The scene is an idyllic late afternoon in small-town USA circa the late 1950s. Neighbors are working in their yards as kids play in the streets when suddenly, there’s a flash and a roar as something passes overhead. And then the narrator intones:
Maple Street, U.S.A., late summer. A tree-lined little world of front porch gliders, barbecues, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice cream vendor. At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, it will be . . .
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