The unidentified aerial craft flew parallel to the RAAF patrol for several minutes, then it abruptly turned away and dived straight down into the Pacific. Lt. Brennan emphasized that the USO made a dive, not a crash, into the ocean; and he added that before the craft left them, he noticed what appeared to be four finlike appendages on its underside.

For many years now I have received regular reports of UFO harassment of shrimp boats. An early account that I received from Ira Pete, owner of the Ruby E., a sixty-seven-foot shrimp boat, who had his vessel sink under mysterious circumstances in the first week in July, 1961, was considerably more serious than the accounts of UFOs surfacing beside the shrimp boats or buzzing the crews.

According to Pete, he was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico off Port Arkansas with his two-man crew when something hooked into the boat and ripped off its stern. Fortunately for the three shrimpers, there was another fishing vessel close by.

On February 5, 1964, the 105-foot yacht Hattie D. was rammed by an underwater something near Eureka, California. Ten men and one woman were lifted from the fast-sinking yacht in a dramatic Coast Guard helicopter rescue.

The survivors all agreed that the Hattie D. had been run into by something big made of steel. When Crewman Carl Johnson was informed that no submarines were reported in the area and that the yacht had sunk in 7,500 feet of water, he adamantly replied that he didn't care how deep it was in that area--and he knew that whatever "holed" the yacht had been a very long piece of steel.

On January 12, 1965, Captain K, an airline pilot on a flight between Whenuapai and Kaitaia, New Zealand, spotted a USO when he was about one-third of the way across Kaipara Harbor. As he veered his DC-3 for a closer look at what he had at first guessed to be a stranded gray-white whale in an estuary, it became evident to him that he was now observing a metallic structure of some sort.

Captain K saw that the object was perfectly streamlined and symmetrical in shape. He could detect no external control surfaces or protrusions, but there did appear to be a hatch on top. Harbored in no more than thirty feet of water, the USO was not shaped like an ordinary submarine. He estimated its length to be approximately 100 feet with a diameter of 15 feet at its widest part.

Later, the Navy stated that it would have been impossible for any known model of submarine to have been in that particular area due to the configuration of harbor and coastline. The surrounding mud flats and mangrove swamps would make the spot in which Captain K saw his USO inaccessible to conventional undersea craft.

On July 5, 1965, Dr. Dmitri Rebikoff, a marine scientist making preparations to explore the Gulf Stream's depths, found himself faced with a most unusual challenge when he detected and attempted to photograph a fast-moving undersea USO on the bottom of the warm water stream that flows from the Florida Keys to Newfoundland and onward to northern Europe. Dr. Rebikoff told Captain L. Jacques Nicholas, project coordinator, that the object was pear-shaped and moving at approximately three and one half knots.

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