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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 i.ck DAILY NEWS •'V Tuesday. January 6. 1987 in an a^nf miracl^ ORLANDd; FlsL—t was downspmding a few warm holidays' vdA a friend. His n^e is Gerald Rutberg, and I've known him since we were promising young men together. Rutberg would have made a great newspaperman. He had all the moves of a crack investigative reporter. He could be getting to the bottom of the Iran arms deal today but he chose to study the law instead. "What I do," he has explained to me, "is try to keep people out of the joint" For the record, he has a winning percentage, lights were yellow, amber and green,.Steucke said but hot the international color for aifcraft'b^ons.'.; The pilot said &e large unid6htifi4d'flying object registered on his cockpit'weather radar. But images on military radar screens at the time were dismissed as "clutter," and a blip- appeared on FAA screens was considered a co-' incidental "split image" of the plane, Steucke said "His main concern was trying to:detennine whether he was overtaking - another' aircraft," Steucke said He said the pirot^diinmeit lights to insure.he was hot see^ia'i^ection. After about she minutes, Terauchi reported the lights and air-traffic controllers told him to take STOP HAIR LOSS! REGROW LOST HAIR! SFECIAUZIIS PI TflEATMENTOFACME. WRINKLES. KfifllASiS. ' VmUBaMlOISOBDERS OFSKIN.HAIHIUILI' AOMINISTEHEO IN OFFICE IV DR.S.MANOa.M.D. DERMATOLOGIST - CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR WITH A NEW JOB! Find the position that's right for you in the Daily News NEW YEAR .MPEN THLU^SD^rMWT •»; vc At the? Anchorage FAA center, controllers following inflight notedoccasional s^ond blip^- or "split targets," on the screen' near Flight 1628,,' Steucke said: The lights- vanished, heading east, when the.-, JAL jet was about 80 miles north of Anchorage^ Steucke said MRKING AT ROCKB^msRCENTST 30% fo 70% OFF
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