To: ChiefofNavalOperations@pentagon.navy.mil
From: PacCommActual@command.navy.mil
…and the final action item on our agenda today is a strange oceanic phenomenon reported by fishing vessels’ sonar sets and also observed by our Coast Guard assets off the Pacific Northwest Coast. They have reported masses of sonar echoes moving on the sea floor not far off the coast. They are moving toward the coast at about 2 to 3 knots. They are reported to be composed of objects or organisms approximately two meters long, massing about 75 to 100 kilograms. The Seattle NOAA detachment has been briefed. We have also readied our Indian Island Depot Dolphin Security units for dispatch. The NOAA folks think it would be a neat idea to use the dolphins to check out these signals. We also have a team of Coast Guard divers who want to take a look at these things. They may be some new form of pollution from the Japanese tsunami disaster, and we will see if they constitute a hazard to shipping.
Not as big an issue as the Chinese SSBM at large in the North Pacific, Action Item 1, but still within our purview….