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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 …the lights went down with him "in formation," Steucke said. South of Fairbanks, Terauchi turned the…
  • p. 12 …descended to 31,000 feet, the lights followed "in formation," Steucke said. The pilot then requested…
  • p. 13 …As he descended to 31,000 feet, the lights fol lowed "in formation," Steucke said. The…
  • p. 28 …4 At Anchorage airport Terauchl demonstrates how agiant object maneuvered tofly in formation with his plane…
  • p. 44 …3 weatlier radar, and ihecylinders "fluw In formation" with the jet. At this point, FAAspokesman Stuucke…
  • p. 49 …air traffic controllers in Anchor age, reporting the huge UFO fly- • ing "in formation" with them…
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