If you are implying deliberate misdirection by ATC, then I do not agree. It's more likely ATC prompted the pilot with the jetpack possibility because they beli

If you are implying deliberate misdirection by ATC, then I do not agree. It's more likely ATC prompted the pilot with the jetpack possibility because they believe it's happened before recently in that area. I think ATC, expecting a jetpack, may have inadvertently primed the pilot to interpret an unknown object as a jetpack.