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	Vela Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vela Incident (sometimes known as the South Atlantic Flash) was an as-yet unidentified flash of light detected by a United States Vela satellite on September 22, 1979.
		Vela 6911 was one of a pair launched on 23 May 1969, more than ten years prior to the event, and the satellite was already two years past its design lifespan.
		The Vela Incident was probably the inspiration for the season 5 episode of The West Wing "The Warfare of Genghis Khan".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vela_Incident (1382 words)

	Vela - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Vela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		It contains large wisps of gas – called the Gum nebula after its discoverer, the Australian astronomer Colin Gum (1924–1960) – believed to be the remains of one or more supernovae.
		Vela also contains the second optical pulsar (a pulsar that flashes at a visible wavelength) to be discovered.
		Vela was originally regarded as part of Argo.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Vela (141 words)

	Spero News: The Vela incident: Nuclear test or meteoroid?
		Vela 6911, which orbited the earth at an altitude of 67,000 miles, carried a variety of equipment to detect the numerous signatures associated with atmospheric nuclear detonations.
		The signal Vela 6911 had apparently detected came from a remote region of the world, for the territory in view of its bhangmeters encompassed 3,000 miles in diameter - the southern tip of Africa, the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic, and a bit of Antarctica.
		Shortly after the Vela incident, Director of Central Intelligence Stansfield Turner asked his Nuclear Intelligence Panel, chaired by Donald Kerr, who had served in the Carter administration as acting director of defense programs at the Energy Department, to examine the data relating to the incident.
	www.speroforum.com /site/print.asp?idarticle=3559 (2858 words)

	New Accusation Against Vela - NEWSCHANNEL 5
		After a court hearing Monday, Vela yelled at our cameras and said we were hurting his case.
		Vela's attorney is asking the judge to release the real names of the accusers.
		Vela was recently sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to child porn charges.
	www.newschannel5.tv /2006/12/18/33373/New-Accusation-Against-Vela (209 words)

	The Vela Incident
		Due to the position ambiguity of the initial detection (the Vela optical sensors were not imaging sensors and could did not detect location), the location is variously described as being in the Indian Ocean or South Atlantic.
		Vela 6911 is presumably one of the Advanced Vela pair launch launched on 23 May 1969 (perigee 77,081 km, apogee 145,637 km, inclination 61.6 deg), and had thus been operating over ten years at the time of the 1979 detection.
		Alvarez's discovery that Vela detections were part of a continuum of detections of variable quality, and that this detection was less clear cut than others, provided a defensible rationale for dismissing it as a real detection.
	nuclearweaponarchive.org /Safrica/Vela.html (4627 words)

	Valley Morning Star Online Edition
		Ramon Vela said the incident occurred at approximately 9 p.m.
		Vela said it investigators have yet to learn why or how the vehicle was in reverse.
		Vela said police are still investigating the incident.
	valleystar.com /articles/2006/07/18/local_news/local_news5.txt (242 words)

	Valley Morning Star Online Edition
		She alleges that Vela blocked her attempts at advancement in the police department after the incident.
		Garcia claims Vela pressured her for a date when she accompanied him on a ride-along that new dispatchers were required to take with supervisors to familiarize themselves with territory, the lawsuit states.
		Vela filed a complaint against Garcia at the police department, claiming she had made false allegations against him and was damaging the police department's reputation.
	valleystar.com /articles/2006/09/15/local_news/local_news5.txt (349 words)

	The Columbus Online Community - Columbus Telegram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Vela, one of four men convicted in the murders, said Tuesday during an interview at the Lincoln Correctional Center that he regrets his part in killing five people inside the U.S. Bank branch.
		Vela agreed to his first interview in order to express his regret to the victims' families, whether or not they believe it.
		Vela said he especially wanted to express his remorse to the family of Bryant, the 29-year-old personal banker whom Vela shot twice.
	www.columbustelegram.com /articles/2004/03/17/news/news4.txt (508 words)

	3 ex-employees accuse ASU of race, age discrimination
		Gregory Moore and David Vela said they were fired from ASU Surplus Property and Recycling in June for allegedly stealing a computer.
		Vela, who worked at ASU for nearly 20 years, has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
		Moore and Vela took their case against the university to the American Arbitration Association.
	www.azcentral.com /community/tempe/articles/0817tr-suit0817Z10.html (412 words)

	Vela Incident. Possible Israeli/South African Nuclear test in 1979 - Iran Defence Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		On 22 September 1979 at 00:53 GMT, the Vela 6911 satellite apparently detected the characteristic double flash of an atmospheric nuclear explosion of some two to three kilotons at 47° S 40° Enear to the Prince Edward Islands, a South African dependency lying in the Indian Ocean.
		Following the incident, the Carter administration summoned a panel of experts headed by Dr. Jack Ruina to consider the reliability of the Vela 6911 data.
		In 1994 Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, a convicted Soviet spy, was released from prison and emigrated to Switzerland.
	www.irandefence.net /showthread.php?t=1896 (1097 words)

	Alva Eziel Curry #825
		Vela complied with Curry's demand that he open the store's cash register, which held $220.
		When Vela, 20, was unable to open the store's safe, Curry shot him in the temple at close range.
		Although the court interpreted the law correctly in claiming that the determination of mitigating factors’ relevance is a duty of the jurors, it erred in failing to recognize that Gauthier and Middleton refused to consider mitigating circumstances at all.
	www.clarkprosecutor.org /html/death/US/curry825.htm (2971 words)

	Noonsite: 2002 Colombian Incident Should Be Seen in Perspective. An Eyewitness Account
		As the recent incident at Punta Hermosa on the Colombian coast on September 29th, has attracted much interest within the sailing community we are pleased to publish here a report received from Jim and Katie Coolbaugh from the s/v Asylum.
		In fact, we just learned that the incident has been classified as an "act of piracy," which means that the Colombian Navy/Coast Guard will have a larger role, in concert with the National Police, in resolving the incident.
		In addition, the Coast Guard has been actively pursuing the incident and the local CG station commanders have proposed a meeting with cruisers here in Cartagena to pursue how cruising the coast can be made as safe as possible.
	www.noonsite.com /Members/jimmy/R2002-10-12-1 (1725 words)

	dallasobserver.com - News - Bar none (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		So it came as a rude shock to Vela and his friends that the biggest obstacle Vela must overcome to have fun is not his handicap, but the gay clubs themselves.
		Vela pointed to the front of the bar, where a bouncer had recently started his shift.
		Vela didn't have another problem until late January, when he was once again prevented from entering JR's and the Throckmorton Mining Company.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1997-06-19/news/news2_1.html (943 words)

	Shielded from Justice: Detroit: Incidents
		In 1995 a man sued the city and Gentry, after Gentry allegedly shot the man in the leg; at the time of the incident, Gentry was on suspension in relation to the arson charges but was reportedly carrying his badge and gun when the shooting occurred.
		17 The Vela killing led the city's Latino minority to decry mistreatment by officers and lack of attention by the media and civil rights groups.
		Vela's family reportedly filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police department.
	www.hrw.org /reports98/police/uspo60.htm (1576 words)

	The Times-Journal
		Vela was former Vice President Al Gore’s finance manager and is employed by the Birmingham law firm of Hebson, Liddon and Slate.
		Vela said he met with Fort Payne Police Chief David Walker on June 20, along with two local ministers, Jose Reyes and Raynes Perez, and Jairo Vargas, publisher of The Latino News.
		Vela’s group is optimistic about the future, having seen the approach work in other states, but he said they will keep an eye on Fort Payne to see if Walker does what he has agreed upon.
	www.times-journal.com /report.lasso?wcd=780 (579 words)

	Texas Execution Information - Report: Anthony Fuentes
		While serving that sentence, he was arrested, and later convicted, of attempted murder in the third shooting incident.
		Steven Anthony Vela and Kelvin Deshan Templeton were both convicted of aggravated robbery.
		Vela was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
	www.txexecutions.org /reports/336.asp (605 words)

	Texas Lawyer - In re Arriola
		At the time of the alleged incident, both Arriola and Vela were residents of Sunnybrook, a nursing home.
		Relators argued: (1) the prior disclosure of Vela's records waived any claims of privilege or confidentiality; and (2) the facts of this case fall within two exceptions to the rules of evidence pertaining to physician-patient privilege and confidentiality of mental health information in civil cases.
		Here, the relators' claims against the real parties in connection with the assault by Vela are based on the real parties' knowledge of previous assaults committed by Vela against other residents and staff.
	www.law.com /jsp/tx/LawDecisionTX.jsp?id=1086706003583 (2663 words)

	Proliferation: A flash from the past \| thebulletin.org
		Based on the characteristics of the light signal recorded by Vela, the United States estimated that the flash could have come from a test with a yield of two to four kilotons.
		Both of the Vela's bhangmeters detected a double flash of light.
		Classification rules have prevented the other side of the debate from releasing any detailed alternative explanations of this anomaly, although the rules have not prevented the critics from expressing their disagreement.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=nd97albright (2006 words)

	Speed Demos Archive - Jet Force Gemini
		Juno, Vela, and their pet cyborg dog Lupus will use a variety of guns and explosive devices to help them along the way while freeing the enslaved Tribals.
		Vela in the Thorax of Eschebone - I didn't have any explosives so I could not open the wooden door that would allow me into the brain of the worm.
		I die twice besides the Vela incident - once as Lupus in his Goldwood stage and once as Juno in the final meteor level.
	speeddemosarchive.com /JetForceGemini.html (1156 words)

	U.S. Intelligence and the South African Bomb
		In addition, several documents deal with an event - the September 1979 Vela incident - that many, at the time, believed might be the result of a covert South African nuclear test.
		On September 22, 1979 a U.S. VELA nuclear detection satellite detected a double flash of light - somewhere in the South Atlantic - that had been associated in over forty previous cases with a nuclear test.
		U.S. intelligence performance with regard to the South African nuclear weapons program and the VELA incident are the covered in.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB181/index.htm (3987 words)

	Richard Vela Relief Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		This incident has been emotionally taxing for everyone directly and indirectly involved.
		Tempe, AZ This was the first time a participant has sustained a serious injury in over 30 years of Solo competition for this Region.
		This incident will be reviewed in detail by the Solo Safety Committee and Solo Events Board in conjunction with the region.
	www.azsolo2.com /rvfund.html (435 words)

	Gamma-ray Astronomy Satellites & Missions
		You will see, as you go through the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, that the sensitivity increase in the detectors has developed greatly during the over 30 years of gamma-ray astronomy.
		Their next detector, on Orbiting Solar Observatory -3, may be more accurately described as having proof of the discovery of cosmic gamma radiation, since it found a galactic plane anisotropy of high-energy gammas, much later to be confirmed with SAS-2 and COS-B.
		However, a totally unexpected but very important contributor to the origins of gamma ray astronomy in the 1960s and 1970s were the Vela satellites.
	imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/sats_n_data/gamma_missions.html (600 words)

	Express Gay News Online
		Police are investigating a Jan. 10 incident at Bair Middle School in Sunrise, Fla., to determine if a student who allegedly cut a classmate with a razor blade did it as retaliation for anti-gay bullying.
		But if anti-gay bullying was a factor in the Bair incident, it would fit a familiar pattern.
		Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal, who killed three classmates at his West Paducah, Ky., school, was enraged by a rumor printed in a school newspaper that he was gay and had a crush on another male student, according to the psychological evaluation of Carneal prepared by Diane Schetky, a child psychologist, before Carneal's trial.
	www.expressgaynews.com /print.cfm?content_id=2371 (590 words)

	The Trek BBS: Prince Edward Islands.....SEPT 22 "Vela INcident".... LOST??
		On September 22, 1979, one of the U.S. Vela spy satellites recorded an activity near the Prince Edward Islands, which was initially interpreted like the "double flash" of a small nuclear test.
		The event is still controversial and is known as Vela Incident.
		The incident on Sept 22, 1979 could be the first incident they talked about in the show and why the fail safe was created.
	www.trekbbs.com /threads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=6672668&Main=6662137 (606 words)

	MILNET: Carey Sublette's Nuclear Weapons FAQ
		The link there is also usually denied, however, South Africa did admit to their program later in the 1970s and while they have sworn off, probably retain their capability in one form or another.
		The explosion at sea off South Africa is surrounded by controversy with many of the "It was an Israeli/South African cooperative blast" crowd saying the U.S. confounded the controversy by saying one of its aging VELA satellites erronously reported the telltale double flash.
		And interestingly enough, here is a Carey Sublette analysis of the incident and possible cover-up.
	www.milnet.com /nukeweap/Nfaq7-3.html (6587 words)

	History, and a question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The location suggests this was exploded by South Africa, which is known to have had and dismantled its nuclear program.
		Called the "Vela Incident" it has also been suggested that might have been a joint Israeli-South African detanation.
		A South African deputy Foreign Minister once admitted the blast was South African, but quickly retracted his comment.To this day, no one has firmly acknowledged their role.
	annsbox.com /logger/logger.cgi?read=3593 (146 words)

	MILNET: Carey Sublette's Nuclear Weapons FAQ
		See the Vela Incident article for more details about this event.
		If the story of a South African test is true, then it would seem that the first batch of material was ready in September 1979, and was quickly loaded into a bomb prototype and then exploded in a covert naval operation.
		An alternative story about the Vela incident asserts that it was some form of joint test between Israel and South African.
	www.milnet.com /nukeweap/Nfaq7-4.html (6063 words)

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