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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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2A FAA Selling Tapes, Drawings On UFOIncidentsighting. Orders of less than $5 are free* Information requMte seet to toe FAA at TOl 14, Anchorage, Alaska, 99513. JAL Capt Kenjyu Terauchi re ported on Nov. 17 that his ^ng 747 cargo Jet was shadowed by two belts of Ughtas it Alaska airspace on a flight from Iceland to Anchorage. . In an encounter that lasted about 60 minutes, Terauchi also reported seeing a third alrcr^t, a huge spacesWp which he said was toe size of two aircraft carriers. Heradioed the sighting to Anchor age FAA fUght controllers, who saw what they thought was an oblect on their radar screens. . Philip Klass, an editor with Avi ation Week andSpace Technology, has Investigated the incident and concluded that the pUot was actu ally seeing an unusually bright Image of the planet Jupiter and possibly Mars. AwoelatwJPmi anchorage, Alaska —Hyou want to know more about a Japan Air Lines (JAL) P"®'® claim that he saw a OTO, tne Federal Aviation Administration will send you a about the incident for $194.30. The package includes tapM of Interviews with crew members, spaceship drawings by the JAL pilot and air controller statemente, even four glossy color photos of regenerated radar data. . . The unusual FAA mall-order of fer is an effortto with enor mous pubUc Interest In the No vember slghUng. said spokesman Paul Steucke. . ., ^ For those on tight budgets, toe FAA's UFO package can^ broken down. The agency Is offe^g 20 Individual Items, ranging from a $50 cassette tape of coiMunlca- tlons between the controllers and the flight crew to a 30-cent copy of an FAA form summarizing the
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