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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. 5 …of the strobe and beacon lights? The color is ah, - white and yellow, I think. Ya…
  • p. 19 …light was amber and whitish, but, when it came to here it was only amber • white…
  • p. 21 …But, this color is white uh ••. it ' s ah um dark white pole ••• weak light ••• (unintelligible…
  • p. 28 …Terauchi Ah, it was not regular, but - not regularly, but white - silverish lights, not in equal…
  • p. 44 …Then again, there was a pale white flat light on the direction where the ships flew…
  • p. 45 …While we were communicating with the Anchorage Center, the two pale white lights gradually moved to…
  • p. 47 …above the bright city lights and we checked the i pale white lieht behind us. Alas…
  • p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
  • p. 74 …I can not describe the details but it was white or amber colored lights. Beckner: When…
  • p. 83 …He stated it was a big plane with yellow and white lights. We advised him we…
  • p. 85 …one (1) mile with a white and yellow strobe light. I notified the Alaska Regional Operations…
  • p. 116 …red, green, and blue light are combined to fonn white light. This is the approach conm1only…
  • p. 117 …Monitor Settings, Light Boxes, and Viewing Booths We assume the assessment of many digital images will…
  • p. 120 …electronic imaging device to light stimuli Sensitivitv Tone aod ExRQsure White BalanceNeutralitx'. Color EocodiogLReoderiog (ISO…
  • p. 122 …The cfirferentlal ~ ~ ~ Streaking ~ Shading area unlformity/shad:ng spread or light between COior Delinffion : The root…
F. Fujii Size, estimate, ah, size
K. Terauchi (More Japanese) Two times, or ah, I guess ah . . .
F. Fujii (unintelligible) seven four seven
R. Gordon Okay
K. Terauchi So ah, size is ah, carrier
R. Gordon Ah uh, in other words this being the jumbo jet was about as big
as just the light . . .?
K. Terauchi See this is the jumbo jet. 1.5, two times this light.
R. Gordon Okay, okay, I have ••• so the side light on this thing was
about, the jumbo is about two to two-and-a-half time the size of
this light, so when you stack 'em up, you •••
K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah • • •
R. Gordon were saying about two times as big as an aircraft carrier.
K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah.
R. Gordon Okay
K. Terauchi It felt like this big - (he made a circle by using his fingers);
seven to eight miles away and it was this big. Normally, an air
carrier is seven - eight miles away, it looks like this.
F. Fujii Seven or eight miles away, usually the aircrafts are like
this •
R. Gordon Ah uh, okay
F. Fujii About this big so • • •
R. Gordon Okay
F. Fujii with his estimate.
R. Gordon So he's kinda comparing it to another jumbo jet?
F. Fujii Yeah, yeah • • •
R. Gordon Okay
S. Mimoto (More Japanese) Tremendous
R. Gordon Oh yeah (laughter), boy, okay
F. Fujii Go for this size here, this one.
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