Flight Engineer Tsukuba interview, 15 Jan 1987

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 time.
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 to see if
there is a some kind of object outside.
Beckner: Did you see the radar?
Tsukuba: When the Captain told me to look, I could see the
radar.
Beckner: Were you able to see it on radar? What did you see on
the radar?
Tsukuba: Yes, a green dot like, not exactly like a dot. It was
not a dot, but stream like, I think the range was about
10 miles. I do not think it (on the radar> was the
same lights as the one I saw in front of us.
Beckner: How was the intensity of the lights? Did the intensity
of the objects' lights change?
Tsukuba: Basically the same. I cannot describe it. Not even in
Japanese. The first one did not change. The second
light was very difficult to see. It was so vagua.
Beckner: Was any other target picked up on radar?
Tsukuba: I cannot remember.
difficult to see.
The tilt angle of the radar was
Beckner: Difficult to remember, on the radar, did you have to
look for the object?
Tsukuba: I identified immediately the one in front of us •
Beckner: At the time of sighting, how were the lighting
conditions outside?
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