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The document discusses a UFO sighting reported by Japan Air Lines pilot Kenjyu Terauchi on November 17, during a flight from Iceland to Anchorage. The FAA is responding to public interest by offering a comprehensive package of information about the incident for a fee.
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On UFO Sighting
Anchorage
If you want an inside look
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 ahout
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 AA mai
*is an attempt to cope with
ormous public interest in the No-
vember sighting, said spokesman
Since the pilot’s claim was pub-
licly disclosed, the FAA’s Anchor-
age office has received information
requests from more than 200 mem-
bers 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 Ii-
aividtal items, ranging from a $50
cassette tape of communications be
crew to a 30-cent copy of afi FA
l-order
tween the controllers and the flight
“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 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 flight
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 said was the
size of two aircraft carriers. He ra-
dioed 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- |
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bright image of the planet Jupiter
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