Yes, I know its a Destroyer. :-)
Planes can be scrambled from a Base(s) that’s the closest to help verify.
God Bless the Souls.
Indeed Diego Garcia. Land-based, long-range aircraft.
But aircraft cannot recover ‘stuff’ to identify what space-based assets have already ‘seen’ - if anything.
Read up on synthetic aperture recon birds. It’ll amaze you what we can ‘see’ from space.