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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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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.
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