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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.
Mfel mO EDItlOHl p Pornography and coBiimunity standard^ Natibnalteam UAA Anchorage Daily News•65 96 PAGES ANCHORAGE. ALASKA. FRIDAY. MARCH 6.1987 lit THE SKY • Anawraga Oaiy Nftw/Mictiaal Peim FAA qwkcsman PiulSttueiw waits ts rsportsrs rsad his sgtney's findings sbout thsJAL pilot's sighting ofa UFO. FAA has no conclusion about UFOBy HAL BERNTON Oaiy News reporter Tlie Federal Aviation Administra tion Unirsday released the results of its investigation of the celebrated Nov. 17 sighting of UFOs by a Japanese Air I^es crew. There was first-person tes timony from the JAL crew members, statements from controllers and reams of radar data. Everything but a conclu sion. *"The FAA does not have enough The FAA originally said radar data confirmed a UFO sighting in the area. But after a lengthy review of tapes, the agency determined that three control lers on duty that day were mistaken — the radar did not pick up an object. However, reporters who flock^ to the press conference from as far away as Japan and Philadelphia did not go away empty-handed. Each received a free copy of the FAA's anthology of the event, a thick packet^" of documents. flying over McGrath. As two pilots examined a weather radar, they notic^ a "target" out in front of them. "Up at our altitude, (35.000 feet)... you haven't had any" UFO reports lately?" one of the pilots radioed the FAA controller. The crew reported the target quickly moved off their radar screen' at an estimated speed of 300 miles a minute. They reset their screen from a SO-mile to a 100-mile radius. Thev brieflv snied PRICE 25 C
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