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E-007100LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: rangeRECORD COMPLETENESS: 57%
Minot Missile-Field Radar/Visual and Communications Incident
Night of August 24–25, 1966Minot AFB missile field, North Dakota, United States
Salas and Klotz summarize and quote Air Force records describing several hours of unidentified-object reports around Minot missile facilities. The source reports multiple visual witnesses, ground-radar tracking, radio static associated with the object’s proximity to missile/security operations, and a later F-106 intercept attempt that made no contact.
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// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
57% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
Night of August 24–25, 1966
Location documented
Minot AFB missile field, North Dakota, United States
Map coordinates available
Coordinate precision: region.
Catalogue classification linked
1 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 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.
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