Tunguska Event Tunguska Event

Eye-witness accounts in Melbourne early morning on 30 June 1908 of a cylindrical object travelling extremely fast from south-south-east to south-east.

Where was it headed? The answer appears to be the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean off the north coast of Siberia. A possible source of frozen water as a working fluid for the nuclear drives we built experimentally in the 1970s. But this is speculation, whereas what happened next is hard fact. It was now 7.17 am local time on a clear summer's morning.

The object, still surrounded by glowing atmospheric plasma, was now down to an altitude of 10,000 to 7,000 metres above the surface, when abruptly it detonated with a blast energy of 20 to 30 megatons. The nuclear terminology is apt, for many witnesses reported a thermal pulse similar to that released by a nuclear warhead.

About 2200 square km of uninhabited taiga was instantly fireblasted. The Ground Zero was 40 km north of the Stony Tunguska River in remote Siberia, from which it became known much later (the first scientific expedition didn't arrive until 1927) as the Tunguska Event.

Soon after the rising fireball dispersed into the upper atmosphere (producing atmospheric effects similar to those from the largest recent previous explosion on Earth, Krakatoa in 1883), a division plaguing scientists and theoreticians on Tunguska to this day started to appear.

For more information, theories and an insight read TUNGUSKA RETROSPECTIVE by Ray Peace.

The Tunguska event was an explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Under Rock) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at 7:17 AM on June 30, 1908. The event is sometimes referred to as the Great Siberian Explosion.

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