JAL Flight 1628: The Night a 747 Crew Watched Lights Pace Them Across Alaska
About 5 min readOn 17 November 1986, the crew of a Japan Airlines cargo 747 watched unidentified lights pace their aircraft across Alaska for nearly fifty minutes, with radar operators on the ground reporting returns near the plane. The FAA investigated for three months and announced it could not confirm what the crew had seen.
