The Norwegian Rocket Incident (Black Brant Scare, 1995)
On 25 January 1995 a Black Brant XII sounding rocket launched from Andøya, Norway, for aurora research was detected by Russian early-warning radars and briefly treated as a possible SLBM-class threat. Primary doors and major-press reconstructions document the civil launch, notification gaps, and alert claims including reported cheget involvement—depth of presidential briefcase activation remains L2-edged. The Archive keeps fog-of-war false-alarm discipline and refuses WWIII-by-design captions.