After they got ready, American pilot Aaron Berkeley, and Japanese pilots, Uehara Morita and Hiroyuki Daizo, went over to their respective planes. Aaron went into the cockpit of the F-15, while Uehara and Hiroyuki boarded into their F-2s.

They then proceeded to test the control surfaces of their aircraft, which they found to be fully operational with no defects, as usual.

Aaron then made his report to ground control, "Control surfaces on all aircraft are fully functional. Everything on board is working properly. We and the planes are ready to fly."

An American general replied, as his voice was heard in everyone's radioes, "Good. Everyone, Aaron will take off first and fly out 250 miles west from the base to the Akaishi Mountains. When he reaches the mountains, he'll turn back around and head for the base in a simulated attack run. When he makes the turn-around, Uehara and Hiroyuki will take off to challenge him. The test will begin from there. Good luck to all."

Under a munite later, at 12:30 pm, Aaron's jet took off, and headed west to the Akaishi Mountains to begin the simulated attack run and usher in a new age of stealth fighter jets. 15 minutes later, at 12:45 pm, as Aaron approached Mount Akaishi, the heart of the Akaishi Mountains, the order was given at Yokota Air Base, and Uehara and Hiroyuki's jets took off from the airstrip to intercept the simulated enemy fighter, which was Aaron's jet. Aaron turned his jet back to Yokota Air Base, and the exercise began. It was a pursue-and-tag flight. Essentially, instead of being armed with weapons, all three of the jets were equipped with radar devices. They worked like the remotes of your TV. When you pressed the trigger or the red button on the control column, it would send a radar signal to receiver device on the aircraft, meant to simulate being hit by gunfire or a missile. At 1:00 pm, the radar in Aaron's fighter jet detected Uehara and Hiroyuki's jets, closing from the 2:00 position at high speed to intercept. Uehara took the lead, with his wingman, Hiroyuki, staying close but remaining behind, while Uehara was in hot pursuit behind Aaron's jet. At 1:02 pm, Aaron was given the order to prepare the aircraft stealth system, known as, Active Stealth, for use. Aaron then flipped a switch that started the Active Stealth's fuel cells charging, all the while, Aaron was still being chased by Uehara. By 1:05 pm, Uehara had a lock onto Aaron's jet, but the fuel cells for the Active Stealth in Aaron's jet were fully charged, and Aaron was given the order to activate the Active Stealth. The instant Aaron turned on the Active Stealth, Aaron noticed that his radar lock alarm stopped buzzing. Meanwhile, from the viewpoint of Uehara's plane, Aaron's jet vanished in flash of light that enveloped the plane, then Uehara had completely lost his radar lock and could not track Aaron's jet with either his radar or his infrared tracking systems. Uehara did not have visual contact with Aaron's jet either. To Uehara, it was as if one minute, he could see the fighter jet in front of him, and the next minute, the only thing he could see was the clear blue sky. Uehara's wingman, Hiroyuki, could not track Aaron's jet with his radar and infrared, he also could not see him as well. Meanwhile, Aaron piloted his fighter jet directly behind Uehara and Hiroyuki's jets, and then, at 1:06 pm, Aaron switched off the Active Stealth, and having achieved surprise, began pursuing Uehara and Hiryuki. Uehara and Hiroyuki were both caught completely off guard. Hiroyuki was Aaron's first target. At 1:08 pm, after a tense pursuit, Aaron got a radar lock onto Hiroyuki's fighter jet, and then pressed the red button on his control column to tag Hiroyuki's jet. The attempt was met with sucess. Hiroyuki then flew back to Yokota Air Base, while Aaron turned his attentions to Uehara. After a fierce chase, at 1:10 pm, Aaron finally got a radar lock onto Uehara's fighter jet and proceeded to tag him. Aaron and Uehara turned to fly back Yokota Air Base with Hiroyuki.

Uehara then suddenly noticed a strange cloud ahead of him, as he radioed to Aaron, "Aaron, look ahead of us. That strange lenticular-shaped cloud."

Aaron replied, "I see it alright. Let's steer around it."

Uehara then said with alarm, "Wait. For some reason, my flight controls are not responding. They're staying on the present course. It's almost as if my jet is being drawn towards that cloud."

Aaron felt helpless as he watched Uehara uncontrollably entered into the lenticular-shaped cloud. But then, Aaron became amazed, as he saw the cloud expand into a torus-shaped ring, and he saw Uehara's F-2 emerge from the west side of the cloud torus.

Uehara then radioed Aaron, "Aaron, the cloud has expanded."

Aaron replied, "I can see that, Uehara."

Six minutes later, at 1:16 pm, Uehara felt helpless as there was no was way out of this torus-shaped ring of cloud. Aaron also felt helpless, as he could only watch from his F-15, as Uehara was flying around in the center of the cloud.

Uehara then noticed the two opposite ends of the torus-shaped ring of cloud meeting and forming into a tunnel, and he radioed Aaron, "Aaron, I think I've found an opening in the cloud. I might be able to get out that way, so I'm taking the opportunity."

Aaron responded, "Good luck, Uehara."

Uehara then headed for the tunnel in the cloud. As soon as Uehara entered into this tunnel of cloud, the torus-shaped cloud collapsed inward towards the tunnel and Uehara was lost from sight. Aaron was expecting to see Uehara's jet emerge from this tunnel. But to both his surprise and horror, after the cloud dissipated and vanished, Uehara and his fighter jet were nowhere to be seen.

Aaron then flew back to Yokota Air Base with great haste, repeating the same message, "Yokota Air Base, we have an emergency! Uehara is gone! I repeat, Uehara is gone!"

The officials at Yokota Air Base were horrified. Uehara's disappearance marked the 20th Japan Air Self-Defense pilot to go missing. They were mystified and baffled as to how he vanished. They eagerly waited for Aaron's plane to land, so they could debrief him on the circumstances of Uehara's disappearance.

Meanwhile, Uehara was unable to make contact with anyone. He was caught in a tunnel made of clouds. A few feet from the walls of this tunnel, Uehara saw wispy lines of clouds instantly form and slowly rotate counterclockwise. Contrails appeared on his jet's wingtips as the tunnel started collapsing behind the aircraft. Uehara felt a sensation of zero-gravity as this 'electric fog' captured his fighter jet. Three minutes later, the contrails disappeared, the sensation of zero-gravity ebbed away, and the fog abruptly dissipated. Uehara felt relieved. But his relief was short lived, as he knew instantly that he was no longer over the mountains of Japan, but he was flying above the ocean. The GPS on Uehara's plane positioned him in the middle of the North Atlantic, south of Greenland and Iceland, east of Canada, and west of the United Kingdom. Uehara compared the time on his watch, 1:16 pm, the time in Greenland, 2:46 am. Uehara realized that he had travelled 6,249 miles in space and 30 minutes in time into the future. He still had fuel in his jet to keep himself airborne, but not enough fuel to take him to either Canada, Greenland, Iceland, or Britain. He then saw a ship ahead of him, an aircraft carrier, with a sense of hope, he flew towards the massive ship.

Meanwhile, back at Yokota Air Base, Aaron's F-15 fighter jet landed. He then bursted out of the cockpit and rushed for the control tower. Once he got inside, Aaron was escorted by an official of the Japanese government and an American general into a small room. They were going to debrief Aaron on the disappearance of Uehara Morita. After three intensive and scrutnive hours, Aaron had told the entire story of what he saw, he was exact and told it down to every detail.

The American general then said with some tenseness, "I just don't understand how one of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's finest and most senior pilots can possibly disappear like that."

Aaron then said, "I know that, General Colson, but what I told you was true. The only thing I can compare it to, is this Bermuda Triangle phenomenon known as, electronic fog, that was reported by Bruce Gernon on December 4th, 1970. If that phenomenon could enable a propeller-driven Beechcraft Bonanza A36 aircraft to travel from Andros Island in the Bahamas to Miami, Florida, a distance of a hundred miles in three minutes, who knows where it could have taken Uehara."

One of the Japanese government official then said, "Alright, I'll have the Air Self-Defense Force establish a 250 mile radius around the site where Aaron last saw Uehara, and commence a search operation at once. Aaron, since you were the last person to see Uehara before he disappeared, you'll be the one to lead the search party from the air in the F-15 you flew today. We'll let you designate the day that we start the search."

Aaron then said, "Since Uehara was my responsibilty, I guess there's no way that I'll refuse to do this. So count me in. We'll start tomorrow, August 6th."

General Colson then said to the Japanese government official, "With your permission, I have some helicopters and their crews stationed here that can lend a hand."

The Japanese government official replied, "Permission granted. We'll need all the help we can get."

And so, the American and Japanese militaries would commence the search for Uehara Morita on August 6th. Meanwhile, at the same time in the city of Tokyo, a meeting of two future friends was about to take place.