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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.
“The Times”24 pages
- p. 2 …whfere^,the guy in
me because I didn't do anything
for>aIohg time.:;just stared…
- p. 4 …Rich said none of the
controllers, at the time,
thought that was the case.
As the…
- p. 5 …saucer,
"two times bigger than an aircraft^
carrier," flyingformation with hun
over the Arctic recently, he…
- p. 8 …of public interest in the
case, the agency interviewed the
pilot, Kenji Terauchi, a second
time…
- p. 9 …at the
time of the claimed sighting were j
asked td look for the object, and…
- p. 10 …two times bigger than an air
craft carrier.It barfed our747.
"The UFOs were flying par…
- p. 11 …Steucke said the cargo
plane's co-pilot was flying the
plane at the time of…
- p. 12 …As for the time lag since the
incident, Steucke said: "We
didn't exactly broadcast it…
- p. 13 …As for the time lag since
the Incident, Steucke said:
"We didn't exactly broadcast
it…
- p. 15 …Flight 1628, reported tracking
the UFOs several times on
radar, as near as five miles
from…
- p. 16 …The
signal appeared within eight
miles of the JAL aircraft and
at the same speed and…
- p. 18 …But im
ages on military radar screens at the'
time were dismissed as "clutter," and a…
- p. 19 …FAA faivestigatora Interviewed
Capt Keoju Terau^ the pilot, fora
second time Friday and are review*
Ing…
- p. 20 …000 for first time
Business, Page
NBII GAMES
Ways to go
tO;the boards
UtOstyles, yf…
- p. 27 …to
hurt the Princes Charles and
Andrew. Still, it may just
be time to rethink those…
- p. 29 …alcohol."
Ultimately the issue hinges on the
credibility of Captain Terauchi, a one-'
time Japan Air…
- p. 30 …the full craft
only once, in profile. "It was a very big
one—two times bigger…
- p. 31 ANCHORAGE TIMES - DATE_ jAM2^987
WELL, shucks. ^
That dam UFO, says a feh-' ,a;. l»n…
- p. 36 …he spotted
the first series of-lights about
the same time as the captain,
and that…
- p. 38 …7 spot on The New York
Times non-fiction best-seller list.
Strieber. who says he…
- p. 40 …flew near the path of the
JAL jet at the time of the mysterious ra
dar…
- p. 44 …inquiryof the event and hadinterviewdthe JALcrew for
a second time.
The "official investigation" of the radar…
- p. 50 …But images on military radar screens at the time
were dismissed as "clutter," and a blip…
- p. 51 …Ihe FAA controller who
monitored the JAL plane,
Flight 1628, reported tracking
the UFOs several times…
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