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This FAA file, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, collects 1987 newspaper clippings about Japan Air Lines Flight 1628. Capt. Kenju Terauchi reported that lights and a huge walnut-shaped object followed his 747 cargo jet over Alaska on November 17, 1986. The articles quote FAA spokesman Paul Steucke saying the radar returns were a split image and military clutter, and report Philip Klass's explanation that Terauchi saw Jupiter and Mars. Terauchi's second sighting in January was attributed to village lights reflecting off ice crystals.
“Japan Air Lines Flight 1628”7 pages
».A'* )£ f JIT pOM Ktfiiu TmkM'* •k«t«h •!!•*• vtMrc Hm UPO E!^tta fiM ^ptmoi I mStt (n frMrt •# fib plwt. Driver aims at ferry but misses boat Widow Jessica Rawlings missed the boat and nar rowly avoided a disaster when she drove her car down a ferry slip — and straight into the water. The 74-yearoId Poole, En gland. woman was rescu^ by courageous bystanders who wadei^lnto the icy water in 60 fids to pull her from [itlrely myown fault." jie flustered oldster. "I thought the ferry was there, but when 1 drove down the ramp it wasn't The next thing 1 knew I was in the water." WEEKLY WORLD NEWS Did the FAA have it on radar? 5 . SiSn"'- —wbUSSKT- y •r DICX DONOVAN The U.S. government at first con firmed, then mysteriously denied that a huge UFO, described as bigger than two aircraft carriers, was tracked on radar as it played a bizarre cat-and- mouse game — with a Boeing 747 jet! FAA air traffic controllers bad flatly stated they had tracked the gigantic spacecraft for more than 32 minutes as it followed a Japan Air Lines cargo flight bound for An chorage, Alaska. Then, in s surprise offi cial flip-flop, an agency spokesman said the eerie blip that zipped helter- skelter across the radar scope was merely a dupli cate image of the 747. Thit bit of mumbo Jumbo,- however, flies in the face of eyewitness accounts of the jet's three-man crew that had been kept secret for six weeks — until a crewmember leaked the story to the press. According to a vivid and de tailed account of the Incident by veteran JAL pilot Kenju Terauchi, his 747 was flying In clear skies at 35,000 feet and cruising at 525 knots when three walnut-shaped UFOs, the huge one and two smaller ones, streaked out of the heavens. "We could all see the UFOs very clearly," the 47-year-old pilot said. "One was very large ... two times bigger than an air craft carrier.It barfed our747. "The UFOs were flying par allel and then suddenly aiH proached very close. They moved with amazing speed." GIGANTIC UFO THAT SHOCKED ^HE WORLD! 0 6 Ik 1 V ttlNha . Vn •wr JUMIO iet wee dwarfed by huge wafiurt shaped UFO. Thb sketch by piet TaraucM sbawe the relotbe sbea ef the ipecw ooft and hb 747. The ptana b the tiny Mackshape at right. earth. (hsedtminl^ off'Alaska flight control reports, the UFOs dogged the 747 for at least S2 minutes. Terauchi. however, said the ships followed him for 400 miles. Terauchi, irfiose flying ca- 7iL0rS sketch radw shews hei af plene's r UFO ap- reer spans 29 years, said be and his crew tried to escape the UFOs by following FAA instructions to descend 4.000 feet and make several evasive maneuvers. But the 747 Jet was no match for the maneuvering ability of the spacecraft. "They were itill following us," Terauchi said, and FAA radar at that tirag confirmed that at least one of the UFOs remained nearby. FAA investigators ques tioned the 747*8 crew in An chorage and said they are "normal, rational, profession al" people with no drug or al cohol problems. cargo of wine bound for Tokyo from Paris when the UFOs ap peared eight miles ahead. Terauchi radioed that the lights he saw were yellow, amber and green, but not red, which is the international color for aircraft beacons. Paul Steucke. the FAA spokesman in Anchorage, said his agency is continuing its in vestigation Into the incident and that radar tapes and the recorded radio messages are being sent to Washington. But Terauchi said his only conclusion is that the three UFOs he saw on that Novem ber 17 flight were not from earth.
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