Dr Phillips
QUOTE "If there is only confidential (military) information available, its existence (or confirmed absence of contact) should have been reported even if no details were."
Pardon?
It took the Captain of BA Flight 9 (volcanic ash over Indonesia) eleven years to find out from declassified information that satellite monitoring stations in Australia and Guam were following his flight.
Capt Moody's comment? "We don't know what they're watching."
I'm not sure why you would be expecting anything different in this case if more were known from confidential sources.