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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.

  • p. 12 …Steucke said, "The controllers were doing their job right because they have to work with what…
  • p. 17 …it, but one of the people that work for me, I'm the office manager over…
  • p. 24 …Terauchi Working good R. Gordon Good, (laughter) F. Fujii Now how about communications, naviagion, or interferring…
  • p. 67 …this period of time when you were working with ••• T. Tamefuji Oh yeah, hurnmm P. Beckner…
  • p. 80 …I was working the R/Dl5 position from 0156 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0230 UTC…
  • p. 81 …I was working the Dl5 position f r om 0156 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0230…
  • p. 83 …I was working the Dl5 position from 0230 UTC, November 18, 1986, to 0530 UTC, November…
  • p. 84 …I was working the El position from 0006 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0425 UTC, November…
  • p. 85 …1986, to 0900 UTC, November 18, I was working the Area Manager 18, 1986, to 0900…
  • p. 92 INSPECTION AND SURVEILLANCE RECORD 1. WORK A CT IV ITY • 2. UNI 3. HOURS Ille 1…
  • p. 93 INSPECTION AND SURVEILLANCE RECORD I. WORK ACTIVITY 2. UHl T:i . HOURS 4. NAME ANO ADDRESS…
  • p. 96 INSPECTION AHO SURVEILLANCE RECORD 1. WORK ACTIVITY '·NAME AMO AOORESS 01" CARRIER, OPERATOR, AIRPORT, AGENCY, OR…
  • p. 105 …Position Logs. (Record of which employees were working each position at what time.) (2 pages) Anchorage…
  • p. 108 …Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group; Rebecca Osborne and Catherine Scott, IBM; Karen Griggs…
  • p. 109 …Creation of Raster Image Master Files Author Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative (FADGI) - Still Image Working Group…
  • p. 110 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 201 o Table of Contents SCOPE ............................................................................................................................ 2…
  • p. 111 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 201 O Image Processing ....................................................................................................................................................... 47 Color Correction…
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  • p. 113 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 201 o I. INTRODUCTION Context The Technical…
  • p. 114 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 ln general, master files have the…
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  • p. 116 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 printing images all render high-bit…
  • p. 117 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 Viewing Conditions A variety of factors…
  • p. 118 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 201 O temperature may also be necessary…
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Tsukuba: It was just at sunset at right front of us. There was
a stripe of red line and almost dark, it was almost
pitch dark behind us.
Beckner: How was the lighting conditions inside the cockpit?
Tsukuba: We had night illumination at above sideways. I was
using a spot light while calculating the data. I do
not remember whether the Captain had the lights turned
off or not. There is a switch that can turn the light
to regular fluorescent or to dark. It was set to dark.
Beckner: How long did you see the object?
Tsukuba: The one in front of us, as I mentioned earlier, I saw
it for about 10 minutes, then, tha one on our left sida
at 9 o'clock, together, a total of 30 minutes. The
lights in front of us and the other one were of two
absolutely different nature of lights.
Beckner: Would you show us what they looked like on this paper?
Tsukuba: The lights in front of us were clusters of lights like
this. I think they were made of two parts. How should
I say this, but the lights were shaped like windows of
a passenger aircraft.
·aeckner: What was the shape of the object like?
Tsukuba: . I do not know. It was just lights. Tha one in front
of us was like an aircraft viewed from another aircraft
which was ours.
Beckner: Did-the object move with your aircraft when you changed
direction or altitude?
Tsukuba: When we saw the first one in front of us, we did not
change the heading, but the second one, it was really
hard to see, I had to try real hard to see it, so we
changed heading. I think the object was with us when
w• changed altitude. When we changed altitude, I could
not sea. The Captain said it was still there, so I
felt like it was there.
Beckner: Did you see another aircraft?
Tsukuba: I saw United Air Line.
Beckner: Any other lighted, or unlighted objects?
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