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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.
“Fairbanks”17 pages
"'Page 11 .. Again, we beaan communicating with the Anchorage Center. We eaid that we could see a light in the 10 o'clock position at the same altitude and wondered if they could see anything in their radar. The Anchoraae Center replied that they see nothing in their radar. I thought it would be impossible to find anything on an aircraft radar if a large ground radar did not show anything but I judged the distance of the object visually and it was not very far. I set the diaital weather radar distance in 20 miles, radar anale to horizon. There it was, on the screen, and a round object had appeared in seven or a larae, sreen, \ ! eiaht miles ( 13 ~ i kilometers to 15 kilometers) away, where the direction of the object was. We reported to the Anchorage Center that our aircraft radar caught the object within seven or eight miles in 10 o'clock · position. We asked if they could catch it on the around radar but did not seem they could at all. Normally it appears in red when an aircraft radar catches another aircraft. I wonder if the metal used in the spaceship is different from ours. While we were communicating with the Anchorage Center, the two pale white lights gradually moved to the left side and to left diaaonally back 30 dearees as if they understood our conversation and then when they were beside our aircraft they totally disappeared from our radar. [Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written by Capt. Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Milnoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received ~y FAA 1/2/87]
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