{"podcast":{"title":"Divergent Files Podcast","slug":"divergent-files-podcast-7151974","podcast_index_feed_id":7151974,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5164681.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5164681","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43576089/s=1400x1400/el=1/rt=fill.png","author":"Divergent Files Podcast","episode_count":161,"summary":"If a story feels too neat... too polished... or a little too rehearsed... I start digging. That’s Divergent Files . I’m Ralph, and around here, we don’t do partisan nonsense. No political teams. No sacred cows. No blind loyalty to anybody’s narrative. This is a truth-first show. Brutally fair. Equal-opportunity assassin. If it involves buried history, black-budget weirdness, media manipulation, intelligence games, lost science, ancient anomalies, government cover-ups, declassified documents, UFO and UAP mysteries... or an official explanation that somehow gets dumber the longer it talks... we’re probably already in it. This isn’t a conspiracy show. It’s not a debunking show either. I read the paperwork. I follow the incentives. I pressure test the narrative. Because reality is usually messier than the script... and stranger than the people running it want you to notice. Stay curious, stay sharp... and remember: no matter what they tell you... the truth is still out there. Prefer visuals? Many episodes have a companion video version featuring documents, footage, and visual evidence. You can watch those episodes on YouTube at: www.YouTube.com/@DivergentFiles","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T00:17:49.598294+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divergent-files-podcast-7151974"},"episode":{"title":"Japan Airlines 1628: The UFO Case Alaska Couldn’t Explain","slug":"japan-airlines-1628-the-ufo-case-alaska-couldn-t-explain","published_at":"2026-06-10T01:15:53+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divergent-files-podcast-7151974/japan-airlines-1628-the-ufo-case-alaska-couldn-t-explain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divergent-files-podcast-7151974","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8914705","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8914705.mp3?modified=1781054320&sid=5164681&source=rss","summary":"In 1986, Japan Airlines Flight 1628 was flying over Alaska when the crew reported unknown traffic near their Boeing 747. Captain Kenju Terauchi and his crew described objects moving near the aircraft. Anchorage air traffic control treated it as a real-time aviation concern. Radar was discussed. Military coordination entered the picture. Other aircraft were asked to look. Then, after landing, the story changed. What sounded urgent in the sky became much smaller on paper. In this episode of Divergent Files, we investigate the JAL 1628 case through pilot testimony, FAA records, air traffic control details, radar uncertainty, military involvement, and skeptical explanations involving Jupiter, misidentified lights, radar clutter, and pilot error. This is not proof of alien visitation. But it is not nothing, either. It is one of the strangest aviation UAP cases ever recorded… and the record still refuses to sit down.","meta_description":"In 1986, Japan Airlines Flight 1628 was flying over Alaska when the crew reported unknown traffic near their Boeing 747. Captain Kenju Terauchi and his cr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2503,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/divergent-files-podcast-7151974/episodes/japan-airlines-1628-the-ufo-case-alaska-couldn-t-explain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divergent-files-podcast-7151974/japan-airlines-1628-the-ufo-case-alaska-couldn-t-explain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}