The Vela Incident: Greatest Nuclear Mystery Ever

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[@RazorbackPT]

That stock footage of "scientists" never fails to make me laugh.

[@Idocracy789]

They science good 👍

[@charlesbliss4860]

A yikes

[@pointblank0020]

The scientists did science things to find out the truth and made a shocking discovery

[@TheDirtyBlobfish]

Hahaha, i thought i was the only one😂😂

[@electronresonator8882]

I wonder if they actually realize that they're "famous" in internet

[@aheinz308]

Everyone: WHO DONE IT!? San Marino: They'll never suspect me.

[@movietimeateds69]

It was the sentinalese, I guarantee you. Or the vatican.

[@namingisdifficult408]

The Pirahā

[@luucvinky2194]

Hiding in plain sight all that time

[@Uranium_Enjoyer]

That’s a popular theory but easily debunkable. It’s clearly Liechtenstein.

[@weirdeurasianboy8091]

Nope. It was the Andorra.

[@braccounts561]

imagine being a fish and a nuclear bomb randomly gets dropped right on top of you

[@warblerblue]

That's how sea monsters are created.

[@allahspreadshate6486]

That'd be handy, I'm starving.

[@jochen__]

Well, F

[@budakbaongsiah]

Summoning Cthulhu in a modern way!

[@greannysmith]

Atomic bomb: mistakes were made Atomic bomb has been kicked from the lobby

[@ijent3819]

"Lets try to nuke a typhoon guys" - some secret government with nothing to do

[@kavikkang9411]

@Juke JointYou've been brainwashed, seek deprogramming!

[@kavikkang9411]

@Juke Joint I am a cold warrior and an Eisenhower republican... an actual American. That's not your "Boogeyman Trump", that idea has been around for decades and comes from scientists. It is a potentially good idea. A nuclear weapon is not nearly powerful as most civilians believe it too be. If a tiny 100-200kt weapon could disperse a hurricane that was about to do millions of dollars of damage too the coast... that would be a GREAT idea and a great thing to do. A single 200kt explosion at sea is nothing, and would stop the hurricane. You've just been brainwashed to be obsessed withy your boogey man Trump, and fooled into believing that he is guilty of the Traitor Obama's crimes. Nope. Bush & Trump = American. Traitor Obama = KGB, using the ways and tactics of Vladimir Lenin. You are a moron who does not know history.

[@brucesmith54]

@@kavikkang9411 What you have just said, is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone here is now dumber for having read it.

[@kavikkang9411]

@@brucesmith54 Meanwhile, back here in realty, I am one of the top experts in the entire world in the subject and you are a know nothing civilian who knows absolutely nothing about it. Every word I said is verifiably accurate and true, and you literally don't know the first thing about the subject. Welcome back to reali8ty, know nothing civilian.

[@kavikkang9411]

@@brucesmith54 Oh, and by the way... a nuclear weapon is a firecracker compared to the world ending appocolyptic event ignorant people like you believe it too be. If we set off a 20 megaton nuke in Nevada right now, you wouldn't know it unless the media told you about it. It would have no noticeable effect anywhere outside of the test site. You are an ignorant moron.

[@theroaria8065]

The UN treaty about not owning nukes is like an age verification check.

[@LampNTable]

Now im not jewish but i support jewish people im from the us! Great ally of israel!

[@scottya2745]

@@LampNTable Fuck Israel

[@JP-wj2cz]

@@whafflete6721 You would think changing the order of powers would reduce the chances of Mutual Assured Destruction. However, that would end the world because Russia has a planet-killing weapon in the case that Russia is destroyed; it sends warheads all over the world as a final response.

[@JP-wj2cz]

@@whafflete6721 I'm pro American, but Russia has some Shit I wouldn't fuck with.

[@hobgoblinhollow4966]

Uncultured people!! Do you not know Switzerland is the Pharohs house? Where did the Swissie really come from? Blind hatred is first documented by Pharohs priests as a tool to keep truths hidden.

[@dandanthedandan7558]

Perfect timing. I just watched the video on what happened if you explode all nuclear bombs at once over on Kurgesagt.

[@bliVYT]

same

[@lorddrazharofprussia4693]

Same

[@randomcomedygold]

Same

[@janaldrichlandicho8366]

Same

[@kaidosballsack13]

Same

[@theunclethatdoesnttouchyou]

Plot twist: We were almost destroyed by an unknown threat that only a nuke could destroy. Thank you unsung heroes.

[@AltoStratusX1]

Predator on a boat was bested.

[@bobharritech8460]

Men In Black saving the world again. But I like that Predator idea too. Maybe...just maybe, that's what caused the Titanic to sink and not some silly iceberg!

[@chanvalentine8283]

Rumour has it, the Soviets opened a portal, something came through and the Tsar bomb was dispatched, because conventional weapons couldn't kill it.

[@josephhagood2339]

Thanks to SG1 the alien mothership was destroyed

[@theunknownknowsBYvoivod]

I heard interdimensional portals are hard to close.

[@solar_bionic115]

The Vela incident was doof testing his atom bomb inator

[@jasonswiatkowski9127]

Good thing Agent P stopped the plot.

[@htjes82]

This is by far the best comment.

[@VincentFarides1776]

The light was from when it self destructed.

[@adityaupasani7584]

Doofishmertz Evil Incorporated! Who read it in the tune?

[@Chris______.]

This is his secret to conquer the… *TRI-STATE AREA*

[@4ltrz555]

Reallifelore and kurzgesagt upload on the same day, and both the videos are about nuclear bombs. Coincidence? I think not.

[@potatojake197]

same

[@Eira_99]

Also this is only 8 seconds longer.

[@khoihoangngocanh7824]

Just like south Africa and Israel, hmmmmm

[@alexfactory5426]

To be exact; the video was first uploaded on their German KZbin Channel about 1 moth ago.

[@muddymooshroom6878]

CreeperGuyHQ this has happened before too

[@remrem9095]

1:01 A *Typhoon* Was Active In The Indian Ocean? Skipper:Kowalski Analysis

[@pegeonpera]

Mistake by RLL

[@GangsterWaluigi]

Sml is cool

[@dragonhex189]

lol

[@Marylandbrony]

Their was an enormous cyclone in the Indian Ocean a week or two ago?

[@xianjing3256]

Cempaka Cyclone

[@jkerman5113]

"And an island owned by South afric..." Me: it was south africa

[@puncheex2]

Ummmm, actually, the Vela satellite had no directional data for the flash; it could have happened anywhere over about an eighth of the globe, which includes a large piece of Africa and a wide expanse of the southern Indian Ocean.

[@SofaKingShit]

Also Israel. Apparently apartheid states stick together.

[@jkerman5113]

@@baseballworldwide9439 Lmao I was just making a joke about how South Africa developed nukes when they weren't really supposed to but now we're talking about slavery apparently

[@John1873--]

@@YeeterTheFirst do you always speak this much pish on youtube?

[@YeeterTheFirst]

@@John1873-- Only on Tuesdays

[@davidbarnard1409]

It was when the first terminator was sent back in time.... He materialized over the Indian Ocean. It took him another 5 years to walk under water to Los Angeles to kills Sarah Connor

[@krisvq]

Lol

[@phaedrussmith1949]

Seems legit.

[@luisg.15yearsago18]

Lol

[@Truth_Seeker1]

LMFAO.

[@CatSmithers]

No homo but you’re very handsome

[@sunjaeeeee]

Obviously they were trying to see of a nuke can stop the typhoon like duh

[@The-ct1xq]

RLL made a video on that

[@sunjaeeeee]

@@The-ct1xq thats why i said that

[@The-ct1xq]

🤪

[@camfg8908]

I actually had an idea that we could use nukes to destroy huge storms but guys immediately told me I am crazy so I had to admit my idea was really bad

[@5starfrenzy]

@@camfg8908 It's an idea that has apparently been going around for half a century. NOAA has a page of their website dedicated to debunking it.

[@siristheslayer1923]

Secretly detonating nuclear bombs *SNEAK 100*

[@Zachhwithanhnotak]

I really did not know that Cuba went to war with South Africa on Angola's behalf. What a bizarre scenario. I love these videos so much, they're all so full of intriguing histories from around the world.

[@ericv1989]

The same here. (BTW, I think Israel and South Africa tested a couple of hydrogen bombs that fateful day.)

[@GAMEINN-cf8yy]

Sounds like they tried to blow up a Hurricane🌀Guess it didn't work, IDIOTS!🙄

[@AA-hg5fk]

Completely makes sense in the context of the cold war, as you know Castro was in charge of Cuba at the time

[@Wither5000]

I live South Africa. What happend was that our old Apartheid government was very Pro-America. So, While the Cold War was going on we helped put down communist governments in other countries on behalf of the US. We did have 6 Nuclear Weapons, But they were disassembled. Cuba was Communist so they helped the Angolan Civil War on behalf of the communist.

[@SilverHayze]

The Cubans got their arse handed to them. The best thing the old apartheid government did was to dismantle the bombs before handing over control of the country. The ANC would have tried to use them as canoes or something stupid

[@troubledspirit3328]

Unless totally arrogant, the one who farts is usually the first to deny it

[@pikmaniac2643]

I would agree but with the addition of the clause that they are not also the first accused beforehand. Otherwise, it only makes sense, innocent or guilty, that they would be first to deny.

[@troubledspirit3328]

@@pikmaniac2643 Very astute.

[@Krakatov]

Are you suggesting that real life lore was responsible?

[@darthsilversith667]

It was clearly the Indian government fighting Godzilla.

[@flagmichael]

Fool! Atomic radiation makes Godzilla more powerful. It's all over the internet.

[@Clone3A7]

I called it.

[@diwakarkumar4890]

At that time India didn't have any nuclear weapons.

[@darthsilversith667]

@@diwakarkumar4890 That you know about 🧐

[@monkestronk1227]

@@diwakarkumar4890 That's what the government wants you to believe. India clearly nuked godzilla

[@thegreatafrican3367]

Nobody got caught because they used Skillshare Wait...

[@tiberiu_nicolae]

Tunnel bear? Nord VPN?

[@ijh4888]

incognito mode

[@chuckky8718]

Use CuriosityStream to... uhh...

[@FIATS76]

It was caused by aliens after they detonated a self destruct bomb sinking the oil-ore tanker, MS Berge Vanga en route from Brazil to Japan, in the process. It's all there, in the fiction novel A DROP IN THE OCEAN by James Cooke, available on Amazon kindle.

[@NiteStorm324]

*SPONSORED BY BRILLIANT*

[@kcharles8857]

Wasn't it South Africa? I thought that was generally acknowledged.

[@ThePatriotzz]

You are right! It was confirmed by USA.

[@johnfinnan5383]

America would have had no reason to protect South Africa's lies, nor would Mandela have a need to protect Apartheid era secrets. America has always protected Israeli secrets though.

[@meesalikeu]

John Finnan not always, but lately.

[@Dawgreen]

Wasn't a South African test. It was an Israeli test with assistance from South Africa.

[@wtfbros5110]

Plot twist: it was Madagascar

[@itsdark17]

That “Arekibo” pronounciation of Arecibo in Puerto Rico mad eme laugh :)))

[@sneeka2]

That and AparTHeid…

[@coolingheat5644]

The real question is.... how many *toyota corollas* were destroyed?

[@deadeagle8824]

Cooling Heat Totoya Corollas don't fly, so none.

[@fffourtwenty]

How many Bongo vans PAID THE PRICE

[@jimmyking7386]

0

[@eastprussiaproductions]

To much

[@kwhite749]

None. You can't destroy a Toyota Corolla!

[@tylenoljunkie3231]

This is one of my favourite mysteries/conspiracies, there’s not enough high quality videos about it on KZbin, which makes me happy that you’re doing it.

[@micheledeetlefs6041]

I am married to a South African. My father in law is a retired special forces operative from the country. In SA, they know exactly what it was. Israel, who wasn't supposed to have nukes at the time but was well known to have had them, taught South Africa how to make them. This was a test of their bomb.

[@piet8803]

I know for a fact we tested a nuke.

[@fanaticcoder3320]

@@piet8803 SA have nukes? today?

[@piet8803]

@@fanaticcoder3320 That I can not say for a fact, but we were told that they were dismantled I think in 1993 or somewhere around that time. The west did not like that we became such a powerful country.

[@chouseification]

@@fanaticcoder3320 no... definitely not. The old (white racist) National Party, which ruled South Africa under their odd "apartheid" (literally "separateness" - i.e. they shall not live with us) regime was the one who developed the nukes, as a threat to their less advanced neighbors who they often got into conflict with, often due to said astonishingly racist policies. When it was obvious that the NP wasn't going to remain in power much longer, De Klerk had them dismantled. They were only "Fat Man" type of bombs essentially (~15-50 Kt range, so pretty small), although apparently with a safety system based around filling the inner cavity in the weapon with a metal chain... to arm the weapon, you'd first need to pull that chain out. With it in there, even if firing circuits went off, you'd get a fizzle not a pop.

[@lukeshacks]

@@piet8803bro you are the west.

[@harter517]

Great videos. All of them. For future reference: In the South Indian Ocean, it would be a “cyclone”, not a “typhoon”’. Typhoons are the term for tropical cyclonic storms in the Northern Hemisphere part of the Western Pacific. In the Indian Ocean and Southern Hemisphere part of the Western Pacific, they are Cyclones. In the Eastern Pacific and The Atlantic, they are Hurricanes.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Although it’s important to note that technically hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are technically the same storm known scientifically as tropical cyclones. A generic cyclone is any low pressure zone. But yeah I see what you mean.

[@heinzhaupthaar5590]

So, what's the reasoning behind three different names for the same phenomenon? Or is it just one of those things that came to be basically by accident/coincidence/whatever and are kept up due to our overwhelming stupidity?

[@peardude8979]

@@heinzhaupthaar5590 People who live in these places historically called the storms different things, so it's easier to change what the storm is called depending on where it is than trying to convince 2 other regions to call it something different.

[@georgivasilev8428]

The question is who gives a shit?

[@TheBunnyYT]

Don’t let this video distract you from the fact that geico can save you 15% or more on car insurance

[@stephenhill273]

Thanks I almost forgot about that

[@basicallyme8205]

Need that for my Toyota corolla...

[@con-job2.037]

I was siezing up untill I read this because I needed some car insurance and I couldn't find any So... thank you for reminding me.

[@vendetta3941]

😂

[@m_i_g_5108]

Here we have a classic, ladies and gentlemen. One of my favorites if I can say so!

[@OFfic3R1K]

One question remains. What is the point of having nuclear weapons as a deterrent if they stay a secret even after so many years and consequently fail to deter anybody.

[@scottmatheson3346]

We hear you, dr strangelove, but what if it's not actually a secret because everybody knows you have nuclear weapons you are keeping secret from the world?

[@AJZulu]

It wasn't really a secret.

[@ergog634]

Israel maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity regarding possession of nuclear weapons. Would you be game to try and overrun them and force them to be used? Want to take that bet?

[@flagmichael]

@@ergog634 The most common estimate is they have between 100 and 300 nuclear warheads. Of course, it is anybody's guess.

[@chakraborty1989]

That's why the term 'open secret" exist.

[@drlegendre]

It would be interesting to learn whether they intentionally targeted the typhoon, as an experiment to see if it could dissipate or otherwise weaken / divert the storm.

[@raphaelr.5904]

Reminds me of geostorm

[@ericvonp]

They had HARRP already

[@er1115]

Chuck Norris farted while swimming across ocean.

[@petejones4808]

Chuck Norris maybe?

[@johnniner7582]

Moses parted a sea. Chuck Norris's ass and gas farted and parted an ocean via nuclear fusion his ass and gas created. Urassium

[@mrlovely2008]

Wrong! Chuck Norris walks on water cause the water is too scared to get him wet!

[@Fr4ncM]

Imagine WWIII starting with South Africa nuking Cuba. LMAO

[@FlatlandsSurvivor]

Francis Marino that sounds like Hearts of Iron gone wrong

[@davidbodor1762]

Luckily they;re not at war anymore. It wouldn;t really be funny if that happened.

[@eggsontoastandtea6356]

Hoi4 type shit

[@thorgodofthunder5086]

Well I got some news for you

[@alphaomega3499]

Many of them fought against Cuban troops in the 70s and 80s in Angola.

[@Snapmare_]

_you're making chernobyl jealous_

[@ComaDave]

Required reading: "The Samson Option" by Seymour Hersh. An historical overview of just how far certain countries would look the other way, while a certain country quietly built an arsenal of a few hundred nuclear weapons, and on occasion...cooperated with another fledgling nuclear power, aka The Vela Incident.

[@SeraphimBarca]

Good for them 👍

[@Mister_Pedantic]

@@SeraphimBarca No more lining up and getting on trains. Never again.

[@constitution_8939]

@ ComaDave ---- I read that about 1995 or earlier and why I posted this: It Definitely WAS a joint collaboration between S. Africa & Israel and was the test of a Nuclear Artillery Shell. Why did Israel Not want this information disclosed? A very good reason, because Israel is Not supposed to have Nuclear Weapon but it Definitely DOES and was proved by Mordechai Vanunu aka "John Crossman" who is a former Israeli nuclear technician who exposed Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program to the British press in 1986. Vanunu was a junior nuclear technician at the Nuclear Research Center at Dimona, Israel who exposed Israel's production of Nuclear Weapons and took 57 photos inside the facility to prove it. Google his name if you want more info on him and his deed's. By U.S. Law, Israel who never signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and is in Extreme Violation of it should be, for Any other Country but Israel get's a Pass, suspended from All import of American Arms and money but continues to annually receive 3+ Billion dollars for a country will under 9 million people in whereas the infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels and sidewalks that are in Great need of repair and replacement in America go without but the States have No money to take care of these important things in Our Own Country or to help it's own citizen's but 3 Billion can be found Every year to give to Israel who spies and steals more technology secrets from the U.S. than Russia and China combined and sells this technology to China. Israel is No Friend or Ally of the U.S. and is responsible via it's Agent's in Congress of flooding America with millions of Turd World low I.Q. subversives by keeping Our Border's Open and a Lot more to Destroy America than 99% of the population would Ever know or believe. This M.E. Pirhana need's to be cut adrift from America and it's subversive Agent's in Congress Hanged and the Entire Tribe needs to be EXPELLED ASAP before We are a Turd World Nation ourselves!!

[@davidtacy2594]

Dude, you’ve grown a lot in these past 3 years, but your stuff has ALWAYS been great. You are a very talented creator.

[@idontlikelasagne7211]

Damn both Kurzgesagt and RLL upload a video about nuclear explosions. Coincidence? I hope so.

[@davidtitanium22]

Incoming nuclear winter confirmed

[@agungpriambodo1674]

maybe they made a nuke together with knowledge from Skillshare

[@uweedewee9943]

I love real life lore I have been watching him for almost 2 years now and any time I see his new video I instantly watch it. Thank you for always uploading

[@Ranger_Dewie]

I have relatives that were in the South African armed forces, both fighting on the borders against communism and in development and production of military technology during this time. Listening to their stories, there is no doubt in my mind it was Israeli/South African Nuclear tests.

[@Youre_Right]

South Africa and Israeli nuclear test. Solved a long time ago. High levels of Iodine were detected in Australia.

[@jacobreed7585]

And where did you learn this information?

[@Youre_Right]

West Coast Incorporated Google it dunce its all over the internet

[@jacobreed7585]

You're Right says that no where and “it dunce”

[@flagmichael]

@@Youre_Right The internet never lies! In any case, it does not address the conundrum of performing such a test: that it would have been much simpler to conduct a secret underground test. Assigning this to Israel requires assuming the Israeli government is incompetent. Their history suggests otherwise.

[@blackwidowrsa]

We had nuclear weapons, they were destroyed before the ANC took over

[@grmnwolf6765]

I just talked to my old science teacher, he has a Toyota

[@lechekiller636]

CanadaWolf1272 I needed this information

[@anandagaire5929]

97% comments : Kurzgesagt Vs RLL 2% comments : Related to this video Remaining 1%: Geico insurance and other bullstack. 😂 😂 😂 😂

[@FoxyBoxery]

*GeT y0uR gE!K0 iN$uR@NcE wItH 15% 0fF!!!*

[@GeniusEngineering]

This comment is 100% accurate.

[@benjaminzalepa]

This comment is all 3

[@erick_andrade420]

0.001% this comment and its replies :v

[@TheBunnyYT]

Let’s go that was my comment!

[@gartrux]

Fun fact: South Africa had nukes, and they told the world after they got rid of them

[@forstaken2254]

Because the soviets where trying to overthrow the Apartheid regime

[@angusyang5917]

b/c they didn't trust a black government w/ nukes (which is pretty racist, but in hindsight, that was a good thing)

[@anatoldenevers237]

@@angusyang5917 wait why was it a good thing? I don’t know much about this

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@anatoldenevers237 now look at current south africa.

[@NicWalker627]

it is particularly mysterious, isnt it. however, the stock footage of the "scientists" is absolutely hilarious.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

I wouldn't say this is the greatest Nuclear mystery ever. I would personally give that title to the Banjawarn Station seismic event in Western Australia back in 1993.

[@marcopohl4875]

I would give it to the soviet nukes that they... kinda... sorta... lost

[@UXB1000]

Wasn't that the place owned by the Aum Shinrikyo group around that time? Maybe they had something to do with it.

[@Mister_Pedantic]

What about the nuke that Japan tested in what is now called North Korea?

[@ladderking]

3:22 look at these scientists with their vr goggles and 3d printers

[@andrewlyon9292]

I love this channel so much

[@abbysapples1225]

That was a very interesting story. Never heard anything like it

[@dylvasey]

This has been solved. It was the South Africans and the Israelites.

[@Teyrxq8]

The Israelites are not alive anymore, i think you mean zionists

[@dylvasey]

@@Teyrxq8 Hahaha ... I've just noticed that. It should have said Israelis ....... Bloody autocorrect!

[@Thespanglerangler]

dylan vasey *South Africa and the foreign occupation of Palestine.

[@dylvasey]

@@Thespanglerangler I'll roll with that also ha.

[@albar2989]

@@Teyrxq8 hell yeah, we're here. never left the middle east with constant historical and archaeological record spanning way before you invaded from Arabia. before the Greeks and Romans came to the region, before Cyrus the great was even conceived.

[@jamesodom4980]

This video was sponsored by my right thumb instantly tapping the right side of my screen two times every time I watch one of your videos to skip the inevitable ad.

[@Ayoosi]

The Vela 9 incident has long fascinated me.While I was studying nuclear weapons policy in uni, we discussed this a bit. Very strong rumors from ex-intel agents report that it was a test hosted by Safrika and Isreal, like you said. Where it gets interesting is, the test was of an ERW (enhanced radiation weapons), basically a neutron bomb, designed to produce more neutrons than a "standard" nuclear detonation. You cannot generate neutrons on this scale without SOME form of nuclear detonation, which is why the US eventually stopped using ERWs ourselves-- propaganda made them out to be "clean" bombs that only killed living tissue and left everything else, but that's not true and the benefits of the EMP/neutrons don't really outweigh detonating a nuclear device in the first place. Anyway, the rumors state that SA/I used something like an old bank vault built into the ground, an ERW weapon which produces much less residual radation, and conducted the test during a typhoon to suppress/disperse radiation in the air.

[@fanaticcoder3320]

Still why they couldn't find anything? an ERW should have more radiation levels, right? do you think US were hand-in-gloves with Israel that time?

[@Petriefied0246]

I'm pretty sure that one of the scientists involved admitted to it and that it was one of a dozen tests that they conducted. They knew about the satellites and had conducted them only on overcast days; the Vela incident was simply an unlucky break in the cloud that made the detonation visible from space.

[@schnoodle3]

that kind of light isn't going to get blocked by any amount of clouds

[@Petriefied0246]

@@schnoodle3 it does actually.

[@David_Gonzalez_]

Arecibo (the name of the observatory in Puerto Rico) is pronounced “A re cee bo” :)

[@Floridaman1780_]

Yeah, he has a very strange and incorrect pronunciation of sorties as well.

[@edwincamacho8755]

R A C BO

[@Pants4096]

@@Floridaman1780_ And apartheid. :\

[@GregBreden]

Video makers should really check how to pronounce words with odd spellings, there's loads of places online where you can check-up, even KZbin pronunciation videos. As a UK person I roll my eyes when Americans try to say Leicestershire or Worcestershire.

[@tiptopdadddy]

Israel and SA were collaborating militarily at the time, notably the R4 rifle which was ostensibly an Israeli Galil, among many others.

[@509Gman]

The Israeli Galil is itself a “copy” of the Finnish RK series of rifles, themselves “copies” of the Soviet AKM (which borrowed features from the American M1 rifle [named after its Québécois inventor, John C Garand]). Rifle designs are not great indicators of collusion.

[@thatone1280]

Day by Day rllore is becoming my favourite channel

[@kolbytard]

I love this thank you

[@lachlankeddie7]

Y'all talking about Kurgezat, but HAI already mentioned this ages ago in their piece about Bouvet Island....

[@anyon3577]

I still feel like RLL, Second Thought and Kurzgesagt are the same person operating on 3 different KZbin Channel

[@Tocsin-Bang]

The double pulse was used by the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation for detecting nuclear bursts. They used apparatus called AWDREY (Atomic Weapon Detection Recognition and Estimation of Yield). This detected both the optical pulse and low frequency radio (EMP) pulse.

[@davehendricks4824]

The US jumped in to investigate right away. He who smelt it, dealt it.

[@goji059]

@Adventure Inc lol you're referencing something, that i doubt you were even alive when it happened, and most certainly not on the ship if you were, STFU

[@kari7403]

@@goji059 how does that hold relevance? I wasn't alive during Pearl Harbor, and obviously wasn't on any of the ships. Though my great uncle and his brother were. One saved the other, after he was thrown into the burning ocean from the USS Utah. And it's something I wont forget had occurred.

[@willblack7353]

@Dr. Bright Why would they attack us? Where is the motive? Stop making a fool of yourself, it has been confirmed to be an accidental friendly fire incident. If they did it for malicious purposes, they wouldn't have immediately contacted the US embassy. Just... stop.

[@udhambains8768]

When kurzgesagt and rll both create videos about nukes Coincidence I think not

[@pijim96]

This was done by South Africa. Remember South Africa had nuclear technology at that time.

[@nobodyhere9849]

The music in this video is amazing

[@psylosopher369]

Most wizardry, mystery and magic starts with the letter I and ends with sraël. A real nuclear mystery: "Galen Winsor"

[@soheil527]

most probably the Zionists since the US government under AIPAC kowtows to them

[@Durag_sensei]

These aren’t poorly made videos, I love this channel

[@isaiahdavis4050]

If these are poorly made videos, I don't want to be rich!

[@Man2quilla]

Thanks for the flash bang...

[@thokling361]

Intense weather conditions often appear to exist alongside significant charge separation. An electrical discharge would easily present a flash.

[@232pm]

col. tom bearden said that this was believed to have been a scalar howitzer test.. although it might have been a neutron bomb (nuclear but no fall-out produced from those)... the latest disclosure project national press club washington event just yesterday had a military whistleblower talking about his involvement with the event .. i would highly recommend watching that.

[@InfiniteInspiration0]

Anyone else here after watching LSM Knockback on Metal Gear Solid 3?

[@k10A_]

The video thumbnail: Me: _I see what you did there_

[@JordiVanderwaal]

So, it was a nuclear test, but we still don't know* by whom. Amazing. *we "know" but we cannot officially confirm it yet

[@qwonkisdaddy2900]

Fml I thought it said. The Vulva Incident: Greatest Nuclear Mystery Ever

[@royferntorp3575]

Seinfeld did it.

[@nolaanderson8770]

The manufacturer of boxy Swedish cars set off a nuke near Antarctica?

[@carlsaganlives5112]

The Vulva incident : Mystery down under

[@mark18709]

Is pronounce “Ah-Red-See-Boe” Arecibo. Great video, thanks.

[@techy73chy]

just dropping a quick comment to say arecibo is pronounced air-uh-see-bow, not ar-i-kai-bow. i loved the video on the whole, well researched and presented.

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Not in Spanish. ah-ray-see-bow

[@gabr.7878]

Well this was something to learn about

[@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid]

They don’t seem to be mentioning that another such “incident” occurred in the Early/Mid-80s. And.... It WAS Israel/S. Africa. Israel basically had ALL of the Nuclear Scientists it needed (many who worked on the Manhattan Project) to create a nuclear weapon, as well as several sources of fissile materials out of which to make them.

[@nutyyyy]

Yes they definitely possess nuclear weapons today and its a pretty open secret. South Africa also developed several bombs.

[@a.h.543]

Kurzgesagt uploaded on the same day as RLL. Coincidence? Mysterious? Hotel? Trivago...

[@Jdog13425]

LOL

[@jameslyddall]

Oxi Clean this comment is why I love comment sections lol

[@realzachfluke1]

I feel like it was just a large meteor breaking up over the ocean. Most of them go undetected, because they explode so far away from life that we miss them, unless a satellite picks them up for us.

[@christianmiller9934]

Mmm in this case no if it was a meteor it would just be a single flash streak this was a double flash in a circular area plus high levels of iodine were detected in Australia a few days later. Also many have confirmed it was a secret test between South Africa and Israel

[@XLA-zg1nn]

ive heard of this it was something ivolved with the testings of the earths eletro magnetism with the voyager space probe for nasa and van allen belts

[@NoNo-xh7ru]

They probably just wanted to see if they could get away with it

[@mysteriousDSF]

If I had a dollar every time I saw this footage 3:30 of scientists in a KZbin video I could buy a fairly decent lawnmower

[@NewbyTon]

Michael Bay: [Visible confusion]

[@nytro8027]

22nd of september, we were so close to greatness

[@1866james]

I will never get these 8 + minutes back.............

[@cranjismcbasketball1638]

4:07 makes me regret watching this at 3 am

[@filiptoncinic667]

exactly, like wtf with the eye movement

[@StevenRosario2025]

Not tryna be a jerk. you put together a high quality product and I just wanted to make sure that you are as factually (and generally) correct as possible. The city in Puerto Rico that the facility is in is pronounced "Ah-re-see-boe". Half Dominican, half Puerto Rican here. Can confirm. Also, fun fact, that facility was in 007: Goldeneye. Keep up the great work!!

[@ems7623]

I remember when I was still young enough to get pronunciations wrong while talking about a topic i otherwise understood very well Graduate school hammered that out of me. I don't think we can fairly expect KZbinrs to get pronunciations correct when it's not in their native language, sadly. As much as it grates on me, i think i can suffer through it. But it's nice when KZbinrs bother to research correct pronunciation like television pros would, isn't it?

[@509Gman]

For England, James?

[@TNT-zv2hk]

1:38 i actually live very close to the airforce museum. Wright Patterson Airforce base

[@HollowSmh]

As a South African hearing about this is alarming.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I represented apartheid-era South Africa in a historical security council about the Yom Kippur War in Model UN and my nation secretly sending uranium to Israel for the war was the crisis. Yeah it was interesting that South Africa was developing weapons of mass destruction

[@jimmyneutron3806]

Avery Lopez-Baines which MUN?

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

@@jimmyneutron3806 Pat-Med

[@HTPCYMC]

You can’t detonate a nuclear bomb if it doesn’t exist.

[@suvi8118]

*Kim Jong Un wants to know your location*

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

This was Marvin the Martian testing his *Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator...*

[@russellmcphee72]

I drove passed Pelindaba often enough to know it was "nothing to be seen" and considering there was no news in SA about this, we all knew how it went. The now ANC government is more worried about lining their pockets than to understand any thing about science and history.

[@kimjong-un5214]

This story is interesting🤔

[@ameliuslantea1789]

Couldn't it be one of the "lost" atomic bombs which sunk into the ocean and ignited many years later by some event like an undersea-quake?

[@fortzprod.8096]

Amelius 92 hmm that’s actually a good theory.

[@MJonMBoviM]

Nukes cant just detonate like other conventional explosives. They work in an entirely different fashion

[@anonb4632]

If it was underwater, it wouldn't detonate in this fashion but would look quite different.

[@blooocki]

@@MJonMBoviM well the US once accidentally almost nuked themselves. They accidentally dropped a nuke out of a transport plane and upon landing 4 of the 5 safeties failed. If the 5th had failed it would have exploded. So a quake activating it isn't that far fetched.

[@christianmiller9934]

@@blooockithere wouldn’t have been a flash underwater dummy

[@JustJohn505]

Wikipedia articles make it look like a mini horror story and it straight up sends chills down my spine

[@ILoooooveCamels]

Netanyahu accidentally called Israel a nuclear power yesterday lol

[@ILoooooveCamels]

@malikail57 the accident was admitting it

[@ILoooooveCamels]

@malikail57 no, I could have been more clear 😁

[@ILoooooveCamels]

@Cheryl It was always assumed but never confirmed.

[@thesalandarian3314]

STAHPIIIT nuclear power doesn’t mean you have nuclear bombs

[@ILoooooveCamels]

@@thesalandarian3314 calling yourself "a nuclear power" does

[@yumemirai4419]

Why's this at the top of my recommendations today...?

[@wallj8720]

*Kurzgesagt uploads nuclear bomb video several hours earlier* Me: clearly kurzgesagt did it.

[@rose_city-86o51]

I’ve always thought that it was a sub carrying a nuclear warhead that accidentally crashed or malfunction or something of that nature and because of the Cold War was about to heat up, it was kept under wraps as to not set off WWIII by accident. That was my theory though lol

[@jeffcotton2120]

Sounds like operatives in S Africa launched a nuclear strike against valuable facilities located on a remote island that was temporarily being evacuated & left unguarded during the passing of a typhoon. Or nuclear components on that island were triggered by the destructive physical forces of a typhoon.

[@agreenblinker]

3:49 I bet one of the reasons the world's top scientists couldn't find an answer to the Vela Incident was because they spend too much time explaining how to use a Mac keyboard.

[@StephenJohnson-jb7xe]

Did I miss the bit where you said there was a seismic tremor matching that of a nuclear explosion located in the same area of the ocean at the same time as the flash? Because with it there is no doubt and without it there is also no doubt. In other words it either definitely was or definitely wasn't.

[@hellfun1337]

if it was an airburst weapon, then there wouldn't necessarily be a seismic tremor

[@cgmason7568]

​@@hellfun1337air burst cause a larger trimmer

[@hellfun1337]

@@cgmason7568 not when the blast wave has to pas through miles of ocean water.

[@cgmason7568]

@@hellfun1337 you're thinking of a high altitude blast not a air blast. Different distances from the surface

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

I had a scary thought, I’ve been studying the loss of Springbok 295. A 747 combi that was lost due to a catastrophic on board fire. It’s highly suspected the crew were forced into carrying weapons to get around the arms embargo against the Apartheid regime. I was worried briefly that maybe it wasn’t a test at all, maybe it was being transported and detonated by accident. Although that would be way too obvious to cover up.

[@dukeofthedance8062]

At 2:27 it shows an odd sight. Rock in forefront has a echinada? sp? (moon coral or pineapple coral skeleton) as that's what the circular shapes are, where it's polyps and skin used to be. Weird seeing it far from water.