An editor should have sent this piece back to the reporter and had him put the important stuff first - and with more 'follow up' explanations. The comment below was in the middle of the piece and there's some follow up about area 51 research and concerns the unknown was Chinese or Russian rather than 'aliens'... I got the feeling the people in the fighter jets knew what they were doing.
"Fighters are ordered into the air from the McChord Air Force Base in Washington."