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LEVEL 03 // ARCHIVAL CASE RECORD [C-000200]
C-000200CASE RECORD · CLASSIFICATION: CRAFTTERM-000006 (Saturn-Shaped)

JAL SATURN-SHAPED MOTHERSHIP (1986 REPORT)

Distant enormous Saturn-shaped object reported by Capt. Kenju Terauchi behind JAL Flight 1628, estimated by him at roughly the size of two aircraft carriers and associated with intermittent radar returns.

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// ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT
C-000200 / TERM-000006
PUBLISHED CLAIMS
5
VARIANTS
0
ENCOUNTERS
1
UNIQUE SOURCES
1
UNIQUE WORKS
1
HISTORICAL RANGE
1986
// RECURRING REPORTED CHARACTERISTICS
0 / RECORDS

No recurring controlled-vocabulary characteristic has enough published cited data to summarize yet.

// EVIDENCE PROFILE
5 PUBLISHED CLAIMS
Reported5
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// REPRESENTATIVE VARIANTS
0 VARIANTS

No narrower variants are currently documented for this family.

// REPRESENTATIVE ENCOUNTERS
1 ENCOUNTERS
JAL Sighting
E-300199 · 1986
// SOURCE COVERAGE
5 CITATION LINKS
UNIQUE SOURCES
1
UNIQUE WORKS
1
PRIMARY SOURCES
0
CITATION LINKS
5
SOURCE RELIABILITY METHODOLOGY →
// CLASSIFICATION NOTE

This family groups reports by recurring visible morphology. Membership does not establish that the underlying objects are identical, technologically related, or anomalous in origin.

Terauchi described the distant large silhouette as Saturn-shaped and called it a mothership.