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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…
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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