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headquarters informed?" I asked. "Hey," the controller replied, "who believes in UFOs? I just need to know what to tell the media to get them out of here." mo urna The answer to that question was easy: "Tell them it's under investigation. Then, collect all the data—the voice tapes and computer data discs from both the air traffic facility and the military facility responsible for protecting the West Coast area. Send the data overnight to the FAA Tech Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey." I wanted the data on the midnight redeye flight, no matter how much hassle it was for them to get it to me. Japan Air Lines flight 1628, a cargo jet with a pilot, copilot, and flight engineer, was north of Anchorage, and it was just after 5:00 p.m. The captain, Kenju Terauchi, described seeing a gigantic round object with colored lights flashing and running around it, which was much bigger than his 747, as big as an aircraft carrier. His crew, Takanori Tamefuji and Yoshio Tsukuda, both saw it, too. At one point, two objects appeared to stop directly in front of the 747, and the captain said they were "shooting off lights,” illuminating the cockpit and emitting heat he could feel on his face. The objects then flew in level flight with the 747. Later, the captain made a turn to evade the UFO, but it flew alongside the jet, keeping a constant distance. Terauchi was able to estimate the size of the largest "spaceship," as he called it, to be at least the size of an aircraft carrier because he had it on his radar, and the aircraft radar has range marks. He reported all of this to FAA officials, exactly as he saw it. Over the course of thirty-one minutes, the UFO jumped miles in merely a few seconds. One radar sweep at the air traffic control in Anchorage took ten seconds. At one moment Terauchi says, It's over here at twelve o'clock at eight miles, and when the radar antenna goes by, we see a target there. Ten seconds later, it's suddenly six or seven miles behind him. It's going from eight miles out in front of the 747 to six or seven miles in back, in only a few seconds, in one sweep of the radarscope. The technology was "unthinkable," Terauchi said, because the UFOs appeared to have control over both inertia and gravity. FAA officials interviewed the captain and his crew extensively in the days and months following; all of them provided independent descriptions and drawings of the "spaceships" and their remarkable behavior. These three reliable witnesses knew how to recognize aircraft. If this object had been a secret military exercise, the pilots would have been informed as such and would not have wasted time . 1 wn aoa wma spending thirty-one minutes evading and reporting a UFO, and the FAA would not have bothered to conduct interviews following the event. These witnesses eliminated a// known explanations for what they had observed at close range for an extended period of time. When a pilot looks out the window and sees an aircraft shooting across his nose or flying along with him, the first thing he does is call air "Tell them it's under