"I gently accuse you of jumping the start-bell on recognizing us as having a state of confusion that appears more in fictional characters rather than in previous real history.  If we'd seen something for which there was an obvious positive certainty of lack of possible mundane explanation, that's one thing.  In this case we have only the negative absence of a found-explanation; and the cumulative-search that's failed to turn up a mundane explanation sounds like it was maybe 5 minutes for flight-crew."

"I'd say, plus 1 minute for passengers, except that we wouldn't know if some passenger had found an explanation and were in the process of referring it upward."

"I gently accuse you of jumping the start-bell on recognizing us as having a state of confusion that appears more in fictional characters than in previous real history.  If we'd seen something for which there was an obvious positive certainty of lack of possible mundane explanation, that's one thing.  In this case we have only the negative absence of a found-explanation; and the cumulative-search that's failed to turn up a mundane explanation sounds like it was maybe 5 minutes for flight-crew."

"I'd say, plus 1 minute for passengers, except that we wouldn't know if some passenger had found an explanation and were in the process of referring it upward."