On June 30, 1908, an inexplicable phenomenon occurred in the early morning skies over the remote valley of the Tunguska River in Siberia. What catastrophic event could have occurred that would destroy millions of trees and bring so much devastation to this remote Tunguskan region of over 800 square miles? Could it have been a UFO? Was it one of Tesla’s failed energy experiments? Was it a mini-black hole that went through the earth? A comet? An asteroid? What follows is an exploration of some of the possible explanations for this mysterious Tunguska Event that occurred a hundred years ago over the Russian skies of Siberia.
Eyewitness reports spoke of seeing blinding bluish-white light moving downward and then turning into a cloud of black smoke. The light was described as almost as bright as the sun. Sounds like cannons were fired. Knocks were heard as if artillery was being fired. Tremors were felt on the ground. A shock wave knocked people down. A thermal heat wave was experienced as the hot wind rushed between the houses. The treetops were visualized being uprooted and the trees being burned and flattened. [1].
When the Tunguska event occurred, the shock wave was recorded at seismic stations in Eurasia. Although the Richter scale was not developed until 1935, it has been estimated that in some places the shock wave would have been equivalent to a 5.0 earthquake on the Richter scale. [1]. The 1966 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records states that if the collision had occurred 4 hours 47 minutes later, due to the rotation of the Earth, it would have completely destroyed the Russian imperial capital of Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). [1].
At dusk that day, northern Europe experienced an eerie light instead of the usual darkness of night. People could read a newspaper at midnight. Photographs can be taken on the streets. Colors of pink, green and white were reported. Was this nighttime glow the result of a gas leak? Was it comet dust? Comet dust is a viable theory, indeed. The comet or meteoric material will detonate upon contact with the atmosphere. A spectrogram could show that the celestial glow was pure reflected sunlight. The trajectory of the object could show that it came “out of the sun” and was masked in the daytime sky at dawn. [2].
Due to the mystery of the cause of the Tunguska Event, it has become a fertile field for science fiction. According to John Baxter and Thomas Atkins, in their book The Fire Came By [3], the explosion created a “column of fire” visible for hundreds of miles. The locals saw it change its course 180 degrees mid-flight. With all the convincing evidence, the conclusion reached is that the explosion was a probable nuclear-powered alien spacecraft. A strong selling point of the book was the foreword written by famous science fiction author Isaac Asimov, who claimed that he found the book fascinating.
In November 1978, Leonard Nimoy, famous for his role as Spock on the television series Star Trek, presented a television documentary entitled “In Search of the Siberian Fireball”, which suggested that a nuclear explosion may have been the cause of the 1908 explosion. Although the scientists interviewed at the time supported the comet theory, the alien spacecraft theory was definitely a more exciting explanation for the explosion. [2].
The rumor has also suggested the possibility that Bigfoot could have been a lone survivor of an alien spacecraft that crashed and landed on Earth. Had this been the case, the alien intruder would have been left in a hostile environment destined to roam only awaiting future contact from the lonely skies above. However, if there was an alien accident, spaceship fragments have never been found, unless of course all traces of the ship are vaporized. [4].
According to the Tesla Memorial Society of New York [5], the mysterious 1908 explosion in Russia could have been related to Tesla’s experiments in wireless transmission of electric power, although this is admittedly unlikely. Tesla was fascinated with “projected wave energy” processes that would create invisible particles of energy that could emit great distances and result in electric fireballs, spherical plasmoids, or lightning bolts. Telsa’s “Death Ray” was described in the New York Times on September 22, 1940. [6]. Is it possible that the Tunguska event was a test firing of one of Tesla’s energy weapons?
Another postulation is that the explosion could have been from a mini-black hole that pierced the Earth. This speculation is also unlikely. There is no evidence that the black hole emerges from the other side, for one, and it is unknown whether or not such small black holes exist. [4].
According to supercomputer simulations from Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, new simulations now show that an asteroid just 30 meters in diameter exploding above the ground would be transported at speeds faster than sound. At this speed, the asteroid would take the form of a high-temperature, expanding jet of gas, called a fireball. Due to the additional energy generated by the fireball, what scientists originally thought was an explosion at the Tunguska site of between 10 and 20 megatons of energy could actually only have been three to five megatons. [7].
The bad news about the possibility that a supersonic blast wave caused by a relatively small asteroid was the cause of the Tunguska event, is that smaller asteroids approach Earth statistically more often than larger ones. Sandia principal investigator Mark Boslough notes that if such small asteroids do this kind of destruction, then “we should do more to detect smaller ones than we have done so far.” [7]. The Tunguska event of 1908 impacted a remote area above the Tunguska River valley, but a similar explosion in a more populated area would be, in a word, catastrophic.
Now, as we move forward a hundred years after the Tunguska Event, we see that the Tunguska River Valley is an oasis of fertile vegetation. The new plant life has a growth rate four times higher than usual. The trees grow larger than usual. The entire region is like a Phoenix, rising from the ashes to produce herbs, roots, and fruits that have natural nutritional benefits unique to Tunguska. And like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, Tunguska Blast is born.
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Tunguska Event Item Sources
- Wikipedia: Tunguska_event
- http://www.jamesoberg.com/ufo/tungus.html
- John Baxter and Tom Atkins, The Fire Came By, Doubleday, New York, 1976.
- http://paranormal.about.com/cs/earthmysteries/a/aa021604_2.htm
- http://www.teslasociety.com/tunguska.htm
- http://www.rense.com/general10/deathray.htm
- http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/asteroid.html