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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…
T. Tamefuji . . . and ah, the object was in left-hand side . . .
P. Beckner Okay.
T. Tamefuji . . . and very dark vision, so . . .
P. Beckner Okay.
T. Tamefuji . • . so I couldn't see, but ah at first ah, humm,
(unintelligibl•) what can I write . . •
P. Beckner Just kinda picture in your mind what you saw • . .
T. Tamefuji Humm.
P. Beckner . . . and then put that on paper, and I'm going to shut the door
here.
T. Tamefuji Humm, it was ah, left right clock head-on traffic • . .
P.Beckner Okay.
T. Tamefuji I just to see and ah, humm, left right?
P. Beckner Yes
T. Tamefuji Ah, in night flight head--on traffic we can see just ah,
light •
P. Beckner Lights, okay.
T. Tamefuji we cannot see the total shape •••
P. Beckner Shape
T. Tamefuji shape
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji ••• so (unintelligible) I thought it was ah, head-on
traffic
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji Mmmm, so I couldn't, can't write ah, exactly . . •
P. Beckner Would you say it was just . . • ?
T. Tamefuji Just light . . .
P. Beckner Okay it was more than, s--was there more than like what would
say there was six lights . . .?
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