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This FAA Alaskan Region file, released through The Black Vault, collects public affairs material on the November 17, 1986 sighting by the crew of Japan Airlines flight 1628. It includes a 1987 Alaska PRSA Aurora Award entry and Paul Steucke's January 5, 1987 memo, which planned a single release of all data at a March 5, 1987 press conference. It also contains UFO group contact sheets, a Phenomena Research Report newsletter and Anchorage Times clippings, including one attributing a flash over Alaska to Soviet rocket fuel.

1/27/8 --THREE MILES NORTH OF RIVERSIDE CALIFORNIA-- : PM: The pilot of
a essna , e s c en ng rom O, 00 eet o served a torpedo-shaped object
about t he si ze of his plane flash by on his left s ide at a distance of
about .300 f eet . The entire instrument panel went "flakey." A passenger
also saw the object.
Januar 198 --NEAR MINSK The crew and passengers
o an Aero ot Sov e a r ner o s erve a arge glowing object which
suddenly dire cted a bri ght ray of light t o t he ground. All four crew
members report ed tha t t hey could see distinctly everything on the ground
illuminated by the cone of l i ght--the houses and the roads . Suddenly the
cone of light fo cused on the airliner . Then the object moved toward the
plane at a high rate of speed and posi t ioned itself beside the aircraft at
an altitude of 33,000 feet and accompanied it for the rest of the flight.
AM: A "strange looking object, 11
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a an a t t size wide, approached a
small a ircraft at high speed. The pilot of the plane turned slightly left
to avoid the object which passed on the right side. Then the pilot turned
right t o follow the object. As the object came back into view it was
approaching the plane again, circled the plane twice, then moved north and
out of sight.
/17/82--MEDITERRANEAN SEA
at 200 meters shoo vio ent
s treak ed past the airliner.
observed the object.
18/82--SIXTY MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALLENDALE SOUTH CAROLINA--1:
A righ t s ver sc--a out 0 eet n iameter and one oot c --was
obs erved approaching a corporate jet on collision course. Within a few
second s the disc passed the jet on the left side and was no more tha.n 25 feet
oft' the left wing tip at the same altitude. The aircraft was at 6$00 feet.
The pilot had 10 years rlying experience and the two corporate passengers
were both former air force pilots •
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years a o t'ire moving
i n a high speed "Tertical climb. Th e fireball vanished from sight in a fe w
aeccn.Qs. On ~ebru.ar~ 2,st a similar fireball was reported in the same area
b~ ~ilota of four airliners. It also moved straight up and out of sight.
2/' / ~2--FORTY KILES ~EST OF CHARLESTON ~EST VIRGINIA--10: 0 PM: The pilot
an d six ~assengers o a Cessna ~ing from Paduca , Kentucky to
Ch arleston, ~est Virginia at 13,000 feet--observed a bright white light
moving up-and-down like a yo-yo and me.king complete loops at high speed.
The maneuvers continued for 10 minutes before the light vanished.
10/1/81 --FOURTEEN MILES SOUTH OF SARANAC LAKE NEW YORK--7:48 PM: A Cheyenne
aircraft flying f rom Burlington, Vermont to uti ca, New York a t 16,000 feet
flew past a s t ationary bright orange rectangular light which the pilot had
obaerved for about two minutes. Another plane flying from Albany, New York
to Saranac Lake at 7000 feet reported a similar object south of the lake at
7: 55 PM. A DC-8 flying from Chicago to Burlington at 18,000 feet reported
a bright amber-to-orange rectangular-shaped object with flashing lights
while passing over Lake Placid, New York at 8:10 PM. Lake Placid is about
eight miles east of Sarana c Lake. Four hours later a ground observer at
Jay, New York-- about 12 mil e s northeast of Lake Placid--reported obser ving
a rectangular-shaped object in a vertical ascent. The object stopped, then
moved away in level flight at a high rate of speed and had many red and
green flashing lights .
A group of
L-200 for more
Las
6/27/81--THIRTY FIVE MILES NNW OF DUBU UE IOWA--8: The pilot of a
Cessna 1 1 lying rom Farm ngton, M rme sota t o st. Missouri at 9000
feet obs erved a large silver disc pass about 5 00 feet above bis plane . He
s aid the disc was movi ng so fas t t hat it was impossible to estimate speed.
Refer All Wi t nesses to the National UFO Reporting Center --1/206/722/3000
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