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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.
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Tsukuba: Alpha 7,000. It is made by Minoruta. is called in America. I wonderwhat it Beckner: Have you seen this kind of thing before? Was this the first time anything of this nature has happened to you? Tsukuba: Yes, this was the first tima. Beckner: Who first sighted the object? Tsukuba: I do not know which person picked it up first. I was making a landing data. The Captain told us tc sea if there is a some kind cf object outsid•. Beckner: Did you see the radar? Tsukuba: Whan the Captain told ma ta look, I could se• th• radar. Beckner: Were you able to see it on radar? What did you sea on th• radar? Tsukuba: Yes, a green dot like, not exactly like a dot. It was not a dot, but stream like, I think the rang• was about 10 miles. I do not think it was the same lights as the one I saw in front of us. Beckner: How was the intensity of the lights? Did th• intensity of the objects' lights change? Tsukuba: Basically th• same. I cannot d•5criba it. Not even in Japanese. Th• first one did not change. Tha second light was vary difficult to see. It was so vagua. Beckner: Was any other target picked up on radar? Tsukuba1 I cannot ram•mber. difficult to see. Tha tilt angle of th• radar was Beckn•r: Difficult to ramamber, on the radar, did you have to lock for tha object? Tsukuba: I identified immediately th• one in front of us • Becknar: At the time of sighting, how were the lighting conditions outside? 2
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