DOW-UAP-D48, Department of the Air Force Report, 1996
56
This report describes the Modeling of Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations, documenting historical launch failure modes and recommending corrective actions to address them using novel modelling techniques.
Anomalousness Index: 56/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
sensor quality (eyewitness_only)
30 × 0.25 = 7.5
witness credibility (military_personnel)
80 × 0.2 = 16.0
corroboration (single_witness_instrument)
60 × 0.2 = 12.0
kinematic anomaly (no_kinematic_data)
30 × 0.15 = 4.5
mundane explanation available (weak_mundane_candidate)
70 × 0.1 = 7.0
official disposition (open_after_review)
90 × 0.1 = 9.0
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Verification
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Source: https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/dow-uap-d48-report-september-1996.pdf