What they describe from their vantage point of many thousands of feet up is not hovering, it's more like flitting back and forth with no discernible trajectory.

What they describe from their vantage point of many thousands of feet up is not hovering, it's more like flitting back and forth with no discernible trajectory. Like a large flake of ice falling. The other pilot said the motion was like if you dropped your cell phone in the kitchen and it was bouncing around before settling down. Exactly like a falling massive but flat flake of snowy ice that fell off of an object that had entered the atmosphere from outer space and fallen to the water, where the early chunks remained causing whitecaps. Not hovering. Erratic motion.