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SUBJECT: ASSORTED AP REPORTS FILE: UFO3078
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PART 7
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Article #: 20
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 07-20-1986
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Subject: 1969 BLUE BOOK CLOSES
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SOURCE: NEW YORK ( NYT )
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DATE: DECEMBER 18, 1969
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SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network
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Air Force Closes Study Of UFO's
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USAF Secretary Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr. said: in a menorandum yesterday that
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Project Blue Book is closed since continuation of the study of UFO's "no
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longer can be justified either on the ground of National Sesurity or in the
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interest
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of Science."
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Project Blue Book has investigated 12,618 sighting reports during the past 22
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years, at a cost of "several million dollars." Both a committee of the
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National Academy Of Sciences and a U Of Colorado group concluded earlier this
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year that further studies of the so-called flying saucers would be a waste of
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time and money.
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Surprisingly, the USAF decision was hailed by a number of UFO activists, but
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Dr. James McDonald, a meteorologist at the U Of Arizona, said: USAF was
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"writing off the UFO problem, which cries for serious scientific study ."
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Dr.
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Edward U. Condon, the U Of Colorado physicist who headed the UFO study, said:
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recently that his investigation "was a bunch of damned - nonsense" and that
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he
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was "sorry I ever got involved in such foolishness."
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USAF said: UFO reports had fallen from a high of 1501 in 1952 to 146 this
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year.
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Stuart Nixon, secretary-treasurer of NICAP, said: sightings still occur
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almost
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weekly and cited the report from a group of Richmond, VA policemen who said:
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they saw an object maneuvering over the city at 5:45 on Dec 5.
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Article #: 21
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 07-26-1986
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Subject: 1944 NEW GERMAN WEAPONS
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SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES
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DATE: DECEMBER 14, 1944
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SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network
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Floating Mystery Ball Is New German Weapon
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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Dec. 13-A new German
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weapon has made its appearance on the western air front. It was disclosed
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today.
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Airmen of the American Aif Force report that they are encountering silver
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colored spheres in the air over German territory. The spheres are encoun-
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tered either singly or in clusters. Sometimes they are semi-translucent.
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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS Dec. 13 ( Reuter ) - The Germans have produced a
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"secret"
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weapon in keeping with the Christmas season.
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The new device, apparently an air defense weapon resembles the huge glass
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balls that adorn Christmas trees. There was no information available as to
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whatholds them up like stars in the sky, what is in them or what their
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purpose is
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supposed to be.
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Article #: 22
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 01-11-1987
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Subject: 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING
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SOURCE: THE SEATTLE TIMES
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DATE: 1 JANUARY 1987
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SYSTEM: CUFON Computer UFO Network
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UFO report no surprise to longtime believer
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`They're here to warn us of danger we are'
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by Peter Lewis
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Times staff reporter
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Reports of a jumbo walnut-shaped unidentified flying object being sighted
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across the Arctic skies were music to Wayne Aho's ears.
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"I'm always thrilled to hear those reports because not many get into the
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news," said the Tacoma resident known as "Mr. UFO."
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Aho was referring to recent news accounts telling aof a veteran pilot who
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said
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three UFOs - two small ones and one shaped like a walnut and twice the size
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of
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an aircraft carrier - trailed his Japan Air Lines cargo jet for 400 miles as
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he flew across northeastern Alaska from Iceland to Anchorage on Nov. 17.
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The pilot, his co-pilot and flight engineer on JAL Flight 1628 reported
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seeing
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flashing lights trail their jet. Federal Aviation Administration officials
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confirmed that the controller who handled the flight saw a mysterious object
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trail the jet on his radar, and Air Force officials at the Alaska Air Command
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said their radar picked up something near the JAL plane.
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But Aho, founder and president of the New Age Foundation Inc., yesterday
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predicted that in the coming days or weeks, news organizations will be
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running
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"kill stories" that cast doubt on the sighting's authenticity.
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"Someone will come up with an explnation far more impossible for anyone to
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imagine as being reality," Aho said.
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That's what happened, Aho recalled, after amazed crew and passengers on a
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Soviet airliner reported seeing a star-like UFO beam a thin ray on the
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ground,
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then turn its dazzling light on the aircraft, then become a green cloud that
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"escorted" the plane during a flight over Minsk in January 1985.
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The story first appeared in a Russian newspaper. But Soviet authorities
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later
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discredited the report, saying the UFO was actually space junk orbiting the
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Earth, Aho recalled. His memory is borne out by U.S. newspaper clips.
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"How could space junk fly alongside and not fall?" asked Aho. "How could it
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follow at the speed of an airliner and fly beside it for 17 miles?" he asked.
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In the case of the newly reported sighting, Aho wondered why it has taken
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nearly two months for it to make news. "What held it up?" he asked.
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Aho, who said he has personally seen UFOs nine times, believes there is a
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deliberate effort on the part of the National Security Council to suppress
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UFO
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sightings because of the economic and political upheaval confirmed sightings
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would cause..
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Yet according to an eight-year-old Gallup Poll, 16 million Americans have
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reported seeing UFOs, Aho said. And worldwide, an estimated 150 million
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people have seen them, he added.
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Aho's "awakening" to UFOs started in 1957 while he was attending a UFO
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convention in the Mojave Desert, where he became involved in a "close
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encounter of the third kind - like the movie," he said.
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UFOs are from a superior civilization that have come here "to warn us of the
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danger we are to ourselves," Aho believes.
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A self-described "70 years young," Aho said he was an intelligence officer
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trained in aircraft identification who attained the rank of major in the Army
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during the war.
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Robert Gribble, a retired Seattle firefighter who operates the Seattle-based
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National UFO Reporting Center, has received thousands of reports of UFO
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sightings over the years. He said the large, walnut-shaped UFO report in the
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Arctic skies is similar to outlines previously reported.
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"I think the significant thing there is that they tracked it one radar,"
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Gribble said. "It lends credibility that they saw both objects (the UFO and
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the plane) on the screen at the same time."
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Two weeks ago, Gribble said yesterday, he was contacted by a Japanese
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reporter
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in Washington, D.C., who was the first to alert him to the sighting. Gribble
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said the reporter was trying to gather confirmation from various agencies to
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see if they had the sighting on radar, or if it had been reported by other
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airline crews, "and wanted to know if we had other reports, and of course we
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didn't," Gribble said.
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In 1986, his center received an average of six reports a day of sightings
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from
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English-speaking people from the Caribbean across North America to Hawaii,
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Gribble said. Busier years have averaged from 15 to 20 calls a day.
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Article #: 23
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 01-11-1987
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Subject: 1986 ALASKA 747 SIGHTING
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SOURCE: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
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DATE: 31 DECEMBER 1986
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SYSTEM: CUFON COMPUTER UFO NETWORK
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Pilot describes `unbelievable' UFO encounter
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United Press International
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - "It was unbelievable."
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The words belonged to Kenju Terauchi, a Japan Air Lines pilot who was trying
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to describe an inflight incident that thus far has defied explanation.
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The veteran pilot says theree unidentified flying objects - two small ones
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and
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one twice the size of an aircraft carrier - trailed his JAL cargo jet for 400
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miles across the Arctic skies.
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Terauchi yesterday acknowledged that some of his colleagues have doubts about
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what he, his co-pilot and flight engineer saw Nov. 17 as they flew from
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Iceland to Anchorage.
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The crewmen of JAL Flight 1628 reported seeing flashing lights trailing their
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jet that clear night to the Federal Aviation Administration, which
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interviewed
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the three in Anchorage. The plane later went on to Tokyo.
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FAA officials Monday confirmed the controller who handled Flight 1628 saw a
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mysterious object trail the jet on his radar, and Air Force officials at the
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Alaska Air Command said their radar picked up something near the JAL plane.
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In yesterday's interview, Terauchi, 47, a pilot with 29 years of experience,
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said he saw three UFOs and that at one point lights from the two smaller ones
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appeared directly in front of the Boeing 747 cockpit at close range.
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Terauchi referred to the objects as "the two small ships and the mothership,"
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and expressed amazement that they disappeared and reappeared and moved
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quickly
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and stopped suddenly. He said he could not explain the events, except to
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speculate that he saw something of extraterrestrial origin.
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Speaking in English with occasional help from a translator, Terauchi drew
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maps, pictures and supplied technical annotation to describe the incident.
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Terauchi repeatedly said the object that appeared on FAA and Air Force radar
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was "a very big one - two times bigger than an aircraft carrier."
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The smaller UFOs did not appear on his radar, he said. Nor were additional
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objects picked up on FAA or Air Force radar.
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Terauchi said the three crewmen saw lights from the two small objects. He
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drew a picture for the FAA showing lights on a formation, each object having
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what
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appeared to be two panels of lights.
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The captain said he saw lights on the larger object and once, near Fairbanks,
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saw it in faint silhouette eight miles away. He drew a picture of what he
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saw
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- something resembling a large shelled walnut.
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The crew was not frightened, Terauchi said. Their feeling was, he said, "We
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want to escape from this." And so - with FAA permission and direction - the
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crew dropped in altitude and made numerous turns, but the objects remained.
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"They were still following us," Terauchi said, and FAA radar confirmed that
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at
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least one object remained despite the maneuvers.
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Asked if he was nervous, Terauchi replied, "No, I am the captain. I cannot
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be
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nervous."
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Asked why he thought the UFOs would tail his plane, Terauchi laughed and
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replied, "We were carrying Beaujolais, a very famous wine made in France.
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Maybe they want to drink it."
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FAA security manager Jim Derry, who interviewed the crewmen, said they were
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"normal, professional, rational, (and had) no drug or alcohol involvement."
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FAA flight control reports indicate the mysterious object stayed with Flight
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1628 for at least 32 minutes. Terauchi said he thought it was longer.
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The flight controller directing the JAL plane reported the object on his
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radar
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as close as five miles to the jet.
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