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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) -- An extensive investigation by the Federal
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Aviation Administration was "unable to support" the Nov. 17 sighting by
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Japanese flyers of UFOs near their plane, but no evidence was found to
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contradict the report.
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The final FAA report on the incident also includes transcripts of the
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pilot's statement about the sighting saying the huge objects with
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blinking lights vanished into the moonlight when a second plane arrived
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in the area.
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"The FAA does not have enough material to say something was there,"
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FAA spokesman Paul Stucke said. "We are accepting the description of the
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crew but are unable to support what they saw."
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The FAA report, made public Thursday, included radar tapes and
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transcripts of interviews with the crew of the Japanese commercial jet
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and air traffic controllers.
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No evidence was found to contradict the crew, but the agency did say
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an unexplained radar image seen by three controllers that seemed to
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confirm the sighting was actually a split image of the Japan Air Lines
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cargo plane.
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The UFOs were spotted by the JAL crew when they entered Alaskan air
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space on a flight that began in Iceland. Crew members saw two belts of
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lights three miles ahead that hovered almost stationary, then shifted
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from side-to-side and rapidly pulsed across the sky.
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"... Most unexpectedly two space ships stopped in front of our face,
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shooting off lights," said pilot Kenju Terauchi. "The inside cockpit
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shined brightly and I felt warm in the face."
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Later, above Fairbanks, Terauchi saw "a silhouette of a gigantic
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spaceship" and obtained controllers' permission to make a series of
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turns to "run away quickly." He said the object stayed with the
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aircraft.
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Controllers directed a United Airlines plane to intersect the
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aircraft path, but Terauchi said, "When the United plane came by our
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side, the spaceship disappeared suddenly and there was nothing but the
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light of the moon."
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It was the third UFO sighting of Terauchi's 29-year career as a
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pilot.
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Copilot Takanori Tamefuja and engineer Woshio Tsukupa said the
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November UFO sighting was their first.
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Tsukupa saw white and amber colored lights that glowed with a strange
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intensity "that I cannot describe ... not even in Japanese."
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Tamefuji saw the first series of lights but could not make out the
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UFO over Fairbanks because it was on the captain's side of the cockpit.
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However, he said an object showed on the plane's radar.
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The FAA also released a report of a UFO sighting Jan. 29 picked up on
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radar by the crew of an Alaska Airlines passenger plane over McGrath.
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The crew, flying at 35,000 feet, reported a radar target moving in
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front of the plane at 300 miles a minute but quickly lost track of it.
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The agency could not confirm that radar sighting because it did not
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have ground radar in the area.
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