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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.

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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 ---
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 - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - , 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: $. ___________ • 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…

Paul Steucke
FAA, Public Affairs Officer
Alaskan Region
701 C Street, Box 14
Anchorage, Alaska 995 13
~·l arch 5, 1987
LACK OF "SCIElll'IFIC" INVESTIGATION
The Federal Aviation Administration has a number of employees who do
scientific research with regard to aircraft, aviation, and related electronic
equipment. The FAA does not have the resources or the Congressional mandate to
investigate sightings of unidentified flying objects.
We have not tried to determine what the crew of Japan Airlines flight 1628
saw based on scientific analysis of the stars, planets, magnetic fields, angle
of view, etc. We have received letters from several persons suggesting that we
ask the crew and others a variety of detailed questions from a scientific
viewpoint. This we have not done and do not intend to do. He reviewed the data
that was created by our systems, the interviews that were done by FAA to
determine the status of the crew and the aircraft, and have provided that
information to the public.
The FAA has completed its investigation of JAL flight 1628, and does not
intend to pursue it any further."
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Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: The Alaska Mothership 1986

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