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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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“dark object”7 pages

  • p. 25 …bag, finding the object, all the lights were turned off, made room dark - cargo room and…
  • p. 31 …you had been that close to another object that large you should have got some buffetting…
  • p. 47 …bri1ht to eyes that were used to the dark. Bow bright it was! We were just…
  • p. 52 …the object was in left-hand side . . . P. Beckner Okay. T. Tamefuji . . . and very dark vision…
  • p. 58 …saw the objects, ah what were th~ lighting conditions outside? Was it dark ••• T. Tamefuji Hum…
  • p. 66 …ah, dark. P. Beckner Okay. Ah, what size would you estimate this - this object to be…
  • p. 76 …It was set to dark. Beckner: How long did you see the object? Tsukuba: The one…
R. Gordon Fifteen minutes after you visually contacted it, okay, okay.
K. Terauchi Yeah, fifteen minutes • when ah • • •
R. Gordon
K. Terauchi
R. Gordon
K. Terauchi
R. Gordon
See, it just says did you paint anything that's did you see
anything else on the radar, weather or anything else • • •
No, no, nothing.
Just that target
Yeah, yes, yes.
Okay, okay The only thing we saw on the radar then was that
target
F. Fujii How about the aircraft, any turbulence?
K. Terauchi No, ah, no
R. Gordon No, no turbulence, no turbulence at all, okay. Autopilot stayed
on all the time.
K. Terauchi Yeah •
R. Gordon Okay
K. Terauchi Working good
R. Gordon Good, (laughter)
F. Fujii Now how about communications, naviagion, or interferring of any
sort ?. . ..
K. Terauchi This ah small aircraft near the here, so ah all the way VHF
transmit on (unintelligible) with ah some we got a like some kind
of ••• like ah, jamming.
R. Gordon Some kind of interference?
K. Terauchi Interference.
R. Gordon On the VHF?
K. Terauchi Yes then this one leave for mothership • . .
R. Gordon Ah ha
K. Terauchi Back to normal(?)
R. Gordon Okay, did you say it's like German talking uh?
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