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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. 21 …Terauchi Hum uh, ah distances is ah, ah, not this, this one ah, 500, ah be…
  • p. 54 …Tamefuji ••• So as I thought, ah, very same similiar altitude and Captain said, ah, hum, I…
  • p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
  • p. 58 …Tamefuji Hum P. Beckner • or was it dusk? Or was the sun still up er, how…
  • p. 59 …but ah, at first we have in flight . . . ? Hum huh. T. Tamefuji . at ATC, air traffic…
  • p. 61 …Tamefuji hum.mm, and ah, I have ah, monitoring, monitor so inside and outside • • • P. Beckner…
  • p. 62 …Tamefuji Mmmm hum P. Beckner Did ·you happen to see the object while in the 360…
  • p. 63 …Tamefuji so ah, we, ah, I couldn't see well, but some hum, hum this - this…
  • p. 68 …Tamefuji Hum • P. Beckner About how long after you first saw this did you go' b…
  • p. 69 …Tamefuji Um hum P. Beckner I understand somewhere in the flight you guys also descended from…
  • p. 70 …Beckner Hum huh T. Tamefuji P. Beckner • • • and ah, I can't say. Okay. Okay ah…
  • p. 71 …Tamefuji Hum, hum P. Beckner This was in the newspaper here in Anchorage, for example. And…
RECORD OF INTERVIEW WITH JAL FIRST OFFICER
On January 5, 1987, Inspector Peter E. Beckner, AAL-207, and Japanese
Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL First
Officer Takanori Tamefuji at the Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska. The
interview was conducted for the purpose of gathering first-hand witness
testimony with regard to a sighting on November 17, 1986, by First
Officer Tamefuji of an unidentified flying object. The following is a record
of the interview:
P. Beckner
?
P. Beckner
Conducted at this time in the Flight Standards Division Office,
this is Pete Beckner with AAL-207, and we're here with First
Officer, Mr. Tamefuji.
(unintelligible)
Did I say that correctly?
T. Tamefuji Tam - a - fuji.
P. Beckner Okay, thank you, and Sayoko Mimoto from A A - ah, Airways
Facilities in AL-400. To begin the questioning, I'd like to
first of all ask you, um, is this the first time anything of this
nature is, have you seen this sort of thing?
T. Tamefuji This, this is, is my first time.
P. Beckner First time, okay. What, if you will, if you could describe for
me, what exactly did you see? And I'll provide the paper for you
so, here, just kind of let me know, if you would, just describe
what you saw. Was there more than just one thing that you saw?
And ah, if you would just kinda put it down for ah, for me on
paper if that's okay.
T. Tamefuji First off Captain Terauchi, what ah, Captain Terauchi saw
was ah, I couldn't see.
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji And ah, first part of the incident
P. Beckner Incident?
T. Tamefuji Yeah.
P. Beckner That's fine.
T. Tamefuji Ahhh ••• about ten minutes I could see, but after that time,
humrnmm ••• I couldn't see because of my seat is co-pilot right-
hand side • • •
P. Beckner Right.
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