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Wednesdav February 25, 19°77 Final. 25 cents Weather Chance of rain, cool/A-2 Vol. CXVI No. 301 een Ra rir Copyright © 1987 Los Angeles Herald Examiner ——— = _——- S ANGELES S77 “UFO IDENTIFI] FOR A PRICE For $194.30, FAA sends tapes, drawings and color photos ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — If you want an inside look at a Japan Air Lines pilot’s recent claim that he saw a UFO, the Federal Avia- tion Administration will send you everything you ever wanted to Know about the incident for. $194.30. The complete package includes tapes of interviews with crew members, spaceship drawings by the JAL pilot and air controller statements, even four glossy color photos of regenerated radar data. — Tequests exc: The unusual FAA mail-order Offer is an effort to cope with enormous public interest in the November sighting, said spokes- man Paul Steucke. Since the pilot’s claim was publicly disclosed, the FAA’s An- chorage office has received infor- mation requesis from more than 200 members of the news media, as well as 46 requests from individ- uals. Steucke said the information those that fo} Continued from page A-1 | about 50 minutes, Terauchi also reported seeing a third aircraft, a huge spaceship which he said was the size of two aircraft carriers. He radioed the sighting to Anchorage FAA flight controllers, Philip J. Klass, an editor with Aviation Week and Space Technol- ogy and a longtime investigator of claimed UFO sightings, has investi- gated the incident and conc jah that the pilot was actually seeing an unusually bright image of the planet Jupiter and possibly Mars. Klass said astronomical calcula- tions show that on Nov. 17, Jupiter was extremely bright and was visible precisely where the pilot he. saw the UFO. e is scheduled to release n March 5 the results of its nvestigation of the sighting: The FAA address in Anchorage s 701 C St., Box 14, Anchorage, ‘sighting. lowed 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 bro- ken down. The agency is offering 20 individual items, ranging from a $50 cassette tape of communica- tions between the controllers and the flight crew, to a 30-cent copy of an FAA form summarizing the Orders of less than $5 are —_— i. L- 1 ke free. | “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 reported on Nov. 17 that his Boeing 747 cargo jet was tailed by two belts of light as it crossed into Alaska airspace on a flight from | Iceland to Anchorage. In an encounter that lasted UFO/A-7 mr ' a. i