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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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“humming”12 pages

  • 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 . 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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