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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.
“dark object”7 pages
R. Gordon Yeah, I'm familiar with it, yeah I've been on there. F. Fujii So he turned the light off on that, because they were trying t o take · a photo. R. Gordon Okay, okay F. Fujii So the (unintelligible) was dark. R. Gordon Okay, that's good, I just wanted to make sure that everything in the cockpit you know, you see something and then you turn the light cause, me being a pilot, normally when I see something out there I'll turn the lights off and get everything dark inside. K. Terauchi Yes that's right. F. Fujii When you changed you aircraft position, did they make any speci al moves? K. Terauchi No, they didn't. See here, I began to circle 360 degrees , they stayed at the same position with us. F. Fujii Uh uh, same position K. Terauchi Same position, same position, same position all the way (unintelligible) R. Gordon Okay following you right around uh? K. Terauchi Yes R. Gordon And it was here, and then here, and here, and here, and then you rolled out and it was right there, okay. K. Terauchi So ah, ah, I tried next, ah, descent, 3, 5, O, 3, 1, o. R. Gordon Ah ah, okay, 3, 1, O, when you descended to 3, 1, O, still there uh? K. Terauchi Yeah, same formation, uh formation descent • • • formation descent. It was impressive, the same formation, smooth! R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi We, we used autopilot when descending, so (unintelligible ) . R. Gordon Okay, yeah, yeah went · right down with him, okay uh ••• F. Fujii Can we go to the next one? R. Gordon Sure, yeah, I was just was ah 10 --·
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