“During an exercise, commanders ordered Fravor to intercept an object that was appearing at 80,000 feet — above the range of Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Princeton’s SPY-1 air-search radar — before dropping suddenly to 20,000 feet.”
What do you think Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles do?
You seem to be saying it paralleled rather closely the behavior of a high flying cruise missile that then drops down to lower level flight to attack a ship.
We are saying the UFO did not parallel that behavior. It dropped rapidly straight down vertically. It stopped abruptly above the water. Then it did other things.
Even on radar, the difference between the UFO and typical cruise missile behavior should have been quite evident.
Certainly adding the view narratives of the pilots could have well made things abundantly clearer on such scores.