Pilot Report Unclassified Complete

733667-001-011-0033

National Archives and Records Administration

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National Archives and Records Administration
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2.3 MB
External ID
2524eb49d066125b6a7d42244166cc85d86ca3fbd2628bf5908be4b330a41840
Confidence
85%
Credibility
80%

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This document appears to be a transcript of a conversation involving Gordon Terauchi discussing an unidentified aerial phenomenon observed during a flight near Talkeetna, Alaska. The conversation includes details about the sighting of multiple lights and the behavior of the object.

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AlaskaAviationSightingUAP aerial phenomenonPilot ReportTalkeetnaUFO

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Gordon Terauchi Gordon Terauchi Gordon Terauchi Gordon Terauchi Gordon Terauchi Gordon Terauchi Gordon Terauchi Gordon Mimoto Terauchi Mimoto Terauchi Mimoto Terauchi I get a copy of that Frank? Could we take a picture of that, I would certainly appreciate it. Yes. Alright. I think that's all, can you think of anything we need. (unintelligible) Yes, please if I could have one. Oh one thing, this track Oh yeah. This one is ah (unintelligible) so after this one is ah (unintelligible) this point ah... Okay, right about the... This point, so we contact Anchorage Center here, so ah two or three minutes, proceed right direct to Talkeetna, so we flew this distance ... Okay from that point direct to Talkeetna and ah, and then some so you went about there you saw this thing. Yes, yes, I saw from here ...so0ah... Okay, and then maybe five minutes later along here saying Anchorage do you have anything out there? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Okay I have it. To just about Talkeetna? No no, disappear 75 miles north of Talkeetna... Okay 75 miles north of Talkeetna... Yeah, yeah o © e it went away. The small one, not the mothership, were there many light? Oh yes, there were numerous lights. The exhausts on the engine were lined up all the way, but when they were blasting recoil jets were so strong I could not see it because it was so bright. Once the recoil blast stopped, the speed was absolutely steady, not faster or slower, and I could see them very clearly. Just one group? See there were two, appeared in front of us. Right here and right here .. . both exactly the same. Only two? All I saw was two. 18