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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. 3 …um, ah I saw, um, mothership. Taipai, Kushung, Formosa, south of Formosa. R. Gordon Around, near…
  • p. 5 …So t hen I found mothership light, but this is not llght, al l engine, because…
  • p. 6 …Gordon Same distance apart Now do you think that was just the mothership and then these…
  • p. 13 …Terauchi Yeah, we saw ah, some unusual light from ah, top of mothership. R. Gordon Uh…
  • p. 16 …Then there was the mothership. They never came to this side. Because of the sunset (if…
  • p. 19 …Mimoto The small one, not the mothership, were there many light? K. Terauchi Oh yes, there…
  • p. 20 …See if they were stacked together at the beginning, one must have returned to the mothership…
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