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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 Yeah, let's see what would you estimate the size of the small
ships to be?
K. Terauchi Ah ••• (unintelligible), up here equal to (unintelligible) we
saw, ah, second (unintelligible), square, but I saw this on here,
ah here, for so I guess this one is maybe separate, separate,
then move to here. So ah, ah, (Japanese).
R. Gordon Right, yeah, ah uh.
S. Mimoto if this one was two stacked together, how large was one?
K. Terauchi This here ah fuselage, fuselage of DC-8, DC-8 fuselage.
R. GOrdon DC-8, okay • • • yeah ah uh, in other words this part right here
would be like fuselage of a DC-8.
K. Terauchi Oh yes .
R. Gordon Like this .
K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah
R. Gordon Okay
K. Terauchi Maybe, maybe about like this
R. Gordon Uh ah, yeah I understand, okay, I got it. That's good.
F. Fujii Any other lighted or unlight objects, any other lights?
K. Terauchi Yeah, we saw ah, some unusual light from ah, top of mothership.
R. Gordon Uh ah
K. Terauchi Ah, it was not regular, but - not regularly, but white -
silverish lights, not in equal span ~f time, but occasionally
flashed, irregularly lighted at all times.
s. Mi mo to Occasional flash
K. Terauchi Flash, flash
R. Gordon And since I've got this on tape, if you will help me later, you
know when we write this down, because I can't remember all this
stuff. Thank you.
K. Terauchi (Japanese) First time we cannot see ah, this (unintelligible) so
ah, ah, we saw this light, this light, and • • •
R. Gordon Ah uh, okay, thank you very. much.
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