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E-009600LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 29%
Burlington Radar Parent-and-Satellite Object Tracks
March 22, 1980Burlington International Airport area, Vermont, United States
Airport controllers Donald Kernan and Richard Morris reportedly tracked an unidentified radar target near Burlington at about 1,500 mph. Three smaller radar targets appeared to join a larger, brighter target and then separate again.
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
29% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
March 22, 1980
Location documented
Burlington International Airport area, Vermont, 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 estimate2
Stored verified-report count0
Instrumental evidence flagYES
Official investigation flagYES
These stored assessment values are shown transparently but should not be treated as source-backed facts until encounter-target claims cite their provenance.