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Discover the Truth at: http://www.theblackvault.com • t«ia- PageA18—Pacific FlyerMarch 1987 M') fy\:- v.'i: turbulence fronifHe«OFO • I' throwing us aro'uiid re^ : plane survived the/CT- okay and I'm intefemthat the FAA is now '* jri^ructoris expected to Ife i' sei(ih|;^,mail-order package, the hospitm in ,,a .few M^'. abpiitpe incident, m glad that he had d^ jttljjackage includes in-; • tei^^^.with the,crew, mem-: be|:^;^a'ceship drawings by the Sv>'> piloti^^d ^atements by aircon- 55.«vji trolleS.There's also tour glossy, mi^nrtrUdOTWTh mrbW ..EnMi!"'®"" wh0re,;tliewhfere^,the pyguy in •1 pulled the. power bacjc and cqloerphotos; Of regenerated J (like/jike most of them) haahad a :' light from'a UFO behind him.) nosed theplane over into a.diye, »v rad^.^data, all for a measley second job to make.ends meet,. t . : watching the li^ts of CantufV fjr» he fell faa asleep shortly after' .i-' J !"? li Citynia.up toward me.-rdqii jOir.'^ptl can order individual takeoff. , that I pidd hemclearly and know exactly how.low I^ot^; pv itemsviian^ng from a -30 cent . which got, louder^ as it ap- ' since 1coulcmH ^ the altimeter': a^y;f6f! the FAA form sum- rd better not say widch air- proached me. scared, I because1didn't have any |C:fer- niaii^g the sighting to a $50 port weleftfrom sincethe FAA don't niihdtelliiigiybu. 1started lights—but Ivkis looldngjuji.dt; calotte tape oftheinterchange might be able to track him , towake upmy in^ctorbuthe the Hollywood flgn. •" beit^^$ the crew and ground down and, Idon'tw^t togetthe. r. gave me strict.bfders to leave, '•'W- ^ Anyway, I dldvX'-jenmbjbb cpntroiii^rs. old ^y ill trouble. Besides, he's him alone unless I got lost and because. the UFO -just kept ij,Y6w>Jwill recall that Capt. hardly skipped any of the AA was almost out offuel, going a terrible,WHOOSH KenftiulTerauchi reported on ineefingslately; : :,, , ' i I kiiiiildf pt trans- and roar as it passed overhead. life'' Nbtel| that -he-saw a giant Anyway,A itix .. was about eight > fixed by.watching this uniden It hadisdihe sortofalieflT'^ting s^^fiip thb-size of two air- o'clock at night — also last.No-" tified' object bareeliiig toward oh it that, of course, I coulidh't di^l^^erewhich looked alot vember—and 1was cmising toj me because I didn't do anything read but.-it/icibkedj'Sqmethirig like a^ant walnut.. Theappari- our destination of Santa Monica %,r<i4}' for>aIohg time.:;just stared at it -like thisf-^'Ortedj; .ir..ih 1 spotted on radar Airport at about 3,000 feet. ,1 wishing 1 had ta camera. Biit -' stai^'td wake my'inirtrudtpr and .Air Force radar was marveling atthe sight ofall then it began toidawn on me upbiltT.didri't need.tb sin'cej^e^ V= . •••j'l' • the Los Angeles-^ lights twirikli- that maybe it intended to ram 'Vip.' ••A-V* ,, . just have to have this l^ipackage (or are just a fan :n-- w'K df^giarif walriuts), .write to the OUR PLACE OR Yni>» It' • FAAi^bl C. St., Box 14; Art- chorage, Alaska 99513. pRCESsceNn 100 PAGES ANCHORAGE. ALASKA. THURSOAV. JANUARV IS. 1987 J^pan Air Lines pilot Kenju Terauchl provided to Anchorage Illustrator William Hays of'the laVei^raft •^hich he^ estimated to betwice thesize ofan aircraft carrier and2to3 miles away. A night flight to remember Veteran JAL pilot who never believed In UFOs does now By HALBERNTON ADaily NewsfullOusinessmoonreportershone in the arctic sky as Capt. Kenju Terauchi took off from Iceland Nov. 17 in a Japan Air Lines cargo jet loaded with French Beaujolais wine. He was bound for Anchorage on a route across Greenland to Elsmere Island. Canada, over the Beaufort Sea, then into Alaska air space above Fort Yukon. For the first two and a half hours, the flight — crewed by Terauchi, co-pilot Takanori Tamefuji and engineer Yoshio Tsukuda —was uneventful. The sky was clear and the winds —except for some light gusts over Greenlanid — calm. Then TeraucU's jet cruised into Alaska, and be first saw the two belts of light. They were an estimated three miles ahead of the plane, slightly to the left of the pilot's cockpit seat, and 2,000 feet lower than the plane. They e^tted a steady amber glow. They hovered almost stationary, shifted from side to side, then pulsed across the sky in abrupt bursts of speed. The objects, Terauchi believes, "were not made by human kind. They were of a very high technology and Intelligence." The events recounted by Terauchi in the 50 minutes Ancrcrace DailyNews/jim Lavrahas Capt, Kenju Terauchi: "It was like a dream. Unbelievable.' See Back Page, FLIGHT FLIGHT TO REMEMBERS Veteran JAL pilot recounts sighting of strange company I Contlnu»j from Page A'l | speculated that the second sightings were the lights of radar tape showed the object after that flnt sighting of villages reflected off ice crysr lights are some of the most to be a split-image of the jAL tals m the atmosphere. plane. Rich said none of the hlzorre in Alaska aviation But Terauchi remaiirs con history. Since first becoming vinced that the lights he saw controllers, at the time, public in late Decemb^, the in November were spaceships thought that was the case. reports have transformed this of some unknown, extra-ter As the plane flew over soft-spoken, 47-year-old, An Fairbanks, the Ughts of the restrial origin. In interview city gave Terauchi a better chorage-based pilot into an after interview, he methodi international celebrity, inter cally makes his case, chwrUng view of the new object. He viewed by People magazine, says the band of light circled the events of the sighting on a huge walnut-shaped object Tokyo television and more flight maps of the arctic sky. than a dozen other national that appeared to be twice the One day, he's convinc^ size of an aircraft carrier. tnd Intemationai publlca- someone else will see the tioni. crafts, and his account will As the lights of the city Terauchi has lived quietly take on bew meaning. "I faded, Terauchi again could in o comfortable house in think we have to keep this see only the white band of Anchorage, his base for the record...." light. To try to lose the ob last three years. He spends ject, he got permission from a several weeksa month flying Terauchi's encounter began controller to descend from polar routes between Europe with his sighting of the two 35.000 to 31,500 feet. The ob and Alaska. During his time belts of amber lights. To ject descended "In forma off, he enioys fishing for red check them out, he radioed tion," he said. '• •Ad silver Anchorage air traffic control Then Terauchi, af^ cdo- ' This week, Terauchi is lers. The controllers replied sulting with CQntroUeiSk hmne again. His phone rings that no military or civilian made two 45-degree tuzm to pften with reporters eager to flights werein the vicinity;- ' the right, then completed a The two belts of light con 30O-degree turn. The ohJect hear about his strange No tinuedto dancein front offhe vember flight. remained in view. 'Terauchi has an impressive plane. Terauchi grabbed for As the JAL plane flew past list of professional credentials his camera, but raized that Mount McKinley, controuers to lend weight to his rather taking a picture would be asked a Fairbanks-bound futile because'-thm was not United Airlines flight to try incredible tale. He has 29 enough light to' expose the years flying experience. He to confirm the sighting. The says be hasn't often navigated - film properly. United plane veer^ off to the Iceland-Oreenland-An- Five minutes after the follow the JAL flight path at cborage route, but he has 'rou- lights first appeared in front a lower altitude. t^dy flown othef trani-^lar of the plane, (bey suddenly Just before the two planes moved farther out ahead of Abov* {• tn llluttraiion based on »*r«ioobyWily!mH«y9 passed one another, the white the plane, he said. He could light disappeared. Until November, Terauchi then make out the shapes of says, he never believed in the crafts — cylinders "It was like a dream. Un UPOs. Now, he does. He wrapped in lateral lines of believable," Terauchi said. thinks they're sent by visitors light that extended from a Mulling things over in the from outer space. In fact, last darker center..The lines ap living room of his Anchorage Sunday, Terauchi again re peared to be exhaust outlets, home, Terauchi postulates that whatever he saw was ported mysterious lights of a and they alternately pulsated seeing the two strange lights. spaceship during a f»ght to light from the two sides of glowtog white light, similar friendly. "I can't understand "I saw several lights in front to the light emitted by a chorage. Three controllers the technology, but it'was not Anchorage. {he cylinder. They appeared of us, and then I couldn't see monitoring radar saw what ^ .This time, however, he ad to be controll^ by comput- fluorescent bulb. He turned dangerous. It was coippietely them, and the captain told me on his weather radar and they thought was an object at controlled." mits he made a mistake.