FAA Launches Far-Out UFO Mail-Order Business
A Japan Air Lines pilot’s recent claim that he saw a UFO has generated so much interest that the Federal Aviation Administration is offering a mail-order package that includes tapes of interviews with the crew members, spaceship drawings by the pilot and air controller statements, and even four glossy color photos of regenerated radar data. All yours for $194.30. If that’s a bit steep, you can order individual items, ranging from a $50 cassette tape of communications between the controllers and flight crew, to a 30-cent copy of an FAA form summarizing the sighting. JAL Capt. Kenjyu Terauchi reported Nov. 17 that his jet was shadowed by two belts of lights as it crossed into Alaska airspace on a flight from Iceland to Anchorage. He also reported seeing a huge spaceship the size of two aircraft carriers. Philip J. Klass, a magazine editor and longtime UFO investigator, said Terauchi probably saw an unusually bright image of the planet Jupiter and possibly Mars. But Terauchi insists the objects “were not made by humankind. They were of a very high intelligence.” The FAA address to write to is 701 C. St., Box 14, Anchorage, Alaska 99513.
--In a controversy dubbed “Salami-gate,” deli owners in Newton, Mass., are fuming about town Health Commissioner David Naparstek’s decree that salamis shall no longer swing in the window but must be refrigerated at temperatures below 45 degrees. Deli owners say the ruling is a lot of baloney. “If you put them in the fridge,” Arthur Rodman of Barry’s Village Deli complained, “they spoil and they don’t get hard. People have hardened salamis (by hanging) for over 100 years.” Naparstek, who admits he hates salami, says he is only following state sanitary codes, which list salami as “potentially hazardous” and say it can support “rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxicogenic microorganisms.” In other words, salamis make great homes for germs.
--In yet another case of life imitating art, Dick Tracy got his man--in this case, a convicted burglar named Ellery Queen. Queen--not the famed fictional sleuth--was ordered jailed to await trial on charges of bond-jumping, gun possession and intimidation after Tracy--not the famed fictional detective--testified against him in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Tracy, Queen’s probation officer, testified that Queen harbors a deep sense of hatred for others about his troubles with the law and that he threatened a witness. Case closed.
