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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. 20 …Gordon Being okay these things here, maybe being each one of these things here, so these…
  • p. 21 …This is the small one so it looked like this, but the bigger one, I could…
  • p. 28 …you estimate the size of the small ships to be? K. Terauchi Ah ••• (unintelligible), up here…
  • p. 30 …Also the other is, that air turbulance be created. So they did not want to leave…
  • p. 38 …There was no danger but it created many questions that a human being cannot answer. Page…
  • p. 43 …However, the center area of the ship where below an engine might be was invisible. The…
R. Gordon Yeah, I got that out of that other one that there was two and
then it went back to the mothership.
K. Terauchi Yeah
s. Mimoto
R. Gordon
s. Mimoto
R. Gordon
s. Mi.mo to
K. Terauchi
s. Mimoto
R. Gordon
K. Terauchi
R. Gordon
s. Mimoto
R. Gordon
I thought maybe there was more then two.
Oh I see, I'm glad you asked that. There were only two?
Only two.
But one was larger then the other like there was two of 'em were
stuck together, right?
Then both are the same size, possible got (stuck) together later?
Yes, possibly. The one I saw first, it was this lon~. See if
they were stacked together at the beginning, one must have
returned to the mothership soon after the separtation.
This (unintelligible)
Oh you saw that, and then they separated like they were together
and then they came apart.
(Japanese)
Ah uh, okay. Same thing, and make sure that I'm right here, that
ah, ah airplane, first sighting, and say this is over here, then
it would have ••
(unintelligible)
Okay, fine just so we know if someone asks us that question we
can answer. Very good. Well I have a lot better understanding
of what transpired then what we got out of a bunch of people when
we talked, and I want to thank you folks for your time. I really
appreciate it.
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