they claimed they started tracking it over the Pacific even, my guess is we just don’t have the full story, perhaps they didn’t want to fail at shooting it down

they claimed they started tracking it over the Pacific even, my guess is we just don’t have the full story, perhaps they didn’t want to fail at shooting it down quickly, succeed at responding the “real” way and give something away, or spring some other “trap card”, or it’s all a lie and was our own thing that got away or just a distraction and everything after that was reactionary and opportunistic, we may never know