Launch Summary, Vandenberg AFB, 2000
A post-cold war case from N/A. This report summarizes the historical record of launches occurring at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 1958 and 2000.
Background
On February 3, 2000, in N/A, U.S. government investigators recorded an unidentified-object incident later released to the public on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is a post-Cold-War case predating the formation of the modern UAP task forces. The case appears in U.S. Department of Defense documents.
What the document records
This report summarizes the historical record of launches occurring at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 1958 and 2000.
The number of witnesses is not specified in the released document.
Type of case
The case is a visual sighting reported by ground or air observers.
Status
All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) by default. The federal government has not concluded that the events were anomalous, has not concluded that they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series in the late 1940s), atmospheric optical phenomena such as sundogs and lenticular clouds, and astronomical objects including Venus, the Moon, and meteors near the horizon.