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

PhotographPublic domainDated 26 June 1980Copy of "The South Atlantic Mystery Flash: Nuclear or Not?" (DIA paper)
"The South Atlantic Mystery Flash: Nuclear or Not?" (DIA paper): picture
"The South Atlantic Mystery Flash: Nuclear or Not?" (DIA paper): picture

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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