This incident is Case 89 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 32 of the books covered by that article.
This incident featured in a document (“the Rockefeller Briefing Document”) endorsed by Dr Mark Rodeghier (President of CUFOS), Richard Hall (Chairman of FUFOR) and Walter Andrus (President of MUFON) as containing “the best available evidence for the existence of UFOs”.
This incident has featured in a list of twenty UFO cases produced by Bruce Maccabee in 1999 in response to a challenge to produce “the best evidence for an extraterrestrial origin for the UFO phenomenon”.
This incident has featured in a list by Paul Kimball of his nominations for the top 10 cases.
This incident featured in a list by James Carrion, the International Director of the Mutual UFO Network, of the “top 10 cases” in an interview in 2006.
This incident has also featured in a list of cases produced by British ufologist Gary Heseltine for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.
Web Resources
For links to various relevant documents and articles online see:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/JALalaska.htm
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Book References
For discussion of the JAL sighting see the following:
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Andrews, George C in his “Extra-Terrestrial Friends and Foes” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-18 (in Chapter 1), 342 (in the Credits) of the Illuminet Press softcover edition. |
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Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-132 (in Part 2: Case Histories, section entitled “1986: Japan Airlines 747 over Alaska”) of the Dell paperback edition. |
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Berlitz, Charles in his “World of Strange Phenomena” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 192-193 of the Wynwood hardback edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-146 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 132-133 (in Chapter 6) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”). |
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Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-176 (Chapter 11 generally) of the Explicit Books softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 541-543 (in an entry entitled “JAL Sighting”) of Volume 1:A-K of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 210-213 (in Chapter 8) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 315-318 (in an entry entitled “JAL Sighting”) of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 146-148 (in an entry entitled “JAL Sighting”) of the Apogee hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “UFO Encounters” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Dimensions of a Phenomenon”) of the Publications International hardback edition. |
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Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 23-24 (in Chapter 1) of the Arrow paperback edition. |
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Dennett, Preston E in his “One in Forty : The UFO Epidemic” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1-2 (in Chapter 1) of the KB hardback edition. |
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Glenday, Craig in his “The UFO Investigator’s Handbook” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 37 (in Chapter 1) of the Running Press softcover edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 428 (in Chapter 17) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 280-283 (in Chapter 13) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Need To Know : UFOs, the Military and Intelligence” (2006) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 400-401 (in Chapter 26) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition. |
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Greer, Steven in his “Disclosure : Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 79-93 (in Section 2) of the Crossing Point softcover edition. |
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Greer, Steven in his “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-151 (in Chapter 23) of the Crossing Point softcover edition. |
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Haines, Richard in Greer, Steven’s “Disclosure : Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134-135 (in Section 2) of the Crossing Point softcover edition. |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 325-326 (in Chapter 10) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 29 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”), 142-144 (in Section 3, “Pilot and Aircrew Sightings”) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 320-322 (in Appendix A) of the Aurora Press paperback edition. |
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Hamilton, William F in his “Alien Magic: UFO Crashes, Abductions, Underground Bases” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 5) of the Global Communications softcover edition. |
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Hansen, Terry in his “The Missing Times : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up : News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover -Up” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 201 (in Chapter 5) of the Xlibris softcover edition. |
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Jackson, Robert in his “UFOs” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “What the Pilots Saw”) of the Smithmark hardback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 171-176 of the Prometheus hardback edition (in Chapter 21, “FAA Data Sheds New Light On JAL Pilot’s UFO Report”). The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 11 (Summer 1987). |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 275-276 (in an entry entitled “JAL Flight #1628 Alaska sighting”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 269-270 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Lorenzen, Coral in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 332 (in an entry entitled “JAL Flight #1628 Alaska sighting”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Something in the Air” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-123 (in Chapter 9), 183 (in Chapter 13) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4 (in an entry entitled “aircraft, UFOs and”), 205 (in an entry entitled “Terauchi incident”) of the MJF hardback edition. |
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Spaceage in its “UFO USA - A Traveler's Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18-20 (in the chapter entitled “Alaska”) of the Hyperion softcover edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 66 (in the unnumbered section entitled “North America”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition. |
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Stacy, Dennis in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 130 of the MacDonald hardback edition (Part |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122, 123 (in Chapter 5) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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Van Dyk, Gregory in his “The Alien Files” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 93 (in Chapter 4) of the Element paperback edition. |
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