Pāhonoa te oro

[SILENCE. Then a low hum.] The year is 2004. It is a Tuesday morning. One hundred miles southwest of San Diego… the USS Nimitz — one of the most powerful warships ever built by human hands — cuts slowly through the water. On board: five thousand sailors. In the air: some of the most elite fighter pilots on the planet. And somewhere on a radar screen, deep inside a surveillance aircraft called the E-2C Hawkeye… something appears. [Pause.]………………………….. Something that should not be there. __________