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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
^ attrisco (Chronicle Ut- on* ;to Uh ng in- al Ir re id r. 15 It U.S. Is Selling Kits On UFO Sighting Anchorage ' •' If yon want an inside Idok at a Japan Air Lines pilot's re cent claim that he saw a UFO, the F^eral Aviation Adminis tration willsend youeverything you ever wanted to know about the case for 1194^. . ; The complete package includes tapes ofinterviews withcrew mem bers, spaceship drawings by the JAL pilot and air controller state ments, even four glossy color photos ofregenerated radar data. The unusual FAA mail-order offer Is an attempt to cope with enormous public interest inthe No vember sighting, said spokesman PaulSteucke. Since the pilot's claim was pub licly disclosed, the FAA's Anchor- age office has received information requests from more than 200 mem bers of the press, as well as 46 re quests fromindividuals. For those on tight budgets, the FAA's UFO package can be broken down.The agencyis offering M in dividual items, ranging from a.650 cassette tapeofcommunications be tween the controllers and the flight crew to a dOcent copy of an FAA form summarizingthe sighting. Or ders of less than $5 are free. "Wewantedto be as responsive as we can to the public. We dont want them to spend $100 for data they don't need," Steucke said. JAL Captain Kenjyu TeraucW reported on November 17 that his Boeing 747 cargo Jet was shadowed by two belts of Ught as it cro^M into Alaska airspace on a flight from Iceland to Anchorage. In an encounter that lasted . about 50 minutes, Terauchi also re ported seeing a. third, aircraft, a huge spac^hip thathesaid was the size of two aircraft carriers. He ra dioed the sighting to Anchorage FAA flight controllers, who saw whattheythought was anobject on their rad^ screens. The objects, Terauchi said, "were not made by humankind. They were of a very high intelli gence." PhUip J. Klass, an editor with Aviation weex andSpace Technolo gy and a longtime investigator of claimed sightings of unidentified flying objects, has investigated the -incident and concluded that the pi lotwasactually seeing an unusually bri^t image of the planet Jupiter c E b P I] I fi b Ii and possibly Mars. ' The FAA is scheduled td';)^ lease on March 5 the results, of Its investigationof the sighting. f The FAA address in Anchoi^ge is 701 C Street, Box 14. Anchoragb, Ataka 09513.
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