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Japan Airlines Flight 1628 UFO Encounter

DATE17 Nov 1986
LOCAL TIME5:11 PM
LOCATIONOver Eastern Alaska, USA, United States
COORDINATES64.24°N, 147.47°W

Captain Kenji Terauchi and crew of JAL Cargo Flight 1628 reported a 50-minute encounter with three unidentified objects over Alaska, including one estimated to be the size of an aircraft carrier. The objects were briefly tracked on three radar systems simultaneously.

[ PRIMARY CITATION // COMPILED REFERENCE · CTD-0286 ]

WITNESSES & UNITS

Capt. Kenju Terauchi

SENSORS & EVIDENCE

Ground / airborne radar track
Archived investigative case file