The U.S.S Kearsarge (CVS 33) was a 20-year old Oriskany-Class aircraft carrier re-outfitted for one very specific purpose: hunting and killing enemy submarines. As such, she had the most advanced electronic devices at the time. This made the Kearsarge the ideal platform for Project Blue Book investigators Hendricks and Williams to investigate a UFO sighting in the South Pacific.

Hendricks and Williams were attending a briefing by a young Navy Intelligence Lieutenant (junior grade).

The Lieutenant began, "Four days ago a Royal Hawaiian cruise liner radioed in that a silver object appeared to be floating above the horizon. One of our E-1B early warning aircraft did make a brief radar contact with an unknown object in the area, the contact quickly disappeared in an area with several small islands. Also of interest, there appears to be a Soviet 'fishing trawler' in the area."

Hendricks asked, "So you think its Russian?"

The Naval Officer answered, "Quite Possible, we've arranged a rendezvous with the Royal Hawaiian ship at 0200 this morning. We'll be two nautical miles apart, but the Captain has availed his gig to you gentlemen."

Williams spoke up, "Good thinking, not to alarm the passengers or arouse curiosity. We'll be at the boat launch at 0130. Please thank the Captain for us."

The Captain's gig was a very comfortable small craft generally used for the Captain and senior officers to go to shore. This mission in the middle of the night was quite different, and odd. The two air force officers were in route to a civilian cruise ship to discuss a possible UFO sighting, which in all likelihood was some sort of Russian experimental craft.

The navy coxswain skillfully brought the gig up to the larger cruise ship. Even though the boat was the "captains gig", the Chief Petty Officer that piloted the craft knew the boat was really his, and so did everyone else that was around it. The Chief did have a few chuckles while watching the Air Force men awkwardly climb up the ladder threw down the side of the cruise ship.

When Hendricks and Williams finally made it on deck, they were surprised by two very attractive Hawaiian women presenting them with colorful leis. Not exactly part of their Air Force uniforms, but the two men didn't seem to mind. Behind the women was a smirking thirty-ish man in a cruise ship uniform.

"Beautiful, aren't they?" The cruise ship officer asked Hendricks and Williams with an outstretched hand, which the two other officers shook. "Adam Bricker, MD, Ships Physician. I have the stateroom numbers of the witnesses."

Hendricks and Williams introduced themselves, and went about the process of waking people up on the cruise ship. Basically they got the same sleepy, grumpy statement. It was a silvery object that hovered over the horizon then disappeared. The two Air Force officers returned back to the Kearsarge just before dawn, getting odd looks from the sailors and officers, as they forgot to take off the leis.