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733667-02-001-0041
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The document discusses a recent UFO sighting reported by a Japan Air Lines pilot, which has garnered significant public interest. The FAA is offering a comprehensive package of information about the incident for a fee, including interviews, drawings, and radar data.
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ments, even four glossy color photos
of regenerated radar data." ~-c3 -
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mous publi¢ interest in the Nodém- -
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licly disclosed, -the -FAA’sArtchor-
age office has.received Infornzation
requests from more than 200 3n¢m-
bers of the news meiid, ‘as weliias
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ported on Nov.-17 that his Boeing
747 cargo jet was shadowed by two
belts of light as it crossed into Alas-
ka airspace on a flight from Iceland
toAnchorage:" - aide
In an encounter that lasted abdut
50 minutes, Terauchi also reported
seeing a third aircraft, a huge space-
ship which he said was the sizé‘of
two aircraft carriers: He radioéd the
sighting to Anchorage FAA flight
controllers, who ‘saw _what*thty
thought was an object on their fadar °
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Philip J. Klass; an’ éditor “With .
~ Aviation Week and Space Technol-
ogy and a longtime investigator-of
claimed UFO sightings, ; ‘has intesti- ‘
gated the incident and ‘concltided ,
that the pilot was actually’ seeing an
unusually bright image of the platiet
Jupiter and possibly Mars.": ania
The FAA is scheduled to reléase
on Thursday the results of its ives
tigation of the sighting.’ . ie Son
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