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E-005305DATE PRECISION: yearRECORD COMPLETENESS: 29%
Airborne Launch Control Aircraft / Silver-Globe Report
1975; exact date not rememberedAirspace near Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, South Dakota, United States
Frank Hale told Hastings that a silver globe maneuvered around and briefly accompanied an Airborne Launch Control System aircraft returning toward Ellsworth AFB before rapidly departing west. Hale did not report the event at the time and no equipment malfunction is alleged.
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
29% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
1975; exact date not remembered
Location documented
Airspace near Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, South Dakota, United States
Map coordinates available
No latitude/longitude is available for mapping.
Catalogue classification linked
0 family link(s), 0 case-specific component(s).
Published citation-backed claims
0 encounter-target claim(s), 0 component claim(s).
Source coverage
0 unique source edition(s); 0 marked primary for at least one claim.
Assessment has encounter-level provenance
Assessment fields exist, but no encounter-target published citation-backed claim currently supports them.
Assessment values are present without encounter-target published citation-backed claims. Treat the matrix as unprovenanced metadata until direct claims are added.
Witness totals are stored, but no encounter-level cited claim currently documents where those numbers came from.
// ASSESSMENT METADATA
Stored case-assessment fields
Stored total witness estimate1
Stored verified-report count0
Instrumental evidence flagNO
Official investigation flagNO
These stored assessment values are shown transparently but should not be treated as source-backed facts until encounter-target claims cite their provenance.