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Saw Fre. ancisco Chronicle 329 Sf. ut- on- ith ng in- re id at owa t it wp Ts “U.S. Is Selling Kits On UFO Sighting Anchorage 0 If you want an inside Idok ‘ at a Japan Air Lines pilot's re- cent claim that he saw a UFO, the Federal Aviation Adminis- tration will send you everything you ever wanted to know about the case for $194.30. .- The complete package includes tapes of interviews with crew mem- bers, spaceship drawings by the JAL pilot and air controller state- ments, even four glossy color photos of regenerated radar data. The unusual FAA mail-order offer ‘is an attempt to cope with _ enormous public interest in the No- ’ vember sighting, said spokesman Paul Steucke. Since the pilot's claim was pub- licly disclosed, the FAA’s Anchor- age office has received information ° requests from more than 200 mem- pers of the press, as well as 46 re- quests from individuals. = For those on tight budgets, the FAA’s UFO package can be broken down. The agency is offering 20 in- dividual items, ranging from 4.850 cassette tape of communications be- tween the controllers and the flight crew to a S0cent copy of an FAA form summarizing the sighting. Or- ders of less than $5 are free. _ + “Wewanted 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 Captain Kenjyu Terauchi reported on November 17 that his Boeing 747 cargo jet was shadowed by two belts of light as it crossed into Alaska airspace on a from Iceland to Anchorage. In an encounter that lasted . about 50 minutes, Terauchi also re- ported seeing a third aircraft, a huge spaceship that he satd was the | size of two aircraft carriers. He ra- diced the sighting to Anchorage FAA 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 intelli- gence.” Philip J. Klass, an editor with Aviation Week and Space Technolo- gy and a longtime investigator of claimed sightings of unidentified flying objects, has investigated the - incident and concluded that the pi- lot- was actually seeing an unusually bright image of the planet Jupiter wee 1 v So xine wet oF flight . pom rrr and possibly Mars. 8 The FAA is scheduled to: Fe- lease on March 5 the results, of ‘its investigation of the sighting. ._ = | The FAA address in Anchorage is 701 C Street, Box 14, Anchorage, Alaska 99513. - os Auociated Press tf _t weak ’ aes Stet jfosk Pie ti- alms SUulAMP GA 5