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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. 8 …Terauchi told inve^igators three lights start^ following his Boeing *747 cargo jet Nqv. 17 just…
  • p. 10 …bizarre cat-and- mouse game — with a Boeing 747 jet! FAA air traffic controllers bad flatly…
  • p. 11 …November, he was flying cargo in a Boeing 747 from London to a refuel ing stop…
  • p. 18 …Ter auchi and his crew boarded the Boeing 747 in Iceland for the Anchorage leg of…
  • p. 19 …the i^t a Japan Air Unw Boeing 747 cargo crew reported •eeiiig unidentified flying objects…
  • p. 41 …opened-it3' inqmry*into wliat^ haiH/; pen^ Ae iught-'a -Jai^'Atf'tm^''H5 Boeing ;.747Vcargo…
  • p. 44 …CaptainKenju'Terauchi's Japan Air Lines OAL) Boeing 747 cargo jet. flying across the Arctic Circle…
  • p. 45 …El capitan Kenju Ibrauchi, a cargo de un vuelo de carga en ; un Boeing 747 de…
  • p. 46 …17 that his Boeing 747 cargo Jet was shadowed \3f two belts of light as it…
  • p. 47 …JAL Captain Kenjyu TeraucW reported on November 17 that his Boeing 747 cargo Jet was shadowed…
  • p. 48 …that his Boeing V747-cargo Jet was .shadowed by J I .two belts of light on…
  • p. 49 …The white and yellow strobe lights followed the Boeing 747 for 50 miles. The crew estimated…
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