“FAA”38 pages
- p. 3 CONTENTS
March 5, 1987
Selected Haterial
Relative to the FAA Investi gation of
Japan Air Lines…
- p. 4 …FAA's Regional Public Affairs Officer Paul Steucke pointed out that FAA
normally does not investigate…
- p. 5 AAL-5, FAA
February 4, 1987
SELEX:TED PORI'IONS OF TRANSCRIPI'IOO
~ THE INCIDENI' INVOLVING…
- p. 6 …Are you (Fairbanks FAA tower) pickin up a primary target
right with that aircraft?
Ah, ro…
- p. 7 …Approach center (Fairbanks FAA tower) on the sixty one line.
Approach.
Look at your radar. We…
- p. 12 Paul Steucke
FAA Public Affairs
701 C Street, Box 14
Anch. AK 99513 ~·1 arch 5…
- p. 13 …MILE--
SECONDARY
RADAR
RETURN
(Beacon)
(Transponder)
--11
FAA
RADAR
SAME AIRCRAFT
RETURN
(Skin-
Surface)
--v'-RADAR…
- p. 16 Paul Steucke
FAA, Public Affairs Officer
Alaskan Region
701 C Street, Box 14
Anchorage, Alaska 995…
- p. 17 …Gordon, FSD0-63, and Japanese
Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL
Captain Kenju Terauchi…
- p. 38 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region,
Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 39 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 40 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 41 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
- p. 42 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received ~y FAA 1…
- p. 43 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
- p. 44 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 45 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Milnoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received ~y FAA 1…
- p. 46 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mi.mote, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA…
- p. 47 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
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- p. 48 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received 'by !AA 1…
- p. 49 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received 'by YAA 1…
- p. 50 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 51 …Beckner, AAL-207, and Japanese
Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL First
Officer Takanori…
- p. 72 …Tamefuji Ah, I read the FAA news hummm, ah, humm, I found military radar
picked up…
- p. 74 ...
A JAL flight engineer, Yoshie Tsukuba, was interviewed by Pete
Beckner of FAA on January 15…
- p. 78 …When I was interviewed here at the first
time by FAA personnel, I was not sure…
- p. 88 …holding the data and he said yes.
FAA Form 1600°32°112-111
AT ~ra_9e…
- p. 89 …INTERVIE:WE D/REVI EWE:D - - - - - __ ,
FAA Form 1600·32° l cz.11,
(pt' - JtJ_..,. ~~h…
- p. 94 …Mickle, FAA S/A
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FAA Form 160:0-32-112.n)
FILE NO. - - - - __ _,,_ - -·
FOR OFFICIAL USE…
- p. 95 …AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
All'I Tl'IANS,.Ol'ITATION 8ECURITY
Captain TEPAIX:lil stated that FAA ATC…
- p. 100 Paul Steucke, FAA
Alaskan Region
701 C St . Box 14
Anc h. AK 99513
March 5…
- p. 101 …It was noted at the FAA interview of the flight crew, which was conducted
when they…
- p. 102 …have been produced or obtained by the FAA in this investigation. They
are listed on the…
- p. 103 …00 . )
TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED: $. ___________
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FAA WILL PAY COST OF DELIVERY SERVICE BY REGULAR FIRST CLASS
U…
- p. 104 …0 $1.10 6 •
FAA Form 3112, Inspection and Surveillance
Record; notes by Inspector Jack Wright…
- p. 105 …Mimoto of FAA Alaskan
Region. Enilish translation of item #6.
(13 pages)
Transcript of Interview with…
- p. 106 …Selected portions of voice transcriptions, pilot
of JAL 1628 and FAA controllers, in chronological
order; as…
- p. 107 …Alert Report from Director of FAA Alaskan Region
to FAA Administrator, 12/31/86. Record of…
-2-
The Captain requested tile Center to record his description: "Ah, would you
please, ah, record my vo ice, ah, ah, ah •.. this is Japanese. Futeikina raito ga
mieteriru. Choodo ookina kuroi ka tamari ga mae ni iru. Kyorinishite go nrairu.
Dooyara uchuusen no moyoo." English translation: "We see irregular pulsating
lights just there is a large black chunk just in front of us distance is five
miles it seems to be a spaceship. Ah, it likes, ah, UFO, please, ah, check on
your radar. Over."
The cargo aircraft was about 240 nautical miles north of Nenana, Alaska, at
37 ,000 feet elevation. The weather was clear with a temperature inversion
reported at 23,500 feet.
Captain Terauchi reported the lights appeared in front of the aircraft,
about 2,000 feet below, moved below the aircraft, and then disappeared behind
the aircraft. The phenomenon then occurred again at approximately 151 nautical
miles north of Nenana.
It was noted at the FAA interview of the flight crew, which was conducted
when they landed at Anchorage, that the aircraft flight path was north of and
directly over the town of Arctic Village, Alaska, at the time of the first
sighting and 45 nautical miles northwest and west of the village of Fort Yukon
during the second sighting.
Captain Terauchi said at the FAA interview that he thought the unusual
lights he saw were those village lights that had been obscured or changed by
ice crystals present in the atmosphere (the temperature inversion). The FAA has
concluded its inquiry into this report and agrees with the Captain that the
phenomena was most likely caused by ice crystals created by the reported
temperature inversion.
(3) The crew of a Flying Tigers Flight #73, Boeing 747, cargo aircraft,
flying at 37,000 feet, reported observing a "target" heading 320 degrees as it
approached Anchorage on November 21, 1985. The Air Force was unable to confirm
the sighting. This sighting was not investigated by the FAA and there is no
file or retrievable data.
Steucke said, "The FAA is not in the UFO business and is not interested in
reports that do not involve aircraft or the air traffic control system."
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