PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-D49, Launch Summary, Vandenberg AFB, 2000

DOW-UAP-D49 is a Department of War PDF released in PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026. The release record identifies the asset as DOW-UAP-D49, Launch Summary, Vandenberg AFB, 2000, lists an incident date of February 3, 2000, gives no incident location, and describes the file as a historical summary of launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000.¹²

The PDF cover identifies the document as Vandenberg AFB Launch Summary 1958 - 2000 from the 30th Space Wing Office of History. Its embedded metadata title and subject read DoW-UAP-D27, but the PURSUE record, file name, thumbnail, and cover page all point to this D49 launch-summary asset.²³⁴

  Vandenberg Launch Registry

The foreword, signed by Jeffrey Geiger of the Office of History, presents the document as a registry of major Vandenberg launch operations, ordered chronologically from the first launch on December 16, 1958, with launch dates recorded in Vandenberg local time. It says the chronology is supplemented by annual summaries by booster and by command, plus a launch facility guide and glossary.³

The main chronology tracks each launch by sequence number, date, nickname, operation number, facility, vehicle type, program, cumulative booster count, command, and cumulative command count. It begins with the December 16, 1958 Tune Up Thor demonstration launch and, in this edition, runs through the January 26, 2000 JAWSAT Minotaur space launch from the Space Launch Facility.³

The summary tables aggregate Vandenberg activity by command and booster. The booster tables show 17 launches in 1999, two launches in 2000 as of the report date, and a cumulative Vandenberg total of 1,790 launches across the covered period.³

  30th Space Wing Origin

The record comes from the 30th Space Wing history function, not from a UAP witness report. Vandenberg's official history identifies Space Launch Delta 30 as the installation organization that manages Department of Defense space and missile testing, range operations, and polar-orbit launch infrastructure, and it also identifies the first Vandenberg missile launch as a Thor launched from Space Launch Complex-2 East on December 16, 1958.⁵

That origin matters because the PURSUE release includes historical and aerospace reference material alongside unresolved UAP case records. A launch registry gives researchers a dated baseline for known missile, space, and range activity that could help evaluate reports of lights, reentries, plume events, debris, or other observations near the Western Range.¹³⁶

  D49 Release Assets

The official release provides a PDF asset and thumbnail preview for DOW-UAP-D49. It does not list a paired PR video, still image, or companion report for the Vandenberg launch summary.²⁴⁷

  Launch Chronology for UAP Research

DOW-UAP-D49 is useful less as an anomaly case file than as infrastructure context. It preserves a 30th Space Wing historical reference that ties Vandenberg launches to facilities, commands, vehicle families, and cumulative counts through early 2000.³

For UAP research, that kind of chronology is a control record: it helps separate documented launch and missile-test activity from genuinely unresolved observations, while also showing that PURSUE Release 01 is collecting background records that may aid later identification work.¹³

  Vandenberg Summary PDF

DOW-UAP-D49, Launch Summary, Vandenberg AFB, 2000 remote release asset

  References

  References

1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

4. war.gov ↩ ↩²

5. vandenberg.spaceforce.mil ↩

6. vandenberg.spaceforce.mil ↩

7. war.gov ↩