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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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  • 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 and ah, seven to eight miles to object.
P. Beckner Okay, from you, from you. Did it pretty much maintain that
po.sition for most of the flight?
T. Tamefuji Humm, ah
P. Beckner Or did it move around a whole lot, or did it . . .
T. Tamefuji No, no (unintelligible) oblong?
P. Beckner Right
T. Tamefuji so ah, hummm, don't - it didn't move just like this, just
like this
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji • just like a other traffic stay on, but ah, I can't say, it
was moving or not moving.
P. Beckner Ckay, it sort of seemed to stay in formation with you, would that
be •••
T. Tamefuji Hummmm •
P. Beckner ••• seven to eight mile formation?
T. Tamefuji Hummm, formation means same position?
P. Beckner Right - same general direction in this case.
T. Tamefuji Oh •
P. Beckner Seem to travel with you?
T. Tamefuji Hlimm, I saw ah, light, just like landing lights, so ah, I'm pilot
it ha.s landing light so, head-on traffic
P. Beckner Right.
T. Tamefuji ••• at that time, but ah, I can ~ I cannot say which direction
they move.
P. Beckner Okay, okay. 'Ibis head-on traffic, how long did you see this
total, the length of time that you saw it?
T. Tamefuji Humm, humm
P. Beckner Just you.
T. Tamefuji Humm, five minutes at first in.side and ah, five minutess Captain
and ATC call short conversation • • •
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