# Cohen 2020: Revisiting the 1979 VELA Mystery: A Report on a Critical Oral History Conference > Avner Cohen, William Burr, 2020. 11 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The recollections of participants and the summary of what remains classified. Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CW4WN6C7XSV/revisiting-the-1979-vela-mystery-a-report-on-a-critical-oral Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[1979 Vela incident](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident)Cohen 2020 **0** # Revisiting the 1979 VELA Mystery: A Report on a Critical Oral History Conference Avner Cohen, William Burr, 2020. _Wilson Center, Sources and Methods blog, posted 31 August 2020_. Report on a critical oral history conference held at the Wilson Center on 22 November 2019 with Ruina panel members Richard Garwin and Richard Muller, NSC, State Department, CIA and Energy officials, Senate staffer Leonard Weiss, journalist Dan Raviv, and the scientists De Geer and Wright; includes a statement from former NRL director Alan Berman and quotes President Carter's diary entry of 27 February 1980. **1979 Vela incident** ReportChecked against the original0 ## What it's used for here The recollections of participants and the summary of what remains classified. ## Cited by on this site 11 records [Vela critical oral history conference materials (22 November 2019)](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0CW4XA683XSW/vela-critical-oral-history-conference-materials-22-november) Dataset DAT [Alan Berman, NRL director, stated the data persuaded him of a detonation near the Prince Edward Islands.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/evidence/EVD0CW4X4AR1WY4/alan-berman-nrl-director-stated-the-data-persuaded-him-of-a) Evidence EVD [Carter recorded in February 1980 a growing belief among US scientists that Israel had tested.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/evidence/EVD0CW4X7GA0HCA/carter-recorded-in-february-1980-a-growing-belief-among-us) Evidence EVD [Carter records a growing belief that Israel conducted a test](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/events/EVT0CW4WV1W3D7W/carter-records-a-growing-belief-that-israel-conducted-a-test) EVT [Critical oral history conference at the Wilson Center](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/events/EVT0CW4WWRJ5PTH/critical-oral-history-conference-at-the-wilson-center) EVT [Alan Berman](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/people/FIG0CW4WQWA2DDM/alan-berman) FIG [Jimmy Carter](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/people/FIG0CW4WQMG44TY/jimmy-carter) FIG [The 1979 Vela incident](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident) The mystery article MYS [Did the hydroacoustic signal come from the same event as the flash?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/questions/QST0CW4WY7E4HGQ/did-the-hydroacoustic-signal-come-from-the-same-event-as-the) Question QST [Alan Berman: Statement to the 2019 oral history conference: the hydroacoustic data…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/accounts/WIT0CW4WXG07SY5/alan-berman-statement-to-the-2019-oral-history-conference) WIT [Jimmy Carter: Diary entry recording a growing belief among US scientists that…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vela-incident/accounts/WIT0CW4WX862BZ5/jimmy-carter-diary-entry-recording-a-growing-belief-among-us) WIT ## Cite it ``` Cohen, A., & Burr, W. (2020). Revisiting the 1979 VELA Mystery: A Report on a Critical Oral History Conference. Wilson Center, Sources and Methods blog, posted 31 August 2020. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/revisiting-1979-vela-mystery-report-critical-oral-history-conference ``` [Read it free at wilsoncenter.org](https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/revisiting-1979-vela-mystery-report-critical-oral-history-conference) Key **SRC** 0CW4WN6C7XSV Kind Report Rights The publisher's Kept 29 Oct 2026, for editors Checked Against the published original Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CW4WN6C7XSV/revisiting-the-1979-vela-mystery-a-report-on-a-critical-oral/csl.json)