Remarkable. I often monitor the following site:

[link to www.flightradar24.com]

I'll see loads of activity in my neck of the woods without a single record of the aircraft by way of transponders. Shot a video of concentric circles last week. THAT was priceless.

For argument's sake, let's say people wake up and demand an answer. What we'll end up with, simply put, is some cock-n-bull story that we're willing to take at face value...as always.