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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.
“Weekly World News”3 pages
PAGE 35 THl-RSDAY, MARCH 12. 1987 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL© I9S7 Dow hne, (i Company, l„c. M Reservtd. * We're Going to Ruin the Ending: The Split-Radar Returns Did It By Ken Wells staff Reporter o/The Wall Street Jovrnal Publishers who sell paperback myster ies for $2.98 may beenvious ofthe F^eral AviationAdministration's regional office in Anchorage. Alaska. The officeis offering a pricey mystery that's drawing a lot of at- tention-a $194.30 unbound collection of re ports dealing with the celebrated sighting of a UFO by a Japan Air Lines pilot over the Arctic Ocean last Nov. 17. . "We've sold 50 complete packages so far," and received about 300 orders for portions, says Paul Steucke, an FAA spokesman in Anchorage. Glossy Color Photos In consideration of UFO-watchers whose resources aren't astronomical, the agency will sell separately any of the 20 • items in the collection. These include a $50 cassette recording of the conversation be tween flight controllers and the JAL crew during the 50-minute encounter, and a $.56 set of glossy color photos of radar read outs. The prices are based on the cost of reproducing the materials. Orders continue to roll In despite the FAA's conclusion-in a separate report thatcosts nothing-ihat it couldn't substan tiate the sighting. Its technical experts in Atlantic City. N.J.. said blips on a radar screen that appeared toconfirm an obiect in the vicinUy of the JAL jet were actually "split-radar relurns"-shadows of the plane's primary echo. The conclusion was bolstered, says Mr. Steucke, by a report of a United Airlines pilot who. at the request of Anchorage flight controllers, flew near the path of the JAL jet at the time of the mysterious ra dar readings. He saw no other aircraft. The FAA normally doesn't get into ei ther the UFO or the publishing business. But it investigated this incident because an aircraft might have ventured unreported into the airspace of the JAL cargo carrier, which was en route from Iceland to An chorage. Mr. Steucke says. A Pilot's View And though the agency routinely makes certain reports available, it has been as as mystified by the demand for its costlydoc uments as some people are by the sighting itself. But the graphic testimony of Kenju Terauchi, the JAL pilot who reported the sighting, probably hasn't hurt sales. He told the FAA immediately after the incident that he had been followed by two strands of lights, pulsating with amber glows, and a huge craft that appeared to bea "mother ship." He later said thelarge UFO was the "size of two battleships" and appeared to be made by "a very high tech nology and intelligence." used against nematodes have been banned " because of enviroiunental problems. iVeto Healing Salve A healing salve prepared from blood is being developed. A University of Minnesota surgeon, Da vid R. Knighton, explains that after a bum. cut or other wound the body pro duces substances that trigger tissue re- growth and healing. Some of thesehealing factors have been tracked to the platelets, tiny plate-shaped particles that help blood to clot. Dr. Knighton. working with Cura- Tech,Inc., a small company in which the University of Minnesota holds a stake, has developed a "platelet-derived wound-heal ing formula" using platelets from a wounded patient's own blood. The formula is made into a salve applied with gauze. Initial tests on bums, chronic ulcers and other wounds that are slow to heal are promising, although definitive controlled tests on bum patients are still to be com pleted. "It's not a miracle potion. " Dr. Knighton "^ays. But, he notes, "this is the way nature heals wounds: all we're doing is mimicking it." One theoretical attribute of the salve Is that blood contains factors that turn off tissue regrowth the moment a wound Is sealed. Thus, the salve should help reduce scarring. The researcher Is now working on ways to extend the shelf life of the salve and to see if the healing factors can be extracted from donated blood rather than just the wounded patient's own blood. -Jerry E.Blshop And Richard Gibson aren't available, thrive for a sim Perceived Q "There's a eign goods art aid Ratajczak, Georgia State luctant to give price different Mr. Raiajc: has declined f; starting to mi dietsa 3% droj this year. But ports well abo ago, when the High-qualit) probablyenger alty-perhaps bought for gue or impress maj price. Francoij Food & Wines agency, says tl all demand for lar began fal wines has held "When a cl sive it isn't att genheim says, top of the pyra Consider Jo; real-estate deal bottles of Dom recent barbecui about $69 a but ago at one Ilqu crease, but I "People like it
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