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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.
“UFO Research Society”2 pages
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 ;;;i:;.:..~;.;...;;.-......;;;-.,;;~------..;;;.o.;;;;;.;..;;-.-....-,;;.~..............-................................ 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 • .....,._;:;m;.---._..,._.r-..-~;m;;.;;;--....-;.;.p.;m;;.;;;;....;;.;;.....;;;.p.;;.-.;.;~-..p;.;;;;;.;;--..-..p.o;.;.;---.,.-........~.....-~.......-AM~ : A private 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 (5)
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