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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.
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Paul Steucke said the agency UFn ? ' • y®^®8p. Jai^ said, ,vt, about 560 mph>at'35.00Q f^t
was investigating the mattb^ ' A.spokesmati fdrtKe' NortH Iirv; La
-further only to find out ,if. ,W(S^?i^rbut n^^^
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system. signal; that .could cbrraiate . flWp .t?r/ r?u,vf®!5.
Officials with the
y. ed the Japan Air Lines
r , plane's airspace, hot to ascer-
{;, tain if the'unknown craft hadj;. tarn ii xne unxnown craft had Force's • Alaskari" AiT r
i' extraterrestrial origins.'-He',T:--inand initially told the FAA
in prasslceoun?s^ information M.;see] tha object's radar sifenal. _- * - ' Hut Fnday, Capt. Larry. Jen- on Nov.;t7 that they'were fast
screen
UIUC1W5 mere,.naa-,no radar-: vfaaven't seen* anythingl
signal that.could .correlate flke-this (situation) -befdrej."'
with what Tetauchi described said Steucke, ,who has= lived
£md Were; nbt: investigating in Anchorage for 12 yeara and
the Incid^t. .
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and that ' the. conunand now
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