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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. 8 …Say again? It ah-disappeared. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight. 0239:58 RCCC Ya, this is…
  • p. 18 …Fujii The light continued for about ten minut~s, so ah disappeared suddenly. K. Terauchi It…
  • p. 21 …Fujii (Japanese) disappear R. Gordon Okay, okay K. Terauchi Then we find this light, so I…
  • p. 22 …Terauchi So out in here small ship is disappear. R. Gordon Okay, I understand, now lets…
  • p. 32 …Fujii He was watching it and it just disappeared ••• 16 --
  • p. 34 …Terauchi No no, disappear 75 miles north of Talkeetna R. Gar.don Okay 75 miles north…
  • p. 45 …they were beside our aircraft they totally disappeared from our radar. Personal statement concerning JAL Flight…
  • p. 48 …When the United plane came by our side, the spaceship disappeared suddenly and there was nothing…
  • p. 49 …When the United plane came by our side, the spaceship disappeared suddenly and there was nothing…
  • p. 77 …T~e first lights I saw was unchanged until they disappeared. Tha second one, it was…
  • p. 101 …below, moved below the aircraft, and then disappeared behind the aircraft. The phenomenon then occurred again…
LIST OF RECORDS AVAILABLE
ORDER FORM
for
JAL FLIGHT 1628
UNIDENTIFIED TRAFFIC SIGHTING
NOVEMBER 18, 1986 UTC
(The event occurred on November 17, 1986 Alaska Standard Time)
PLE ASE MARK ITEMS DESIRED.
Q $194 .30 Complete package of all written records and photographs
plus all tape recordings.
0 $ 94 .30 Complete package of written records and photographs only.
0 $5.05 Complete Inspection/Investigator (Flight Standards)
package, includes items 1 through 9.
0 $0.30 1. FAA Form 8020-5, Aircraft Incident Record.
(Brief summary statement, submitted by Flight
Standards Division, January 26, 1987) (2
pages)
0 $0.45 2.
0 $0.30 3.
0 $0. 40 4.
0 $1.1 5 5.
0 $1.10 6 •
FAA Form 3112, Inspection and Surveillance
Record; notes by Inspector Jack Wright
after interview of pilot and crew, 11/17/86.
!3 pages written plus 2 pages drawings)
FAA Form 1600-32-1, Notes of interview with
all three crew members of JAL Flight 1628;
completed by Security Inspector Ronald
E. Mickle, 11/17/86. (2 pages)
FAA Form 1600-32-1, Notes on interview with
all three crew members of JAL Flight 1628,
map, and drawing by the pilot; completed by
Special Agent James Derry, 11/17/86.
(4 pages)
Transcript of Interview with Captain
Terauchi, 1/2/87, by Richard Gordon,
manager -of flight standards district
office in Anchorage. (19 pages)
Written Statement and Drawing by Captain
Terauchi; in Ja~anese. (16 pages written,
plus 2 pages drawings)
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