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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. 2 …at about 3,000 feet. ,1 and .Air Force radar was marveling atthe sight ofall V…
  • p. 5 …1947..Ih the late '50s, as an Air Force reservist, I had a desk in an…
  • p. 8 …The Air Force did not send up an interceptor and is not investigating the matter, Steucke…
  • p. 16 …Officials with the Air Force's Alaskan Air Com mand initially told the FAA air controller…
  • p. 39 …In the late 'SOs, as an Air Force reservist, J had a desk in an intelligence…
  • p. 44 …TTie Air Force soon dismissed them as "elec tronic clutter." The FAA and the military use…
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