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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…
P. Beckner Conversation, right.
T. Tamefuji ••• (unintelligible) hummm, hummm I can't say (unintelligible)
five minutes •••
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji hum.mm, and ah, I have ah, monitoring, monitor so inside and
outside • • •
P. Beckner Okay, inside and an outside, yeah.
T. Tamefuji ah, while doing those, it became unvisible.
s. Mimoto While looking outside and looking on the inside, and then so he
couldn't see anymore.
P. Beckner Okay, so - you sa - you saw the head-on traffic - whatever we
want to call that - for about five, five minutes, ten minutes,
somewhere in there?
T. Tamefuji Humm, yes
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji Yeah
P. Beckner Okay, ah, was there anything else that you saw aside from this -
from this pattern here, was there, was there anything else that
you saw?
T. Tamefuji Humm, you mean ah, other stars or what?
P. Beckner Other than, I mean as far as these obj - the objects were
concerned, was there any other ah, features that you saw, was
there any shape that you saw, or you just saw the head-on light?
T. Tamefuji Yes, and of course it ah, was clear so ground you could see •••
P. Beckner Okay you saw • • •
T. Tamefuji ••• but ah, hummm, how should I say, but ah, the traffic, I
mean the UFO • • •
P. Beckner Yes
T. Tamefugi • it's ah, so, I'm sure it was not on ground •••
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji (unintelligible)
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