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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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“red lights”10 pages

p. 23 …it shows red ••• K. Terauchi Yes, yes R. Gordon So it's light green, maybe the…
p. 45 …We eaid that we could see a light in the 10 o'clock position at the…
p. 46 …were lights increasing from the U.S. Military Eielson Air Force Base and Fairbanks. The lights…
p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
p. 58 …dark, dark red. P. Beckner Dark red, okay. r. Tamefuji But almost dark I must say…
p. 76 …The lights in front of us were clusters of lights like this. I think they were…
p. 88 …The lights were yellow, amber, and green, rut no red. 'ttle lights were in tw:::> seperate…
p. 94 …amber and green lights, and a rotating beacxm, but oo red lights. The captain said there…
p. 116 …red, green, and blue light are combined to fonn white light. This is the approach conm1only…
p. 121 …less) optical axis that remains de!M!red pixels per units: ( unit less) appropriately chosen In…

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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Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: The Alaska Mothership 1986

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