JAL Flight 1628 sighting.
documentedclose_encounterBetty & Barney Hill Abduction
📍 near Fort Yukon, Alaska (in flight) 66.000, -149.000 · approx
JAL Flight 1628 was a Japan Air Lines cargo 747 whose captain, Kenju Terauchi, reported being paced by huge luminous objects over Alaska on 17 November 1986. The FAA released radar and voice-tape…
JAL Flight 1628 was a Japan Air Lines cargo 747 whose captain, Kenju Terauchi, reported being paced by huge luminous objects over Alaska on 17 November 1986. The FAA released radar and voice-tape records and conducted a review. It matters as a prominent airline-crew radar-visual case; the FAA ultimately could not confirm the objects, and skeptic Philip Klass attributed the sighting to bright planets (Jupiter/Mars) and possible radar clutter, leaving the cause disputed.