[mkjessup]

"My suspicions [emphasis mine, mkj] that this UFO might be a bright celestial body were prompted by the fact that the pilot reported seeing the object for more than 30 minutes," [Philip J.] Klass said.

LOL, oh you're funny, invoking the career debunker Klass who is going to try and say that HE knows more about what happened up in the air, than the professional experienced pilots who actually observed the phenomenon. THAT is desperation pal.

"Past experience has shown that when a UFO remains visible for many minutes, it almost always proves to be a celestial object."

Klass is again, speculating. He doesn't know.

Another clue was the fact that when Flight 1628 descended 4,000 ft., the UFO still appeared to be at the airliner's altitude. At Jupiter's great distance, a change of 4,000 ft., the UFO still appeared to be at the airliner's altitude. At Jupiter's great distance, a change of 4,000 ft. in aircraft altitude would produce no noticeable change in the planet's apparent altitude. (CSICOP News Release 01-22-1987)

Care to explain how both military and civilian air traffic controllers were able to pick up the planet Jupiter on their RADAR, genius?

Where did the FAA and military officially attempt to “debunk” the incident, genius?

They didn't. And as suspicious as you are of our confiscatory federal government, you ought to know that if they had been able to, they would have.

But they didn't.

And THAT is why the two incidents remain unexplained, your limp attempts at debunking notwithstanding, not to mention Klass the Klown.

[Quix]

Stanton Friedman demonstrated repeatedly what an idiot Klass was.

Besides, IIRC, Klass was a paid government shill.

[topcat54]

Care to explain how both military and civilian air traffic controllers were able to pick up the planet Jupiter on their RADAR, genius?

What the radar purposted to have shown was inconclusive. The radar reflections, whetever they were, were not even in the area where the pilot claimed he saw the "mothership". They were behind the 747 in an area where the folks on the flightdeck could not see.

They didn't.

That was becuase there was nothing to debunk.

[JoJo Gunn]

Klass is again, speculating. He doesn't know.

Forgive my being late to this party, Jessup, but I see you're in yet another fruitless attempt to prove you're smarter than a 5th grader.

Klass was speculating. He's been dead for several years. Try and keep up.