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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…
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JAL UNIDENTIFIED TRAFFIC SIGHTI NG Order List continued
Q free 22 . Alert Report from Director of FAA Alaskan Region
to FAA Administrator, 12/31/86. Record of telephone
conversations of Deputy Director, FAA Alaskan
Region with General Nichols, Colonel Wick, and
Captain Jim Crickenberger (U.S. Air Force) on
1/2/87. Table of contents of file kept in FAA
Alaskan Region Director's office, pertaining to
11/17/86 unidentified object sighting by Japan Air
Lines flight 1628. (5 pages)
PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN THE ENTIRE ORDER FORM TO:
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
ATTN: PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE, AAL-5
701 C STREET, BOX 14
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 99513
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