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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.
FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS MINER - DATE__^^^J^^_j3_J9QjZ. -ByJIMFAIN ' . WASHINGTON—Flying saucers are as pure a blessing as fresh air and snowflakes, but—in our chp- lish way—we insist on thinking they're out to get us. The record proves these celestial sprites never harm a soul, though some humans do them^lves in by chasingthemtoofar, toohighor too fast. Saucers are friendly, inquisi tive, fun-loving. Only pointy-head bureaucrats call them UFOs. When a Japanese cargo pilot spotted a giant walnut of a saucer, "two times bigger than an aircraft^ carrier," flyingformation with hun over the Arctic recently, he reacted with characteristic humanoid skit- tishness. He got FAApermission to take evasive maneuvers. Silly, boy. NoMy evades a sauc er; To these fun-loving visitors h'om outer space, a plane's darting away is an invitation to dance.L < I've followed''saucers since their debut in 1947..Ih the late '50s, as an Air Force reservist, I had a desk in an intelligenceshopnexttothe I^o- ject Blue Book officer who resear- ched'all saucer sightings;- ^ He found the saucers curious abh out everyttiing oh earth, especially • junk food. Agentleman in^e Mid west once came uponseveral extra- territorials picnicking by a parked saucer.He sent in a sample of what they had been eating. Chemical analysis showed it to be pancake mix. Any student of p^chographics knows flapjack eat^ arelaidback- and mellow^ If saucer crews were, mean-spirited ideologues like Patrs rick Buchanan^ they would not eat flapjacks. They woudd 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 s^. These frequently deal. with food; as when a saucer several years'ago hijacked a truck load'of peanutbutter. It was returned after. tasting, much as a magician hand^ ba<^ your tie after appearing^: to mangle it; Though saucers-are^ corrigibliynu^hievdusi that's not a^ mean-pr^fmendacibusibonerin them.V: " - The curirtnt W^kly World News: features a sketch of a female space' alien under, a: headline; -^UFO,. Crasir.SurvivbrV om the Loose;"v ThiS'lady wi crashed in i escaped, froij and may be 01 the tabloid sa invariably dc harmconiin^ tra-tenesteia Fb^et it, j Earthlings gi brim with gu not germs. Why dopeo saucers are I cause we mal our owh'ima ridden to gras fultoapprecu we lack the absurdity of I thing out to b By SUE CROSS Associated Aess Writer JUNEAU^Alaska officials have been trumpeting stopover, bitsinesss at the Anchorage and. Fairbanks international airports asa bigplus for thestateeconomy,^ but they're worried about losing' that advantage because of new aviation'technology and competi tion. Several travelpromotion groups and nearly all of the Alaska Senate want to offset the changes with an aggressive maiketiog plan for ther airports..' • "If.wedon't do that,,we'rego to have an international air^rt sys- teinthat,instead ofmaking money as it does today, will lose money. When it starts, losing money, the landing fees and fueling fees for domestic flights will go upandallof us will be hurt," says Dale Fox,, director of the Alaska Visitors 'Association.' Fmc Was in Juneau tOr'. day to ask state officials to boost their airpbri marketing efforts. '' Aresolution (SCR5) aski^ tbe Cowper adniiidstration tocomeup' ' with a promotionalplan for the air^ ports was introducedWednesday in^ the Alaska Settate.-It was-drafted by Sen. Arliss Sturgulewski; R- Anchorage, and co-sponsored by 18 other senators. . A.major.angle of state^touririn'. effbrtshas been toget international' passengers from flights-refueling inAlaska bfftheirplmi^tovisit the state enroute to their finnj destiha^ tions. In addition, cargo flijghts make up 60percent of tte airports' busi* ness, and they must not be lost to; .ottier states; Fox said: , T But according totheImposedre- Mltitibn; ^Alaska; airpG^' success^ in winning' stb^ver. business; iSi behig jeopardized by development:: of new-aircraft capable'of flying . nonstop, between ^irope'aiul the" OrioitL-f'-V; 'V- Ofiierairpdrts'aroumlthePaciflci Rim ateo are prpmotfiig them- ^ selv^'to- g^'a.gceat^'share-of'' markets-for trims-Pacific Iljghts,F international hairism' azidair car-1 go,Sturgulew^-said;\^ -f! '..rJ ;.Fox said such promotionsTiuive-^ long^been run byttie SeattteVNew.- Yoriq^L^ Angel^ anH bth^ major about'theencc*- airports cities asj tinginta "And advant^ <ff'its id than its j said;:' lySturgul tolow ^ atedlast and:Fair cqmecaii vdiues:-] . "Goodi is good said.
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