U.S. Government UFO Documents: “NOVEMBER 18, 1986 - FLIGHT JAL 1628 - UFO INTERCEPT OVER ALASKA”

(Unknown date)

(Quest Publications International Ltd., Leeds, UK)

Source: Archives For the Unexplained (AFU), Norrköping, Sweden

The UFO incident occurred over North East Alaska on 17 November 1986, at 5:19 p.m. (18 November, at 2:19 UTC), according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The  initial UFO sighting took place 90 nautical miles north east of Fort Yukon, according to U.S. UFO researcher Dr. Bruce Maccabee.

The Japan Airlines cargo jet was piloted by Captain Kenju (or Kenji, according to some sources) Terauchi.

The FAA also collected news articles that reported on the case.

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized_by_AFU/Quest_Publications/Quest_Publications_013-JAL_1628.pdf

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Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters

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

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Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs

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UFO News Article:
“Close encounter over Interior Alaska
draws coverage on UFO show”,
28 August 2011 (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Alaska) 

This is an article on the Japan Airlines cargo jet Flight 1628 UFO encounter over North East Alaska on 17 November 1986:

http://newsminer.com/bookmark/15252262-Close-encounter-over-Interior-Alaska-draws-coverage-on-UFO-show

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).

Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs

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U.S. Government Document Catalogue: “The National Archives Catalog: Information Releases Relating to Unidentified Flying Object, 1986 - 1986”

(National Archives and Records Administration,

Washington, D.C.)

The document deals with the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines cargo jet Flight 1628 UFO incident over North East Alaska:

https://research.archives.gov/id/733667

Quote from the document:

“Scope & Content

This series documents the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) by the crew of Japan Airlines flight 1628 while in Alaskan air space. There are transcripts of the pilot’s communication with air traffic control personnel; a text of an interview with the captain, Federal Aviation Administration personnel, and an interpreter as well as with the flight engineer and co-pilot. There are also diagrams drawn by the captain detailing the position of the UFO relative to his airplane during the sighting, and a copy of his personal statement on the event.

There are inspection and surveillance reports; photographs of recreated radar screens simulating the actual sighting; copies of newspaper clippings; and letters from citizens requesting copies of documents related to the sighting.”

The JAL cargo jet was piloted by Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi.

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).

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Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs

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UFO News Article: “Washington to get UFO tapes”

5 January 1987 (The Lewiston Journal, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine)

The Lewiston Journal reports on the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines (JAL) Flight 1628 UFO incident over North East Alaska:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1899&dat=19870105&id=9LwgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rmkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5973,250133

The UFO incident was witnessed by Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, his co-pilot and a third crew member.

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:

“Because of public interest in the case, the agency interviewed the pilot, Kenju Terauchi, a second time Friday, said Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Paul Steucke.

Terauchi told investigators three lights started following his Boeing 747 cargo jet Nov. 17 just after it crossed into Alaska from Canada, and stayed with him for 55 minutes.

He said two of the lights were about eight feet across, while the third appeared to be part of a darkened globe with a diameter of perhaps two aircraft carriers placed end-to-end, Steucke said.

The pilot said the large unidentified flying object registered 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 were considered a coincidental ‘split image’ of the aircraft, Steucke said.”

The article continues on page 5 (Google News).

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Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines, 
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UFO Paper: “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles”

Published: 25 September 2019

By Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell and Peter A. Reali

(Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), U.S.A.)

The paper investigates three UFO incidents: the 9 February 1951 Lieutenant Graham Bethune, U.S. Navy (off Newfoundland, Canada) (according to NICAP.org), 17 November 1986 North East Alaska (Japan Airlines (JAL) Flight 1628) and 14 November 2004 (USS Nimitz) Tic Tac cases.

Quote from the 11 October 2019 De Void (Billy Cox) article,

“Let’s see them equations”:
“ ‘Flight Characteristics’ takes three incidents – the Tic Tac, a 1951 sighting by Navy Lt. Graham Bethune near Nova Scotia, the 1986 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 – and ties them together with these threads: ‘multiple professional witnesses observing the UAV in multiple modalities (including sight, radar, infrared imaging, etc.),’ in which each incident produces ‘sufficient information to estimate kinetic qualities such as speeds and accelerations.’

‘Assuming that any one of these cases we examine is based on accurate reports,’ they add, ‘we show that the UAVs exhibit unreasonably high accelerations ranging from 100 g to well over 5,000 g.’ Not very sporting odds for a dogfight. The authors tell readers that ‘humans can endure up to 45 g for 0.044 seconds with no injurious or debilitating effects.’ Meaning: attempt those moves and you’re soup in a can.”

https://www.explorescu.org/post/estimating-flight-characteristics-of-anomalous-unidentified-aerial-vehicles

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Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines, with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs (the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines (JAL) Flight 1628 case) (4.bp.blogspot.com photo)

Freeze-frame of the Tic Tac UFO (filmed from a U.S. Navy

F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter on 14 November 2004)
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UFO Paper: “THE FANTASTIC FLIGHT OF JAL1628”

By Bruce Maccabee (brumac.8k.com)

The paper reports on the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines cargo jet Flight 1628 UFO incident over North East Alaska:

http://brumac.8k.com/JAL1628/JL1628.html

The initial UFO sighting occurred 90 nautical miles north east of Fort Yukon, according to Maccabee.

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).

The JAL cargo jet was piloted by Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi.

NOTE: It is unclear whether the pilot’s first name is Kenju or Kenji.

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Map of Alaska (wikimedia.org)

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The Japan Airlines (JAL) Cargo Jet UFOs Encounter, North East Alaska, 17 November 1986, 5:11 p.m.

JAL Flight 1628 encountered one very large, disk shaped UFO and two small, rectangular shaped UFOs over Alaska, on this flight from Paris to Tokyo. Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi described the large UFO as being twice as large as an aircraft carrier.

In this case, we see that a U.S. government official again has brought forth solid, official UFO evidence. The man who must be thanked for that is John Callahan, who was then the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Division Chief of the Office of Accident, Investigation and Prevention.

John Callahan also relates (1:27 minutes into the below interview video) that JAL Captain Kenju Terauchi talked to a U.S. Air Force official on an aircraft that also picked up the UFO on radar during the duration of this JAL UFOs encounter. Later in the same video Callahan tells us that the FAA Administrator Admiral Donald D. Engen had set up a briefing and told Callahan to bring all the evidence he had. There Callahan met with three officials from the CIA, three from the FBI and three from President Ronald Reagan’s Scientific Study Team. And all of them were excited, according to Callahan!

Once again, we see that the U.S. Air Force (Military) and the U.S. Intelligence community are involved in a solid, bona fide UFO case.

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).

Link to John Callahan’s speech during the Disclosure Project meeting at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., 9 May 2001:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJlnSGkljho

John Callahan interview regarding this case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_w1OPgoR5M

Segment from a UFO Files documentary (The History Channel):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZAvh5F_BHs

“CNN – Larry King Live: UFOs are they for Real?” had a segment about this case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SnW_iFdGIQ

Link to John Callahan’s statements on the Top Secret Testimony.com site (with radar scope photograph of the large UFO):

http://www.topsecrettestimony.com/Witnesses/AllWitnesses/FAADivisionChiefJohnCallahan/tabid/298/Default.aspx

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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UFO TV News Report:

TV Report On the Japan Airlines
Flight 1628 UFO Encounter Over Alaska

(NBC Nightly News, NBC, New York City)

The Japan Airlines cargo jet Flight 1628, piloted by Kenju
(or Kenji) Terauchi, encountered 3 UFOs over Alaska on
17 November 1986:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d7_1197484790&o=1

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).

The TV news report is presented in a History Channel UFO documentary film.

Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs

(4.bp.blogspot.com 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

(4.bp.blogspot.com photo)

UFO News Article: “Cargo pilot discusses encounter with UFO”

1 January 1987

(The Bulletin, Bend, Oregon)

The article reports on the Japan Airlines cargo jet Flight 1628 UFO incident that occurred over North East Alaska on 17 November 1986:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19870101&id=nvgoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FYcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6731,6229597

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).

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Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs

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UFO News Article:
“Info offered on UFO sighting claim”,
25 February 1987 (The Rock Hill Herald, South Carolina)

This is an article on the Japan Airlines cargo jet Flight 1628 UFO encounter over Alaska on 17 November 1986:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XCwtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Cb0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3658,8831516

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:
“If you want an inside look at a Japan Air Lines pilot’s recent claim that he saw a UFO, the Federal Aviation Administration will send you everything you ever wanted to know about the incident for $194.30.”

Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs

(4.bp.blogspot.com photo)

UFO News Article:
“Investigators reopen probe of apparent UFO sighting”,
5 January 1987 (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Canada)

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix reports on the Federal Aviation Administration’s investigation into the famous Japan Airlines Flight 1628 UFO encounter over North East Alaska on 17 November 1986:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=n0JgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7XANAAAAIBAJ&pg=4417,635499

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).

Wikipedia article: “Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_flight_1628_incident

Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs

(4.bp.blogspot.com photo)

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 Audio File: “Audio Files: JAL Flight 1628 - November 17, 1986”

Source: NICAP.org

Text by NICAP.org:
“In the late afternoon, Japan Air Lines flight 1628, a Boeing 747 with a crew of three, was nearing the end of a trip from Iceland to Anchorage, Alaska. The jet, carrying a cargo of French wine, was flying at 35,000 feet through darkening skies, a red glow from the setting sun lighting one horizon and a full moon rising above the other. This sighting gained international attention when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it was going to officially investigate this sighting because the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Anchorage, Alaska, had reported that the UFO had been detected on radar. Captain Terauchi was featured on numerous radio and TV programs and in People Magazine. Within a few months of these events he was grounded, apparently for his indiscretion of reporting a UFO, even though he was a senior captain with an excellent flying record. Several years later he was reinstated. The UFOs in this case were tracked on both ground and airborne radar, witnessed by experienced airline pilots, and confirmed by a FAA Division Chief. Audiotapes of the transmissions and AF radar confirmation were presented on the History Channel's ‘Black Box UFOs’ in August of 2006.”

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).

http://www.nicap.org/audio/history/861117_JAL.htm

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Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines, 

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs
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UFO News Article: “Flight crew, controller report UFO”

30 December 1986

(The Milwaukee Journal, Wisconsin)

The article reports on the 17 November 1986 Japan Airlines (JAL) Flight 1628 UFO incident over North East Alaska.

The UFO incident occurred 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:

“FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) spokesman Paul Steucke said there was no other air traffic along the same little-traveled route that night. Steucke also noted that the FAA’s electronically recorded radar data did not support the UFO sighting.

But the existence of an unidentified object was confirmed by a report from the flight controller in charge of JAL 1628. Steucke said the controller, who was not named, had two years’ experience.

During the flight, the controller asked Terauchi to identify the craft and then wrote, ‘He could not identify but reported white and yellow strobes.’ The lighting was not a normal aircraft marking pattern, the crew said.

In his one page report, the controller said he repeatedly saw another object on radar staying near the JAL jet despite FAA-approved turns and altitude changes. The object was as close as 
5 miles, the controller wrote.”

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19861230&id=aGMaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kioEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1730,3616282

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Captain Kenju (or Kenji) Terauchi, Japan Airlines,

with a drawing of one of the 3 UFOs

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Map of Alaska (wikimedia.org)

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