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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.
“Sightings”40 pages
- p. 2 …17, 86,
sighting of unidentified air traffic
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER, AAL-5
ALL REGIONAL FACILITY MANAGERS…
- p. 3 …Other "Unidentified Air Traffic" sightings, FAA file, Alaska.
Prepared by
FAA Public Affairs Office
AAL-5…
- p. 4 …17 UFO sighting was reported by JAL Captain Kenjyu Terauchi on a
cargo f light over…
- p. 15 …involving JAL-1628
and the alleged UFO sighting.
Review of the data involving this incident did…
- p. 16 …The FAA does not have the resources or the Congressional mandate to
investigate sightings of unidentified…
- p. 17 …hand witness testimony with
regard to a sighting on November 17, 1986, by Captain Terauchi and…
- p. 18 …was trying
to figure out that first sighting last year or this year
Five years ago…
- p. 22 …Visually sighting, you saw it first uh?
K. Terauchi First
R. Gordon Okay
F. Fujii And…
- p. 33 …Gordon • other sightings, we have a lot of stuff where pilots have
had other sightings.
K…
- p. 35 …Same thing, and make sure that I'm right here, that
ah, ah airplane, first sighting…
- p. 38 …experience.
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 39 …the
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 40 …hour.
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 41 …images.
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 42 …lights.
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 43 …spaceship
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 44 …were.
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 45 …radar.
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 46 …away.
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 47 …we will!
continue 360 degree turn."
Personal stat~ment concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified…
- p. 48 …moon.
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 49 …moon.
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 50 …5)
Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written…
- p. 51 …hand witness
testimony with regard to a sighting on November 17, 1986, by First
Officer Tamefuji…
- p. 53 …found?
What's found, humm?
Er, first sighted?
Ah, as you know, all the crew ah…
- p. 63 …Beckner The first sighting was brighter?
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- p. 69 …Beckner At that time did you still have them in sight?
T. Tamefuji Yes, but ah…
- p. 74 …regarding to the UFO which had been sighted on the
17th of November, 1986, by Captain…
- p. 75 …Who first sighted the object?
Tsukuba: I do not know which person picked it up first…
- p. 86 …EARTS, (radar data),
r eference JL1628 alleged sightings. I could not find any target information
i…
- p. 94 …Myself
and Jim Derry intenriewed the crew of JAL Flight 1628, which reported
the sighting of…
- p. 95 …me that this was oot the first sighting of an unidentified
aircraft by Captain TERAIXlil. ~'-
FM…
- p. 100 …The FAA has no
opinions or conclusions regarding the sighting.
(2 ) On January 11, 1987, at…
- p. 101 …The Air Force was unable to confirm
the sighting. This sighting was not investigated by the…
- p. 102 …Aviation Administration information regarding the unidentified
traffic sighting by the flight crew of Japan Airlines flight…
- p. 103 …FORM
for
JAL FLIGHT 1628
UNIDENTIFIED TRAFFIC SIGHTING
NOVEMBER 18, 1g~6 UTC
on November 17…
- p. 104 LIST OF RECORDS AVAILABLE
ORDER FORM
for
JAL FLIGHT 1628
UNIDENTIFIED TRAFFIC SIGHTING
NOVEMBER 18, 1986…
- p. 105 Page 2
JAL UNIDENT I FIED TR AFFIC SIGHTING Order List continued
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- p. 106 Page 3
JAL UNIDENTIFIED TRAFFIC SIGHTING Order List continued
0 $57. 2 5 12 . Simulated Radar…
- p. 107 …pertaining to
11/17/86 unidentified object sighting by Japan Air
Lines flight 1628. (5 pages…
MEETING THE FUTURE
.. Page 5 ..
We took a flight course Southeast of Greenland direct to
Chule(ap?) where a U.S. military base is by crossing the great
icy highland midwest of Greenland.
The flight above Greenland, under a nearly full moon which
was raising on the right front side of our aircraft helped
visibility for the night flight. The flight was smooth despite
the unstable air current that shook the plane for about two
hours, but was still a rather atressless flight as compared to a
passenger flight.
We aimed towards Single Point, on the north coast of Canada,
by passing through the Canadian north polar regions and down
southwest along an Arctic flight course. It was 4:25 p.m. Alaska
time when we reported our location to Edmonton Center from above
Single Point, Canada (68 degrees 55 minutes the North Latitude,
137 degrees 15 minutes West Longitude); It had become pitch-
.sllJ:k perhaps because the moon was directly behind us near the
horizon. We received an order from Edmonton Center that we should
contact the
[Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written by Capt.
Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1/2/87]
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