JAL Flight 1628: lights over Alaska and a disputed radar return
A cargo Boeing crew reported unusual lights. The FAA preserved communications and interviews, attributing an extra ground-radar target to a split return from the aircraft itself.
Sightings, declassified records and video analysis.
A cargo Boeing crew reported unusual lights. The FAA preserved communications and interviews, attributing an extra ground-radar target to a split return from the aircraft itself.
A single-witness 1981 account investigated by the gendarmerie, GEPAN and laboratories.
Servicemen reported lights in the forest; surviving records distinguish the early account from later additions.
A sequence of observations became famous through footage filmed aboard a freight aircraft.
A US military channel preserved Iranian accounts of a bright object, radar contact and instrument failures. The document establishes the reporting, not an extraterrestrial interpretation.
An Air Force-sponsored investigation collected new cases and revisited older ones; its overall recommendation and individual case analyses operate at different levels.
Two children reported a bright object and four small figures. GEPAN's later reconstruction preserved their memories but did not measure the original event in real time.
Norman Muscarello brought a police officer to a roadside field, where both reported bright lights. Statements and correspondence about military aircraft survive.
A farmer reported an unfamiliar craft and two figures in a field. Gendarmes documented his account and ground marks; GEIPAN later clarified how its archive was assembled.
Early reports and a site examination preserved an alleged landing account without identifying the object.