New Series: Operation Morning Light

In the Red Clay

Imperative Entertainment

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

On a January night in 1978, a white light burned through the sub-Arctic sky. It was Cosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet espionage satellite that had malfunctioned and fallen to earth. As the satellite disintegrated, it scattered dangerously radioactive debris across the vast traditional lands of the Dene, Métis, and Inuit in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Operation Morning Light tells the story of the Cosmos 954 disaster, its impact on the land, and the resilience of the communities in the debris field. 'Best Podcasts of 2022' - Financial Times Listen now: http://link.chtbl.com/operation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:04.1	Something scary happened yesterday.
0:06.0	Something science fiction buffs have been telling us for years was going to happen.
0:10.1	In the early hours of January 24th, 1978, people saw something strange fall out of the sky.
0:18.4	It looked like a real big, bright light and it had bunches of just like little jets flying
0:25.1	behind it.
0:26.9	Just below the Arctic Circle, it crashed down in the middle of Great Slave Lake way up
0:31.3	in Canada's northwest territories.
0:34.0	My home.
0:36.3	No one knew exactly what it was or where it came from, but they can tell.
0:41.2	Something was up.
0:42.7	We found this pit in the snow on the river and frozen into the ice was this piece of
0:51.7	metal.
0:52.7	The army came in a huge force with planes and all kinds of equipment has about suits.
0:58.6	They were all walking around town with some beeping thing and then they were picking something
1:03.9	up right in front of my place, I said.
1:08.6	They didn't tell people what they were.
1:10.8	Therefore all they told us is to go home from the school and that was it.
1:16.0	They were therefore cosmos 954.
1:19.4	A Soviet spy satellite that lost control and scattered bits of radioactive waste all
1:25.3	across the traditional lands of the denay.
1:28.2	My people.
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