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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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“red lights”10 pages

  • p. 23 …it shows red ••• K. Terauchi Yes, yes R. Gordon So it's light green, maybe the…
  • p. 45 …We eaid that we could see a light in the 10 o'clock position at the…
  • p. 46 …were lights increasing from the U.S. Military Eielson Air Force Base and Fairbanks. The lights…
  • p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
  • p. 58 …dark, dark red. P. Beckner Dark red, okay. r. Tamefuji But almost dark I must say…
  • p. 76 …The lights in front of us were clusters of lights like this. I think they were…
  • p. 88 …The lights were yellow, amber, and green, rut no red. 'ttle lights were in tw:::> seperate…
  • p. 94 …amber and green lights, and a rotating beacxm, but oo red lights. The captain said there…
  • p. 116 …red, green, and blue light are combined to fonn white light. This is the approach conm1only…
  • p. 121 …less) optical axis that remains de!M!red pixels per units: ( unit less) appropriately chosen In…
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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