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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. 8 …Say again? It ah-disappeared. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight. 0239:58 RCCC Ya, this is…
  • p. 18 …Fujii The light continued for about ten minut~s, so ah disappeared suddenly. K. Terauchi It…
  • p. 21 …Fujii (Japanese) disappear R. Gordon Okay, okay K. Terauchi Then we find this light, so I…
  • p. 22 …Terauchi So out in here small ship is disappear. R. Gordon Okay, I understand, now lets…
  • p. 32 …Fujii He was watching it and it just disappeared ••• 16 --
  • p. 34 …Terauchi No no, disappear 75 miles north of Talkeetna R. Gar.don Okay 75 miles north…
  • p. 45 …they were beside our aircraft they totally disappeared from our radar. Personal statement concerning JAL Flight…
  • p. 48 …When the United plane came by our side, the spaceship disappeared suddenly and there was nothing…
  • p. 49 …When the United plane came by our side, the spaceship disappeared suddenly and there was nothing…
  • p. 77 …T~e first lights I saw was unchanged until they disappeared. Tha second one, it was…
  • p. 101 …below, moved below the aircraft, and then disappeared behind the aircraft. The phenomenon then occurred again…
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
FEDERAi. AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
All'I Tl'IANS,.Ol'ITATION 8ECURITY
Captain TEPAIX:lil stated that FAA ATC had indicated to him the presence
of a primary target in addition to his aircraft.
Adderx:'h.ml: Through a a:mfidential source at Japan Airlines, it was stated
to me that this was oot the first sighting of an unidentified
aircraft by Captain TERAIXlil. ~'-
FM form 1600-32·1 12•7»
111rn:n:om)-.i0,.. 17, · 1996 . AT Ailchorage, Alaska__________ , ___________ ,
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FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY.
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