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1938 Fireball Explosion Over W PA Remembered 

About 6 p.m. June 24, 1938, a huge fireball exploded over the small borough of Chicora, Pennsylvania. At first, the commotion was thought to have been caused by an explosion in a nearby building used to store gunpowder.

Had it progressed closer to Earth before exploding, note the studies, it would have destroyed much of nearby Pittsburgh and resulted in very few survivors. (Special Note: When this event happened, Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science was under construction, in the center of the North Side's business district.)

http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2013/03/1938-fireball-explosion-over-w-pa.html

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Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,
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