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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 …Then TeraucU's jet cruised into Alaska, and be first saw the two belts of light…
  • p. 4 …The controllers replied that no military or civilian flights werein the vicinity;- ' The two belts of…
  • p. 43 …17 that his ^ng 747 cargo Jet was shadowed by two belts of Ughtas it Alaska…
  • p. 46 …17 that his Boeing 747 cargo Jet was shadowed \3f two belts of light as it…
  • p. 47 …747 cargo Jet was shadowed by two belts of Ught as it cro^M into Alaska…
  • p. 48 …that his Boeing V747-cargo Jet was .shadowed by J I .two belts of light on…
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