what happened on june 30th 1908 to totally shake the russian empire with unanswered questions
how did the explosion in tanduska impact that remote area of siberia
what was the final determination of the blast that would have wiped out any large city on earth
hello i'm colin heaton former soldier marine corps scott sniper history professor historian and
book author and we'll answer these questions and other issues on this segment of forgotten history
just after seven o'clock in the morning near the tunguska river near the city of krasnoyarsk
a large bright fireball was seen in the sky over 100 miles from what would be ground zero
or the impact zone it had a long tail like a comet that apparently disappeared before
impact then an explosion lit the sky and turned it bright flaming red for over 600 square miles
just 300 miles away from the impact eyewitnesses recorded a massive firestorm
a large cloud erupted with smoke while 40 miles away from the center of the blast people were
knocked off their feet or even knocked unconscious and windows were shattered
and the ground shook as if an earthquake had struck the explosion killed hundreds
of reindeer throwing their caretakers around with one man dying after being thrown against the tree
the forest was set on fire as the trees themselves were blown down in a large white fan
pointing away from the center of the blast a proper scientific investigation was not possible
due to the remoteness of the area difficulty getting there and the fact that not long afterward
world war one started and then the bolshevik revolution finally an investigative team led
by scientist and metallurgist leonard kulick in 1927 arrived but he had difficulties the most
reliable sources were the local indigenous people the tungas tribes they were still like many other
native tribes around the world superstitious and believed that it was a divine action by ogdi their
god of thunder much like thor and norse mythology therefore getting guides to take his team to the
site was quite difficult since the locals feared angering their gods even more finally reaching
the area he noticed that the trees had been flash burned from above not burned from ground level as
in a forest fire while others still standing had been cleanly stripped of their branches
kulik had a problem to solve his meteorite theory was dismissed due to the lack of an active crater
showing there was no direct impact he later returned in 1929 and in 1938 to gather more
evidence but without a crater he was still puzzled then in 1940 another scientist e.l krinov
visited the site and he came to the conclusion that kulik was correct it was a meteorite but
that it had exploded above the trees and not impacted failing to find any pieces of immediate
right the study stalled and the following year the soviet union was involved in world war ii
another problem with completing the investigation even after the war was the very paranoid nature
of the soviet system in general in 1978 a team extracted soil and rock samples
but these were ignored for decades therefore the lack of any actual scientific evidence
to prove or disprove the meteorite conspiracy theories erupted ideas abounded such as a black
hole colliding with the earth alien weaponry underground magma or gas eruptions or even an
alien spacecraft having crashed have been provided the puzzling factor was the nature of the blast
having all the hallmarks of a nuclear weapon being deployed such as radiation detected in later years
and the method of the destruction as well as the visual accounts these factors are amazing when one
realizes that this event occurred almost four decades before the invention of such a weapon
another accusation was that nikola tesla's so-called death rate was responsible
tesla did test his teleforce energy beam device as he wanted to have a worldwide method of wireless
communications on a larger scale than even marconi's wireless radio but this was dismissed
in 2013 following the krinov theory of a meteorite exploding above the earth
dr victor cavsnatsia analyzed the fragments recovered in 1978 these fragments were overlooked
because they were so small not the large rocks or stones normally found at such locations indicating
that the heat from the explosion must have been very intense later research estimates the blast
was equivalent to between 50 to 60 hiroshima atomic bombs or over 500 kilotons an amazing force
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