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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. 18 …saw bright lights, I guess maybe ah 10,000 feet so ah ••• the light continued for…
  • p. 20 …Gordon Maybe that would account for that bright light he saw five years ~go. In otherwords…
  • p. 29 …brightness of the, ah . . . s. Mi mo to (unintelligible) F. Fujii Did the intensity of lights…
  • p. 34 …Mimoto The small one, not the mothership, were there many light? K. Terauchi Oh yes, there…
  • p. 46 …Air Force Base and Fairbanks became clear and bri1ht, two very bright lights appeared suddenly from…
  • p. 47 The extremely bright lights reflected on snow on the side of the mountains and seemed even…
  • p. 65 …Tamefuji Bright, it looked bright P. Beckner Not bright but ••• T. Tamefuji Dim P. Beckner • dim…
  • p. 116 …red, green, and blue light are combined to fonn white light. This is the approach conm1only…
  • p. 117 …Monitor Settings, Light Boxes, and Viewing Booths We assume the assessment of many digital images will…
P. Beckner Okay. So pretty much at the same time you both saw it?
T ~ Tamefuji Right
P. Beckner And at that time it was ten to eleven?
T. Tamefuji Hummm, I thought.
P. Beckner That IS what I'm asking is what you thought?
T. Tamefuji Yeah
P. Beckner Okay. Um·. Okay we discussed the ah, turn, the 360?
T. Tamefuji Um hum
P. Beckner I understand somewhere in the flight you guys also descended from
3, 5, O to 3, 1, O?
T. Tamefuji Yes
P. Beckner Did ~did the object stay with you at that point, or did the
lights stay with you, or whatever?
T. Tamefuji Humm, hum at that time •••
P. Beckner At that time did you still have them in sight?
T. Tamefuji Yes, but ah, different.
P. Beckner Um hum
T. Tamefuji Ah, the object was different side the captain's side so I can
not •••
P. Beckner Okay you could not see it, okay. So you actually saw it only for
about five to ten minutes?
T. Tamefuji fllmmm, I think so.
P. Beckner Ah, because I understand that the ~ the target was ah, not
target, but the item, object, lights, whatever, were in sight for
upwards of around fifty minutes, total. That's what the Captain
saw, was about that length of time.
T. Tamefuji Umm, um
P. Beckner And ah, but I understand that from where you were sitting you
might not have been able to see it as long as he could have?
T. Tamefuji Yeah
P. Beckner Especially during the turn?
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