Radar Report Unclassified Complete

733667-001-014-0004

National Archives and Records Administration

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National Archives and Records Administration
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e6ebab90ed150b8d9992babb8e5dc657be9d8a60ec2ad011a958453d049d40cf
Confidence
85%
Credibility
90%

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This document details a communication exchange between Japan Air flight 1628 and the Fairbanks FAA tower regarding unidentified traffic observed by the flight. The exchange indicates that the flight was deviating from its course due to an unidentified object, with no military aircraft reported in the area.

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Air traffic controlAviationUAP FAAJapan AirRadar CommunicationUFO

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Fairbanks Airport Airport Location Unresolved …irmed, we have no military aircraft working up there. 0237:25 D115 Okay thank you very much. 0237:29 D115 You have no traffic at all? 0237:30 ROC That's correc
Fairbanks at this time Sighting Location Unresolved page 3 - flight 1628 0234:52 R15 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand your traffic is over Fairbanks at this time. 0234:56 JL1628 Affirmative - - ah

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page 3 - flight 1628 0234:52 R15 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand your traffic is over Fairbanks at this time. 0234:56 JL1628 Affirmative - - ah request heading two one zero. 0235:02 R15 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, roger. Deviations approved as necessary for traffic. 0235:24 D15 Approach center (Fairbanks FAA tower) on the sixty one line. 0235:27 FBKS Approach. 0235:30 D15 Look at your radar. We got a Japan Air one six two eight, ah-he's deviating. He's about ah-five miles north of Fairbanks V-O-R Squawking one five five zero. 0235:39 D115 Do you have any traffic with him? He sees traffic, he was deviating. 0235:44 FBKS Ah - ya, no we don't. I don't see anything there aside from his, ah-his target. 0236:12 JL1628 Ah-Anchorage Center; Japan Air one six two eight, request direct ah-Talkeetna. 0236:18 R15 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, cleared direct Talkeetna, and in-ah-advise me of your position of your traffic? 0236:24 JL1628 Ah, same po, same position. 0236:37 R15 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, ah-sir I'm gonna request you to make a right turn, three six zero degrees, three hundred and sixty degree turn, and advise me what your traffic does then. 0236:47 JL1628 Right turn, three sixty. 0237:23 ROCC Okay. We have, no, we have confirmed, we have no military aircraft working up there. 0237:25 D115 Okay thank you very much. 0237:29 D115 You have no traffic at all? 0237:30 ROC That's correct, does he (JAL-1628) still have somebody visual? 0237:32 D15 He says he does. FBKS = Fairbanks Airport FAA Approach Control (Tower) ‘