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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 (unintelligible)
P~ Beckner Okay. How ' bout the autopilot, did ... was it· on autopilot?
T~ Tamefuji Yes
p~ Beckner Oka y, did the autopilot kick off?
T. Tamefuji No
P. Bec kner Er ' it stayed on all the time?
T. Tamefu j i No
P. Beckner Oka y. Um, let me just read my notes here and see if I have got
everything I needed to ask you about. You say that you had
suggested to the Captain that you call Center and ask if they had
any targets?
T. Tamefuji Hum •
P. Beckner About how long after you first saw this did you go' b--before
as king about calling Center?
T. Tamefuji Hummm, hum - at fi r st in my mind
P. Bec kner Right , yeah
T. Tamefu j i . . • and conversation so it was not too long but, ah ... hummm, I
can't say exactly but two or three minutes.
P. Bec kner Okay , okay . Um ... Was the Captain the first one to spot the ob ...
the ah, lights?
T. Tamefu j i The who?
P. Beckner First saw the object?
T. Tamefuj1 Hummm , I thi nk ah , at the same time, almost.
P. Beckner Clcay
T. Tamefuji But ah, it i s not impossible to at same time . . .
P. Beckner Right, but . • .
T. Tamefuji (unintelligible )
P. Beckner . . . but ... but communicati ng , ye ah.
T. Tamefuji Humm! um, not so much di fferent between . • .
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