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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.

  • p. 20 …Gordon Being okay these things here, maybe being each one of these things here, so these…
  • p. 21 …This is the small one so it looked like this, but the bigger one, I could…
  • p. 28 …you estimate the size of the small ships to be? K. Terauchi Ah ••• (unintelligible), up here…
  • p. 30 …Also the other is, that air turbulance be created. So they did not want to leave…
  • p. 38 …There was no danger but it created many questions that a human being cannot answer. Page…
  • p. 43 …However, the center area of the ship where below an engine might be was invisible. The…
T. Tamefuji Nol Nol
P. Beckner . . • would you say there was a multitude of lights?
T. Tamefuji Ah' (unintelligible) just I want to describe just ah, light, only
light.
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji Yeah, so if ah, there was something flying, but ah, I couldn't
see at that time.
P. Beckner Okay, ah was there, was there clear night?
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
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T. Tamefuji
Yes .
Okay
. clear •
And you could distinguish this lights as being different from the
star . . ?..
NNNooo .
. . • from the stars?
Different is fine.
Okay (unintelligible) Alright ah um. How was it first detected?
Was it ~ someone saw it visually, or did you see it on radar?
Who, well, how was it first found?
What's found, humm?
Er, first sighted?
Ah, as you know, all the crew ah
Right
. . . must watch outside?
Right
So ah, I must watch instrument and ah, outside so, and ah, as
normal flight so r· have traffic inside, also Captain traffic,
inside, but ah, I'm not sure but a engineer landing calculate so
he was just sit down back desk calculate •••
P. Beckner (unintelligible)
T. Tamefuji departing direction
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