U.S. Aviation Authority publishes 1,500 document pages for UFO incident “Japanese Airlines JAL1628”
The 50-minute UFO sighting by the crew of Japanese Airlines’ JAL 1628 cargo flight on 17 November 1986 is considered one of the best-known UFO sightings by pilots. The US FAA has now sent a US UFO researcher around 1,500 pages of documents on the incident, which were actually destroyed 17 years ago.
On November 17, 1986 the cargo flight “JAL 1628” was actually on its way from Paris to the international airport of Narita near Tokyo, when the crew around Captain Kenju Terauchi discovered about 17:11 local time two unknown, fast ascending flying objects over eastern Alaska to their left, which seemed to accompany the machine from now on.
Terauchi himself was a former fighter pilot with more than 10,000 hours of flying experience. He was accompanied by his co-pilot Takanori Tamefuji and the flight engineer Yoshio Tsukuba.
According to the descriptions, these two objects had luminous propulsion units, while their overall shape could not be accurately identified due to the darkness. When the two objects approached the plane closest, their light was so bright that it strongly illuminated the interior of the cockpit and the pilots even wanted to feel the warmth emanating from this light on their faces.