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o~ | FAA Sunday, March 1, 1987 Ghe Palins Morning ate - erm te * aus 63 A bu rete - soe ed Press », ANCHORAGE, Alaska — If you Want an inside look at a Japan Air nes pilot's recent contention that he saw a UFO, the Federal Aviation tion will send you every- ng you ever wanted to know abont the incident for $194.30. “The complete package includes tapes of interviews with crew mem- bérs, spaceship drawings by the JAL pilot and air controller state- mets, even four glossy color pho- tos of regenerated radar data. The unusual FAA mail-order of- fer is an effort to‘copé with enor- mous public interest in the Novem- ber sighting, said spokesman Paul Steucke, . Since the pilot’s contention was publicly disclosed, the FAA's An- chorage office has received infor- mation equests from more than 200 members of the news media, as well as 4% requests from individuals. Steucke said the information re- Ce ee offers public an inside look at Alaska UFO sighting =e quests exceed those that followed the 1983 downing of a Korean Air Lines jet by the Soviets. “Without a doubt, this thing has had the most inquiries,” Steucke said. For those on tight budgets, the FAA's UFO package can be broken down. The agency is offering 20 in- dividual items, ranging from a $50, cassette tape of communications be- tween the controllers and the flight crew to & 30-cent copy ofan FAA- form summarizing the sighting: Or-- ders of less than $5 are free. ported’ seeing a third aircraft, a UFO sightings, has investigated the “We wanted to be as responsive as we can to the public. We don't want them to spend $100 for data they don't need,” Steucke said. JAL Capt. Kenjyu Terauchi re- ported on Nov. 17 that his Boeing 747 cargo jet was shadowed by two belts of light as it crossed into Alaska airspace on a flight from Ice- land to Anchorage. In an encounter that lasted about 50 minutes, Terauchi also re- huge spaceship which he said was the size of two aircraft carriers. He radioed the sighting to Anchorage ‘PAA flight controllers, who saw what they thought was an object on their radar screens. . The objects, Terauchi said, “were not made by humankind. They were. of a very high intelligence.” Philip J. Klass; an editor: with. Aviation Week and Space Technol-. ogy, and a longtime investigator of "on March S the r incident and concluded that the:pi-* lot was actually seeing an unusually: bright image of the planet Jupiter‘ and possiblyMars,, .: . *,'- The FAA is scheduled to release esults of its irivesti. . gation ofthesighting, =. Those interested in PAA reports = or data on the sighting should write = to the FAA at 701 C St, Bax 14, Ans* chorage, Alaska 99513. at