UFO Report: 

“A Preliminary Study of Sixty Four
Pilot Sighting Reports Involving Alleged 
Electromagnetic Effects on Aircraft Systems”

by Dr. Richard F. Haines, Los Altos, California

and Dominique F. Weinstein, Paris, France,

15 May 2001 (NARCAP, Temecula, California)

This preliminary study includes a report on the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines (JAL Flight 1628) B-747 cargo UFO incident over North East Alaska:

http://www.narcap.org/reports/emcarm.htm

The UFO incident occurred on 17 November 1986, at 5:19 p.m. (18 November, at 2:19 UTC), according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document (files.afu.se).

NARCAP’s report (Case 53) is based on FAA documents.

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Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters

(U.S. Department of Transportation),
Wilbur Wright Building, Washington, D.C. (wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)

UFO News Article:

“UFO sighting gets backing”, 30 December 1986

(The Daily Record, Ellensburg, Washington)

This is an article on the Federal Aviation Administration’s investigation into the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines (JAL) B-747 cargo UFO incident over North East Alaska:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=24tUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gI8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5884,11069718

The UFO incident occurred on 17 November 1986, at 5:19 p.m. (18 November, at 2:19 UTC), according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document (files.afu.se).

Quote from the article:

“In his one-page report, the (FAA) controller stated repeatedly that he saw another object on radar staying near the JAL jet despite FAA-approved turns and altitude changes.”

John Callahan, Former FAA Division Chief of the Office of Accident, Investigation and Prevention 

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Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs

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