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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 Okay, fine. Well I can't think of anything else I need to ask you, ah, I really appreciate you taking time to talk to us, because it's very, very interesting and we need to see if we can figure out what is there, you know. K. Terauchi So ah, one things, they ah, completely they're controled of inertial and gravity. Yeah, so their technology was unthinkable. Unimaginable high technology. F. Fujii High tech. R. Gordon Oh yeah, it just sounds like it. All I can say is let's hope they're on our side ••• (laughter) Shinbashi This kind of information (unintelligible) before? R. Gordon No I can't, I haven't so that's why we're trying to get as much information as we have; we're going to send it back to Washington DC, and have them try to marry it up with anything like this before and then maybe we can say, oh, it happened here, or it happened here ••• K. Terauchi Oh yeah R. Gordon • other sightings, we have a lot of stuff where pilots have had other sightings. K. Terauchi Oh yes R. Gordon So we don't know if these lights and all these pictures you drew; maybe they'll be the same and it happened in Arizona or New York or wherever, so we got a place in Washington DC, we'll put them all together and say is any two of them alike. But, but as we go through this thing I would be glad to keep you folks informed and, -Of what we find out, or if we find out anything, but I'll be glad to tell you and see how we're doing. Could I get those drawings, if you don't mind ah? I think that's all we need. K. Terauchi (unintelligible) R. Gordon Yes, yes, you could probably explain that with the thing you have drawn here. Now these are the same drawings? K. Terauchi Oh no, no, no R. Gordon Yeah K. Terauchi This one, this one, are the same. R. Gordon Same K. Terauchi So I like (unintelligible) 17
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