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733667-002-004-0017

National Archives and Records Administration

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The FAA has initiated a mail-order service offering materials related to a UFO sighting reported by Japan Air Lines pilot Kenjyu Terauchi. The service includes interviews, drawings, and radar data for a fee.

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AviationPublic InterestUFO sightings FAAJapan Air LinesMail OrderPilot ReportUFO

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VWewsmakers FAA Launches Far-Out UFO Mail-Order Business —A Japan Air Lines pilot’s re- cent claim that he saw a UFO has gencrated so much interest that the Federal Aviation Administration is offering a mail-order package that. includes tapes of interviews with, the crew members, spaceship. drawings by the pilot and. air, controller statements, and even. - four glossy color photos of regen- erated radar data. All. yours for: _ $194.30. If that’s a bit steep, you can order individual items, ranging - from a $50 cassette tape of commu-. nications between the controllers - and flight crew, to a 30-cent copy of an FAA: form summarizing the: sighting. JAL Capt. Kenjyu Terau- ’ chi reported Nov. 17 that his jet. --was. shadowed by two belts of. ‘lights as it crossed into Alaska airspace on a flight from Iceland to Anchorage. He also reported seeing: a huge spaceship the size of two. ° aircraft carriers. Philip J. Klass, a. , magazine editor ahd longtime UFO’ _ investigator, said Terauchi proba-’ bly saw an unusually bright image _ of the planet Jupiter and possibly | _ Mars, But Terauchi insists the . objects “were not made by human-: kind.. They were of a very high intelligence.” The FAA address to write to is 701 C. St., Box 14, . Anchorage, Alaska 99513. PO Pox A421 Costa Nese , 42628 2/22/89 FAAS “Vous He $1442 clude shigpins aks 2 whak Lovine/ POUT 40 axeepto) 7 ho-nbes , Yass NiCKRET.