Within the last year or two (since shortly after the NY Times article dropped) all branches of the military routed any questions about UAP/UFOs to DoD for comment. Makes sense really, on that particular topic anyway.
I look at it this way. Suppose we had ourselves a Total Perspective Vortex in which at one end we would hook up the sum total of all UFO reports ever + all government files public and secret from every nation + all sensor data ever in the history of ever at one end, and at the other end you hook up a piece of '________'
** Now this is where I beg to differ with Douglas Adams. No idea what 'faerie cake' is and if a confection is needed I'd probably ask for a coffee cake. mmmmmmm **
Point is, what you would have is a big jumble of crap you'd have to sort through. Wait - we have that already. It's the haystack we've all been writhing around in for years.
Remove the stigma and create a standardized reporting process. From that create a real database; a searchable for-real ODBC compliant type database. Data analytics. In the meantime since it's the Future and everything, let AI sniff around what you have collected so far and continue to and see what it comes up with. Then come up with a novel idea to collect and filter non-government sourced reports. That's about what I read in that real short report.
Taking away the stigma and creating a real database is a Big Thing. Right now we have a line drawing of a pony made up of one or two hundred dots. In time if it grew to millions of dots you would have a Pixar character. Instead of opening the hangar door and showing you the silver flying saucer maybe this is really the Big Thing that's going by quietly.