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The U.S. intelligence preliminary assessment on UAP (June 25, 2021)
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) · Jun 25, 2021 · USA · Report
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Official URL taken from the site's data (dni.gov cannot be downloaded automatically, error 403); the text was read on the copy hosted by Omega Click, which matches the official report in the passages checked.
- What it contains
- A 9-page report on 144 reports from government sources (2004–2021): only one identified with confidence (a large deflating balloon); in 18 incidents, described in 21 reports, unusual movements; in a few cases military aircraft systems processed radio-frequency energy associated with the sightings; the concentration near training and testing areas could be due to a data-collection effect.
- What it shows and what it does not
- It is the source of S-016 and T-036 and a point of comparison for claims about UAP near military installations (E-038, E-054): the report notes the concentration but attributes it, as a hypothesis, to a data-collection effect. It does not point to a non-human origin. Omega Click overstated its content: according to its videos the report “attests to radio-frequency energy emitted by these objects” and “rules out weather balloons,” whereas the text speaks of energy “associated” with the sightings and processed by the aircraft's systems, and actually identifies a balloon.
- How it came to light
- Published by the ODNI. Omega Click hosts a copy on its own news site (article of May 27, 2025) and cited it in its videos of June 4, 2026 and July 20, 2026.
- The document
- Open the document (dni.gov)
Sources
- ODNI, Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, June 25, 2021 (PDF) (primary source)
- Copy of the report hosted by Omega Click Insights (PDF) (other)
- Omega Click, “15 casi UFO irrisolti: cosa mostrano i video del Pentagono” (YouTube, July 20, 2026) (video/audio, pro-disclosure)
- Inverse, May 2021 – Elizondo on the report expected in June (press)
- Wikipedia – All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (other)
On this site
People 1
Claims 2
- Luis Elizondo: Claims under oath that UAP are real, that advanced technologies not built by the U.S. government or by other… Disputed
- Luis Elizondo: Claims under oath that the data have indicated for decades a link between UAP and sensitive military… Unverifiable
Promises 2
- Luis Elizondo: Elizondo said that the government could make its findings on UFOs public as early as June 2021 and that it… Partly kept
- Luis Elizondo: Elizondo predicted that the report expected for June would be an interim document, only the beginning of a… Kept
Official positions 1
Timeline 2
- Jun 25, 2021: The ODNI preliminary report: 143 of 144 cases remain unexplained
- 2004: The 2004 “Tic Tac” case (Nimitz), later recounted to Congress by David Fravor
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