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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
Sunday, March 1. 1987 ai|tjaiU«; formaummmlxlng the sighting. Or-• ders ofless than SSare free. "We wanted to be as responsive as we can to the public. We don't want them to spend $100 for data they don't need." Steucke said. JAL Capt Kenjyu Terau^ re ported on Nov. 17 that his Boeing 747 cargo Jet was shadowed \3f two belts of light as it crossed into Alaska airspace on a flight from Ice land to Anchorage. In an encounter that lasted about SO minutes, Terauchi also re ported seeing a third airdnfl, a huge spaceship which he said was the size of two aircraft carriers. He radioed the sighting to Anchorage FAA flight controllers; who saw what they thought wasan objecton their radar The objects,Terauchi said, 'Vere not made by humankind. Hiey 'were. of a very high inteUlgence." Philip J. Klass; an editor with. AvUtHon Week ofuf Space Teehnol' ogy. and a longtime investigator of UFO sightings; has investigated the" incident and concluded that the pi-' lotwas actually seeinganunusually- bright image of the^danet Jupitmr* and possibly Mara;- The FAA is scheduled to release' onkforch 5the re^ts,.of itsiiives^- ^ gatidnofthesightiifg; ... ; Those interestedin FAA rqnrts- or data on the sighting shouldwrite ^ to the FAA at 701C St, Box 14, chorage, Alaska 99S1A
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