THIS IS A SECONDARY SOURCE. A 2022 historical background note, not a record made at the time. Its own footnotes cite DOE/NV-209-Rev 16, Frank H. Shelton's memoir "Reflections of a Nuclear Weaponeer", a 1961 Air Force Special Weapons Center report, and Longmire's Theoretical Note 368. Where a fact here matters, cite what it cites.
THE LABORATORY DISCLAIMS IT. The release page states that Los Alamos "does not endorse the viewpoint of a publication or guarantee its technical correctness".
A SEARCH OF THE FULL TEXT FOUND NO MATERIAL ON THIS PROJECT'S SUBJECT. Zero occurrences of UFO, unidentified, flying object, anomalous, unexplained, sighting, phenomena, craft or saucer. The single hit for "object" is the word "objective" and the single hit for "witness" is Austin McGuire watching Starfish Prime. Unlike the DNA extract catalogued beside it, this document is complete and born-digital, so that search is a reading of the whole text.
IT PRINTS AT LEAST TWO ERRORS. Footnote 2 reads "Two cases of retinal burns occurred when military personnel on Johnston Island during the Bluegill Triple Prime test", which is missing a word, and spells Vandenberg AFB as "Vandenburg". The body has "the last United States test conducted in Pacific Ocean". Quote as printed.
IT SPELLS THE SHOT NAMES AS ONE WORD - "Bluegill Triple Prime", "Starfish Prime" - where the contemporaneous DNA report spells them as two. Both forms are in this corpus and neither is wrong.
HELD BUT UNCITED. No connection on this map rests on this document and none should be made to rest on it without a page. It is catalogued because the file is real and provenanced, not because it supports anything.
No sha256 recorded for this document.
Operator-supplied copy, 24 August 2026, from a local folder named for the osti.gov purl path. Born-digital PDF with a clean text layer, which was read in full. PDF pages 3 and 4 were additionally rendered at 150 dpi and read visually, and the text layer agreed with the image on both. No passage is recorded.