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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.
“dark object”7 pages
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? 19
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