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On January 5, RECORD OF INTERVIEW WITH JAL FIRST OFFICER 1987, Inspector Peter E. Beckner, AAL-207, and Japanese Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL First Officer Takanori Tamefuji at the Federal Building, Anchorage, Alaska. The interview was conducted for the purpose of gathering first-hand witness testimony with regard to a sighting on November 17, Officer Tamefuji of an unidentified flying object. 1986, by First The following is a record of the interview: P. Beckner Beckner Tamefuji Beckner Tamefu ji Beckner Tamefu ji Beckner Tamefu ji Beckner Tamefu ji Beckner Tamefu ji Beckner Conducted at this time in the Flight Standards Division Office, this is Pete Beckner with AAL=-207, and we're here with First Officer, Mr. Tamefuji. (unintelligible) Did I say that correctly? Tam = a = fuji. Okay, thank you, and Sayoko Mimoto from A A - ah, Airways Facilities in AL=400. To begin the questioning, I'd like to first of all ask you, um, is this the first time anything of this nature is, have you seen this sort of thing? This, this is, is my first time. First time, okay. What, if you will, if you could describe for me, what exactly did you see? And I'll provide the paper for you so, here, just kind of let me know, if you would, just describe wnat you saw. Was there more than just one thing that you saw? And ah, if you would just Kinda put it down for ah, for me on paper if that's oKay. First off .. . Captain Terauchi, what ah, Captain Terauchi saw was ah, I couldn't see. Okay And ah, first part of the incident... Incident? Yeah. That's fine. Anhh . . . about ten minutes I could see, but after that time, hummmm .. . 1 couldn't see because of my seat is co-pilot right- hand side .. e Right.