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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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K. Terauchi But we came this way. Full moon (unintelligible) Greenland, after we, we cross ah Greenland we saw moon right side (unintelligible) ••• but moon move to ah behind us so when crossing the Canadian, Canadian, ah, FLR (unintelligible) so maybe ah moon, ah stay near the horizon, so we couldn't use the moon light. R. Gordon Ah uh, I understand. K. Terauchi (Japanese) R. Gordon So the moon was very low? K. Terauchi Very low, very low, okay. R. Gordon That's good, I appreciate you bringing that up, I didn't think about the moon, but that's good. K. Terauchi Full moon, full moon, was very low, full moon. R. Gordon Well that's good, I'm glad you folks did that, uh ••• K. Terauchi So ah, R. Gordon There's one last question ••• ? Yes R. Gordon This, and it's just threw it in here, is there anything else that I didn't ask you that you could help us sort this thing out? K. Terauchi Ah, yes, they R. Gordon Frank, see how that tapes doing. We still got plenty? F. Fujii Yes, ah uh. R. Gordon That's good, because the mike is right there that's super. K. Terauchi See it is recoil blasting, just a little bit high here, it is blasting jets, then if it was at the same altitude as we were, I assume they are using an atomic energy, there will be some radiation left on our aircraft. Also the other is, that air turbulance be created. So they did not want to leave any evidence of their existance. Also the reason, why they were there (position) is that they wanted to leave no evidence. See it is round, the air current goes this way (he is drawing a picture), see if they were at the same altitude, they would create air turbulance, but they never positioned when the air turbulance would disturb us. R. Gordon Those are the small one now? 14
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