I would gather that is about to change.
Furthermore, I would think this would now give the commercial airline industry (and air traffic control) an opening to keep records of such sightings so they may be forwarded to the Navy (or other authority) for consolidation with official military reports.
I have spoken with pilots through the years (military and commercial) and most of them have seen unidentified things of interest. There are probably plenty of Freeper pilots and family members of such who have stories to tell.
‘The problem is that we have a problem. The problem isn’t that we don’t know we have a problem. We’ve know it for years. The problem isn’t that we don’t know the solutions. We’ve known those for years. The problem is that we just haven’t done anything about it’ -Frank Jackson
Actually that quote really doesn’t fit here, because we really aren’t necessarily suffering from ineptitude, ignorance, and corruption in this case. I don’t think they actually know solutions.
They say recently that they are trying to take the stigma away from offering reports, but they now say that they are not releasing anything. So the problem we have is a one way street. Who wants to participate in that?