JAL Sighting
Encounter record consolidated from case-specific archive subjects. Reported components: JAL Companion Light-Array Craft; JAL Saturn-Shaped Mothership. Detailed morphology, verification status and citations remain attached to the component claims.
Canonical Classification
This case is linked to the broad craft/species families used by the main catalogue.
Historical Airship / Rocket-Cigar
Historical airship, ghost-rocket and cloud-cigar report traditions retained as a distinct family because their historical context is as important as their elongated morphology.
View Family Profile →Unresolved Structured Object
Structured-object reports for which the source does not support a stable hull shape. This prevents radar, light-pattern or incomplete-silhouette data from being forced into a morphology.
View Family Profile →Case-Specific Report Components
These granular records retain the original morphology, evidence status and source provenance for this encounter. They are intentionally not separate top-level catalogue shapes/species.
JAL Companion Light-Array Craft (1986 Report)
Pair of close structured light arrays reported pacing Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 over Alaska, with rectangular/square amber-white light patterns and exhaust-pipe-like luminous circles.
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.