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Terauchi interview transcript, Dick Gordon, 2 Jan 1987
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This FAA record of interview documents a January 2, 1987 session in Anchorage, Alaska, in which Inspector Richard O. Gordon of FSDO-63 questioned JAL Captain Kenju Terauchi about his crew's November 17, 1986 sighting. Terauchi describes two small craft with exhaust-like lights that flew near his aircraft and a much larger mothership, and says the target appeared green on his onboard radar. He also reports VHF interference and says the objects matched his 360-degree turn and his descent.
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- p. 2 …Terauchi No, third time .
R. Gordon This is the third time that ah that you've…
- p. 3 …Terauchi Big Ship - yes and the second time ah, the, in my home I saw a…
- p. 4 …Terauchi I think it was the first time.
F . Fujii Who was the first person who…
- p. 5 …Fujii From the forward you could see the flame and the exhaust and
flame were surrounding…
- p. 6 …This one and this one, the
same logic, this point and this point are the same…
- p. 8 …Fujii When did you pick it up, the radar?
K. Terauchi Time? Time?
F. Fujii Time…
- p. 9 …Autopilot stayed
on all the time.
K. Terauchi Yeah •
R. Gordon Okay
K. Terauchi Working good…
- p. 12 …Terauchi See this is the jumbo jet. 1.5, two times this light.
R. Gordon Okay…
- p. 13 …Gordon Yeah, let's see what would you estimate the size of the small
ships to…
- p. 18 …Gordon Yes, yes, you could probably explain that with the thing you have
drawn here. Now…
- p. 20 …See if
they were stacked together at the beginning, one must have
returned to the mothership…
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