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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 K. Terauchi Yeah. • • R. Gordon The little one huh? K. Terauchi (Japanese) F. Fujii That flight level right there does not leave any evidence, also if it on the same level, it would give this aircraft a little turbulence cause of this air. R. Gordon You got no turbulence? K. Terauchi No turbulence. R. Gordon So it's just suspended there, really. K. Terauchi (Japanese) Right F. Fujii (unintelligible) leave the evidence ••• R. Gordon Yeah, well that's what I'm saying, it's so moving, it's either so areodynamic that it's not causing, so you're saying when he was right in front of you there was not turbulence and if you had been that close to another object that large you should have got some buffetting? K. Terauchi Yeah R. Gordon Okay, I understand K. Terauchi The turbulance would assure their existance, therefore, they positioned themselves to here from the beginning. R. Gordon Yes K. Terauchi Certainly, ah approaching Fort Yukon, west side, this side east side, so ah (unintelligible)(Japanese) big mothership (Japanese), horizon, sunset, we caught up the sunset, two - three millimeters strip of it. Then there was the mothership. They never came to this side. Because of the sunset (if they came to the other side) they would be seen, their shape by us. They positioned themselves at the darkest side, difficult place for us to see. But see, our aircraft was in front of the sunset and visible for any movement we make. They took the trouble to position themselves to be in the darkest place. I think they did not want to be seen. F. Fujii He thinks that they don't want, of course they don't want the ship to see it, so they go to the place where it's dark • R. Gordon Yeah F. Fujii and because there's a sunset over here, and about one 15
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