
  • p. 16 …lived in Anchorage for 12 years and worked in the FAA for four. He said theories…
  • p. 20 …said Sam Rich, a controller who has worked for the Federal Avia? tion Administration for more…
  • p. 29 …hard work and perseverance lo rise to the lop. iUil everybody—regardless of race, creed, color…
  • p. 38 …April) Hopkins, a successful New York artist with works in the Corcoran and Hirshhom museums here…
  • p. 40 …The researcher Is now working on ways to extend the shelf life of the salve and…
  • p. 51 …Haines' Interest in UFOs results from his more two decades sp^t working in NASA's…
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