BlackSheds: trouble is the released transcript extracts have been selected on unknown criteria, however the crew weren't slow to say when they had what they took to be no valid indications. Without any spoken caveats the phrasing sounds like it was information being given by PNF as Bear deduces, with the intent of relaying information taken as fact at the time. However it is like reading a story with two out of every three lines blanked out so it's filling in the dots.......