The Tunguska Incident
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
The most famous of all reported UFO incidents may be the Roswell Incident (see that entry in this guide by the same author) but another incident which in my opinion is just as interesting is the Tunguska incident.
Approximately at 7.00am on the 30th of June 1908, a large and massive explosion occurred near the lower Tunguska River, Siberia, in the country of Russia. Damage was caused by the explosiuon 400 miles away, and was heard even further. Even the heat that came out from the explosion was felt hundreds of miles away. The shockwave could be felt reportedly as far away as London. Quite a massive explosion that.
The sky was brighten up across all of northern Europe by the blast for several weeks. It was assumed that a massive meteorite had collided with the earth. At least this was the first assumption.
The area which was devastated is extremely remote and hard to get to which is the reason why it wasn't until 1927 that an expedition was assembled and went into the Tunguska area to investigate the crash site. No human more than a few residents had been there all the time from the crash until now. The expedition did not find any piece of evidence of a meteorite of any kind. This made the scientists not to say a little bit confused and puzzled. An explosion this big had to come from a rather large meteorite.
One other thing which was strange was the fact that trees on the outskirts of the blast had fell in an outward motion but the trees in and near the centre trees were still standing, although naked because the bark and branches had been destroyed.
In 1945, USA fell two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation left behind from these bombs was photographed from the air. These photos were examined and comapared to aerial photos from the Tunguska blast area and they were extremely similar.
This made various scientists convinced that the Tunguska explosion was a result of a nuclear explosion of some kind. This would explain the mystery of the trees which was still standing and how those who did fall actually fell. Since no nation or person was able to create a nuclear device or bomb in 1908 the conclusion these scientists came up with was that an alien nuclear powered spaceship must have crashed at Tunguska. Why would the aliens always choose to crashland in USA?
Other scientists were not so convinced about the alien-theory. More scientific explanations (?) were put forward as for example antimatter explosions and local black holes.
Of course this incident has some witnesses. They claimn to have seen a saucer-like craft moving at low speed across the sky in a changing pattern. The credibility of these claims is very hard to assess as it is almost 100 years ago this incident occured. No official claims from the then Soviet Union or today's Russia have been put forward yet. How much the KGB actually knew about all this is not known.
Most people today believe that what hit Tunguska was simply a meteorite, but the alien craft theory still has a lot of credibility. As with most of these cases that occurred long ago, we shall probably never know for sure.
Approximately at 7.00am on the 30th of June 1908, a large and massive explosion occurred near the lower Tunguska River, Siberia, in the country of Russia. Damage was caused by the explosiuon 400 miles away, and was heard even further. Even the heat that came out from the explosion was felt hundreds of miles away. The shockwave could be felt reportedly as far away as London. Quite a massive explosion that.
The sky was brighten up across all of northern Europe by the blast for several weeks. It was assumed that a massive meteorite had collided with the earth. At least this was the first assumption.
The area which was devastated is extremely remote and hard to get to which is the reason why it wasn't until 1927 that an expedition was assembled and went into the Tunguska area to investigate the crash site. No human more than a few residents had been there all the time from the crash until now. The expedition did not find any piece of evidence of a meteorite of any kind. This made the scientists not to say a little bit confused and puzzled. An explosion this big had to come from a rather large meteorite.
One other thing which was strange was the fact that trees on the outskirts of the blast had fell in an outward motion but the trees in and near the centre trees were still standing, although naked because the bark and branches had been destroyed.
In 1945, USA fell two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation left behind from these bombs was photographed from the air. These photos were examined and comapared to aerial photos from the Tunguska blast area and they were extremely similar.
This made various scientists convinced that the Tunguska explosion was a result of a nuclear explosion of some kind. This would explain the mystery of the trees which was still standing and how those who did fall actually fell. Since no nation or person was able to create a nuclear device or bomb in 1908 the conclusion these scientists came up with was that an alien nuclear powered spaceship must have crashed at Tunguska. Why would the aliens always choose to crashland in USA?
Other scientists were not so convinced about the alien-theory. More scientific explanations (?) were put forward as for example antimatter explosions and local black holes.
Of course this incident has some witnesses. They claimn to have seen a saucer-like craft moving at low speed across the sky in a changing pattern. The credibility of these claims is very hard to assess as it is almost 100 years ago this incident occured. No official claims from the then Soviet Union or today's Russia have been put forward yet. How much the KGB actually knew about all this is not known.
Most people today believe that what hit Tunguska was simply a meteorite, but the alien craft theory still has a lot of credibility. As with most of these cases that occurred long ago, we shall probably never know for sure.
