John Callahan (FAA Division Chief).
official-recordsource_actorLandmark High-Strangeness Cases
[DOCUMENTED] Division Chief of the FAA's Accidents and Investigations Branch in Washington, D.C. Primary institutional witness for JAL Flight 1628: he reconstructed the radar tracks on video, briefed FAA Administrator Donald Engen, and says he attended a 1987 briefing with CIA/FBI/Reagan science-staff representatives who declared the event secret and 'never happened.'.
Callahan retained the original JAL 1628 files in his office after being told to 'forget it,' which is why the FAA case data later reached the public via FOIA. He testified at the 2001 National Press Club Disclosure-Project event and provided a detailed account in Leslie Kean's 2010 book, stressing that radar non-detection is normal (not all aircraft show on controller scopes). His account of the CIA/FBI/science-staff meeting is uncorroborated by other named attendees [DISPUTED on that specific claim], but his FAA role and custody of the file are documented.