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E-005310DATE PRECISION: approximateRECORD COMPLETENESS: 29%
Ellsworth B-52 Alert-Pad Daylight Aerial-Object Report
Spring 1980, perhaps May; exact date not recoveredEllsworth AFB B-52 Alert Pad, South Dakota, United States
Mills separately recalled a dark triangular-looking object moving near Ellsworth’s B-52 Alert Pad while personnel were awaiting an SR-71 departure. He later corrected his earlier belief that the event was over the Weapons Storage Area. He also recalled later Flash-priority instructions not to discuss the incident, but no surviving message is presented.
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
29% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
Spring 1980, perhaps May; exact date not recovered
Location documented
Ellsworth AFB B-52 Alert Pad, 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 estimate5
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.