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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.
“air traffic control”17 pages
- p. 4 …To
check them out, he radioed
Anchorage air traffic control
lers. The controllers replied
that no…
- p. 8 …After about six minutes,
Terauchi reported the lights and
air traffic controllers' told him to
take…
- p. 10 …with a Boeing 747 jet!
FAA air traffic controllers bad flatly
stated they had tracked the…
- p. 11 …Terauchi radioed word of
the sighting to an air traffic
controller in Anchorage.
"His statement to…
- p. 12 …Steucke said the pilot called
the air traffic control center and
asked if there was any…
- p. 13 …Steucke said the pilot
called the air traffic control
See Back Page, UQHTS
the vicinity of…
- p. 15 …Terauchi then obtained
pennission from an air traffic
controller to try and evade
the UFOs with…
- p. 16 …But Steucke confirmed that
an FAA air traffic controller
had spotted the unknown
craft as a…
- p. 19 …An unknown object appeared on
radar screens monitored by tiie An
chorage Air Route Traffic Control…
- p. 20 …A track Is*
what air traffic controllers
call the radar image of an
aircraft.
In previous…
- p. 28 …Since Anchorage air controllers had
registered a radar targefhear flight '
1628, they called for a backup…
- p. 29 …again. "Please record this,"
he radioed air traffic control excitedly,
lapsing partly Into Japanese. "Irregular
lights…
- p. 36 …men-
^aclng the safeity o;( the air
traffic control S^st/un.' Since
the radar didin…
- p. 44 …the control tower at Anchorage to
check if there was any other air traffic. Anchorage
responded…
- p. 49 …air traffic controllers in Anchor
age, reporting the huge UFO fly-
• ing "in formation" with them…
- p. 50 …After about she minutes, Terauchi reported the
lights and air-traffic controllers told him to take…
- p. 51 …Terauchi then obtained
permission from an air traffic
controller to try and evade
the UFOs with…
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