Official position · S-016

The preliminary report examined 144 UAP reports collected from 2004 to 2021 and was able to identify only one: the other 143 remain unexplained.

ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) · Jun 25, 2021

Sightings, video, sensors

What it denies and what it leaves open

It attributes no origin to UAP, neither terrestrial nor non-human, and does not deal with retrieval programs or materials; it merely notes that almost all the cases examined are unexplained.

Who disputes it: Supporters read it as a first official acknowledgment of the phenomenon, as Elizondo had anticipated; skeptics such as Jason Colavito judged it the product of a minimal effort by the task force.

Sources

ODNI, Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, June 25, 2021 (PDF) (primary source)
Inverse, interview with Elizondo, May 2021 (press)
Jason Colavito, June 2021 archive (analysis, skeptical)

On this site

Documents 1

The U.S. intelligence preliminary assessment on UAP (June 25, 2021) Original available

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