http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41314948
“A later investigation concluded that Soviet satellites had mistakenly identified sunlight reflecting on clouds as the engines of intercontinental ballistic missiles.”
Does these mean that the satellites literally picked up a concentrated area of brighter light? Does brighter light, at that altitude, contain higher levels of cosmic radiation? Could that cosmic radiation be misinterpreted for the radiation of a missile? Do we have satellites that can pick up concentrated areas of high radiation?
Louis Vowell