Parsons, Rear Admiral. "Subject: site for atomic bomb experiments, May 12, 1948." Appendix to U.S. Commanding Lieutenant General J. E. Hull's memorandum to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, "Subject: location of proving ground for atomic weapons." Quoted in: Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on, and above the earth: A report of the IPPNW International Commission to Investigate the Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Production and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (1991) p. 70 ISBN0-945257-34-1. Accessed April 7, 2021
Two video frames taken from the 1988 Robert Stone documentary film Radio Bikini, at times 42:44 and 42:45. Eyewitness reports at Weisgall, 1994, pp. 162–163. On August 2, 1946, the Preliminary Statement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Board said, "From some of the photographs, it appears that this column lifted the 26,000-ton battleship Arkansas for a brief interval before the vessel plunged to the bottom of the lagoon. Confirmation of this must await the analysis of high-speed photographs which are not yet available".Shurcliff, 1947, p. 196. The video frames shown here were first made public in 1988 when Robert Stone got permission to use them in his documentary film. They are viewable on the Internet at sonicbomb.com, 39 seconds into the video, «Baker». Consultado el 3 de noviembre de 2008.
Los participantes de Operation Crossroads informaron del vuelco y se representa en dos dibujos contemporáneos (ver //history.navy.mil/ac/bikini/bikini5.htm El acorazado Arkansas se lanza en un pilar gigante), pero dos autores han sugerido que lo que parece el La silueta de un casco de acorazado vertical es en realidad un espacio en la columna de agua, una sombra de lluvia al revés, causada por el casco invisible y aún horizontal de "Arkansas", ya que bloquea la subida del agua en la columna. Esta explicación se describió como una posibilidad en Shurcliff , 1947, pp. 155,156. Delgado lo expresó como una certeza en Delgado , 1991, pp. 55,88, y nuevamente enDelgado, 1996, p. 75.
