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This package was compiled by the FAA Alaskan Region Public Affairs Office in Anchorage and sent to FAA managers with a memo from Paul Steucke dated March 5, 1987. It gathers material on the November 17, 1986 sighting by the crew of Japan Air Lines flight 1628: a news release, pilot and controller transcripts, crew interviews and radar analysis. The FAA concluded that it could not confirm the event. It attributed the second radar target to a split, uncorrelated return from the JAL Boeing 747 and planned no further investigation.

  • p. 3 …Investi gation of Japan Air Lines flight 1628 Sighting of Unidentified Air Traffic on November 17…
  • p. 5 …but •.• JL1628 = Japan Air Lines flight #1628 Rl.5 = Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control…
  • p. 7 …sixty one line. Approach. Look at your radar. We got a Japan Air one six~ eight…
  • p. 82 …a report concerning the incident to Japan Airlines Flight 1628 (JL1628) north of Fairbanks, Alaska on…
  • p. 107 …86 unidentified object sighting by Japan Air Lines flight 1628. (5 pages) PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN…
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) ,
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