[petercooper]

NATO warships off the coast of LI?? What the hell are you thinking?

[Alberta's Child]

I'm speculating on joint U.S. Navy / NATO exercises as the reason why the U.S. Navy has never identified all of the ships that were in the area that night. Just a possibility.

There's no reason why the U.S. Navy could not have been responsible for it themselves -- it's not as if that kind of thing hasn't happened before (the Iranian airliner shot down back in the early 1990s).