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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. 21 …Terauchi Hum uh, ah distances is ah, ah, not this, this one ah, 500, ah be…
  • p. 54 …Tamefuji ••• So as I thought, ah, very same similiar altitude and Captain said, ah, hum, I…
  • p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
  • p. 58 …Tamefuji Hum P. Beckner • or was it dusk? Or was the sun still up er, how…
  • p. 59 …but ah, at first we have in flight . . . ? Hum huh. T. Tamefuji . at ATC, air traffic…
  • p. 61 …Tamefuji hum.mm, and ah, I have ah, monitoring, monitor so inside and outside • • • P. Beckner…
  • p. 62 …Tamefuji Mmmm hum P. Beckner Did ·you happen to see the object while in the 360…
  • p. 63 …Tamefuji so ah, we, ah, I couldn't see well, but some hum, hum this - this…
  • p. 68 …Tamefuji Hum • P. Beckner About how long after you first saw this did you go' b…
  • p. 69 …Tamefuji Um hum P. Beckner I understand somewhere in the flight you guys also descended from…
  • p. 70 …Beckner Hum huh T. Tamefuji P. Beckner • • • and ah, I can't say. Okay. Okay ah…
  • p. 71 …Tamefuji Hum, hum P. Beckner This was in the newspaper here in Anchorage, for example. And…
Tsukuba: When the United aircraft was passing by, we were seeing
th• second lights.
Backnar: Did the intensity of lights change?
Tsukuba: T~e first lights I saw was unchanged until they
disappeared. Tha second one, it was so hard to see.
In my mind, I am not certain whether it was lights of a
distant town or a strange object.
Beckner: What were the weather conditions?
Tsukuba: It was clear.
Bec.kner: Did you sea any stars?
Tsukuba: I think thera were stars 9 but •••
Beckner: Any magnetic disturbanca?
Tsukuba: No.
Beckner: Were there any instrument fluctuations on your Flight
Enginaar·s panel during tha objects presanca?
Tsukuba: No 9 it didn•t .
Beckner: Do you wear glasses?
·Tsukuba: No, I don·t.
Beckner: Was there any r•flaction en th• insida cf tha glass?
Tsukuba: Reflection? What do you mean?
Mi mote: Did you s•• any reflection cf inside lights on tha
aircraft window . glass?
Tsukuba: No. there was not any.
Backner: Would you like to add anything? Do you hava any
qu•stions? W• hav• com• here and interviewed you a
lot. Is there anything wa can answer regM"ding your
questions?
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