Senate Judiciary Committee staffers have spoken to two men who separately claim they could be the one described by Christine Blasey Ford, not Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Aides to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, met with the one of the men Monday after he sent them a written statement asserting he "had the encounter with Dr. Ford in 1982," according to a summary of the panel's efforts to investigate Ford's allegation. They then interviewed the unidentified man a second time before obtaining a more in-depth written account from him on Wednesday.

The committee's investigative staff on Wednesday additionally spoke on the telephone with another man claiming he was the man described by Ford, Grassley's summary continued.

Ford is accusing Kavanaugh of drunkenly taking her into a bedroom during a Maryland high school house party in the 1980s where he groped her and tried to remove her clothes. She says she was able to extricate herself when Kavanaugh's friend, Mark Judge, jumped on the bed they were on. Both Kavanaugh and Judge have denied Ford's allegation.

The claims of the two unnamed men echo suggestions that Ford is mistaken about the identity of her alleged attacker. Ford, now a California-based professor, has rejected the possibility she confused Kavanaugh with another of his classmates from Georgetown Prep suggested by Ed Whelan. Whelan was placed on a leave of absence from the Ethics and Public Policy Center after he laid out his argument last week in a string of controversial tweets.

Kavanaugh, himself, in an interview on Fox News Monday said he was "not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps Dr. Ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone at some place."

"What I know is, I've never sexually assaulted anyone," Kavanaugh said.

Kavanaugh and Ford will face the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday in a highly anticipated hearing to address the allegation. The panel, however, has already scheduled a vote on the federal appeals judge's nomination to the Supreme Court for Friday.