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CIA • 1984

USA PROBES MYSTERY CLOUD REPORTED OFF JAPAN

/U5A probes mystery cloud reported off Japan By -Derek Wood AMERICAN EXPERTS are investigating a mystery cloud, possibly resulting from some form of explosion, which caused an airline pilot to call for an emergency course deviation over the Pacific last month. On 9 April at 1409 GMT, a Japanese Airlines Boeing 747 freighter en route Tokyo-Anchorage, at ? 33 000, ft, encountered the phenoinenon'370 km. east of Miyako on the coast-,.of ;}Ionshu.";The captain, aformer US Air'Force B-52 pilot, made...
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Created
Nov 4, 2016
Released
Sep 5, 2003
Publication
May 12, 1984
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Document #

CIA-RDP96-00788R001900680008-1

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Document Type

CREST

Collection

STARGATE

Release Decision

RIFPUB

Original Classification

U

Sequence

8

Pages

1 pages

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154.24 KB