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The 1978 Bell Island Boom: when a US spy satellite saw the weather

On a Sunday morning in April 1978, a thunderclap hits a small island in Newfoundland. A fuse shoots twenty feet out of a man's wall, chased by a streak of blue flame. His shed is blown off its foundation.

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