November 17, 1986: Japan Air Lines 747 cargo flight (Paris to Tokyo) encountered three unidentified craft over Alaska airspace for nearly one hour. THREE SIMULTANEOUS RADAR CONFIRMATIONS: (1) The aircraft’s own weather radar — blip at 8 miles distance in clear sky with no other traffic assigned. (2) FAA Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center — controllers tracked an unknown target in proximity to JAL1628. Controller Carl Henley initially thought it was a military aircraft “shadowing” the JAL flight. (3) US Air Force Elmendorf radar — directed to scan, registered a primary raw radar return of something unidentified, intermittent before vanishing. Washington Post January 2, 1987 headline: “UFO Sighting Confirmed by FAA, Air Force Radar; Japanese Crew Tells of Encounter Over Alaska.” THE CIA SUPPRESSION: FAA retired official John Callahan stated that CIA agents attended the FAA internal briefing of the incident. After the briefing, the CIA told all attendees: “This never happened.” Callahan kept a copy of all the data. The FAA then walked back the radar confirmation publicly. Pilot Captain Kenju Terauchi — veteran, rated reliable by FAA investigators as “normal, professional, rational, no drug or alcohol involvement” — was subsequently reassigned. Standard pattern: credible witness → reassignment. CROSS-REFERENCE: Identical CIA suppression playbook used in the Robertson Panel (1953), Blue Book cross-referencing against U-2 flight logs, and AARO’s honeypot function. Japan’s three-source radar confirmation makes this one of the most evidentiary UAP cases in aviation history.