Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
A few things strike me as odd here. One being the tracking of it by other sources never mind ground controllers.
Such a hotly contested patch of ocean mast be swept by a dozen military radar, all of the time. Every country in the region has some sort of overlapping claim and it is a surprise that they aren't watching each other like hawks. Somebody must have plot of it.
The militaries are the last ones to go public with that sort of information. I would assume they pass it along to their political masters and they decide who gets it and when. Lots of politics going on in the area so maybe all the players want to be the ones who find it before the others and are holding their cards close to their vest.