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Japan Airlines Flight 1628 UFO Encounter

Event date
1986 Nov 17
Location
Over Eastern Alaska, USA
Country
United States

Record summary

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.

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