In the field, a mothership is a large craft that seems to carry or command smaller ones. Witnesses in several cases describe one. Tasmania, 1960. In the Cressy cigar case, the mothership and its small discs were officially put down to a moonrise. 1968. At Buff Ledge Camp, Michael described looking through a transparent dome and seeing a large cigar-shaped mothership. In 1986, Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 gave the term its most famous use. Philip J. Klass later argued that Captain Terauchi had placed the mothership where Jupiter was.
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