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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. 4 …They determined that a second radar target near the JAL flight at the time of the…
  • p. 5 AAL-5, FAA February 4, 1987 SELEX:TED PORI'IONS OF TRANSCRIPI'IOO ~ THE INCIDENI' INVOLVING…
  • p. 7 …Approach center (Fairbanks FAA tower) on the sixty one line. Approach. Look at your radar. We…
  • p. 8 …Sir, the military radar advises they do have a primary target in trail of you at…
  • p. 10 …see the traffic any long-er. Affinnative. Okay sir, we're searchi.rXJ this time, we…
  • p. 15 …Th ese uncorrelated primary returns are not uncommon, due critical timing associated with the delay adjustments…
  • p. 17 …Terauchi No, third time. R. Gordon This is the third time that ah that you've…
  • p. 18 …Terauchi Big Ship - yes and the second time ah, the, in my home I saw a…
  • p. 19 …Terauchi I think it was the first time. F. Fujii Who was the first person who…
  • p. 20 …Fujii From the forward you could see the flame and the exhaust and flame were surrounding…
  • p. 21 …This one and this one, the same logic, this point and this point are the same…
  • p. 23 …Fujii When did you pick it up, the radar? K. Terauchi Time? Time? F. Fujii Time…
  • p. 24 …Autopilot stayed on all the time. K. Terauchi Yeah • R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi Working good…
  • p. 27 …Terauchi See this is the jumbo jet. 1.5, two times this light. R. Gordon Okay…
  • p. 28 …Gordon Yeah, let's see what would you estimate the size of the small ships to…
  • p. 33 …Gordon Yes, yes, you could probably explain that with the thing you have drawn here. Now…
  • p. 35 …See if they were stacked together at the beginning, one must have returned to the mothership…
  • p. 38 Meeting the Future by Kenju Terauchi M~ ,...,. ~ L. '1\ ti;f,) !ST .$, /Y11"'1ol"O Page…
  • p. 39 MEETING THE FUTURE .. Page 5 .. We took a flight course Southeast of Greenland direct to Chule…
  • p. 40 …the same time. The strange phenomenon happened immediately.after we began left rotation, following the order…
  • p. 41 …the ground radar did not show any aircraft but us. They also asked us several times…
  • p. 42 …I changed auto- focus to manual-focus and pressed the shutter but this time the shutter…
  • p. 47 …lone time before we received When we checked our rear there was still the ship!iI…
  • p. 48 …About the same time a United Airline passenger aircraft which left Anchorage to Fairbanks flew into…
  • p. 49 …About the same time a United Airline passenger aircraft which left Anchorage to Fairbanks flew into…
  • p. 50 ~Page 16~ The strange encounter ended at 75 miles North of Talkeetna, 150 miles (Approximately 276…
  • p. 51 …The following is a record of the interview: P. Beckner ? P. Beckner Conducted at this time…
  • p. 53 …clear • And you could distinguish this lights as being different from the star . . ?.. NNNooo . . . • from the…
  • p. 54 …Tamefuji ••• so maybe he couldn't see at that time, but the Captain and me (unintelligible…
  • p. 57 …Mimoto The physical requires him to wear glasses. P. Beckner Okay , how ' bout - how 'bout the…
  • p. 58 …Now - the time of the incident, when - when you guys first saw the objects, ah what…
  • p. 60 …long did you see this total, the length of time that you saw it? T. Tamefuji…
  • p. 66 …Beckner By the engineer table? T. Tamefuji Yes, I - when I saw, but ah, cockpit was…
  • p. 67 …the trip? He felt that, er, er, was it just during this period of time when…
  • p. 68 …Beckner First saw the object? T. Tamefuj1 Hummm , I thi nk ah , at the same time…
  • p. 69 …So pretty much at the same time you both saw it? T ~ Tamefuji Right P. Beckner…
  • p. 70 …Beckner ••• or were they pretty much the same intensity for the time that you saw them…
  • p. 72 …And tha - so that was the last time you saw it, was prior to the turn…
  • p. 74 …after I sighted it the first time. The reason is because the Captain wanted to take…
  • p. 75 …At the time of sighting, how were the lighting conditions outside? 2
  • p. 78 …When I was interviewed here at the first time by FAA personnel, I was not sure…
  • p. 80 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 6, 1987 The following…
  • p. 81 …ROCC did have primary ta r get in the same position JL1628 reported. Several times I…
  • p. 84 …During the time period p~ior to this incident all operations were normal. I had assigned…
  • p. 88 …They stated that all they oould see were the lights and at no time could they…
  • p. 100 …At no time did either crewmember see anything outside the aircraft. The area is not within…
  • p. 101 …directly over the town of Arctic Village, Alaska, at the time of the first sighting and…
  • p. 103 …Department of TransportctiOn Federal Aviation Administration (The event occurred Ofhce of Public Affus Alaskan Region 701…
  • p. 104 …18, 1986 UTC (The event occurred on November 17, 1986 Alaska Standard Time) PLE ASE MARK…
  • p. 114 …as derivatives and duplicates) • Document the image at the time of scanning, not what it may…
  • p. 115 …adjustments to the tone distribution and/or color balance. However, at this time, monitors for viewing…
  • p. 116 …benefits, at this time we feel that RGB files produced to the color and tone reproduction…
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