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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.
, F. Steucke - 2 - January 18, 1987 path reconstruction. Could you help? In a similar vein, could you perhaps find me a copy of the official weather that night (+/- 6 hrs) for NE Alaska down to Anchorage? Of particular value would be a pr4ssure and temperature sounding as a function of altitude, a so-called lapse rate diagran,, also known as a Struve Diagram. The winds aloft along the flight path of the aircraft would also be very useful. I imagine that your meteorology division has that type of information. Thanks in advance for anything you can find. As I learn more I will pass it along to you. Until later I remain Ve~ere ly ~rs, I /~:· /~~~/,..C- _.Richard F. Haines, Pn. D. Research Consultant cc : files r , S. Give my regards to Jim Derry. You may want to share this letter with him.
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