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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.

  • p. 17 RECORD OF INTERVIEW WITH JAL CAPTAIN Richard Gordon, Manager, FSD0-63 Kenju Terauchi, Captain, JAL Frank…
  • p. 18 …2 am R. Gordon When last month R. Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon F . Fujii Interruption…
  • p. 19 …Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon F. Fujii R. Gordon K. Terauchi F. Fujii R. Gordon ? R…
  • p. 20 R. Gordon Okay, yes K. Terauchi But this one is nozzle direction (Japanese)(garbled) we couldn…
  • p. 21 …R. Gordon Well they're alot, much larger. K. Terauchi Yes, much .larger . R. Gordon So…
  • p. 22 …eight miles ••• R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi And, 60 degrees left ••• R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi…
  • p. 23 R. Gordon Digital color? K. Terauchi Yes colored, digital R. Gordon Okay, fine, yeah, that's…
  • p. 24 …when ah • • • R. Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon See, it just says…
  • p. 25 …Gordon Oh yeah uh hu, okay sure F. Fujii It was like two R. Gordon Okay…
  • p. 26 …photo. R. Gordon Okay, okay F. Fujii So the (unintelligible) was dark. R. Gordon Okay, that…
  • p. 27 …seven R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi So ah, size is ah, carrier R. Gordon Ah uh…
  • p. 28 …Oh yes . R. Gordon Like this . K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi…
  • p. 29 …change. R. Gordon They didn't change, huh? K. Terauchi Steady, steady. R. Gordon Okay, the…
  • p. 30 …on light. R. Gordon Ah uh, I understand. K. Terauchi (Japanese) R. Gordon So the moon…
  • p. 31 …air. R. Gordon You got no turbulence? K. Terauchi No turbulence. R. Gordon So it's…
  • p. 32 …F. Fujii R. Gordon F. Fujii R. Gordon F. Fujii R. Gordon About 0.1 • • • Just…
  • p. 33 …R. Gordon Yeah K. Terauchi This one, this one, are the same. R. Gordon Same K…
  • p. 34 R. Gordon I get a copy of that Frank? Could we take a picture of that…
  • p. 35 …Gordon s. Mimoto R. Gordon s. Mi.mo to K. Terauchi s. Mimoto R. Gordon K…
  • p. 104 …Captain Terauchi, 1/2/87, by Richard Gordon, manager -of flight standards district office in Anchorage…
R. Gordon Okay, fine. Well I can't think of anything else I need to ask
you, ah, I really appreciate you taking time to talk to us,
because it's very, very interesting and we need to see if we can
figure out what is there, you know.
K. Terauchi So ah, one things, they ah, completely they're controled of
inertial and gravity. Yeah, so their technology was unthinkable.
Unimaginable high technology.
F. Fujii High tech.
R. Gordon Oh yeah, it just sounds like it. All I can say is let's hope
they're on our side ••• (laughter)
Shinbashi This kind of information (unintelligible) before?
R. Gordon No I can't, I haven't so that's why we're trying to get as much
information as we have; we're going to send it back to
Washington DC, and have them try to marry it up with anything
like this before and then maybe we can say, oh, it happened here,
or it happened here •••
K. Terauchi Oh yeah
R. Gordon • other sightings, we have a lot of stuff where pilots have
had other sightings.
K. Terauchi Oh yes
R. Gordon So we don't know if these lights and all these pictures you drew;
maybe they'll be the same and it happened in Arizona or New York
or wherever, so we got a place in Washington DC, we'll put them
all together and say is any two of them alike. But, but as we go
through this thing I would be glad to keep you folks informed
and, .of what we find out, or if we find out anything, but I'll be
glad to tell you and see how we're doing. Could I get those
drawings, if you don't mind ah? I think that's all we need.
K. Terauchi (unintelligible)
R. Gordon Yes, yes, you could probably explain that with the thing you have
drawn here. Now these are the same drawings?
K. Terauchi Oh no, no, no
R. Gordon Yeah
K. Terauchi This one, this one, are the same.
R. Gordon Same
K. Terauchi So I like (unintelligible) ,
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