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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.

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“Japan Air Lines Flight 1628”7 pages

  • p. 8 …fe it ' • an inquiry into a Japan Air Lines pilot's reportthat a UFO followed his…
  • p. 15 …sighted by the crew of a Japan Air Lines Oargo jet last November aren't the…
  • p. 16 …Terauchi, a veteran pilot ferrying JAL Flight 1628 from Iceland to Japan, told United Press International…
  • p. 18 …wa vering ligihs that dogged a Japan Air Lines cargo^jet across Alaska's night sky…
  • p. 28 …Since Anchorage air controllers had registered a radar targefhear flight ' 1628, they called for a backup…
  • p. 44 …CaptainKenju'Terauchi's Japan Air Lines OAL) Boeing 747 cargo jet. flying across the Arctic Circle…
  • p. 51 …sighted by the crew of a Japan Air Lines cargo jet last November aren't the…
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