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This is an English translation of Captain Kenju Terauchi's personal statement about the November 17, 1986 sighting by Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 over Alaska. Sayoko Mimoto of the FAA Alaskan Region translated it, and the FAA received it on January 2, 1987. Terauchi describes two lights pacing the Boeing 747 cargo jet, square spaceships stopping in front of the aircraft, a green object on the plane's weather radar, and a gigantic mothership seen near Fairbanks. He says the encounter lasted about 50 minutes and ended north of Talkeetna.
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Once upon a time if a hunter saw a t.v., how did he describe it
to other people? My experience was similar to this. The north
of Alaska in mid-November you cannot even see the sun; the
darkness continues until the middle of March. Flight JL 1628,
B747 jumbo cargo encountered two spaceships and a Mother ship
about SO minutes above Alaska. There was no danger but it
created many questions that a human being cannot answer.
Page 2.
So I am writing that experience down here. In mid-October, I was
excited to hear the special flight. This special flight was to
import special French wine from Iceland to Anchorage for
approximately a 6 hour and 20 minute flight. It is an extremely
short flight compared to most flights. It takes about two-thirds
normal flight hours. There are only two landings at Kefurabik
(sp.?) International Airport.
Page 3.
This particular flight was planned to stop at Iceland and increase
cargo items rather than flying direct · from Paris to Anchorage.
However, since being wintertime if the condition of the runway
was poor, we may have to reduce the cargo, therefore, everyone
was paying special attention to the amount of cargo. The
temperature of Kefurabik Airport in November is approximately
maximum of 3 degrees C. and the lowest was minus 3 degree C.
Page 4.
Six of us Japan Airline employees arrived at Kefurabik Airport at
midnight and three people welcomed us as usual. We headed on to
a new hotel. The bed was extremely small. I understood why
the down blanket was only 135 centimeters. We stayed only about
17 hours. The weather became good and the runway was not frozen
and we left the Kefurabik at 2042.
Page 16.
Co-employees are married, have children and are young. I am
pleased that nothing happened. The ending of this encounter was
very well. We worried because we do not know the purpose of the
spaceship, but there is no immediate danger. What do you think
about our experience? I hope we humans will meet them in the near
future and confirm my experience.
[Per s ona l s t a t ement c oncerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic , Nov. 17, 1986 . Writt en by Capt.
Kenj u Terauchi; t rans l ated by Sayoko Mimoto , FAA Alas kan Region,
Air way Faci l i t ies Div i sion. Received by FAA 1/2 / 87 ] Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 14 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.