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This FAA Alaskan Region folder, released via the National Archives and The Black Vault, collects public letters written in early 1987 about the November 17, 1986 sighting reported by JAL Captain Kenjyu Terauchi. Many writers ask for the FAA form summarizing the sighting, price lists, radar photos or transcripts, and FAA staff reply with order forms. A San Francisco Chronicle clipping in the folder describes the FAA's $194.30 mail-order package and Philip Klass's conclusion that the pilot saw Jupiter and possibly Mars.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
37 Carpenter Street Red Bank, N.J. 07701 January 8th, 1986 Dear Mr. Steuke, I've enclosed a page from the New York Daily News of January 6th, 1987 describing in an Associated Press article an incident involving a UFO sighting by a Japanese pilot which may have also been tracked on radar. I understand that the pilot was to be interviewed by the FAA, according to the article, for a second time. As the newspaper article factual as reported and could you possibly furnish me with a summarized account of the FAA's interview with the pilot the second time? Hope to hear from you at your convenience, I am Sincerely, Joseph Ryan 5 FEB 87 1502 AAL-5 RECEIVED (JOSEPH RYAN)
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 89 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.