HAWAII -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday that it is tracking a suspected Russian ship sailing off the coast of Hawaii in recent weeks.
The Pentagon said the ship is in international waters and behaving professionally.
But what could it be looking for?
"I can't speak to why the Russians are sailing the ship right now, it's kind of precarious timing," said Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh.
The Coast Guard believes it may not just be any ship, but instead, a vessel the coast guard said "is believed to be an intelligence gathering ship." In other words, a spy ship.
"Ships loitering in an area is abnormal," said ABC News contributor and retired Navy commander Eric Oehlerich. "And with this one being a Russian vessel off one of our key naval harbors in the Pacific -- that will be of concern to the naval leadership."
Indeed, joint base Pearl Harbor is one of the Navy's busiest, with some of the most sophisticated and secretive warships in its arsenal. It's also where ABC News boarded a boat that took us to a nuclear armed ballistic missile submarine last year off Hawaii's coast. READ MORE
*They are saying that it's been spotted so close to Hawaiian shores, at times, that it can even be seen with binoculars from the beach.
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