Project Blue Book took Major Chip Hendricks and Staff Sergeant Jack Williams to a lot of varied environments while they investigated alleged UFO activity. Right now they were hitching a ride on a mail plane delivering much anticipated packages from home to the men of the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge, on a Western Pacific cruise.

"So what brings you Air Force boys to our little boat?" The Navy Lieutenant flying the plane asked the two career Air Force men.

Hendricks replied, "We're reporting a report of suspicious aerospace activity made by a cruise ship captain, verified by some crew members and passengers."

The pilot laughed to his co-pilot, "I was right… the Air Farce is chasing UFO's"

Hendricks just grumbled. Even though technically he out ranked the pilot, the pilot was the aircraft commander. Plus, he also had to consider the fact that he and his assistant were going to be the only two Air Force men among thousands of sailors on the Kearsarge while they conducted their investigation. An investigation that would go nowhere without the Navy's assistance.

Meanwhile, Back on the Island:

Skipper was in that half-awake stage that follows a good night's sleep. He heard whimpering and whining.

Skipper out of habit ordered, "Gilligan! Take the dog out!"

Gilligan responded, "Right away skipper."

Gilligan then hopped out of his bunk, got a leash that looked like a heavy white cord, hooked it to the dog's collar and took it outside.

Skipper thought: that's more like it.

A few seconds later Skipper jumped wide awake, wondering if he were dreaming. DOG? When did we get a dog?

As soon as Skipper freed himself from his hammock, he saw Gilligan outside walking a Terrier mix as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

"Gilligan!" Skipper bellowed, "where did that dog come from?"

Thanks to Skippers voice, which is rumored to be heard across a destroyer in a typhoon, the other five castaways were soon awake. In a matter of minutes Mary Ann and Ginger were fawning over the pooch.

Gilligan answered the Skipper, and the others, "I found him in a tree."

Mr. Howell was the first to say, "my boy, that's preposterous… unless he's part cat."

Oddly enough, Skipper countered with, "Maybe not so preposterous," added while handling the leash, "this is parachute cord… I've handled plenty of it in the Navy."

Not to be out deduced by the Skipper, the Professor asked, "Gilligan, where's the tree that you found our new friend in?"

The seven castaways started on a trek into the jungle with Gilligan in the lead. They came to a palm tree with some sort of canine carrier attached to a parachute.

Mrs. Howell said, "Thurston, that reminds me of the dreadful cage that airline made us put poopsie in—remember that."

Mr. Howell replied, "Yes, then I bought the airline… poopsie always flies first class now. Nothing's to good for my Lovey's Yorkie."

Mary Ann asked, "Who would throw such a cute puppy out of an airplane?"

Ginger shot back with, "Have you ever flown with a dog? When I was still I kid I did one of those dreadful 'Rusty the Wonder Dog' movies. We flew out to a location. I flew coach, Rusty flew first class—howling on take off and landing."

Mrs. Howell made a face at that remark.

The Professor averted a face off by saying, "I don't think we are dealing with an airplane."

The castaways followed the Professor's gaze up into the canopy of tree branches. Spread out over several treetops was a huge remnant of silver polymer will 'CCCP' and a serial number.

The Skippers nautical eye caught on first, "Its a balloon!"

The Professor nodded and explained, "Several countries use balloons like these to test atmospheric conditions for space exploration or other testing. Russia has been known to use dogs in these types of tests. Our friend here's ejection system must have automatically triggered when his balloon went down. I don't want to get people's hopes up, but I'm sure somebody must be looking for our friend and the test data he brought down with him."