I just meant that as a dig at sceptics saying that the UFOs are our own "secret" air craft. The Air Force / Nasa makes sure that all traffic control centers know that a flight will be taking place to prevent such an incidence. Test pilots as a rule are a strange breed with giant brass cajones but I'm pretty sure they don't really want to take on our other best and brightest involving live ammo.

It really doesn't make sense to me that the Army Air Corps and it's succesor the Air Force would scramble jets for unknown flying objects if someone didn't consider them to be some sort of possible threat which swamp gas and optical illusions aren't. We're talking about things that showed up on radar. Meteors and falling space junk come in and burn up in predictable ways so that rules them out and we never could hope to catch an ICBM. And I'm not talking about possible hostile nation intrusion as there was no way, and as far as we know is still no way, for an aircraft to just suddenly appear in the skies over the heartland of the U.S.