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This document is a record of facility operations from the Anchorage ARTCC on November 17, 1986, detailing various air traffic control activities, including an incident involving an unknown target observed by flight JL1628.

A cargo aircraft captain reported seeing irregular pulsating lights that he believed to be a UFO while flying over Alaska. The FAA concluded that the lights were likely caused by atmospheric conditions.

…crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 of an unidentified object while en route to Tokyo. The object was reported to have light patterns similar to those of a B747 and was tracked for over 350 miles.

This document discusses an incident involving a Japanese Air Lines cargo plane that reported being followed by an unidentified flying object (UFO) while flying over Alaska. Air traffic controllers tracked an image on radar that appeared to follow the aircraft, leading to an FAA investigation.

…a Japan Airlines pilot in November 1986. The agency is offering a comprehensive package of information about the incident for a fee, including tapes, drawings, and radar data.

This document discusses the need for scientifically and technically skilled personnel to conduct interrogations and investigations related to flying saucer incidents, emphasizing the importance of collaboration between interrogators and technical specialists.

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This document discusses a UFO sighting involving a Japanese Air Lines cargo plane on November 17, 1986, where the pilot reported being followed by an unidentified object. Air traffic controllers tracked a radar image that coincided with the pilot's report. The document also includes differing opinions on the sighting, suggesting it could be a natural phenome…

… unexplained incident is considered separately. It is not the intent to generally discredit the character of observers, but each case has undesirable elements, and these cannot be disregarded. The numerical designation is merely the categorical order of the.dncident in the project files. Incident No. 1 — & July 191:7, 0930 hours local, Muroc Air Force Base. …

… streamers may jump gaps such as between pipes within the house, thus causing a brizcht flash of limited extent. After- image is generally formed on the retina and movements of eye produce apparent movements of the illuminated rection.) A cloud-to-ground lightning stroke with an associate, horizontally-directed, moving potential wave may possibly produce a t…

…st of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was not recovered due to impassability of terrain. Incident No. 113 is a reasonable description of the 20 ft. plastic balloon and instruments used by these laboratories. This incident was on the date of balloon release No. 46 of 9 April 1948 at Alamogordo. However, the time of the reported incident (1506 CST) is about i/2 ho…

…ers, we could conjure up a large number of hypothetical methods of transpor- tation like eravity shields, space overdrives, teleports, simulators, energy beams and so on. Conceivably, among the myriads of stellar Systems in the Galaxy, one or more races have discovered methods of travel that would be fantastic by our standards. Yet the larger the volume 6f s…

… are accepted), whereas the other is very Slight indeed. CK In obder to estimate the relative changes that visitors from Mars or star X could come to the Farth and act like "flying objects" some discussion of characteristics of space ships is necessary. To handle the simple case first, a trip from Mars to Earth should be feasible using a rocket-powered vehic…

… can be found by varying the number of stars proportionately with the volume, or with the radius cubed, S, = 22 x ( r _)5, where Sg is number of eligible stars and r is the radius 16 of the volume in light years. (This formula should only be used for radii creater thah 16 lisht years. For smaller samples we call for a recount. For example, only one known eli…

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…exas Headquarters Eighth Air Force DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION ef April 1950 9 = 21 April 1950 F-5 PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE Ira M. Maxey, and Major Dalton Smith Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 April 1950 REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous ist etc., as applicable) Letter, SAC 31 January 1950, subject: "Reporting'of Information …

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…mall from the ground but was slightly larger than a star, Captain Gleason could not estimate its size because its altitude was unknown, The object was noisless and gave off a white glow as it passed overhead on a course due west. Before it dropped over the horizon it veered to the north-west, gaining altitude, It then dropped out of sight, Approximately one …

…no activity or condition, meteorological or otherwise » which might account for the Sighting. 6. There wis no physical evidence, such as fragments, photographs and the like, of the sighting. ~. - No interception or identification action was taken, wD 10. There was no air traffic in the general area of the sighting. io CCMMENTS of Preparing Officer: 1, I have…

…tasr reau was searcning for a lost weather ballon wita the sid of e-theodite,. At 1350 X iST he: sighted a solid whits, oblong opdsce at a direction of 157.22° and slaearton of 53800 a.) . The object was a solid white color,,,oblong in shave and appeared to be. ‘covered by <a ihe thin,» white miste The size of the object was 1 minute Oe Bee. he reatmuaea it …