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"The South Atlantic Mystery Flash: Nuclear or Not?" (DIA paper)

Document54 pagesPublic domainDated 26 June 1980
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The intelligence counter-assessment, which put a single-meteoroid cause at under one in a hundred billion and explained how debris might have escaped detection.

Defense Intelligence Agency, 1980. Public domain

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