1.   It took an airplane to spot the submerged car, Wiester said.

2.   A Civil Air Patrol airplane spotted the boat Thursday and notified the Coast Guard, which sent the cutter Vashon to intercept the vessel.

3.   A coast guard airplane spotted the speedboat around midnight Friday and dispatched a coast guard boat unit.

4.   A Civil Air Patrol airplane spotted the boat Thursday and notified the Coast Guard, which sent the cutter Vashon to intercept the vessel, Grapengeter said.

5.   A coast guard airplane had spotted a flare he sent up.

6.   A U.S. Coast Guard airplane spotted the overloaded boat in the Mona Passage late Friday, a Coast Guard statement said.

7.   The captain of another civil airplane radioed in to report seeing the same thing, while two other airplanes spotted red or yellow UFOs.