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💚The Vela Incident (sometimes referred to as the South Atlantic Flash) was an unidentified "double flash" of light that was detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on September 22, 1979. There is uncertainty as to the true nature of the incident although the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory conducted a comprehensive analysis, including the hydroacoustic data, and issued a 300-page report concluding that there had been a nuclear event near Prince Edward Islands or Antarctica.".
Some specialists who examined the data speculated that the double flash, characteristic of a nuclear explosion, may have been the result of a nuclear weapons test: "The conclusions of the Presidential panel (the Ad Hoc Panel) were reassuring, as they suggested that the most likely explanation of the Vela detection was a meteoroid hitting the satellite — in part because of the discrepancy in bhangmeter readings. -
Others who examined the data, including the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the national laboratories, and defense contractors reached a very different conclusion — that the data supported the conclusion that on 22 September 1979, Vela 6911 had detected a nuclear detonation."
It has never been ruled out that the "double flash" signal might have been a spurious electronic signal that was generated by an aging detector in an old satellite. No corroboration of an explosion, such as the presence of nuclear byproducts in the air, was ever made, even though there were numerous passes in the area by U.S. Air Force planes that were specifically designed to detect airborne radioactive dust. Much of the information relating to the event remains classified; consequently, while some people believe that it was an Israeli nuclear test, the topic remains highly disputed more than thirty years later. -
Vela-5A/B Satellites in a clean room. The two satellites are separated after launch.
The "double flash" was detected on September 22, 1979, at 00:53 GMT, by the American Vela satellite 6911, which carried various sensors that had been designed specifically to detect nuclear explosions. In addition to being able to detect gamma rays, x-rays, and neutrons, the satellite also contained two silicon solid-state bhangmeter sensors that would be able to detect the dual light flashes associated with a nuclear explosion—to be specific the initial brief, intense flash, followed by the second longer flash.
The satellite reported the characteristic double flash of a small atmospheric nuclear explosion of two to three kilotons, in the Indian Ocean between The Crozet Islands (a very small, sparsely inhabited French possession) and the Prince Edward Islands which belong to South Africa at 47°S 40°ECoordinates: 47°S 40°E. -
The previous 41 double flashes that the Vela satellites detected were all subsequently confirmed to be nuclear explosions.
There was, and remains, much doubt as to whether the satellite's observations were accurate. The Vela Hotel 6911 satellite was one of a pair that had been launched on May 23, 1969, over ten years before the "double-flash" event, and this satellite was already more than two years beyond its so-called "design lifetime". This satellite was known to have a failed electromagnetic pulse (EMP) sensor, and it had developed a fault (in July 1972) in its recording memory, but that fault had cleared itself by March 1978.Bhangmeter light patterns detected by a pair of sensors on Vela satellite 6911 on 22 Sep 1979.
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Additionally, early technical speculation also examined the possibility that the Vela had recorded a combination of natural phenomena, such as lightning in conjunction with a meteor strike. Other early news media articles of the time discussed the possibility of a large extraterrestrial object strike, such as an asteroid, occurring. The Vela satellite's flash detectors were sensitive to lightning superbolts, which resulted in two scientists, John Warren and Robert Freyman from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (then called the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) immediately flying to and investigating a rare, overland superbolt occurrence on Bell Island, Newfoundland in April 1978. Their observations of the event, called the 'Bell Island Boom', noted building structural damage, dead farm animals and destroyed electrical devices amongst other evidence (the superbolt's blast was heard 55 kilometers away in Cape Broyle, Newfoundland).
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Bell Island Boom was among some 600 "mystery booms" that occurred along the North American eastern seaboard from late 1977 to mid-1978.
Nonetheless, the initial assessment by the National Security Council (NSC), with technical support by the Naval Research Laboratory in October 1979 was that the American intelligence community had "high confidence" that the event was a low-yield nuclear explosion, although no radioactive debris had ever been detected, and there was "no corroborating seismic or hydro-acoustic data. A later NSC report revised this position to "a position of agnosticism" about whether a test had occurred or not. The NSC concluded that responsibility for a nuclear explosion, if any, should be ascribed to the Republic of South Africa. -
Several U.S. Air Force WC-135B surveillance aircraft flew 25 sorties over that area of the Indian Ocean soon after the "double flash" was reported, but they failed to detect any sign of nuclear radiation. Studies of wind patterns confirmed that fall-out from an explosion in the southern Indian Ocean could have been carried from there to southwestern Australia. It was reported that low levels of iodine-131 (a short-half-life product of nuclear fission) were detected in sheep in the southeastern Australian States of Victoria and Tasmania soon after the event. Sheep in New Zealand showed no such trace.
The Arecibo ionospheric observatory and radio telescope in Puerto Rico detected an anomalous ionospheric wave during the morning of September 22, 1979, which moved from the southeast to the northwest, an event which had not been observed previously by the scientists. -
Office of Science and Technology evaluation
The administration of President Carter asked the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to convene a panel of instrumentation experts to re-examine the Vela Hotel 6911 data, and to attempt to determine whether the optical flash detected came from a nuclear test. The outcome was important to Carter, as his presidency and 1980 re-election campaign prominently featured the themes of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. In particular, the SALT II treaty had been signed three months earlier, and was pending ratification by the United States Senate. -
An independent panel of scientific and engineering experts was commissioned by Frank Press, who was the Science Advisor to President Carter and the chairman of the OSTP, to evaluate the evidence and determine the likelihood that the event was a nuclear detonation. The chairman of this science panel itself was Dr. Jack Ruina of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also the former director of the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency. Reporting in the summer of 1980, the panel noted that there were some key differences in the detected optical signature from that of an actual nuclear explosion, particularly in the ratio of intensities measured by the two detectors on the satellite. The now-declassified report contains details of the measurements made by the Vela Hotel satellite.
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The explosion was picked up by a pair of sensors on only one of the several Vela satellites; other similar satellites were looking at different parts of the earth, or weather conditions precluded them seeing the same event. The Vela satellites had previously detected 41 atmospheric tests - by countries such as France and the PRC - each of which was subsequently confirmed by other means, including testing for radioactive fallout. The absence of any such corroboration of a nuclear origin for the Vela Incident also suggested that the "double flash" signal was a spurious 'zoo' signal of unknown origin, possibly caused by the impact of a micrometeoroid. Such 'zoo' signals which mimicked nuclear explosions had been received several times earlier.
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Their report noted that the flash data contained "many of the features of signals from previously observed nuclear explosions", but that "careful examination reveals a significant deviation in the light signature of the September 22 event that throws doubt on the interpretation as a nuclear event". The best analysis that they could offer of the data suggested that, if the sensors were properly calibrated, any source of the "light flashes" were spurious "zoo events". Thus their final determination was that while they could not rule out that this signal was of nuclear origin, "based on our experience in related scientific assessments, it is our collective judgment that the September 22 signal was probably not from a nuclear explosion."
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Victor Gilinsky (former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) attempted to cast doubt on the science panel's findings, arguing that its members were politically motivated. There was some data that seemed to confirm that a nuclear explosion was the source for the "double flash" signal. There was the "anomalous" traveling ionospheric disturbance that was measured at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico at the same time, but many thousands of miles away in a different hemisphere of the earth. A test in Western Australia conducted a few months later found some increased nuclear radiation levels. However, a detailed study done by New Zealand's National Radiation Laboratory found no such evidence of excess radioactivity, and neither did a U.S. Government-funded nuclear laboratory.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists who worked on the Vela Hotel program have professed their conviction that the Vela Hotel satellite's detectors worked properly.
Leonard Weiss, at the time Staff Director of the Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Nuclear Proliferation, has also raised concerns about the findings of the Ad-Hoc Panel, arguing that it was set up by the Carter administration to counter embarrassing and growing opinion that it was an Israeli nuclear test. Specific intelligence about the Israeli nuclear program was not shared with the panel whose report therefore produced the plausible deniability that the administration sought. -
If a nuclear explosion did occur, it occurred within the 3000-mile-wide (4,800 km diameter) circle covering parts of the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic, the southern tip of Africa, and a small part of Antarctica.
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In 1979, the DIA reported that the test may have been a Soviet test done in violation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but that the country would have to assume "inordinate political risks" for little technical benefit. -
Israel
See also: Nuclear weapons and Israel
Well before the Vela Incident, American intelligence agencies had made the assessment that Israel probably possessed its own nuclear weapons. According to journalist Seymour Hersh, the detection was the third joint Israeli-South African nuclear test in the Indian Ocean, and the Israelis had sent two IDF ships and "a contingent of Israeli military men and nuclear experts" for the test. Author Richard Rhodes also concludes the incident was an Israeli nuclear test, conducted in cooperation with South Africa, and that the United States administration deliberately obscured this fact in order to avoid complicating relations with South Africa. -
Likewise, Leonard Weiss offers a number of arguments to support the test being Israeli, and claims that successive US administrations continue to cover up the test to divert unwanted attention that may portray its foreign policy in a bad light. In the 2008 book The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman stated their opinion that the "double flash" was the result of a joint South African-Israeli nuclear bomb test. David Albright stated in his article about the "double flash" event in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that "If the 1979 flash was caused by a test, most experts agree it was probably an Israeli test".
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa did have a nuclear weapons program at the time, and it falls within that geographic location. Nevertheless, it had acceded to the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963, and since the fall of apartheid, South Africa has disclosed most of the information on its nuclear weapons program, and according to international inspections and the ensuing International Atomic Energy Agency report, South Africa could not have constructed such a nuclear bomb until November 1979, two months after the "double flash" incident. Furthermore, the IAEA reported that all possible South African nuclear bombs had been accounted for. A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report dated January 21, 1980, that was produced for the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency concluded that: -
In sum, State/INR finds the arguments that South Africa conducted a nuclear test on 22 September inconclusive, even though, if a nuclear explosion occurred on that date, South Africa is the most likely candidate for responsibility.
The United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 of 4 November 1977 introduced a mandatory arms embargo against South Africa, which also required all states to refrain from "any co-operation with South Africa in the manufacture and development of nuclear weapons". -
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Tommy Westphall, portrayed by Chad Allen, is a minor character from the drama television series St. Elsewhere, which ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988. Westphall, who has autism, took on major significance in St. Elsewhere's final episode, "The Last One," where the common interpretation of that finale is that the entire St. Elsewhere storyline exists only within Westphall's imagination. As characters from St. Elsewhere have appeared on other television shows and those shows' characters appeared on more shows, a "Tommy Westphall Universe" hypothesis was developed where a significant amount of fictional episodic television exists within Tommy Westphall's imagined fictional universe. -
The 1988 final episode of St. Elsewhere, known as "The Last One," ended in a context very different from every other episode of the series. As the camera pans away from the snow beginning to fall at St. Eligius hospital, the scene changes to Donald Westphall's autistic son Tommy, along with Daniel Auschlander in an apartment building. Westphall arrives home from a day's work, and wears clothes suggesting that he is a construction worker. "Auschlander" is revealed to be Donald's father, and thus Tommy's grandfather. Donald laments to his father, "I don't understand this autism. I talk to my boy, but...I'm not even sure if he ever hears me...Tommy's locked inside his own world. Staring at that toy all day long. What does he think about?" The toy is revealed to be a snow globe with a replica of St. Eligius hospital inside. Tommy shakes the snow globe, and is told by his father to come and wash his hands, after having left the snow globe on the family's television set.
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One of the more common interpretations of this scene is that as Tommy shakes the snow globe in the apartment, he also makes it snow at the "fictional" St. Eligius. His father and grandfather also seem to work at this hospital even though neither man has ever experienced such a role. By implication this interpretation suggests the total series of events in the series St. Elsewhere had been a product of Tommy Westphall's imagination.
The Tommy Westphall Universe HypothesisThe Tommy Westphall universe hypothesis, an idea discussed among some television fans, makes the claim that not only does St. Elsewhere take place within Tommy's mind, but so do numerous other television series which are directly and indirectly connected to St. Elsewhere through fictional crossovers and spin-offs, resulting in a large fictional universe taking place entirely within Tommy's mind.
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In 2002 writer Dwayne McDuffie wrote Six Degrees of St. Elsewhere for the Slush Factory website, the earliest version of the hypothesis to be found online. In a 2003 article published on BBC News Online, St. Elsewhere writer Tom Fontana was quoted as saying, "Someone did the math once... and something like 90 percent of all television took place in Tommy Westphall's mind. God love him.
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280 shows are connected to Homicide: Life on the Street and St. Elsewhere, for a grand total of 282 series.
There are 15 non-US shows in the Tommyverse. Most notably the Candian teen series "Degrassi Junior High" and its spin-offs, "Doctor Who" and its spin-offs, as well as the only non-English language series "Paris Section Criminelle" - a French-language version of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent".The shows span from 1951 (I Love Lucy) to the present (23 shows are still on the air).
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1 704 Hauser
2 Addams Family, The
3 Adventures of Superman, The
4 AfterM*A*S*H
5 ALF
6 Alias
7 All in the Family
8 Ally
9 Ally McBeal
10 Andy Griffith Show, The
11 Angel
12 Anne Sothern Show, The
13 Archie Bunker's Place
14 Arrested Development
15 Art of Being Nick, The [pilot only]
16Batman
17 Battlestar Galactica (2003) (ON AIR) 18 Beat, The
19 Becker
20 Benson
21 Beverly Hillbillies, The
22 Beverly Hills Buntz
23 Bewitched
24 Bill Dana Show, The
25 Blanksie's Beauties
26 Blossom
27 Blue Skies
28 Bob
29 Bob Cummings Show, The
30 Bob Newhart Show, The
31 Bones
32 Boston Legal (ON AIR)
33 Boston Public
34 Boy Meets World
35 Brady Brides, The
36 Brady Bunch Variety Hour, The
37 Brady Bunch, The
38 Bradys, The
39 Buddies
40 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
41 Call Mr. 'D'
42 Can't Hurry Love
43 Caroline In The City
44 Checking In
45 Cheers
46 Chelmsford 123
47 Chicago Hope
48 Civil Wars
49 Clueless
50 Coach -
51 Code of Vengeance 52 Conviction
53 Cop Rock
54 Cosby
55 Cosby Show, The
56 Criminal Minds
57 Crossing Jordan (ON AIR)
58 CSI: Crime Scene Investigators (ON AIR) 59 CSI: Miami (ON AIR)
60 CSI: New York (ON AIR)
61 Danny Thomas Show, The
62 Day by Day
63 Deadline
64 Degrassi High
65 Degrassi Junior High
66 Degrassi: The Next Generation (ON AIR) 67 Dennis the Menace
68 Diagnosis: Murder
69 Dick Van Dyke Show, The
70 Different World, A
71 Diff'rent Strokes
72 Doctor Who (1963)
73 Doctor Who (1996) [pilot only]
74 Doctor Who (2005) (ON AIR)
75 Donna Reed Show, The
76 Double Rush
77 Drew Carey Show, The
78 E/R (1984)
79 Early Edition
80 Eerie, Indiana
81 Eerie: The Other Dimension
82 Ellen
83 ER (1994) (ON AIR)
84 Everybody Loves Raymond
85 Facts of Life, The
86 Family Matters
87 Family Ties
88 Famous Teddy Z, The
89 Fighting Nightingales [pilot only]
90 Firefly
91 First Monday
92 Flying Nun, The
93 Frasier
94 Fresh Prince of Bel Air, The
95 Friends -
96 Full House
97 Geena Davis Show, The
98 George & Leo
99 Get Smart
100 Get Smart (1995)
101 Gideon's Crossing
102 Gidget
103 Gilligan's Island
104 Girlfriends (ON AIR)
105 Gloria
106 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
107 Goober and the Trucker's Paradise [pilot only] 108 Good Times
109 Grace Under Fire
110 Green Acres
111 Green Hornet, The
112 Hangin' with Mr Cooper
113 Hanging In
114 Happy Days
115 Hazel
116 Hello, Larry
117 Here's Lucy
118 Heroes (ON AIR)
119 Hi Honey, I'm Home!
120 High Society
121 Hill Street Blues
122 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
123 Hogan's Heroes
124 Home Improvement
125 Homicide: Life On The Street -
126 Honeymooners, The
127 Hope And Gloria
128 Huff
129 Hughleys, The
130 I Dream Of Jeannie
131 I Love Lucy
132 In the House
133 Ink
134 It's Gary Shandling's Show
135 Jackie Gleason Show, The
136 JAG
137 Jake 2.0
138 Jake and the Fatman
139 Jeffersons, The
140 Joanie Loves Chachi
141 Joey
142 Joey Bishop Show, The
143 John Larroquette Show, The
144 Julia
145 K9 and Company [pilot only]
146 Kids of Degrassi St
147 Killer Instinct
148 King Of Queens, The (ON AIR)
149 Kingdom Hospital
150 Knight Rider
151 L.A. Law
152 Las Vegas (ON AIR)
153 Laverne & Shirley
154 Law & Order (ON AIR -
155 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (ON AIR)
156 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (ON AIR) 157 Law & Order: Trial by Jury
158 LAX
159 Leave it to Beaver
160 Lone Gunmen, The
161 Lost (ON AIR)
162 Lou Grant
163 Love And War
164 Love That Bob
165 Lucy Show, The
166 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The
167 M*A*S*H
168 Mad About You
169 Madman of the People
170 Make Room For Daddy
171 Make Room For Granddaddy
172 Malcolm in the Middle
173 Mannix
174 Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The
175 Married... with Children
176 Martial Law
177 Mary Tyler Moore Show, The
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