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pear to the pilot to be roughly at
his own 35,000-foot altitude,"
Klass wrote in a report for the
Buffalo-based Committee for the
Scientific Investigation of Claims
of the Paranormal, of which he is
a founder.
H AINES COULDN'T
buy the theory. It focused
only on the very end of
the 50-minute episode, and did
not take the crew's entire experi-
ence into account.
"There's no way it could be a
planet," he says. ''The autopilot
was flying the airplane in a
straight line. Terauchi tells me
that the object first appeared at
12 o'clock, then moved out rather
quickly to 10 o'clock or 10:30
before it came back again."
That's not Jupiter, he says,
because Jupiter doesn't move. "If
the airplane is stable . . . and
Jupiter is stable, it doesn't ex-
plain this bnsiness" of the objects
moving back and forth. Besides,
he says, the objects were way too
big to be planets.
When the story about Klass'
Jupiter theory came over the
wires at the Anchorage Daily
News, Hal Bemton called up Ter-
aucbi The pilot was adamant -
be bad recognized Jupiter during
the flight, and whatever had
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Klass laughed when told that
the pilot had rejected his explana-
tion: ''This is par for the course.
When a person is a dedicated
UFO believer, as the pilot is and
was, he'll always deny a prosaic
explanation. You know, of course,
that he's a UFO repeater."
Klass was referring to the cap-
tain's second interview with the
FAA. When asked if the Nov. 17
sighting was the . captain's "first
experience," the captain told of
two other occasions. Once, from
his home, he had observed bright
lights for 10 minutes at what he
judged to be 10,000 feet. And five
years ago, on a cargo flight south
of Formosa, "when we start.climb
we saw lefthand side big mother-
ship." But he said it was too
''weird," he wasn't feeling well,
and be ignored it.
Asked to comment on these
remarks, Steucke said, "The fact
that be saw a couple of other
things, I think, is overweigbed by
the balance of the fact that he's a
captain for a large airline and has
flown for a long time and has a
great deal of responsibility."
AT A CERTAIN POINT, THE
FAA decided not to release any
more information until all the
material had been gathered and
scrutinized. While the lid was on,
Elias, the air-traffic manager,
handcarried the radar disc pack
to Washington and picked up
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Harvey Saffer, the F AA's director
of Air Traffic Evaluations and
Analysis. Their mission wa5 to
takeafinalgoodlookattheradar
returns, with tbe help of the staff
at the FAA Technical Center in
Atlantic City. The computer
there could regenerate the signals
into a pattern by stringing them
together like pearls. .
They looked and looked and
looked at it. They played the
radio tapes, trying to re-create
the actual scenario. Five times
they looked at it.
"We come to the conclusion,"
says Elias, "that, uh, you know
.. . we can't confirm nor deny. If
the [crew] had never said any-
thing, we would have said, 'We
see that every day.' " It would
have been passed off as a split
beacon or ''uncorrelated target."
This occurs when the signal
coming off the skin of the air-
plane B.ild the signal coming out
of the airplane's transponder
don't hit the ground at exactly
the same moment. ''It's just like
an echo," says Elias. On the radar
seope, it looks like a little dot next
to the slaab that represents the
airplane. Elias noticed one odd
thing: The dots jumped around in
relation to the slash. It wasn't
unheard of, but it wasn't usual
either.
What may have caused the
split beacon was not determined.
But both Steucke and Elias
agreed that the coincidence was '
extraordinary - a crew reporting
something outside their window
and on their cockpit radar, at the
same time that both the military
and the FAA were receiving inter-
mittent radar signals in the
plane's vicinity. Steucke passed
off the syncbronicity of events as
"ironic."
Says Elias: "You can't be abso-
lutely positive. That's an honest
answer. ... The FAA is not saying
it positively, absolutely, without a
shadow of a doubt, is a split
beacon. . . . We neither confirm
nor deny."
Elias returned to Alaska with
his inconclusive results. "The Ad-
miral," FAA administrator Don-
ald Engen, an old jet pilot,
wanted to be kept abreast of what
was what, so Elias and. the con-
troller briefed him by phone. And
someone on Harvey Saffer's staff
briefed the presidential science
adviser.
BY THIS TIME, ALL THE MA-
terials related to the Nov. 17
sighting were trickling into Paul
Steucke's office from half a dozen
different places, and he sched-
uled a news conference for March
5 in Anchorage.
He also drew up an extraordi-
nary order form of materials re-
lated to the sighting -
Teraucbi's narrative report, foi
instance ($LIO), or tapes of con
versations between ground con
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