The SA page on the MPCD is very small and cluttered. Is it possible that the pilots made a mistake?
The Navy incident got the traction it did because the original footage leaked years ago and only now acknowledged.
If you're interested, see here for a documentary on the Colares, Brazil UFO incident that occurred in 1977 https://youtu.be/Mr1NrnsdY5I
People make mistakes, but data doesn’t. And according to these pilots and the former head of the DoD UAP program, the data shows that there are craft moving in our airspace with impunity.
But data collection, storage, retrieval and/or interpretation may contain errors.