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E-006322DATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 29%
Kagnew Station Shiny Metal Ball and Two-Object Formation
January 21, 1957Kagnew Station, Asmara, Asmara, Eritrea
An Army intelligence memorandum reproduced by Hall says five servicemen saw a large shiny metal-ball-like object apparently stationary around 2,000 feet, disappearing and later reappearing; later that day two brownish objects were reported in close formation, with one breaking away at a right angle at high speed.
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
29% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
January 21, 1957
Location documented
Kagnew Station, Asmara, Asmara, Eritrea
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 flagYES
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