The following is the story of a UFO sighting by Captain Kenju Terauchi and his crew. The japan airlines flight 1628 UFO incident was the subject of many TV and radio programs and was even featured in people magazine.
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It resulted in Captain Kenju Terauchi being grounded for wrongly reporting a UFO. He was demoted to a desk job over the incident and it wasn’t until several years later that he was reinstated.
The Objects Were Flying At The Same Speed
At first, he thought they were military aircraft. The actual bodies of the craft seemed to be darkened, while what seemed to be rockets or thrusters were illuminated.
"It was almost as if the objects were escorting the aircraft!"
What puzzled Captain Terauchi was the way they were manoeuvring. They seemed to maintain equal speed to the cargo plane and could hover just in front of the cockpit. So much so that the flight crew could feel the warmth from the bright lights the crafts were emitting.
Captain Kenju Terauchi quickly radioed the AARTC (Air Route Traffic Control Centre) to confirm whether there was any unknown traffic in the area. They replied that there was not any showing up on the radar and asked him to describe what he was seeing. They were concerned with the crafts altitude and whether they were civilian or military aircrafts.
Captain Terauchi was unsure of the crafts origins, but reported seeing white and yellow navigation lights. The UFOs continued to follow along with flight 1628 occasionally changing formation. One would be on top of the other then one in front and vice versa.
Captain Terauchi then asked the co-pilot to retrieve his camera that he had stowed away behind his seat. He attempted to photograph the UFOs but wasn’t successful. He claimed that the autofocus function on his camera was faulty.
It was about this time that the AARTC contacted a nearby Air Force control centre to verify if they had any radar information. After a few minutes, they responded and informed them that they had not picked up anything on the radar other than flight 1628.
Captain Terauchi then noticed that the crafts were moving away from the cargo plane and heading towards a much larger, flatter looking object. Terauchi described it as the mother ship. He went on to use the weather radar on the plane and determined that there was indeed a craft’s signal registering on the screen.
The AARTC then radioed flight 1628 to see if the crew still had visual confirmation of the craft, which they did. The AARTC also confirmed they too had a radar signature of something following flight 1628 about five miles behind the plane. The local air force base that the AARTC had contacted earlier, also stated that they too had a radar image of air traffic, right where Captain Terauchi said it was.
Captain Terauchi then requested an immediate change of course, which was granted. The unknown crafts seemed to follow and maintain the same speed. A nearby commercial flight was re-routed towards flight 1628 to see if they could confirm Terauchi’s story, but by this time, the UFO’s had slowed down and completely vanished from sight.
The commercial flight only managed to register some brief hits on their radar, but nothing substantial.The whole incident was being investigated by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), but was halted shortly after by a third party who confiscated all the evidence and data.
Many have speculated what happened that night, but the Japan Airlines flight 1628 UFO incident remains one of the most talked about and mysterious UFO encounters of all time.