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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. 4 …As the plane flew over Fairbanks, the Ughts of the city gave Terauchi a better view…
  • p. 5 FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS MINER - DATE__^^^J^^_j3_J9QjZ. -ByJIMFAIN ' . WASHINGTON—Flying saucers are as pure a…
  • p. 8 …The FAA and the military in Alaska use the same long-range radar in Fairbanks, Steucke…
  • p. 12 …And he said a United Airlines flight headed to-' ward Fairbanks spotted the JAL plane but…
  • p. 13 …Steucke said radar opera tors in Fairbanks picked'up nothing on their screens in p.m…
  • p. 17 …South of Fairbanks, Terau chi turned the plane in h complete circle to see if the…
  • p. 18 …except for planes near airports, Steucke said. Fairbanks con trollers checked their screens but saw only…
  • p. 20 …Fi nally, as the plane headed south from Fairbanks, the controllers lost track of the UFO…
  • p. 28 …Gradually Terauchi's 747 overtook the apparition and, against the glow of Fairbanks* city lights far…
  • p. 30 …Approaching Fairbanks, Ter auchi steered his plane in a 360-degree cir cle, but the object…
  • p. 36 …Later, as the JAL plane flew over Fairbanks, Terau chi reported a third UFO, a huge…
  • p. 39 FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS MINER - DATE• AlJj 2 ^ 1Q87 UFO just ane s wine: .1 . By JIM…
  • p. 44 …Near Fairbanks, Terauchi glimpsed a huge round object, about "the size of two aircraft carriers." He…
  • p. 45 …AOn mds, Ibraucbi divisd cerca de Fairbanks un objeto redondo, gigantesco, del "tamano de dos barcos…
  • p. 49 …said, FAA control lers in Anchorage and Fairbanks . did not. The strange sight reported by the…
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