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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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AAL-5 TIMOTHY SYNICK 4345 MAIN ST.-APT #5 PHILA. PA. 19127 Ministration 20591 Dear Mr. Leyden, I am writing in regard to the alleged unidentified flying object incident that occurred last November over Alaska as reported by Captain Kenjyo Tervauchi of Japan Air Lines. Could I receive a copy of the results of the FAA investigation into this matter; and also a copy of the conversations concerning the sighting between the pilot and the Ground controllers. Also, how do you explain the Radar images that the Ground controllers reported? Thank you. Yours truly, Timothy Serrick 23 FEB 87 AAL-5 RECEIVED
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.