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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. 21 …Terauchi Hum uh, ah distances is ah, ah, not this, this one ah, 500, ah be…
  • p. 54 …Tamefuji ••• So as I thought, ah, very same similiar altitude and Captain said, ah, hum, I…
  • p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
  • p. 58 …Tamefuji Hum P. Beckner • or was it dusk? Or was the sun still up er, how…
  • p. 59 …but ah, at first we have in flight . . . ? Hum huh. T. Tamefuji . at ATC, air traffic…
  • p. 61 …Tamefuji hum.mm, and ah, I have ah, monitoring, monitor so inside and outside • • • P. Beckner…
  • p. 62 …Tamefuji Mmmm hum P. Beckner Did ·you happen to see the object while in the 360…
  • p. 63 …Tamefuji so ah, we, ah, I couldn't see well, but some hum, hum this - this…
  • p. 68 …Tamefuji Hum • P. Beckner About how long after you first saw this did you go' b…
  • p. 69 …Tamefuji Um hum P. Beckner I understand somewhere in the flight you guys also descended from…
  • p. 70 …Beckner Hum huh T. Tamefuji P. Beckner • • • and ah, I can't say. Okay. Okay ah…
  • p. 71 …Tamefuji Hum, hum P. Beckner This was in the newspaper here in Anchorage, for example. And…
K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah.
R. Gordon Okay
S. Mimoto Was it's sound like speaking in German, or just jamming noise?
K. Terauchi It was just noise, sounded zaa, zaa
R. Gordon Oh just noise ••. Okay, okay I misunderstood you, I'm glad you
brought that out.
K. Terauchi Normally when you can hear clearly it is digital 5. 5, 4, 3, 2,
1 - but it was about 2.
F. Fujii You know five by five radio communication
R. Gordon Oh yeah uh hu, okay sure
F. Fujii It was like two
R. Gordon Okay okay, like two
K. Terauchi Sometimes missing, sometimes missing.
R. Gordon Like, almost like, ah, background noise?
K. Terauchi Yes, yes.
R. Gordon Okay, and then when it, when the little small lights departed the
noise went away, then back to real clear communications?
K. Terauchi Yes, that's right.
R. Gordon Okay, fine, ah, lets see, I'm going to come back to thirteen,
because ah • • •
F. Fujii Okay
R. Gordon What was there any question?
F. Fujii Did you see any reflection on the glass (window)?
R. Gordon Inside the cockpit, was it dark, all the light off inside the
cockpit?
K. Terauchi Oh ah, dark yeah, yeah, yeah.
K. Terauchi Therefore, there was not reflection of inside. No reflection
from inside. So when I took the camera bag, finding the object,
all the lights were turned off, made room dark - cargo room and
passenger room, there was nothing to reflect.
F. Fujii We have ah, on a cargo plane we have a back lounge.
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