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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. 32 …Gordon About 0.1 • • • Just right on the horizon, the sun was setting? Yeah, yes. So…
  • p. 38 …The north of Alaska in mid-November you cannot even see the sun; the darkness continues…
  • p. 46 …Yukon diagonally below us at the ri1ht, the sun was setting down in the Southwest, painting…
  • p. 58 …Beckner • or was it dusk? Or was the sun still up er, how would you describe…
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji But so it was so luminous, I don't mean luminous ah, it was too
much forever.
P. Beckner Right, okay. How 'bout the colors of the lights? Is that
also •
T. Tamefuji Humm, might Captain, maybe for different thing and Mr. Fukuda,
maybe different thing, but ah, ah I say it was the aircraft so I
thought but actually I think •
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji . . . I think ah, salmon, just like Christmas assorted
P. Beckner Okay, okay assorted.
T. Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing
light, just like landing light. And weak green, ah,
blinking •••
S. Mimoto Flashing • . .
P. Beckne Flashing • . .
s. Mimoto ••• blinking, blinking
P.e Beckner Blinking
s. Mimoto (~nintelligible) yes
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji How should I say - looks just like this, (hand-signs were made by
Mr. Tamefuji) moving like in one •
s. Himoto Oh, swinging
P. Beckner Swinging?
T. Tamefuji (Japanese)
P. Beckner Movement
T. Tamefuji Yes, and ah, ah if there was, there are ah, how should I say,
very good formation flight • • •
P. Beckner· Close formation flight?
T. Tamefuji Yes close.
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