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This FAA file, released through The Black Vault, collects correspondence and memos about the Japan Air Lines flight 1628 UFO report over Alaska on November 17, 1986. It includes Philip J. Klass's 1987 Skeptical Inquirer article, which attributes the sighting to Jupiter, Mars and moonlit ice clouds, and FAA Alaskan Region public affairs memos on the premature release of investigation material. It also contains Richard F. Haines's request for the case file and Paul Steucke's reply explaining the radar returns as uncorrelated targets.
, I . ,. .) . Anchorage Daily News Friday, January 30, 1987 e ert s s was Jupiter Editor Philip Klass beli.eves planet~ were in the sight line of JAL pilot.. .: 05 ..... OUv News staff and wire services a 360-deiree turn are contradicted by Claims of the Paranormal in BuUalQ, ., · NEW YORK - A Japan Air Lines what he told flight controllers at the N.Y .. an organization of scientuts who .... pilot who claimed to have seen an uni- time. investi£ate claims of UFO slghtina, ESt' ~ dentified fiyin& object alongside his air- John Leyden, a spokesman for the occurrences and other ao-a.ll~ • Mars wu just below and to the right he reported sighting the object. the rliht of Jupiter, but was nQt . ~ • of Jupiter, and may explain the pilot 's Paul Steucke, a spokesman for the bright, the report said. , 1, .• , initial report that he saw two lights, FAA in Anchorage, s~id that Terauchi . "This ii not the finlt time Uiat u. Klus said. told FAA officials in an interview that · experieI)Ced pilot hu mis~k~ a priOt: Terauchi Wednesday rejected Klass's the object stayed with him as he turned. celestial body for a UFO, nor will lt ~ · explanation. Terauchi, in a Wednesc\ay interview, ~aid · the last," Klass said. · "It was not a weather phenomena," be did lose sight of the object during part A United Airlines flight and an Air ·; Terauchi aaid. "Not a star. It moved with of the tum. Force C-130 cargo plane that wem 41 • you." Steucke said the FJ\A would be releas- Terauchi's vicinity at the ti.me of the · Terauchi said he did see Jupiter during ing the results of its own investigatio~ in claimed sightin,r were asked to look for ... ht. fiight, but he said the planet was not mid-February. the object, and neither repQrted s~ it. - the UFO. ~ According to Klass, who reviewed a] "I th.ink that the Japaoese pilot @.e>uld · Kla.u, an editor with the magazine complete copy of the transcript, the pilot have been a little more skeptical when· Aviation Week and Space Technology never reported seeing Jupiter or Mars, the U~ted airliner and the Air Force and a loo.a-time investigator ot claimed even though ttiey were-clearly visible. plane reported ~ing nothing,'' Kla~ : UFO s.l&htings, said the pilot's claims Klass's report wa.s issued by the Com- said Tuesday ill a telephone interview · that the object followed him as he made mit\~ for tl\e Scientific Investigation of from Colorado. - \ . . '
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