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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
FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS MINER - DATE• AlJj 2 ^ 1Q87 UFO just ane s wine: .1 . By JIM FAIN !jyASHINGTpN--rFlyiiig satio^ I've followed'saucers since their debut in 1947. In the late 'SOs, as an Air Force reservist, J had a desk in an intelligence shop next to the Pro jectBlue Boo^ officer who resear-, ched'all saucer sightings.^ >. He found the saucers ottfiou^ab:,' but everything oh earth, especial^ junk food. A gentleman to UieMid west once came uponseveral e^ctrar territorials plchickiog by a pwhed saucer. He^t toa sampleofwltol' they had bten eating. Chemical analysis showed it to be panCaie mix. Any student of p^cho^aphics knowsflapjack eatmaro laid back and mellow. If sauC^;Crews were mean-spirited ideologues'like Pat rick Buchanan, they would not eat flapjacks. Hiey would breakfast on All-Bran and fried eggs like other curmudgeons. Saucers contribute to the gross, national product, providing weekly articles for. the tabloids supermar kets sell, -^hese frequently deal 'w|tfa fpbd, aswhenasaucasoverdl years a^o hijack^ a atich load of peanut butter. It wasrehuned after, tasting, much as a magician handd back yom tie after appearing^ to . mangle Iti.Though sapcers aril to- corri^lyidlflchievoUs;!^^ a mean;b^%endacloui ibone'in them. • Tbe.toi^W World Nl^ featui«8 a dcetch ofa fetoale sp^ alien under a headline, "UrO. Crash Survivora on the Loose.". This lady.fwiis ohiavBtar^p that crashed Ih'lli'aiili last summer, escape^. detention center and may be (toher way to the U.S., the tabloid sOys. Then, as humans tovOrjably dbj it speculates about harm comingto peoplethroughex tra-terrestrial vin^.';( ^ it>^|e^l wirW News. JB gtoW viruses. Saucers 'Mm gi^ and good humor, germs. ' insist oii thinking ' saiicers'are hostile? Prebably be- ' *caUse wA make everything over, to bur oWh image; We're too guilt- >riddento grasp innocence, toofear ful toapprtodeteradiance. Because we labk'the sest to enjoy the . 'hbeurdity of life;;we make every thingout.to be. ^grim as weare. Tough airport marketing efforts By SUE CROSS Associated Press Wdter JUNEAU—^Alaska offigialg have been trumpeting stopover - bustoesss at the Anchorage and US will be hurt," says Dale Fox, director of the Alaska Visitors Association. Fox was in Juneau to day to ask state officials to boost their airport marketing efforts. oiber states. Fox said. Butaccording totheproposed re solution, Alaska airpc^' success in winning stopover business is being jeooardizeH hv Hevplnnmonf airports cities as ting into ''And aHunnfra* Queers are for merriment, high jinks, fun. Unlike the bashful Nes- sle of the Scottish loch or Yeti of the high Himalayas, saucers are spi rited extrovtorts, sociable as pup pies. Astronomers say a huge galaxy was born the other day. Small wonder the saucers are out in fpi^ee,'lighting up the heavens. '^What betor way to mark the birth of new stars? When the next flying saucer shimmeis up to you, grab on and soar. If peanut butter sticks to your palate, ask for wine. The saucer that gldmmed onto the Japanese plane the other day knew exactly what it was doing. That 747 was loaded to its gunnels with new Beaujolais. 01967 Cox News SerWoe
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