The Vela Incident (Part Two: ... Or Nothing)

Podcast: Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast · Unresolved Productions

Opublikowano: 2026-09-30

"I have never been able to get rid of the thought that [the 22nd September event] was some sort of joint operation between Israel and South Africa." At 00:53 Coordinated Universal Time on September 22nd, 1979, an aging American satellite called Vela 6911 recorded a double flash of light somewhere over the southern Indian Ocean. That same night, President Jimmy Carter wrote in his diary that there was an indication of a nuclear explosion near South Africa, and that it was either South Africa, Israel using a ship at sea, or nothing. The two leading suspects had every reason...