DOW-UAP-D049, Launch Summary, Vandenberg AFB, 2000
This report summarizes the historical record of launches occurring at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 1958 and 2000.
The summary above is sourced from the released file metadata as published to war.gov. The analysis sections below are original to this tracker.
Text of the document
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DISTRIBUTION LIST 1 Boeing Defense & Space Group 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2 ITT Federal Services Corporation 1 PA-MSB, Kennedy Space Center 2 Orbital Sciences Corp As of: 3 February 2000
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This is the official registry of all major launch operations conducted from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The vehicles are presented in chronofogical order beginning with the first launch on 16 December 1958. Launch dates reflect Vandenberg local time. The information is further grouped into two matrixes titled: "ANNUAL LAUNCH SUMMARY BY BOOSTER" and "ANNUAL LAUNCH SUMMARY BY COMMAND." Two additional items contained in this document are a "LAUNCH FACILITY GUIDE" and a ''GLOSSARY." In the main chronology section, the two columns reporting cumulative numbers by booster and command represent only Vandenberg operations. They do not include, for instance, Titan IV launches conducted on the East Coast at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The 30th Space Wing History Office (30th SW/HO) periodically updates the Vandenberg AFB Launch Summary book. Questions may be directed to the undersigned at DSN 275-6421 or commercially at (805) Office of History
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ABRES Advanced Ballistic Reentry System ABRV Advanced Ballistic Reentry Vehicle (Formerly LBRV) ACC Air Combat Command (Strategic Air Command [SAC] prior to 1 June 1992.) ACE Advanced Control Experiment ADC Aerospace Defense Command AE Atmosphere Explorer AEC Atomic Energy Commission AFMC Air Force Materiel Command (Air Force Systems Command [AFSC] prior to 1 July 1992.) AFSC Air Force Systems Command (Air Research & Development Command [ARDC] prior to 1 Apr 1961.) AFSPC Air Force Space Command AMARV Advanced Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle AMROC American Rocket Company ANT Advanced Nose Tip AST Airborne Surveillance Testbed ASTP Army Special Test Program ASTRID Advanced Single Stage Rapid Insertion BALLISTIC Flight exercise involving ballistic reentry BATSAT Basic Advanced Technology Satellite BOMARC Boeing and Michigan Aeronautical Research Center BMRS Ballistic Missile Reentry System COBE Cosmic Background Explorer cos Cosmic Ray Observation Satellite CRL USAF Cambridge Research Laboratories (Merged into AFSC on 1 April 1971) CTL Combat Training Launch DAD Dual Air Density DASO Demonstration and Shakedown Operation {Category Ill before 1 July 1963) DG Data Gathering DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program DMSS Defense Meteorological Satellite System DT Dedicated Target
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DT&E Development Test & Evaluation DT&E PHASE I Development Test & Evaluation (Missile Functional Performance [Peacekeeperll DT&E PHASE II Development Test & Evaluation (Missile Reentry Vehicle Capabilities and Silo lntergradation [Peacekeeper]) DUAL LAUNCH The launch of two missiles one after another EOS Earth Observation System ERCS Emergency Rocket Communications System (494L) EXOSAT X-Ray Observatory Satellite FAST Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer FOE Force Development Evaluation (Replace the term OT PHASE II testing) FOT Follow-on Operational Test (Replaced by OT PHASE II) (Category IV before 1 July 1963) FTM Flight Test Missile GB\ Ground Based lnterceptor GEOS Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite GEOSAT Geodetic Satellite (Navy) GFO Geosat Follow-on GLCM Ground Launch Cruise Missile GRP Guidance Replacement Program HCMM Heat Capacity Mapping Mission HP Helicopter Pad ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile IDF Integrated Demonstration Flight IFT integrated Flight Test IPA ICBM Penetration Aids !PMS Inertial navigation system Performance Measurement System IRAS Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile IRR Industrial Research Rocket IRS Interim Recovery System ITOS Improved Tiros Operational Satellite !WST Integrated Weapons System Training {RAF/SAC) JAWSAT Joint Air Force Academy Weber State
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KOMPSAT Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite LAGEOS Laser Geodynamic Satellite LANDSAT Earth Resources Satellite LBRV Large Ballistic Reentry Vehicle (See ABRV) LE Launch Emplacement LF Launch Facility LLL Lawrence Livermore Laboratory LLV-1 Lockheed Launch Vehicle 1. (Became Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle, and in Sept 97 was renamed Athena.) LM Lockheed Martin (Corporation) MACSAT Multiple Access Communications Satellite MAGSAT Magnetic Field Measurement Satellite MaST Maneuvering Systems Technology MDA McDonnell Douglas Aerospace MINT Miniaturized Instrumented Nose Tip MOD Modernized Minuteman (R&D, DASO) Operational tests are identified by the suffix "M" in the nickname MS Motorola Satcom MSLS Multi-Service Launch System MSTI Miniature Seeker Technology Integration MSX Midcourse Space Experiment MUBLCOM Multiple Path Beyond Line of Sight Communications N/A Not Applicable NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NAVSTAR Navigation Satellite (Formerly NDS) NDS Navigation Development Satellite NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NTS Navigation Technology Satellite NTV Nosetip Vehicle 'OBLSS Operational Base Launch Safety System ORBCOMM (FM) Orbital Communications (Flight Module) ORT Operational Readiness Test Orbital Sciences Corporation OSL Ogden Special Launch OSTF Operational System Test Facility OT Operational Test (Now OT PHASE I) (Category Ill before 1 July 1963)
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OT PHASE II (See FOT) PALC Point Arguello Launch Complex PAS Penetration Aids Study PLC Probe Launch Complex PAP Propulsion Replacement System PVM Production Verification Missile QuickScat Quick Scatterometer RADARSAT Radar Satellite RADCAL Radar Calibration RAF Royal Air Force REX Radiation Experiment RSLP Reentry Systems Launch Program SAC Strategic Air Command SAFEGUARD An Antiballistic Missile (ABM) test program SALVO Simultaneous launching of two or more missiles SAMAST Sandia ABRES Material Systems Test SAMPEX Solar, Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer SEASAT Sea [Observation} Satellite SENT Severe nose-tip Environment Test SET Single Engine Test SFT Supplemental Flight Test SLC Space Launch Complex SLF Space Launch Facility SLTF Silo Launch Test Facility SLV Space Launch Vehicle SM Solar Mesosphere SMLV Single Module Launch Vehicle SNOE Student Nitric Oxide Explorer SOOS Stacked Oscar On Scout SOT Special Operational Test SPACE Orbital space Operations
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SPACEPROBE Non-orbital space operations ST Special Test STEX Space Technology Experiment STM Special Test Missile STP Special Test Program STREP System Technology Reentry Experiments Program SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite TAC Tactical Air Command TARGET Missile target for surface-to-air/air-to-air missile firing practice TAT Thrust Augmented Thor TD Technology Demonstration TOT Target Development Test TDV Technology Development Vehicle TERRIERS Tomographic Experiment using Radioactive Recombinative Ionospheric EUV and Radio Sources TIP Transition Improvement Program TOMS-EP Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe TREP Thrusted Replica TP Test Pad TRACE Transition Region and Coronal Explorer UTE Unified Test Equipment WIRE Wide Field Infrared Explorer
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ANNUAL LAUNCH SUMMARY BY COMMAND Chart II As of 3 Feb 2000
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ANNUAL LAONCH SUMMARY BY BOOSTER Chart Ill kAUNCH VEHICLE 1199 loo ,,~~~ALI TOTAL BLACK BRANT Ill 2 OAC ROC 2 DEACON ARROW II 4 PAIUTE TOMAHAWK
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of DoD's 257 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the DoD agency block it ranks #137 of 257 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #261 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (261 of 450 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
Anomalousness Index: 56/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
Reported by a witness with no instrumented record. The lowest tier in the rubric's sensor axis. Eyewitness perception in field conditions, even when the witness is highly credentialed, scores below capture by any instrumented modality. This report reached the federal record through the Department of War.
Trained U.S. military personnel reporting from an operational mission context. A high witness-credibility tier, ranked in the rubric below astronaut, trained-aviator, and federal-agent testimony. This is the witness profile shared by the entire AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the 66-point score band.
Single-witness or single-instrument capture. This is the corroboration tier for the overwhelming majority of the PURSUE archive on the released metadata - the rubric records the honest limit of the underlying record rather than inferring multi-witness corroboration that the released summaries do not establish. A small number of files with an independent second witness or instrument score on the multi-witness/multi-instrument tier above this one.
No kinematic measurements - speed, acceleration, vector - are published in the released file with sufficient precision to score on the kinematic axis. The rubric does not infer kinematic anomaly from narrative observer estimates. Every file in the archive carries this value, which is itself an observation about the disclosure: kinematic-grade telemetry was not part of what was released.
A conventional candidate explanation has been considered but is not dispositive. Every file in the archive scores this way - reflecting that the underlying release metadata systematically caveats strong determinations in either direction. The released summaries warn against reading them as conclusive analytical judgments, and the rubric respects that.
Released as open after formal review by the originating agency. The file passed through a review process and was published in that posture - a stronger disposition signal than 'unresolved with no review,' because review has occurred and the open status is the agency's published conclusion.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 56/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
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