> The technician rushed over to the equipment and discovered that the sun was shining at exactly the right angle to cause a lens flare in one of our cameras. S

> The technician rushed over to the equipment and discovered that the sun was shining at exactly the right angle to cause a lens flare in one of our cameras. Somewhat infamously, "a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds above North Dakota and the Molniya orbits of the satellites" the Soviets used for their nuclear attack early warning system triggered a false alarm, which, had it been treated as a real situation, could have lead to nuclear war in the early 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...