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At first the FAA confirmed the sighting, then a few days later decided
that one air traffic controller had mistakenly interpreted a split image of
the cargo plane as a separate object. Establishment hatchet man Phil Klass
was then called in to kill the story by announcing that Captain Terauchi,
despite twenty-nine years of experience as a pilot and a hitherto impeccable
record, had mistaken the planet Jupiter for a UFO. The fact that the
large UFO had been witnessed not only visually by all crew members, but
also on the jet's radar screen, and that neither Jupiter nor any other planet
appears on radar screens, was ignored by Philip Klass. Hal Bernton, a
reporter for the Daily News of Anchorage, Alaska, conducted an interview
with the air traffic controller in question, Sam Rich, which was printed on
January 9, 1987. Sam Rich's testimony contradicted the FAA's version of
the event in several important ways.
Rich, who has worked with the FAA for over a decade, denied categorically
that he was the only air traffic controller to have seen the radar
track of the UFO. The two other controllers who were working that shift
also saw it. The track was not very strong, but neither he nor his two colleagues
thought that it could be a split image, a possiblity they considered
at the time. Right after spotting the track, Rich phoned the Military
Regional Operations Control Center, and "they informed me that they had
the same radar track."
Rich confirmed that double images often occur on the FAA radar screen
but said that the JAL plane was not in the area where these split images
usually occur. Also, over the past decade there have been about half a
dozen reports by pilots of unidentified lights in the region where the JAL
plane sighted the UFOs.
To all this, I can now add the fact that there have been several sightings
from the area of the JAL encounter since the incident took place, reported
both by airplane pilots and by people on the ground. So who are we to
believe—the air traffic controller who was actually on the job at the time
of the incident, or the professional disinformation agents
Another interesting aspect of the Japan Air Lines story is that although
the incident occurred over Alaska on November 17, 1986, no U.S. media
coverage of it took place until January 1987. When this six-week delay in
making the story public was investigated, it turned out that the story never
would have been made public at all in the United States if a family member
of one of the JAL crew had not leaked the news to journalists in Japan.
Once the story had entered the public domain in Japan, the U.S. authorities
could no longer pretend that nothing had happened.
Yet another major development in the story of this case, which apparently
just refuses to die, occured at the end of August 1987 when
MUFON* researcher T. Scott Crain Jr. revealed (in an article entitled
* Mutual UFO Network