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SUBJECT: COVER-UP OF ALASKA SIGHTING ALLEGED FILE: UFO2933
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SPECIAL RELEASE:
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COVER-UP OF ALASKA SIGHTING ALLEGED
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PARANET ALPHA 08/22 -- The information contained in radar tapes relating
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to last November's sighting of a giant UFO by a Japan Airlines crew may
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have been altered, says a respected researcher for MUFON.
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Writing in the latest issue of California UFO Magazine, T. Scott
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Crain of the Mutual UFO Network also claims to have been told by an
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informant that "the Air Force did indeed have more than a passing interest
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in the event," and that "a number of F-15 jets were scrambled" to search
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for a giant walnut-shaped UFO reported by Capt. Kenju Terauchi on Nov. 17,
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1986. The informant, an anonymous officer at Elmendorf Air Force Base in
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Anchorage, AK, told Crain that, to his knowledge, the jets found nothing
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unusual.
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The informant said he was "puzzled the tapes didn't reveal another
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object, since the radar operators were certain they observed another
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target on their screens."
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"I don't know how to explain it," Crain quotes the informant, who
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told him that "radar tapes record images similar to VCR tapes. If
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controllers saw it live, it should be on the tape."
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Crain then proceeded to follow the route of the tapes when they were
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shipped from Elmendorf and the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
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(ARTCC) to Washington for evaluation by the FAA. Crain was informed by
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another UFO investigator that the tapes may have made a detour to the FAA
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Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ. The purpose of the detour may have
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been to alter the images, Crain muses.
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According to the article, a preliminary investigation found that the
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tapes did indeed go to Atlantic City. The March 12, 1987, edition of the
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Wall Street Journal reported that "Technical experts in Atlantic City said
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blips on a radar screen that appeared to confirm an object in the vicinity
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of the JAL jet were actually 'split radar returns' -- shadows of the
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plane's primary echo."
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Crain followed up with a Freedom of Information Act request to the
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FAA in Atlantic City, which was answered by a form letter referring him to
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the Public Affairs Office in Anchorage.
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END SPECIAL RELEASE
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COMMENT FOLLOWS
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It should be noted that the FAA never claimed that there was
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"nothing" on the tapes, merely nothing that would corroborate Terauchi's
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claim. The image did not simply "disappear" from the tape; the FAA is
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merely claiming that it was misinterpreted. While I'm not familiar with
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the taping of radar images, it occurs to me that to "alter" such an image
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to make it appear as a secondary return would require a painstaking pixel-
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by-pixel reconstruction of the image in a computer graphics laboratory.
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Such technology does, indeed, exist, but we find it highly unlikely. We
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will, however, follow up with one of the country's leading computer
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graphics labs, which is right here in Phoenix.
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We also find it interesting that the Air Force may have scrambled
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jets, but we are leery of anonymous sources.
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JS
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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