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Fantastic
Flight of JAL 1628
Nov. 17, 1986
NE Alaska
Nov. 17, 1986
NE Alaska
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Richard
Hall:
Japan Airlines B-747 encounter with several UFOs, tracked on
FAA radar. Crew saw giant Saturn-shaped object.
Fran Ridge:
In the late afternoon of November 17, 1986, Japan Air Lines
flight 1628, a Boeing 747 with a crew of three, was nearing the end of
a trip from Iceland to Anchorage, Alaska. The jet, carrying a cargo of
French wine, was flying at 35,000 feet through darkening skies, a red
glow from the setting sun lighting one horizon and a full moon rising
above the other. This sighting gained international attention when the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it was going to
officially investigate this sighting because the Air Route Traffic
Control Center in Anchorage, Alaska, had reported that the UFO had been
detected on radar. Captain Terauchi was featured on numerous radio and
TV programs and in People Magazine. Within a few months of these events
he was grounded, apparently for his indiscretion of reporting a UFO,
even though he was a senior captain with an excellent flying record.
Several years later he was reinstated. The UFOs in this case were
tracked on both ground and airborne radar, witnessed by experienced
airline pilots, and confirmed by a FAA Division Chief. Audiotapes of
the transmissions and AF radar confirmation were presented on the
History Channel's "Black Box UFOs" in August of 2006.JDetailed reports and documents Gigantic Saturn-Shaped Object Dwarfs Boeing 747 Over Alaska - UFOE II - Hall The Fantastic Flight of JAL 1628 (34-page report) - Bruce Maccabee Japan Airlines Boeing 747 Meets UFO Over Alaska in 1986 (ufologie.net) You Tube - JAL Flight UFO (Black Box UFOs) You Tube: Boeing 707 JAL Flight Encounters UFO/Tracked on Radar You Tube (Callahan, National Press Club, date unknown) You Tube (no date) You Tube (Disclosure Project, 2001) You Tube: FAA Chief has visual, plane & ground radar as proof |