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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. 16 …the crew of Japan Airlines flight 1628 saw based on scientific analysis of the stars, planets…
  • p. 53 …clear • And you could distinguish this lights as being different from the star . . ?.. NNNooo . . . • from the…
  • p. 58 …Beckner Okay, you could see the stars real clearly? T. Tamefuji Yes, yes. P. Beckner Okay…
  • p. 61 …stars or what? P. Beckner Other than, I mean as far as these obj - the objects…
  • p. 77 …What were the weather conditions? Tsukuba: It was clear. Bec.kner: Did you sea any stars…
T. Tamefuji . left--hand and ah, ten or eleven . . .
P. Beckner Ten or eleven?
T. Tamefuji Right
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji And I thought that it was low •• .
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji And' (unintelligible) I thought ah, traffic way, I image aircraft
ah, lighting, navigation lights . . .
P. Be'ckner Right
T. Tamefuji and landing lights . . .
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji (unintelligible) .... light
P. Beckner Right
T. Tamefuji but ah, it is my (unintelligible) for now I thought it was
an aircraft so •
s. Mimoto · I thought it was an aircraft.
'P. Beckner Okay
s. Mi mo to Ah .
P. Beckner Did you in your mind try to make it . . .
T. Tamefuji Yes
P. Bec kner • • . look like an aircraft?
T. Tame f uji Yeah
P. Bec kner I can do the same thing, . . .
T. Tamef uj i Yes
P. Beckner • so ah . . . I understand.
T. Tamefu j i And , but ah , very strange ah, I ah, it was too many lights . . .
P. Beckner Too many?
T. Tamefuji Yes
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