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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. 3 …Statements of air traffic controllers at Anchorage Center. 11. Investigator statement, Form 1600-32, Jarr.e…
p. 4 …Steucke said FAA is satisfied that the safety of the air traffic control sy s tem…
p. 5 …Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center Dl5 = Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control…
p. 41 …air, and the air current was steady and conditions were quite pleasant. Perhaps the controllers were…
p. 43 …concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written by Capt. Kenju…
p. 66 …Mimoto Oh , maybe Air Traffic Control did not understand my English, so P. Beckner No s…
p. 80 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 6, 1987 The following…
p. 81 .· "' PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center ,,,,----...... ' ( i (", " ~ i 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. 100 …FAA Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, the sighting of unidentified air traffic on their onboard…
p. 101 …not interested in reports that do not involve aircraft or the air traffic control system." I
p. 105 …1 page (map) Personnel statements. (Statements by seven air traffic control specialists at Anchorage Center.) (8…
p. 106 …7) Cassette tape of communications between Air Traffic Control and JAL Flight 1628. 1 hour 30…

I knew that in the past there was a U.S. military fighter
called the mustang that had flown up hich for a confirmation and
a tragedy had happened to it. Even the F-15 with the newest
technology had no guarantee of safety against the creature with
an unknown degree of scientific technoloay. We flew toward
Talkeetna at an altitude of 3,100 feet. The spaceship was still
followinc us, not leaving us at all.
About the same time a United Airline passenger aircraft
which left Anchorage to Fairbanks flew into the same air zone and
began communicating with the Anchorage Center. We beard them
transmitting that there was an object near JL 1628 and requesting
for confirmation. . We heard that the Anchorage Center was saying
to the United Airline aircraft that JL 1628 was at an altitude
of 3,100 feet, therefore, United Airline should maintain an
altitude· of 3,300 feet. It sounded as if Anchorage Center had
the United Airline aircraft fly above the spaceship. We were
flying the East side of Mt. McKinley. The United Airline
aircraft came close to us. The United Airline aircraft requested
us to flash landing lichts for visual confirmation and we both
confirmed our positions visually. The United Airline aircraft
was coming close to us. We knew that they were watching us.
When the United plane came by our side, the spaceship disappeared
suddenly and there was nothing but the liaht of moon.
[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 !AA 1/2/87]

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Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: The Alaska Mothership 1986

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