1.him being there and being filmed his all part of the plan, its his aliby for not being abel to give the orders to shoot the planes down,or give an expalnation as to why norad did not respond.2.he said TWICE that he saw the first plane, hell he would not have mist that one for the world! It was such a good memory for him that he could't resist telling the hole world, probably pist that he misted the second one.