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By 1947, the United States had launched thousands of top-secret Project Mogul balloons carrying devices to listen for Soviet atomic tests. [1] [2] On June 4, researchers at Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico launched a long train of these balloons; they lost contact with the balloons and balloon-borne equipment within 17 miles (27 km) of W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch near Corona, New Mexico ...
The 1958 C-130 shootdown incident was the shooting down of an American Lockheed C-130A-II-LM reconnaissance aircraft which entered Soviet airspace during a mission in the region of Armenian SSR. Incident
Incident Command structure is organized in such a way as to expand and contract as needed by the incident scope, resources and hazards. Command is established in a top-down fashion, with the most important and authoritative positions established first. For example, Incident Command is established by the first arriving unit.
The 1976 Andersonstown incident or the 1976 Andersonstown-Finaghy incident, was a brief altercation between members of the Provisional IRA and the British Army, in Andersonstown and North Finaghy in August 1976, which resulted in the deaths of three children who were killed when a car struck them after the man driving was shot and killed. [1]
Khamar-Daban, a mountain range in southern Siberia, in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, was a popular tourist hiking spot.In the summer of 1993, Lyudmila Korovina of the Petropavl "Azimut" tourist club, [1] an experienced hiking instructor and a Master of Sports in hiking, planned a hiking trip to the Khamar-Daban mountains. [2]
The Exeter incident or Incident at Exeter was a highly publicized UFO sighting that occurred on September 3, 1965, approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring town of Kensington. Although several separate sightings had been made in the area by numerous witnesses in the weeks leading up to the specific ...
The Naulila Incident was a violent confrontation between Portuguese forces and a German delegation on October 19, 1914, near Naulila in southern Angola. This incident later led to the German attack on Naulila , on December 18.
The National Incident Management System (NIMS) is a standardized approach to incident management developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security.The program was established in March 2004, [1] in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5, [1] [2] issued by President George W. Bush.