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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.
W 1987 / ShpSiA8 Wed., Feb. 25, 19^^_0hP3 case rANCHORAGE;^l^:(APK—K. ;bu want an-iiisMalc^.at'a^Japaiiiv' -4 Airlines pilot's recentclaimthat . iMl sawa IJFpj theFederal Aviation i AdministratiOt^M send ybuA^-. 1 ^rythingyoii.ever wanted to know 1 mut the indd^ for |194.3Pir4'.. a * Hie complete package indudw^p;^ j tapes of interviews with'crew| members* spaceship drawings !^-.v . the JAL pilot.and air controUerir ' statements,'e^ four gUw color-*', photos ofreg^eratedradar(tote. ^ Theipinanfli FAA'mail-brdd' offer is ah effortto cope withenormous . public iht^est hi the Nov^ber sighting,,^kesman PaulSteucke • saidrii f twoaircraft,capers; Heradif^l^e sig'hting to Anchorage FAA'fjf^t controllers, who saw wha.t^^by thought was anobject onth^ra^ ' screens. . * . Philip J. Klass, an' editor . Aviation Week .and Space Te3inol- ogy-and a longtime inyestigamt^f claimed UFO sighting's,IhasinVe^- • gated the inddent and concluj^ed thatthepilot wasactuallyse^ng^ unusually bright image of'the pla&t Jupiter and possibly Mars:; .* The FAA is scheduled to rei^M onThursday the .result of its tigation ofthesighting. •.-vjj -Visrt the Brown Book stor^'><' . '.for the best Selection oTi^t POLITICAL SCIENCe-/ & HISTORY BOO R*g.Prie*] .TODAY ONLY-r NOON to 6R^. j '.O MAIN FLOOR ONLY. * TEXT BOOKSEXCLUDED.' i
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