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UFO Reports #1
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- The Federal Aviation Administration has stepped
up efforts to determine the source of wavering lights that dogged a
Japan Air Lines cargo jet across Alaska's night sky for nearly an
hour in November.
"We're looking at it to ensure that somebody didn't violate
airspace we control," FAA spokesman Paul Steucke said Sunday. "We
looked at it about six weeks ago, but since then we've gotten a lot
of public interest, so we went back and re-interviewed the pilot.
He provided us with additional information."
Veteran pilot Kenji Terauchi told investigators Friday through
an interpreter that two of the lights were small, perhaps no larger
than eight feet across. He said the third light was on an aircraft,
a huge darkened globe with a diameter of perhaps two aircraft
carriers placed end-to-end, Steucke said.
The pilot said the large UFO showed up on his cockpit weather
radar. But images on military radar screens at the time were
dismissed as "clutter," and a blip that showed up on FAA screens
was analyzed as a coincidental "split image" of the aircraft,
Steucke said.
Radar tapes, transcribed interviews and radio messages are to be
sent to the FAA in Washington, D.C., later this week for review,
Steucke said.
A JAL spokeswoman Sunday said Terauchi was on a flight to Europe
and was unavailable.
Flight 1628, with a three-man crew, left Iceland on Nov. 17 with
a load of wine bound for Tokyo from Paris. Terauchi and his crew
picked up the Boeing 747 in Iceland for the Polar leg of the flight
to Anchorage.
The evening sky was clear as the jet, cruising at 525 knots,
crossed into Alaska from Canada, just northeast of Fort Yukon. At
6:19 p.m. (AST), as the plane flew at 35,000 feet, Terauchi said he
saw three lights eight miles in front of his aircraft.
The pilot reported the lights were yellow, amber and green,
Steucke said, but not red, the international color for aircraft
beacons.
"The two smaller ones moved a little bit, changed their angle.
The smaller ones did not show up on the weather radar onboard,"
Steucke said. "The larger one did.
"It appeared to him it might be possible that the lights might
be exhaust pipes, they kind of wavered but did not blink. His main
concern was trying to determine whether he was overtaking another
aircraft."
Steucke said the pilot reported he dimmed cockpit lights to
ensure he was not seeing a reflection.
"He flew for about six minutes before he decided to report
anything," Steucke said. "I can't say I blame him for that."
Terauchi radioed Anchorage FAA air controllers, who direct all
aircraft traffic in the state, except for planes near airports,
Steucke said. Fairbanks controllers checked their screens but saw
only Flight 1628, Stuecke said.
The pilot reported the object was staying with him and
controllers told him to take any evasive action needed. Terauchi
decreased altitude to 31,000 feet, but the lights went down with
him "in formation," Steucke said.
South of Fairbanks, Terauchi turned the plane in a complete
circle to see if the lights would follow. "That was pretty
clever," Steucke said. "It allowed him to eliminate any natural
phenomenon which would have stayed stationary."
The lights stayed with the cargo jet, and moved to its left
side, the pilot told the FAA.
Friday, he told investigators that there were no magnetic
disturbances noted on the plane and no changes in its instruments
or navigation systems, Stuecke said.
The FAA in Anchorage and the military in Alaska use the same
long-range radar in Fairbanks, Steucke said. The FAA also uses
sophisticated computer systems to screen clutter before it reaches
radar screens, he said.
The military in Alaska does not use such computers, he said.
"The military decided about a minute into this exercise that what
it was seeing was clutter," he said. The Air Force did not send up
an interceptor and is not investigating the matter, Steucke said.
At the FAA center in Anchorage, controllers following the flight
noted occasional second blips, or "split targets," on the screen
near Flight 1628, Steucke said.
"That happens when the transponder aboard the aircraft is not
electronically in sync with radar bouncing off the plane," he
said. "We get an intermittent blip every three sweeps of the radar
screen. It's not unusual. It has happened and it does happen.
"It was what I call coincidence that the split image happened
to fall at the right distance and the same side of the aircraft
that the object was reported by the pilot."
The lights vanished, heading east, when the JAL jet was about 80
miles north of Anchorage, Steucke said.
The FAA has ruled out alcohol or drugs as a factor in the
sightings, Steucke said. "They were rational, professional pilots.
I'd describe them as very sincere, very intense," Steucke said.
"I've been here 12 years, I've been with the FAA three, and
I've talked to people who've been here seven or eight years and
they don't recall anything like this," he said.
The FAA started investigating the report after the sighting, he
said, but not as a top priority. "Basically, the public interest
heightened the interest level. I wasn't hiding it, but I wasn't
standing on a rooftop announcing it," he said.
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CUFON Computer UFO Network
Report #: 210
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 12-10-1986
Location: TALLADEGA, AL
CASE TYPE: LRS
DATE: 10 NOVEMBER 1986
TIME: UNKNOWN
CFN#: 0324
DURATION: UNKNOWN
WITNESSES: MANY
SOURCE: DAILY HOME, TALLADEGA, AL
-------------------------------------
A red glowing light with a tail
that flared across the sky in the
southeast prompted searches in several
states for traces of a possible
meteor or other space object, but no
remnants have been found, authorities
said Tuesday.
The flashing light was spotted
about sunset Monday over parts of
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi as it streaked westward,
and aviation officials said it was
probably a meteor.
Maj. Walter Chipchase, a spokesman
for the North American Air Defense
Command, said the light was not
believe to be a disintegrating rocket
or satellite.
"NORAD did not detect any rocket
body or space debris re-entering the
atmosphere," he said.
Sgt. Ray Williams, a spokesman for
Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton,
Beach, Fla., also said no weather
balloons or flights were launched
from the base at the time the light
was seen.
Although authorities said the
object likely burned in the atmosphere
hundreds of miles from Earth, some
local officials looked for fragments
in fields and other areas where
residents reported sightings.
Joe Keltch, a deputy with the Rhea
County Sheriff's Department in East
Tennessee, said he scoured an area
near Graysville where a caller told
authorities something had fallen out
of the sky.
"We got a report that it might have
been a piece of a plane," he said.
"We looked around and didn't find
anything."
>> Comments: S1 - Meteor
Report #: 211
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 12-31-1986
Location: ANCHORAGE, AK
CASE TYPE: RV *
DATE: 17 NOVEMBER 1986
TIME: 18:19 HOURS
CFN#: 0325
DURATION: 20:MINUTES
WITNESSES: THREE
SOURCE: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
-------------------------------------------
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A mysterious unidentified
flying object with flashing white and yellow
strobe lights followed a Japan Air Lines cargo
jet across the Arctic Circle, the crew says.
The three-man crew radioed air traffic
controllers in Anchorage that a huge UFO was
flying "in formation" with them and the Air
Force briefly confirmed and object near the
plane, said Federal Aviation Administration
spokesman Paul Steucke.
He said the FAA in Anchorage and Fairbanks did
not pick up the object. The incident occurred
Nov.17 but was not made public earlier.
Flight 1628 had left Reykjavik, Iceland, flying
over the North Pole to Tokyo with a stop in
Anchorage. When it landed at Anchorage, FAA
security manager Jim Derry interviewed the
pilot, Co-pilot and flight engineer. When the
report was made to the Air Route Traffic Control
Center at 6:19 p.m., Steucke said controllers
tried to find the object on radar but "were
unable to comfirm a second target with our
equipment."
At 6:26 p.m. Steucke said the Air Force told the
FAA it "saw a second target (object) 8 miles away
(from the JAL jet) but they contacted us a mimute
later and said they were no longer receiving any
radar return (of a second object)."
Steucke added, "At 6:32 the JAL pilot requested
and received permission for a descent from 35,000
feet to 31,000." Air controllers asked if the
lights were still there, and were told, "It is
descending in formation." At 6:39 p.m.,20 minutes
after the lights first reported, the JAL crew said
it no longer saw the lights.
At 6:45 p.m. Fairbanks controllers authrized a
United Airlines northbound jet to make a 10 degree
turn to better view the JAL plane and asked the
United crew if it saw anything besides the Boeing
747. It did not. Nor did the JAL crew see the
lights again.
>> Comments: S5/P5.
Report #: 212
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-11-1987
Location: HARRISBURG, PA
CASE TYPE: CE I
DATE: 1ST WEEK OCTOBER, 1985
TIME: 0515 HOURS
CFN#: 0326
DURATION: UNKNOWN
WITNESSES: TWO
SOURCE: UFO INFORMATION SERVICE
--------------------------------------
Witness got up around 4:15 - 5:15 a.m.
to go to restroom and saw an object
over her home that covered five other
homes as well. The object was huge,
pure white and had no lights. The
object was the shape of a saucer and
rotating. Even though the object was
bright (brighter than any object she
had ever seen) it did not hurt her
eyes to look at it. She had no fear
and wanted to run out of her home
and stand underneath the object but
felt paralyzed. The object did
return and her 12 year old son was
able to see it. Since the incident
she has had visions which she did
not experience prior to the sighting
of the object.
>> Comments: S5/P3
Report #: 213
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-11-1987
Location: ANCHORAGE, AK
CASE TYPE: RV - RADAR VISUAL
DATE: 17 NOVEMBER 1986
TIME: 1819 HOURS
CFN#: 0327
DURATION: 20: MINUTES
WITNESSES: THREE
SOURCE: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
--------------------------------------
FAA says UFO on radar screen was just
a double image of jet
United Press International
ANCHORAGE - Federal investigators say
a review of radar tapes failed to
show a UFO shadowing a Japan Air Lines
cargo jet, contradicting reports made
by the crew and the air-traffic
controller who handled the plane.
The Federal Aviation Administration's
examination of the tapes shows what
appears to be a second object near JAL
Flight 1628 on Nov. 17, but
invesitgators now think it is a double
image from the Boeing 747, FAA spokes-
man Paul Steucke said yesterday.
On Dec. 29 the FAA releaed details
of the UFO sighting, revealing the
flight controller handling the jet
saw an object on radar five miles from
the plane. The Anchorage Air Route
Traffice Control Center directed the
crew to take evasive maneuvers,
including a 4,000-foot drop and a 360
degree turn.
Co-pilot Takanori Tamefuji, 39, said
yesterday he did not know why the FAA
first confirmed a nearby object and
now dismisses it as an image of the
747.
In his second interview with the FAA
Tuesday, Tamefuji reiterated that he
saw lights, and Steucke said, "The
co-pilot's testimony supported the
pilot's."
Although the FAA is satisfied with
the double-image explanation, the
inquiry is continuing with interviews
of the crew and a review of data,
Steucke said.
Steucke said the pilot, co-pilot
and flight engineer have told the
same story: Blinking yellow, amber
and green lights appeared too close
to their plane for comfort.
The FAA says the controller
apparently misinterpreted what he
saw on his screen. But Steucke
defended the controller's response,
saying, "He had a pilot tell him he
was seeing something right there.
This is not something where he can
take a risk even if it is a double
image."
The radar image seen in the JAL
cockpit and by the controller also
appeared intermittently on Air
Force radar. Air Force spokesmen
dismissed it as "random clutter."
Report #: 214
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-12-1987
Location: WASHINGTON, PA
CASE TYPE: CE I
DATE: 6 JANUARY 1987
TIME: 20:10 HOURS
CFN#: 0328
DURATION: 12:MINUTES
WITNESSES: TWO
SOURCE: PASU - STAN GORDON, DIR.
--------------------------------------------
Two witnesses reported observing a bright
triangular object in the night sky.
They said the object was gold in color,
with three bright red lights non-blinking,
one in each carner.
The witnesses stated, that the object hovered
for approximately ten minutes before moving
off to the north.
( PASU ) is still working on this case and
more information will be posted soon. For
more info call 412-838-7768.
>> Comments: S5/P4
Report #: 215
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-12-1987
Location: ANCHORAGE, AK
CASE TYPE: LRS
DATE: 11 JANUARY 1987
TIME: 07:35 HOURS
CFN#: 0329
DURATION: 30:MINUTES
WITNESSES: THREE
SOURCE: PARANET
-------------------------------------------------
SPECIAL RELEASE: 2nd Alaska UFO Sighting
ParaNet ALPHA and CUFON 01/12
Another Japanese Airlines crew has reported seeing
an Unidentified Flying Object ( UFO ) over Alaska,
according to the FAA.
In a recorded announcement, Paul Steucke, Senior
Federal Aviation Administrator for the Alaska
District, said that on January 11th at approximately
7:35 AM, Capt. Kinju Teryaki, piloting a JAL 747
cargo plane from Europe to Anchorage, reported to
the FAA Air Route Traffic Control Certer (ARTCC)
that he saw irregular lights that "looked like a
spaceship".
The lights were, he said, "amber and white, and
travelled from in front of him to below him, and
disappeared behind him."
The sighting was in two segments, the first for
about 20 minutes, and the second occured a little
later for approximately 10 minutes. Unlike the
November 17th sighting reported by another JAL cargo
jet, there was no radar contact by either ground or
air-based facilities, "Steucke said".
The FAA began interviewing both the captain and
co-pilot upon their landing at Anchorage, he said.
Steucke made the recording as an alternative to
answering an unmanageable volume of phone calls,which
have been pouring into the Alaska FAA district since
the November 17th sighting was made public on January
1st. According to Steucke,the data from that sighting
, voice recorder transcripts, radar tapes and
interviews, are being sent to the FAA headquarters in
Washington DC as are the data from the January 11th
sighting.
"The Federal Aviation Administration is not in the
business of looking for or identifying UFO's", he said.
"We are involved in investigating these reports because
the lights violated our federal regulations, as humorous
as that may sound."
>> Comments: S2/P2. Gut reaction: Witness over-excited from
first sighting.
Report #: 216
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-18-1987
Location: CALIFORNIA-OREGON
CASE TYPE: LRS - NL
DATE: 25 NOVEMBER 1986
TIME: 2022 HOURS
CFN#: 0330
DURATION: UNKNOWN
WITNESSES: MANY
SOURCE: ARKANSAS GAZETTE, LITTLE ROCK, AR
---------------------------------------------
ARKANSAS GAZETTE, Little Rock, AR -
Nov. 26, 1986
Fireball not man-made, experts say
Defense experts Tuesday eliminated "space
junk or any man-made object" as an explan-
ation for a mysterious meteoric fireball
that streaked across the Pacific Coast.
The object, sighted at 8:22 p.m. (CST)
Monday, dazzled stargazers from the
California-Oregon border to the Los Angeles
area.
"It looked like a long, green meteor but
it lasted way too long, arcing across the
sky toward the ocean, then it just blew
up," Roy Jackson of Mountain View, Cal.,
said.
"It wasn't space junk or any man-made
object re-entering the atmosphere, and we
don't track meteors," Del Kindschi of the
North American Aerospace Defense Command
at Denver said. "We heard about it but
there weren't any satellites or man-made
space objects entering the atmosphere at
that time." (UPI)
>> Comments: S1 - Bolide
Report #: 217
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-18-1987
Location: CLEVELAND, OH.
CASE TYPE: LRS - NL
DATE: 26 OCTOBER 1986
TIME: 1800 HOURS
CFN#: 0331
DURATION: UNKNOWN
WITNESSES: TWO
SOURCE: PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND, OH.
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PLAIN DEALER, Cleveland, OH - Oct. 27,
1986 CR: B. Robbins/COUD-I
Explosion over lake reported; search on
Two Coast Guard boats searched last
night for debris after two people said
they saw an explosion over Lake Erie,
off Euclid.
About 6 p.m. a resident of Euclid
high-rise near E. 260th St. reported
seeing an explosion in the air over the
lake. The woman said she saw smoke and
debris falling into the lake.
Coast Guard officials called Federal
Aviation Administration controllers and
airports last night to see whether any
planes had been reported missing. None
were.
An official at the Cuyahoga County
Airport in Richmond Heights also reported
seeing a bright light descending from the
sky about the same time, the Coast Guard
said.
>> Comments: S2/P3
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