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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.
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MR. PAUL STEUCKE; DEAR SIR, PLEASE SEND ME ONE ( OR , IF POSSIBLE , TWO ) COPIES OF THE FAA FORM SUMMARIZING THE SIGHTING OF A " UFO ". ( SEE BELOW ) ALSO, PLEASE SEND A HIST OF OTHER RELATED ITEMS THAT ARE AVAIL. San Francisco Chronicle 25 FEB. 187 ## U.S. Is Selling Kits On UFO Sighting ## Anchorage If you want an inside look at a Japan Air Lines pilot's recent claim that he saw a UFO, the Federal Aviation Administration will send you everything you ever wanted to know about the case for $194.30. The complete package includes tapes of interviews with crew members, spaceship drawings by the JAL pilot and air controller statements, even four glossy color photos of regenerated radar data. The unusual FAA mail-order offer is an attempt to cope with enormous public interest in the November sighting, said spokesman Paul Steucke. Since the pilot's claim was publicly disclosed, the FAA's Anchorage office has received information requests from more than 200 members of the press, as well as 46 requests from individuals. For those on tight budgets, the FAA's UFO package can be broken down. The agency is offering 20 individual items, ranging from a $50 cassette tape of communications between the controllers and the flight crew to a 30-cent copy of an FAA form summarizing the sighting. Orders of less than $5 are free. "We wanted to be as responsive as we can to the public. We don't want them to spend $100 for data they don't need," Steucke said. JAL Captain Kenjyu Terauchi reported on November 17 that his Boeing 747 cargo jet was shadowed by two belts of light as it crossed into Alaska airspace on a flight from Iceland to Anchorage. In an encounter that lasted about 50 minutes, Terauchi also reported seeing a third aircraft, a huge spaceship that he said was the size of two aircraft carriers. He radioed the sighting to Anchorage FAA flight controllers, who saw what they thought was an object on their radar screens. The objects, Terauchi said, "were not made by humankind. They were of a very high intelligence." Philip J. Klass, an editor with Aviation Week and Space Technology and a longtime investigator of claimed sightings of unidentified flying objects, has investigated the incident and concluded that the pilot was actually seeing an unusually bright image of the planet Jupiter VERY SINEERLY Jerry Schultz 7929 Festival Ct. Cupertino, CA 95014 thank you and possibly Mars. The FAA is scheduled to release on March 5 the results of its investigation of the sighting. The FAA address in Anchorage is 701 C Street, Box 14, Anchorage Alaska 99513.
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