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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. 5 …of the strobe and beacon lights? The color is ah, - white and yellow, I think. Ya…
  • p. 19 …light was amber and whitish, but, when it came to here it was only amber • white…
  • p. 21 …But, this color is white uh ••. it ' s ah um dark white pole ••• weak light ••• (unintelligible…
  • p. 28 …Terauchi Ah, it was not regular, but - not regularly, but white - silverish lights, not in equal…
  • p. 44 …Then again, there was a pale white flat light on the direction where the ships flew…
  • p. 45 …While we were communicating with the Anchorage Center, the two pale white lights gradually moved to…
  • p. 47 …above the bright city lights and we checked the i pale white lieht behind us. Alas…
  • p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
  • p. 74 …I can not describe the details but it was white or amber colored lights. Beckner: When…
  • p. 83 …He stated it was a big plane with yellow and white lights. We advised him we…
  • p. 85 …one (1) mile with a white and yellow strobe light. I notified the Alaska Regional Operations…
  • 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. 120 …electronic imaging device to light stimuli Sensitivitv Tone aod ExRQsure White BalanceNeutralitx'. Color EocodiogLReoderiog (ISO…
  • p. 122 …The cfirferentlal ~ ~ ~ Streaking ~ Shading area unlformity/shad:ng spread or light between COior Delinffion : The root…
T. Tamefuji Yeah
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
r. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
Okay. Were there any other ah " was there any other aircraft?
Did you see any other aircraft during that particular flight?
No ah, no other ATC ah, I mean ah, um, as •••
Right
• and ah •
You didn't see any other aircraft at all?
In last part of the incident United Air •
Right
ah, from Anchorage.
Hum, huh
. . • And we can ... what's that . ... we could see • • •
P. Beckner You could see (unintelligible)
T. Tamefuji United
P. Beckner Okay you could see United •••
T. Tamefuji (unintelligible)
P. Beckner Okay, did he ... did United when you saw him was he flashing his
lights at you or anything, er just normal nav lights, er •
T. Tamefuji Humm •
P. Beckner do you remember what ••• ?
T. Tamefuji Humm, remember, just she passed my left-hand side •••
P. Beckner Hum huh
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
• • • and ah, I can't say.
Okay. Okay ah, did the intensity of these lights change, at
all &
T. Tamefuji Humm •••
P. Beckner ••• or were they pretty much the same intensity for the time
that you saw them?
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