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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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  • p. 12 …Steucke said the pilot called the air traffic control center and asked if there was any…
  • p. 29 …Just last week, flying a similar cargo mission from Europe to Anchorage, he said It happened…
  • p. 30 …Terauchi radioed FAA controllers and received per mission to descend to 31,000 feet. After a…
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