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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
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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