[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.
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