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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.

  • p. 4 …Rich said none of the controllers, at the time, thought that was the case. As the…
  • p. 5 …hurt," says Dale Fox,, director of the Alaska Visitors 'Association.' Fmc Was in Juneau tOr'. day…
  • p. 38 …Still the horrors persisted, obliging him finally to regard The Visitors as somehow real, even to…
  • p. 39 …the Anchorage and US will be hurt," says Dale Fox, director of the Alaska Visitors Association…
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