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E-005308DATE PRECISION: rangeRECORD COMPLETENESS: 29%
Ellsworth F-09 Missile-Site Light Reports
Mid-1970s; exact dates not suppliedEllsworth AFB Minuteman missile field, South Dakota, South Dakota, United States
Hastings recounts Bill and Martha Patterson’s reports of strange lights near Ellsworth Launch Facility F-09, including a silent brightly lit disc-like object, and a separate occasion when a missile-security strike-team leader reportedly said radar had detected an object above the LF. The surrounding cattle-mutilation discussion is not treated as proof of a common cause.
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
29% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
Mid-1970s; exact dates not supplied
Location documented
Ellsworth AFB Minuteman missile field, 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 estimate3
Stored verified-report count0
Instrumental evidence flagNO
Official investigation flagNO
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