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I found that explanation earlier, here: Combat air patrol - Wikipedia

But it was also that point/location that didn't seem to make sense combined with that. To me something like "Circling Around Point" would have made more sense, especially since the article states:

But now I found it can be also used like this: "fighters, scrambled on Combat Air Patrol - C.A.P. They would circle over a point northwest of Comox, waiting further orders"

Kye Bay

So it seems to be some selected point that the plane can circle for guarding it or for example waiting for the exercise to begin.

I was interested about that because of this somewhat surprising detail:

Why would it go to exactly that location? Did the UFO become interested about it because the planes kept circling there, just like the planes got interested about the favorite spot of the UFO? Or had they seen earlier on the radar that there's some action there and picked that as a CAP location to maximize chances of somebody seeing something there? Was that CAP actually the same spot where the targets were said to have always been, since the article states they swung through the CAP and saw that the turbulence in water had disappeared:

At least those spots didn't seem to be far from each other.