It's the final North American frontier,  a land where, on average, an astonishing   41.74 people per 100,000 people go missing every  year- a national record! In any other place,   this figure would lead to mass panic and a demand  for immediate government action- but for the   frostbitten natives and frontiersmen of Alaska,  that's just the price this wild land demands   from those who dare trespass. Recently, though, a  dramatic upsurge in UFO activity has prompted many   to question- why do so many people disappear here,  and could it be related to the UAP phenomenon? Seward, Alaska, is a major hub for fishing and  the off-shore oil industry. It's a small town   of around 2600 people, with an additional  2600 living near the town in the Alaska   wilds. Despite its small size, it's a very  important port for bringing in supplies and   for shuttling out those supplies and personnel  to offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Alaska.   People there are used to helicopters and  other small and large aircraft flying over   their town- which makes what happened one night in  the early 1990s all the more difficult to explain. Residents of Seward were drawn outside by  the sound of a helicopter overhead- not an   unusual event for the small town, but made more  curious by the fact that this helicopter seemed   to be hovering just outside of the town. The  aircraft was soon identified as a US military   Blackhawk helicopter, hovering stationary and  observing an object to the west of the town. The object itself was hard to miss.  Described as approximately 600 feet across,   a massive silver-gray disc hovered just a few  hundred feet above the nearby forest. The skin   of the craft appeared to be metallic, grayish and  silverish, which at times made it difficult to   spot against the overcast sky. On the underside  of the craft protruded what was described as a   crystal-like object, which itself seemed to  emit red, blue, and white streaks of light. The object hovered in place for over an hour  before disappearing, prompting hundreds of   callers to phone in to their local radio  station- KSRM Radio 92. But the object that   had hovered stationary and directly been observed  for over an hour appeared to not have been alone,   with some callers reporting having spotted strange  and anomalously moving lights over the Cook inlet,   their light reflecting off the water  indicating very low flight elevation.   Other callers reported lights moving in odd  patterns and flying directly over the forest-   with one witness stating that they saw a group  of lights whizz by directly over their head. Callers were insistent that what they had seen was  not the typical helicopters that anyone growing   up in the area would be accustomed to, and the  military did not reply to requests for a comment.   For this script, we reached out to our own former  challenge guy, who spent many years in Alaska.   From sleeping in ice caves, traveling north of  the Arctic circle, and facing down wild moose,   he's seen much of what the state offers, and he  gave us this comment: there's a lot of strange up   there, stranger than people in the lower 48 may  be comfortable with, but people who know, know. After refusing to elaborate further, we turned  our attention to Alaska's UFO history. Turns out,   the last frontier was home to UFO sightings  even before the Kenneth Arnold sighting of   1947 kicked off the UFO phenomenon in public  discourse. Tales of strange lights in the skies   performing incredible maneuvers, or even visitors  from other worlds can be found in the native lore-   and some of it is shockingly similar to modern-day  accounts of UFOs and the abduction phenomenon. Jonathan Young, an academic and curator at the  Joseph Campbell Archives, has studied native   Alaskan lore, which contains tantalizing possible  evidence of alien visitation. Some Alaskan tribes,   according to him, tell tales of their  ancestors having met and interacted   with individuals they called 'star people'  who came from other stars in the night sky.   It’s difficult to call any of these  native tales hard evidence though,   given other fantastical elements in much of the  lore- though the frequent occurrence of events and   things in native stories that so closely resemble  the UAP phenomenon today is hard to discount. One disturbing story from Alaskan  natives is that of the Little People,   who, like the gray aliens of legend today, have  a penchant for abduction. Many Alaskans, though,   consider the Little People to be mischievous or at  least aloof, with an affinity for either playing   tricks on people that are mostly harmless,  or fleeing on sight. However, in the village   of Shaktoolik, the Little People are discussed  in abject fear, a sentiment not shared by the   communities around them. The villagers there all  unanimously believe that the Little People are   dangerous, evil entities that abduct people- and  sometimes, those who get abducted never return. These villagers are hesitant to tell their  stories, with two exceptions. One involves   a couple of native hunters who were out  tracking caribou. The men rode out into   the bush on their four-wheelers, but eventually  left the machines behind so as not to spook their   prey. Tracking a local herd, the duo took  cover behind rocks on one end of a valley,   with the caribou grazing peacefully below, and  prepared for their final approach and kill. However, looking through binoculars, one of the  hunters spotted three other hunters on the far end   of the valley, away from the herd. It was clear  that they had brought down a truly massive caribou   and were in the process of cleaning it. Looking  through his high-powered rifle scope, the man's   partner spotted the truth- the animal wasn't as  giant as they had first believed. Rather, it was   a normal-size caribou- and it was the men who were  small. The trio had large heads and short, stocky   bodies, covering themselves in clothing made of  animal hides- this was at a time that all of the   natives in the area had long ago taken to wearing  modern outdoor gear available from outlet stores. As they watched the trio work on the animal,  suddenly one of the dwarf-sized hunters stopped   and looked up. He shot his hand up into the air,  with his index finger pointing straight up at the   sky. His companions stopped what they were doing  and looked at him, then watched as he dropped   his arm parallel to the ground, now pointing  straight at the two native men observing them. In an instant, they all vanished.  All three of the little people,   along with the caribou they had been  cleaning, leaving behind only tracks   and blood on the snow- but the child-sized  tracks did not lead to or from the spot. What is peculiar about this story is similar  accounts have popped up from around the world,   featuring the same diminutive humanoids with the  ability to seemingly disappear being frequently   spotted. However, some have speculated that  these individuals are not in fact disappearing,   merely having a similar psychological effect  on the witness similar to that reported by   many UFO witnesses. In essence, they are only  making it seem as if they are disappearing in   the observer's mind. Many UAP witnesses have  recounted strange events such as missing time,   or described an object in one way, only to  look at a photo or video that they took of   the object and be perplexed as it appears in a  completely different way in their media. Whether   on purpose or perhaps as a side effect of the  phenomenon itself, the ability to affect a   witness psychologically seems to be part of both  Alaska's little people and the UAP phenomenon. After the Kenneth Arnold sighting in 1947  broke the dam on flying saucer reporting,   individuals across Alaska came forward with  their own encounters. The UFO wave of the   early 1950s that swept over the nation had  reached Alaska as well, with silvery objects   reported hovering over the Alaskan wilderness or  on the edge of civilization. In January of 1950,   a retired fisherman from Sitka reported a flying  saucer outside his cabin at Jamestown Bay, stating   that he had been hesitant to report his sighting  for fear people would think he was crazy. Later   that same year in October, for a week there were  seven different sightings of a UFO over Sitka,   and the next month a brilliant blue-white  object raced across the sky and was sighted   from Fairbanks to Kodiak- a distance of almost  800 miles. Skeptics believe that this object   was nothing more than a meteor, and with no  photographic evidence, they may be right. But the sightings did not stop coming, and in  1952, two men reported a light quote- bouncing   up and down in the sky” over Anchorage. A year  later, three women watched a saucer shaped object   pass over the town of Eklutna twenty miles  away. According to the women, the UFO seemed   to pass over the town almost as if searching for  something before racing away into the distance. It's easy to discount these sightings as they  come from decades ago and from witnesses who   are now long dead. However, it becomes harder to  do so when those same sightings continue being   reported years later, and by credible witnesses.  In March of 1987, the Alaskan National Guard was   forced to address an event that led to four  different guardsmen across western Alaska all   reporting a brightly lit UFO flying across the  sky. Occurring between 11:50 pm and midnight,   the object was spotted by 17 additional civilians  from villages near the national guard locations. Skeptics at first discounted the sighting  as a satellite falling out of orbit,   but upon being contacted, Captain Bryan Holt of  the US Air Force and public affairs officer at   NORAD confirmed that there had been no satellites  reentering the atmosphere on that night. Then   skeptics claimed that the object was likely  an E-3 airborne warning and control aircraft,   which they explained would have  appeared odd due to the large radar   dish on the top of the aircraft. However,  once more, the US Air Force confirmed that   no AWACS were in flight anywhere near  the area where the object was spotted. The object was then discounted  as nothing more than a meteor,   which directly contradicted eyewitness statements-  though contradicting eyewitnesses has certainly   never stopped unhealthy skepticism. One  witness from the town of Savoonga stated   that the object seemed to be as large, or larger  than an airliner as it passed by overhead. The   object was also described as having one red and  one white light, with another witness in the   town of Gambell agreeing that it appeared  to be larger than an airliner. However,   this witness said that it was difficult to  see the body of the object as it appeared   to have a bright cloud of smoke underneath  it- which could have been heavy cloud cover. In Tununak, witnesses said the sky was clear-  and yet the object appeared to be surrounded   in smoke of some sort with a bright white light  coming out of the smoke. Witnesses in Elim had   the best view of the object, with nine different  witnesses all observing as it passed overhead.   They agreed with other reports of some sort of  smoke or cloud around the object, and described   it as a quote- bright aqua-blue-green colored  oval-shaped object approximately the size of   two football fields with three lights on the  side. The object appeared to trail part of   the smoke or cloud that surrounded it as it  passed by, despite the weather being clear. Given the incredible speed of meteorites  or space debris entering the atmosphere,   even without NORAD confirming that no  debris or satellites had reentered the   atmosphere on the night in question,  it's incredulous to think that two   dozen people across hundreds of miles  would all mistake an object moving slow   enough for them to observe it well as a  speeding meteor moving at re-entry speeds. But just a few months prior to this  incident, one of the best recorded   UFO events in history played out in the skies  over Alaska- with hard evidence to prove it. On November 17th, 1986, Japan Airlines  cargo flight 1628 was en route to Tokyo,   stopping at Anchorage first for refueling. The  aircraft was piloted by Captain Kenju Terauchi,   an ex-fighter pilot with over 10,000  flight hours under his belt. At 5:09 pm,   his life would change forever-  and not for the better. About 104 miles northeast of Fort Yukon,  Anchorage Air Route traffic control center   contacted the aircraft and asked them to adjust  their heading to pass south of Fort Yukon and   Fairbanks. As the copilot banked the plane  into a turn, Captain Terauchi looked out of his   side window and spotted strange lights  left and below of the aircraft. At first,   he believed they were simply military aircraft  from a nearby military base- Alaska, at the time,   was on the front line of the Cold War  against the Soviet Union, and American   fighters constantly patrolled the shared  US-Soviet border to guard against intrusion. However, Terauchi soon realized that these lights  seemed to be shadowing his aircraft, matching his   velocity perfectly. Contacting Anchorage Center,  he asked if there was any other traffic in his   vicinity, to which the traffic controller replied  with a negative- no civilian nor military traffic   anywhere near his aircraft. Ground radar also  detected no other aircraft but Flight 1628. At this point, the two lights began to move  erratically. They kept their distance from   the aircraft, enough that the flight crew  felt they were not in any danger. However,   suddenly two objects Terauchi would describe as  quote- space ships- appeared directly in front   of the aircraft, shining lights directly into  the cockpit of the aircraft. The crew reported   feeling the warmth from the light on their face,  which they interpreted as some sort of thruster   or engine. A few seconds later, though, the  fire-like light dimmed abruptly, and in its   place was a small circle of lights that began to  fly level with the aircraft. Terauchi interpreted   these lights as belonging to one craft, which  he described as a square-shaped object that   occasionally sparked a stream of reddish lights.  He estimated it to be anywhere from 500 to 1,000   feet in front of the aircraft, slightly above  them, and about the size of a jet airliner. The lights then flew away, though they  appeared on the aircraft's radar as a large,   round object approximately eight miles away from  the aircraft. The lights, now pale and white,   moved behind them, and as the airliner arrived  in clear sky over Eielson Air Force Base and   Fairbanks, the lights from below allowed them to  spot the silhouette of what Terauchi described   as a quote- [a] gigantic spaceship. This  object was larger than an aircraft carrier   and round shaped. Later, skeptics would claim  the crew had simply seen the planet Jupiter-   which is an astounding conclusion given  the massive size described by the crew. The crew was now concerned over the craft's  intentions. Terrified by the massive object   behind them, they contacted Anchorage to  request a series of evasive maneuvers. However,   despite changing altitude and banking into a steep  turn, the object doggedly followed the aircraft,   perfectly matching its maneuvers. A  United Airlines flight was asked to   approach Flight 1628 in order to verify  the object, but according to Terauchi,   once the UA flight was in visual  range, the UFO abruptly disappeared. The incident quickly made headlines, but would  have remained another anecdotal account were it   not for John Callahan. At the time, Callahan  was an FAA Division Chief of the Accidents   and Investigations Branch in Washington  D.C.- remember this next time a skeptic   tells you a witness or whistleblower is not  credible enough. A week after the incident,   Callahan was contacted by the Alaska  FAA office, which was, at the time,   inundated with media requests for information  regarding the event. Callahan was quickly   briefed on the 30-minute chase by the UFO and  ordered that all of the radar and radio tapes   be sent to his location for review. The military,  however, refused to hand over its radar tapes,   a problem for the investigation as  they had the superior radar system. Callahan ordered his technicians to splice  together the radar and audio tapes so they   could listen to the event and watch the radar in  real-time. While the military had not made its   own radar tapes available, they had the recording  of the military radar operator's transmissions,   which clearly revealed that they had,  in fact, tracked the object on their own   radar. According to the operator's commentary,  the objects appeared to move at thousands of   miles an hour as they maneuvered into positions  around the Japanese airliner. However, the tape   held one further surprise that, until then, nobody  involved in the incident had been aware of- as the   United Airlines flight approached Flight 1628,  the military had tracked the disappearing UFO as   it moved directly behind the UA flight, and then  proceeded to follow it without their knowledge. Callahan was ordered by his superior to not  discuss the event until given the ok to do   so. The next day, Callahan was brought into a  briefing along with all of the senior technicians,   and they moved boxes full of data to a  conference room in the upstairs of the FAA   building. There they were met by a small  team from the FBI, another from the CIA,   and a third from President Ronald Reagan's  scientific study team. According to Callahan,   everyone assembled was extremely excited about  the event, and requested an in-depth briefing. After the meeting, Callahan and his technicians  were sworn to secrecy by one of the men   from the CIA. Callahan objected, asking why- if  this was clearly not the new stealth bomber the   air force would soon reveal to the public- would  they just be withholding information on a UFO   sighting from the public by swearing never to talk  about the event? The CIA official remarked that   there was a risk that news of a major UFO event  with so much supporting evidence might cause panic   amongst the American people- especially during a  time of extreme tensions with the Soviet Union. According to Callahan, President Reagan's  scientific study team was extremely excited   about the event, with one of them remarking that  this was the first time a UFO had been tracked by   radar for a significant length of time. All of  the data collected by the FAA was then seized,   though Callahan would retain copies of some of it  in his own office and be able to make it public   at a later date- including a video recording  of the spliced-together audio and radar tapes. Captain Terauchi would report a second UFO  encounter a few months later, though agreed   that he had likely simply witnessed a meteor or a  trick played by village lights passing through ice   crystals. However, Japan Airlines grounded him for  quote- embarrassing the company, later reinstating   him a few years later. He would no longer  talk publicly about the event after that. The Japanese Air Lines case would be the  best documented UFO event in history,   complete with evidence that the military  had indeed tracked an unidentified   object pulling off incredible  maneuvers. Despite this though,   skeptics would resort to character  attacks against Terauchi and Callahan,   while providing no rebuttal to the documented  evidence other than somehow, against all odds,   all involved had misidentified Jupiter and some  clouds for a massive, rapidly maneuvering UFO. And if that's the case, then America's air  defense network is in very serious trouble. Now go check out one of the earliest and  best-documented cases of a UFO with “UFO   chased a US military plane,” or  click this other video instead!

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