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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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R. Gordon Yeah, let's see what would you estimate the size of the small ships to be? K. Terauchi Ah ••• (unintelligible), up here equal to (unintelligible) we saw, ah, second (unintelligible), square, but I saw this on here, ah here, for so I guess this one is maybe separate, separate, then move to here. So ah, ah, (Japanese). R. Gordon Right, yeah, ah uh. S. Mimoto if this one was two stacked together, how large was one? K. Terauchi This here ah fuselage, fuselage of DC-8, DC-8 fuselage. R. Gordon DC-8, okay • • • yeah ah uh, in other words this part right here would be like fuselage of a DC-8. K. Terauchi Oh yes • R. Gordon Like this . K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi Maybe, maybe about like this R. Gordon Uh ah, yeah I understand, okay, I got it. That's good. F. Fujii Any other lighted or unlight objects, any other lights? K. Terauchi Yeah, we saw ah, some unusual light from ah, top of mothership. R. Gordon Uh ah K. Terauchi Ah, it was not regular, but - not regularly, but white - silverish lights, not in equal span of time, but occasionally flashed, irregularly lighted at all times. S. Mimoto Occasional flash K. Terauchi Flash, flash R. Gordon And since I've got this on tape, if you will help me later, you know when we write this down, because I can't remember all this stuff. Thank you. K. Terauchi (Japanese) First time we cannot see ah, this (unintelligible) so ah, ah, we saw this light, this light, and • R. Gordon Ah uh, okay, thank you very much. 12
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