[JockoManning]

They may have been though probably not. They had their hands full of normal flights.

And, they'd rather not get entangled in all the rules and regs of officially dealing with such goings on.

[fso301]

They may have been though probably not. They had their hands full of normal flights. And, they'd rather not get entangled in all the rules and regs of officially dealing with such goings on.

For two weeks civilian ATCs saw transponderless blips on their screens moving about in an implausible manner and they just ignored it??? Never even any concern about malfunctioning equipment???