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733667-02-001-0002
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A Japan Air Lines pilot, Kenju Terauchi, recounts a UFO sighting during a flight over Alaska, describing two unidentified objects emitting amber light and exhibiting advanced movement capabilities.
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Jun 15, 1987
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Anchorage Daily News»
100 PAGES ANCHORAGE. ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1987
an fllustration based on a description Japan Air Lines pilot Ken
which he estimated to be twice the size of an alrcraft carrier an
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PRICE 25 CENTS
“Mosmaton by Wika Mays
ju TerauchI provided to Anchorage Iltustrator Willlam Hays of the larger craft
id 2 to 3 miles away.
A night flight
to remember
Veteran JAL pilot who never
believed in UFOs does now
" By HAL BERNTON
~ Daily News business reporter
in a Japan Air Lines cargo jet loaded with
French Beaujolais wine. He was bound for
Anchorage on a route across Greenland to Elsmere
Island, Canada, over the Beaufort Sea, then into
Alaska air space above Fort Yukon,
For the first two and a half hours, the flight —
crewed by Terauchi, co-pilot Takanori Tamefuji and
engineer Yoshio Tsukuda — was uneventful. The sky
was clear and the winds — except for some light gusts
over Greenland — calm. Then Terauchi’s jet cruised
into Alaska, arid he first saw the two belts of light.
They were an estimated three miles ahead of the
plane, slightly to the left of the pilot's cockpit seat,
and 2,000 feet lower than the plane. They emitted a
steady amber glow. They hovered almost stationary,
shifted from side to side, then pulsed across the sky in
abrupt bursts of speed.
The objects, Terauchi believes, ‘‘were not made by
human kind. They were of a very high technology and
intelligence."
The events recounted by Terauchi in the 50 minutes
See Back Page, FLIGHT
full moon shone in the arctic sky as Capt.
Kenju Terauchi took off from Iceland Nov. 17