DOW-UAP-D48, Department of the Air Force Report, 1996
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.
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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.
**Released as part of PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026).** The Department of War published the following primary-source records:
- **DOW-UAP-D48, Department of the Air Force Report, 1996** (Department of War, 1996-09-10) — 181 pages.
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*Skeleton import — comprehensive narrative analysis pending. Sources are linked above; OCR-extracted text from the page images is available in the [PURSUE Open Atlas dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/alex-zhang42/ufo-pursue-open-atlas) (CC0).*
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