Can't imagine it would be a fighter, Gob, why would anyone send up a fighter on full burn to chase an unidentified primary target brushing up against a sensitive military area?
Well, it clearly didn't catch up with it, did it. I'd file this bright idea with the claim by the lawyer brother of Kiwi Paul Weeks lost on the flight, "It's either incompetency or a cover-up." Wouldn't just be that this caught everybody napping, nobody had a clue what happened or where it went...