“Anchorage”38 pages
- p. 3 …Statements of air traffic controllers at Anchorage Center.
11. Investigator statement, Form 1600-32, Jarr.e…
- p. 4 …Box 14
Anchorage. Alaska 995 13
(907) 271-5296
CONTACT: PAUL STEUCKE
FM RELEASES DOCUMENTS ON…
- p. 5 …5 = Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
Dl5 = Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic…
- p. 7 …Ah-Anchorage Center; Japan Air one six tw::> eight, request
direct ah-Talkeetna.
Japan Air sixteen…
- p. 8 …At your
' discretion proceed direct Talkeetna, Jay one -0..0 five
Anchorage. (J125 = air route)
0240…
- p. 16 Paul Steucke
FAA, Public Affairs Officer
Alaskan Region
701 C Street, Box 14
Anchorage, Alaska 995…
- p. 17 …JAL
Captain Kenju Terauchi at JAL Operations, Anchorage, Alaska. The interview
was conducted for the purpose…
- p. 19 …minutes before you
called •
Before I contact Anchorage Center
Ah ah, okay
Okay fourth question, what…
- p. 34 …Terauchi This point, so we contact Anchorage Center here, so ah two or
three minutes, proceed…
- p. 36 •
JA~ } A I R LINES
DISTRICT OFFICE OF OPERATIONS
ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
P 0 . BOX 190048…
- p. 38 …This special flight was to
import special French wine from Iceland to Anchorage for
approximately a…
- p. 40 ~poge s~
Anchorage Center when we reach above Pottat(sp?) where Alaska
Territorial Air begins. Pottat…
- p. 41 …The First Officer, Tameto(?), called the Anchorage
Center and asked to report to us if there…
- p. 44 …We did not report
this action to the Anchorage Center. Honestly, we were simply·
breathtaken. The…
- p. 45 …Again, we beaan communicating with the Anchorage Center. We eaid
that we could see a light…
- p. 47 …Alas! there was a silhouette of aj
"Anchorage :
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We must run away quickly!sisantic spaceship…
- p. 48 …About the same time a United Airline passenger aircraft
which left Anchorage to Fairbanks flew into…
- p. 49 …About the same time a United Airline passenger aircraft
which left Anchorage to Fairbanks flew into…
- p. 50 …150
miles (Approximately 276 kilometers) away from Anchorage. It
comprised approximately 60 minutes of flight time…
- p. 51 …Officer Takanori Tamefuji at the Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska. The
interview was conducted for the purpose…
- p. 70 …the incident United Air •
Right
ah, from Anchorage.
Hum, huh
. . • And we can ... what's that…
- p. 71 …Beckner This was in the newspaper here in Anchorage, for example. And
this shows a similiar…
- p. 80 PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 6, 1987
The following…
- p. 81 .·
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PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
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The following is…
- p. 82 PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 9, 1986
The following…
- p. 83 PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 7, 1987
The following…
- p. 84 PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINSTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 9, 1987
The following…
- p. 85 PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 9, 1987
The following…
- p. 86 PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 7, 1987
The following…
- p. 87 PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 9, 1987
The following…
- p. 88 …They then preceded
to Anchorage.,..i);ld the lights were still visible until arourrl 40 miles…
- p. 94 …I NTERVIEWED/R EVI EWE D ON !_b\7~_} 7-1 ~986- - - __ , AT Anchorage, Alaska
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BY…
- p. 100 …The flight crew was
i nterviewed by FAA inspectors when they landed at Anchorage. The FAA…
- p. 101 …which was conducted
when they landed at Anchorage, that the aircraft flight path was north of…
- p. 103 …Box 14
Anchorage . Alaska 995 13
(907) 27, ·5296
LIST OF RECORDS AVAILABLE
ORDER FORM
for…
- p. 104 …manager -of flight standards district
office in Anchorage. (19 pages)
Written Statement and Drawing by Captain…
- p. 105 …1 page (map)
Personnel statements. (Statements by seven
air traffic control specialists at Anchorage
Center.) (8…
- p. 107 …PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE, AAL-5
701 C STREET, BOX 14
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 99513
•
U.S. Department
ot Transportation
Federal Aviation
Administration
FOR RELEASE ON
MARCH 5 , 1987
#87-09
News:Office of Public Affairs
Alaskan Region
701 C Street. Box 14
Anchorage. Alaska 995 13
(907) 271-5296
CONTACT: PAUL STEUCKE
FM RELEASES DOCUMENTS ON
REPORTED UFO SIGITTING LAST OOVEMBER
The Federal Aviation Administration today released documents relating to the
reported sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) over Alaska by a Japan
Air Lines flight crew on November 17, 1986, saying it was unable to confirm the
event.
The material was issued by FAA's Regional Office in Anchorage, Alaska, and
included transcripts of pilot-controller corrrnunications, interviews with
controllers and the flight crew, radar plots and other data.
FAA's Regional Public Affairs Officer Paul Steucke pointed out that FAA
normally does not investigate UFO sightings but pursued the JAL incident in its
role as the operator of the air traffic control system. He said the agency's
objective was to determine if there was an unreported aircraft in the vicinity
of the JAL flight that could present a safety hazard.
As part of the inquiry, Steucke said, radar data of the JAL flight track was
reviewed by FAA experts at the agency's Technical Center in Atlantic City,
N. J., using identical equipment. They determined that a second radar target
near the JAL flight at the time of the reported sighting was not another
aircraft but rather a split radar return from the JAL Boe i ng 747.
Techn i cally, this is known as an "uncorrelated primary and beacon target
return . " It means that the primary radar signal reflected off the aircraft 1 s
surface did not correlate exactly with the pulse err.itted by the aircraft's
radar beacon transponder. This phenomenon is not unusual and gives the
i mpression of two separate radar targets.
Steucke al so noted t hat FAA cont rollers who monitored the JAL aircraf t sai d
i n their statements that they thought t here might have been another aircraft
because of the dual radar targets. However, a northbound United Air Lines jet
t hat was diverted by controllers to intercept the JAL flight path did establi sh
vi sual contact with that aircraft but the pilots saw nothing else.
The Nov . 17 UFO sighting was reported by JAL Captain Kenjyu Terauchi on a
cargo f light over the polar cap from Iceland to Japan via Anchorage. Captain
Te r auchi said he had visual contact from approximately the U.S.-Canadian border
to south of Fairbanks . On Jan. 11, 1987, Captain Terauchi also reported
another sight ing in the same general area as the first.
Steucke said FAA is satisfied that the safety of the air traffic control
sy s tem was not compromi sed by the lfov . 17 incident and plans no further
investigation of the ci rcumstances .
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