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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. 18 …Terauchi No, no, no ••• um, ah I saw, um, mothership. Taipai, Kushung, Formosa, south of Formosa…
  • p. 20 …So then I found mothership light, but this is not llght, all engine, because ah we…
  • p. 21 …Gordon Same distance apart Now do you think t hat wa s just the mothership and…
  • p. 24 …Terauchi Yes then this one leave for mothership • . . R. Gordon Ah ha K. Terauchi Back to…
  • p. 28 …Terauchi Yeah, we saw ah, some unusual light from ah, top of mothership. R. Gordon Uh…
  • p. 31 …Then there was the mothership. They never came to this side. Because of the sunset (if…
  • p. 34 …Mimoto The small one, not the mothership, were there many light? K. Terauchi Oh yes, there…
  • p. 35 …See if they were stacked together at the beginning, one must have returned to the mothership…
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