Vandenberg AFB Launch Summary, February 3, 2000

DOW-UAP-D49 is catalogued as "Launch Summary, Vandenberg AFB, 2000," with an incident date of February 3, 2000. The location field in the catalogue is N/A; the title itself supplies the location context.

Vandenberg, redesignated Vandenberg Space Force Base in 2021, has been the West Coast launch facility for U.S. military and intelligence-community payloads since the early 1960s. Launch summaries are post-event documents capturing what happened across a launch window, including any sensor anomalies the range observed.

A February 3, 2000 incident date corresponds to a Titan IV-B launch carrying a NRO payload, scheduled in early 2000. Whether the PURSUE-surfaced file is associated with that launch or with a different range event from the same date will be visible from the document text.

Launch-range UAP reporting carries the unique characteristic that the range itself is heavily instrumented — multiple radars, optical tracking systems, and telemetry receivers are typically active for any launch event. Anomalous tracks captured during launch windows have unusually rich associated sensor metadata compared to most encounter reports.