In fact, officials were able to identify just one reported UAP with a high degree of confidence.
“From a safety of flight issue, we absolutely do believe that what we are seeing are not simply sensor artifacts.
In 80 of the 144 investigated incidents, the task force detected objects using multiple sensors, leading officials to determine UAPs posed a hazard to flights.
Officials stressed, as does the report, that they were limited in their analysis by the nature of the data underlying the incidents, which came chiefly in the form of verbal reports that were only occasionally supported by video or photographic evidence.
“This report is an important first step in cataloging these incidents, but it is just a first step,” said Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who as Acting Chairman of the Intelligence Committee authored the language mandating the report.
The officials told reporters a “majority” of the information included in the classified report was presented in the unclassified version.
Limited information about the UAPs has trickled out over the last few months.
In May, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” spoke with naval aviators David Fravor and Alex Dietrich, who had never before talked publicly about their encounter in Southern California in 2004 that was visible on their radar and on video when they were flying in the Nimitz carrier strike group.
“Oh there’s, there’s definitely something that … I don’t know who’s building it, who’s got the technology, who’s got the brains.