The technician at first discounted the report, but later wrote of his finding to Oshima, then studying at Stanford University with the noted ichthyologist Jordan.
青木糾雄雖覺狐疑，但在查證屬實後，便寫信告知在美國史丹福大學做研究的大島正滿，與魚類學大師喬丹，結果是聽者藐藐。