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This document outlines the available records related to the unidentified traffic sighting involving JAL Flight 1628 on November 18, 1986. It includes various FAA forms and transcripts from interviews with the flight crew, detailing their experiences and observations during the incident.

This document is a letter from McManus Law Offices to the FAA requesting a copy of the FAA form summarizing a UFO sighting involving a Japan Airlines flight on November 17, 1986. The letter includes a payment for the request.

A pilot's report from 1949 details an encounter with an unidentified light during a weather reconnaissance mission over Shemya Air Force Base. The light was observed to move at high speed and did not resemble a meteor.

…chigan Director of Intellizence, Hqs Tenth AF DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION 30 April 1952 17 April 1952 F=6 PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE ist Lt James E. Delaney REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable) AFOIN-C/CC=2, 19 December 1951 SUMMARY: (Znter concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-s…

…by approximately twenty(20) citizens of Gadsden, Alabama. Among the sighters were the Civilian Air Defense Director and the Manager of the Gadsden Airpert, Mr. James Lassiter. Mr. Lassiter, interviewee, sighted the object while taking daily weather observations. The object was sighted NNW of the town of Gadsden at. an estimated altitude of eight(8) or nine(9…

f AF FORM 1)2—PAQT Il APPROVED 1! JUNE 1948 FROM (Agency) REPORT NOL Headquarters, 3200th AU Wing IR=-1-93 Maxwell ArB, Alabama ~ oom - —-- —_ At 1705C, 11 January 1953, an unidentified flying object was sighted by approximately twenty(20) citizens of Gadsden, Alabama. Among the sighters wefe the and the ay ieee, 3% interviewee, sighted the object wnile er O…

…ir Base, Honshu , Japan FROM (Agency) léhF-B Wing Intelligence DATE OF REPORT 15 May 1952-° DATE OF INFORMATION 8 May 1952 EVALUATION C#2 PREPARED BY (Officer) JAMES O. SHEALY, Intelligence Officer REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable) None SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-senten…

…an léhF-B Wing Intelligence DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION 15 May 1952. | 8 May 1952 C-2 PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE lst 1st. Donald ¥. Chaplin JAMES QO. SHEALY, Intelligence Officer and Lt. William W, Hints REFERENCES (Control number, directa previous report, etc., as applicable) None SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significa…

U.S.C. Title 44 - PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS TITLE 44 PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS This title was enacted by Pub. L. 90 620, 1, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1238 Chap. Sec. 1. Joint Committee on Printing 101 3. Government Publishing Office 301 5. Production and Procurement of Printing and Binding 501 7. Congressional Printing and Binding 701 9. Congressional …

…an Director of Intelligence, Hgs Tenth AF DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION | ei August 1952 17 July 1952 rey ie PREPARED BY (Officer) SOURCE A/e 6 JAMES WRER ” 4 ed it®@ ¥ dad de A END LT. GHORGE' H. JANCZEWSKI s HAs > TENTH AF, SELFRIDGE AFB, MICHIGAN REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, efc., as applicable) AFC OIN-c/cc~2, 1…

…e worker. 26 4e he and in a northeasterly directions sighting.) according to AIRMAN WEBB, At MI, CLEMENS, MICHIGAN on 17 duly 1952 at 23318, AIRMAN SECON CLASS JAMES E. WEBB observed while looking through the windows of his home, a light of bluish white radiance moving at right angles to his line of vision (Airman Webb was facing southeast during Due to the …

AF FORM 112 - N LASSIFICATION APPRQYED 1 JUNE 1948) \ i 4 COUNTRY REPORT NO, ‘SUBJECT orti ng of JInformation on Unidentified Rhy “AREA REPORTED ON FROM TAneies y Machi car Director of Intelligence, 0 ee eee oe eee te ee DATE OF REPORT | DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION August LYde yi, , Ful; J “PREPARED BY (Officer) T (7 “ or ry 7 j A we ; : : P ie? TH pany v…

…on, NJ DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION EVALUATION : 9 January 1953 29 October 1952 A-3 PREPARED BY (Officer) Source 1st Lt David H. Goodnough., Pilot 2nd Lt James B. Donnelly end Lt Doyle C. Williams., R.Q. Ist Lt EFERENCES (Control number, directive, revigus report, etc., as applicable) S19 5 ani B * + T+ N (focal Training Fld th Radio Gentacts 773 Willi…

… Venus at 1010 Zebra was local hour angle 226 degrees 12 minutes - declination south 22 degrees 58 minutes." ‘This information was taken from the ames 6. Uorne JAMES B, DONNELLY 2nd Lte.s USAF Intelligence Officer NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 50 U. S. C.—…

…adquarters are included in part II of this report, On 18 Feb 53 source informed preparing officer verbally that he had been in- formed by one of the observers, James N, Burris, that he, Burris, has made additional @bservations, subsequent to his original sighting and statement, which definitely established this object to be a planet. He observed the planet d…

…d not sent up weather ballons that night. The sky was very clear and the temperature was very low approximately -22', 3. The Chief Controller later interviewed James N. Burris, Chief Airways Operations Specialist (Airport), Mrs. Marcelle L. Adair, wife of Joe L, Adair, Chief Airways Operations Specialist (Communications), and Victor Mahler, Aircraft Communic…

… 08002 I received a call from the control tower operator at King Salmon CAA control tower. I was in the CAA communications at the time I received the call from James Burrus to come to the tower and take a look at a strange light in the sky. I observed the light for about six minutes. The shape of the light was as I have sketched below and changed from an ora…

…ns. We could see nothing unusual on the radar scopé. | peace On 9 February I went to King Salmon Airport and interviewed the per= ~~" sonnel who saw the light. James N. Burrus who was on duty in the Control . Tower was the first to see the light. We took a bearing from land marks . he noted during the sighting and got a magnetic bearing, of 250° from the. - …

…rom notes I made during the time they were visible. I can be found at the Post Office at any time. Yours truly, Weldon W. Watson THIS IS A CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: JAMES H. WEBB < Major, United States Air Force Declassification Authority: NND 57565

…ion 1673 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (Public Law 119-60; 50 U.S.C. 3373 note) is repealed. (2) Records.--Section 1673 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (50 U.S.C. 3373b) is amended-- (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``acting through the head of the Office and'' each place it ap…