A Boeing 747 cargo flight crosses the frozen skies above Alaska.

Three experienced crew members see lights where no aircraft should be.

Then radar begins to show something following them.

In this episode of Haunted UK Podcast, Steve explores one of the most detailed and controversial UFO encounters in aviation history: the 1986 Japan Airlines Flight 1628 incident. Flying from Paris to Tokyo, Captain Kenji Terauchi, Co-Pilot Takanori Tamefuji, and Flight Engineer Yoshio Tsukuba reported seeing unidentified objects near their aircraft while travelling through Alaskan airspace.

What began as two strange lights ahead of the plane soon developed into something far more unsettling. The crew described unknown craft changing formation, matching speed and altitude, and later the appearance of a much larger object that seemed to shadow the aircraft. Anchorage Air Traffic Control could not identify traffic in the area, while later accounts claimed radar operators at Elmendorf Air Force Base also tracked an unidentified target.

The episode follows the communications between the crew and air traffic controllers, the involvement of other aircraft, the offer of military assistance, and the later investigation by the FAA. It also examines the role of FAA official John Callahan, who claimed the case drew the attention of government agencies and that key data was treated as highly sensitive.

Grounded, thoughtful, and balanced between witness testimony, radar evidence, official explanation, and possible military technology, this episode asks what really followed Japan Airlines Flight 1628 through the Alaskan sky — an experimental aircraft, a radar anomaly, or something still unidentified.

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