{"id":823,"date":"2019-11-25T05:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=823"},"modified":"2019-11-25T05:37:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:37:33","slug":"mysterious-melbourne-explosion-likened-to-atom-bomb-thousands-wakened-06-nov-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"MYSTERIOUS MELBOURNE EXPLOSION LIKENED TO ATOM BOMB THOUSANDS WAKENED. 06 Nov 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"

MYSTERIOUS MELBOURNE EXPLOSION (1951, November 6). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 – 1954)<\/i>, p. 1. Retrieved November 25, 2019, fromhttps:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/42724889\/3140267#<\/a><\/p>\n

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MELBOURNE, Nov. 5.\u2014A\u00a0 strange explosion and flash like an atom bomb woke thousands of<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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people and rattled windows with- in a 100-mile radius of Melbourne at 1.30 p.m. to-day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The official police report described the flash as “a brilliant multi-coloured light which ap-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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peared to move across the sky at a height of about 1500 feet, travelling in an east-north-east direction over Port Phillip Bay.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Eye-witnesses said the explosion seemed to move houses on their foundations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A man from Glen Iris said: “The whole house seem to move as though a bulldozer was quietly<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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pushing it”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MYSTERIOUS MELBOURNE EXPLOSION (1951, November 6). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 – 1954), p. 1. Retrieved November 25, 2019, fromhttps:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/42724889\/3140267# […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[809,810,90,808,131,807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}