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E-006311DATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 43%

Offutt AFB Elongated Object and Satellite-Object Report

September 8, 1958Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, United States

Major Paul A. Duich reported an initially bright stationary feature that became a dull red-orange elongated object. A group of officers, airmen and civilians then reportedly saw small dark objects maneuvering near its lower end before the main object changed attitude and moved west-southwest.

// LINKED CLASSIFICATIONS:Unresolved Structured Object(C-000265)
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE

43% record completeness

This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.

0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
September 8, 1958
Location documented
Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, United States
Map coordinates available
No latitude/longitude is available for mapping.
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

DIRECT PROVENANCE INCOMPLETE
Stored total witness estimate25
Stored verified-report count0
Instrumental evidence flagNO
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.