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This package was compiled by the FAA Alaskan Region Public Affairs Office in Anchorage and sent to FAA managers with a memo from Paul Steucke dated March 5, 1987. It gathers material on the November 17, 1986 sighting by the crew of Japan Air Lines flight 1628: a news release, pilot and controller transcripts, crew interviews and radar analysis. The FAA concluded that it could not confirm the event. It attributed the second radar target to a split, uncorrelated return from the JAL Boeing 747 and planned no further investigation.

  • p. 12 …Steucke said, "The controllers were doing their job right because they have to work with what…
  • p. 17 …it, but one of the people that work for me, I'm the office manager over…
  • p. 24 …Terauchi Working good R. Gordon Good, (laughter) F. Fujii Now how about communications, naviagion, or interferring…
  • p. 67 …this period of time when you were working with ••• T. Tamefuji Oh yeah, hurnmm P. Beckner…
  • p. 80 …I was working the R/Dl5 position from 0156 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0230 UTC…
  • p. 81 …I was working the Dl5 position f r om 0156 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0230…
  • p. 83 …I was working the Dl5 position from 0230 UTC, November 18, 1986, to 0530 UTC, November…
  • p. 84 …I was working the El position from 0006 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0425 UTC, November…
  • p. 85 …1986, to 0900 UTC, November 18, I was working the Area Manager 18, 1986, to 0900…
  • p. 92 INSPECTION AND SURVEILLANCE RECORD 1. WORK A CT IV ITY • 2. UNI 3. HOURS Ille 1…
  • p. 93 INSPECTION AND SURVEILLANCE RECORD I. WORK ACTIVITY 2. UHl T:i . HOURS 4. NAME ANO ADDRESS…
  • p. 96 INSPECTION AHO SURVEILLANCE RECORD 1. WORK ACTIVITY '·NAME AMO AOORESS 01" CARRIER, OPERATOR, AIRPORT, AGENCY, OR…
  • p. 105 …Position Logs. (Record of which employees were working each position at what time.) (2 pages) Anchorage…
  • p. 108 …Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group; Rebecca Osborne and Catherine Scott, IBM; Karen Griggs…
  • p. 109 …Creation of Raster Image Master Files Author Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative (FADGI) - Still Image Working Group…
  • p. 110 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 201 o Table of Contents SCOPE ............................................................................................................................ 2…
  • p. 111 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 201 O Image Processing ....................................................................................................................................................... 47 Color Correction…
  • p. 112 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 2010 Meta-Metadata ....... ..... ............. ........... ..... ..... .... .... .. .... ........... ...... ........ ... ..... ... .. .... ......... .. ..... ...... ... ..... .......... ... ....... 76 Assessment ofMetadata Needs…
  • p. 113 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 201 o I. INTRODUCTION Context The Technical…
  • p. 114 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 ln general, master files have the…
  • p. 115 - Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 II. TECHNICAL OVERVIEW Raster Image Characteristics…
  • p. 116 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 printing images all render high-bit…
  • p. 117 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 Viewing Conditions A variety of factors…
  • p. 118 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 201 O temperature may also be necessary…
  • p. 119 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 2010 Future work of the Still Image…
  • p. 120 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 2010 r~ ·~~ .D Q) ~~ ~I Q) l…
  • p. 121 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 2010 - SIGNAL - "' SFR - Spatial Frequency Response - ( ISO…
  • p. 122 Federal Agencies Digitization In itiative Still Image Working Group -August 20 10 - NOISE- Engineering - Radiometric Distortion…
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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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