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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. 12 …Review of this radar data by FAA experts using identical equipment at the FAA's research…
  • p. 17 …Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL Captain Kenju Terauchi at JAL Operations, Anchorage, Alaska. The interview was conducted…
  • p. 52 …so I couldn't see, but ah at first ah, humm, (unintelligibl•) what can I write…
  • p. 53 …see at that time. P. Beckner Okay, ah was there, was there clear night? T. Tamefuji…
  • p. 58 …Tamefuji But almost dark I must say night • P. Beckner Okay, you could see the stars…
  • p. 76 …We had night illumination at above sideways. I was using a spot light while calculating the…
  • p. 100 …The aircraft was flying at 35 ,000 feet altitude at night, and the weather was clear…
P. Beckner Conversation, right.
T. Tamefuji ••• (unintelligible) hummm, hummm I can't say (unintelligible)
five minutes •••
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji hum.mm, and ah, I have ah, monitoring, monitor so inside and
outside • • •
P. Beckner Okay, inside and an outside, yeah.
T. Tamefuji ah, while doing those, it became unvisible.
s. Mimoto While looking outside and looking on the inside, and then so he
couldn't see anymore.
P. Beckner Okay, so - you sa - you saw the head-on traffic - whatever we
want to call that - for about five, five minutes, ten minutes,
somewhere in there?
T. Tamefuji Humm, yes
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji Yeah
P. Beckner Okay, ah, was there anything else that you saw aside from this -
from this pattern here, was there, was there anything else that
you saw?
T. Tamefuji Humm, you mean ah, other stars or what?
P. Beckner Other than, I mean as far as these obj - the objects were
concerned, was there any other ah, features that you saw, was
there any shape that you saw, or you just saw the head-on light?
T. Tamefuji Yes, and of course it ah, was clear so ground you could see •••
P. Beckner Okay you saw • • •
T. Tamefuji ••• but ah, hummm, how should I say, but ah, the traffic, I
mean the UFO • • •
P. Beckner Yes
T. Tamefugi • it's ah, so, I'm sure it was not on ground •••
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji (unintelligible)
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