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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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“object followed”9 pages

  • p. 4 …Three controllers monitoring radar saw what they thought was an object at about the same reference…
  • p. 8 …At the FAA center in Anchorage, controllers following the flight noted occasional second blips, or "split…
  • p. 12 …Steucke said a subsequent re view of the radar tapes did not reveal any such object…
  • p. 13 …Steucke said a subsequent review of the radar tapes did not reveal any such object, but…
  • p. 20 …a third enormous object — twice the size oLan aircraft carrier —. follow the plane. ' See BackPipe, UN…
  • p. 28 …4 At Anchorage airport Terauchl demonstrates how agiant object maneuvered tofly in formation with his plane…
  • p. 36 …they followed the plane. 'But he said he could ' not make out the large object spotted…
  • p. 44 …were still following us," said Terauchi. Near Fairbanks, Terauchi glimpsed a huge round object, about "the…
  • p. 50 …The pilot said &e large unid6htifi4d'flying object registered on his cockpit'weather radar. But images…
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