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The South Atlantic Mystery Flash: Nuclear or Not?
John E. Mansfield, Houston T. (Defense Intelligence Agency) Hawkins, 1980. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 10.
DIA paper of 26 June 1980. Explains how radioactivity might have gone undetected, puts the chance of a coincident northward ionospheric disturbance at no more than 0.02, and, from the SRI calculation, the chance of a single meteoroid producing the signal at under one in a hundred billion.
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The main internal rebuttal of the Ruina panel.
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The 1979 Vela incident
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Mansfield, J. E., & Hawkins, H. T. (. I. A. (1980). The South Atlantic Mystery Flash: Nuclear or Not?. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 10. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB190/10.pdf
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Mansfield, John E. and Houston T. (Defense Intelligence Agency) Hawkins. “The South Atlantic Mystery Flash: Nuclear or Not?.” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 10 (1980).