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FAA via National Archives / The Black Vault · 122 pages · text from the file's own layer

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 . 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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