[C19fan]

I remember the news stories about this event.

[Red Badger]

Me too, Everybody figured it was South Africa’s Nuke test......................

[budj]

The article shows an Israeli 175mm gun firing. I served in VietNam in a heavy, composite srtillery unit with two of these guns.

There never was a nuclear round made for these guns, so why in hell show one here?

[Dr. Sivana]

I saw the headline and thought that we had regressed to Roman methods of divination.

[butlerweave]

Uranium mining in Australia ? No?

[exnavy]

I was active duty navy, it was quite certian in 1979 that it was a nuke.

[G Larry]

Oh my!

I worked with some of those guys in the video in the years after I joined Martin Marietta in 1976, at VAFB, CA.

We launched Titan IIIB and IIID from the West Coast.

Then on the West Coast Shuttle program starting in 1978.

[BTerclinger]

Should have used it against the ANC.

[ro_dreaming]

Whoever set off an atomic bomb in the middle of nowhere in September 1979 went to great lengths to conceal it—only to be found out by flocks of sheep 40 years later.

Do sheep live 40 years? Or are these descendants of those sheep?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sheep Glands Point to Nukes as Source of Mysterious 1979 Explosion

I prefer to use goat entrails and a Ouija board when trying to divine the source of a nuclear explosion.

[jim_trent]

Where did they find 40+ year old sheep to test?