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E-005106DATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 29%
Minot Missile-Field Radio Interference / Radar Case
August 24, 1966Minot AFB missile field, North Dakota, United States
Hastings summarizes an Air Force preliminary report publicized by J. Allen Hynek: a missile officer experienced radio static while guards reported a nearby UFO; a strike team reportedly encountered similar radio interference as an object appeared to land, and base radar reportedly tracked two objects. Raymond Fowler later publicly described the case; an Air Force spokesman said SAC unit histories did not confirm the event.
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
29% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
August 24, 1966
Location documented
Minot AFB missile field, North 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 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.