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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…

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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Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: The Alaska Mothership 1986

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