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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. 3 …Statements of air traffic controllers at Anchorage Center. 11. Investigator statement, Form 1600-32, Jarr.e…
  • p. 4 …Steucke said FAA is satisfied that the safety of the air traffic control sy s tem…
  • p. 5 …Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center Dl5 = Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control…
  • p. 41 …air, and the air current was steady and conditions were quite pleasant. Perhaps the controllers were…
  • p. 43 …concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written by Capt. Kenju…
  • p. 66 …Mimoto Oh , maybe Air Traffic Control did not understand my English, so P. Beckner No s…
  • p. 80 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 6, 1987 The following…
  • p. 81 .· "' PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center ,,,,----...... ' ( i (", " ~ i The following is…
  • p. 82 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1986 The following…
  • p. 83 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 7, 1987 The following…
  • p. 84 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINSTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1987 The following…
  • p. 85 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1987 The following…
  • p. 86 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 7, 1987 The following…
  • p. 87 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1987 The following…
  • p. 100 …FAA Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, the sighting of unidentified air traffic on their onboard…
  • p. 101 …not interested in reports that do not involve aircraft or the air traffic control system." I
  • p. 105 …1 page (map) Personnel statements. (Statements by seven air traffic control specialists at Anchorage Center.) (8…
  • p. 106 …7) Cassette tape of communications between Air Traffic Control and JAL Flight 1628. 1 hour 30…
P. Beckner Right
T. Tamefuji so I couldn't find what Captain saw.
P. Beckner Okay, you were flying the aircraft then, is that correct?
T. Tamefuji Ah, yes
p, Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji But ah, um, I saw (unintelligible) ah, Captain said ah, UFO big,
quite big Captain said, and how should I say ~so I tried doing
this •••
S. Mimoto I looked all over the place.
T. Tamefuji And the Captain was in the way(Japanese).
s. Mimoto Oh so Captain was in the way.
P. Beckner Well, okay he was in the way of you seeing?
T. Tamefuji Yes, and ah, some ah, pillar, window pillars . . .
P. Beckner Oh, pillars?
T. Tamefuji Yeah
P.·· Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji so ah, we, ah, I couldn't see well, but some hum, hum
this - this is not exact picture, but ah, like similiar like
aircraft is (unintelligible) •••
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji I dark is background, but I - you cannot say it was UFO or not.
P. Beckner Okay, was it different then what you saw here?
T. Tamefuji Completely different.
P. Beckner Completely different, okay. But was it brighter, were these
brighter, er ••• ?
T. Tamefuji brighter •
P. Beckner These are brighter?
T. Tamefuji Yes, ah •
P. Beckner The first sighting was brighter?
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