NASA is indeed where pilots confidentially report aviation safety problems: https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/

It is, after all, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Bob Ebeling should have used that for the shuttle.

You think people using the provided incident reporting anonymity scheme are... Incompetent?

Or you yourself are actually incompetent because you thought that you should comment about this without knowing that NASA runs ASRS which is exactly what this is for?

NASA runs the airline safety reporting system ASRS, which is where pilots anonymously report potential safety issues.