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Radar computer printout, continuous data recording

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This FAA Alaskan Region Public Affairs Office release, dated March 5, 1987, is a computer printout of recorded FAA radar data for Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 on November 17, 1986. It covers 38 minutes of computer time and lists 105 radar returns. Of these, 86 are usable and 19 are uncorrelated primary returns. The printout records when the pilot first asked about other traffic and when he said he could not see the UFO. It also explains that uncorrelated returns occur when the primary and beacon signals do not match in position.

BEACON-TARGET-REPORTS
STIME	RANGE	ACP	DEG	Q	11/19/95
BEACON	ALT	PAGE
QUA	2
SYS
2:33:51.990	15.75	2305	202	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:10:39.303	12.12	2705	237	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:10:20.207	11.12	2766	243	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:40:39.425	9.25	1100	96	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:10:41.749	9.62	2967	251	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:40:55.761	7.37	2999	253	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:11:09.030	6.25	2372	252	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:11:15.796	5.62	1107	97	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:11:12.152	5.12	2017	177	0	1550-3 BT	1
2:11:45.359	5.37	3351	294	0	1550-3 BT	1
2:11:17.109	5.37	3524	319	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
	5.59	3717	326	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:11:13.990	5.50	77	6	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
	5.58	212	19	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:11:19.190	5.62	310	27	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:11:53.973	6.00	1951	162	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:11:59.377	6.37	3429	301	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:11:59.753	6.37	3524	309	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:11:59.129	6.37	3645	320	0	1552-3	310-3	BT	1
2:42:05.579	7.00	1790	157	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:12:12.714	7.87	56	4	0	1550-1 BT	1
2:42:17.595	9.37	1794	155	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:42:29.901	9.97	1907	159	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:42:41.998	11.37	1925	160	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:42:53.912	12.87	1939	161	0	1550-3	309-3	BT	1
2:43:05.995	14.50	1941	161	0	1550-3	399-3	BT	1
2:13:17.706	15.20	1934	169	0	1550-3 BT	1
2:43:42.250	19.25	1992	165	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
	19.25	1957	172	0	1550-3 BT	1
2:43:53.967	20.75	1935	165	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:13:51.459	20.97	1949	171	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:44:06.356	22.37	1992	166	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
	22.50	1944	170	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:44:13.459	24.12	1995	165	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:14:29.790	25.62	1997	166	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:44:30.540	25.75	1939	170	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:14:42.439	27.37	1907	167	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:44:54.405	29.00	1915	169	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:45:05.499	30.62	1917	163	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:45:19.505	32.37	1908	167	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:45:32.589	34.00	1912	168	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:45:42.492	35.62	1933	169	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:45:54.510	37.37	1919	169	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:45:65.597	39.00	1913	160	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:16:19.253	40.62	1914	168	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:45:19.005	40.75	2033	178	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:15:30.713	42.37	1917	169	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
	42.37	2037	179	0	1550-3 BT	1
2:16:42.736	44.00	1920	168	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:16:54.702	45.62	1929	169	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:15:55.015	45.75	2055	190	0	1550-3 BT	1
2:47:35.670	47.25	1930	169	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1
2:17:07.172	47.37	2070	181	0	1550-3	310-3	BT	1

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