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(9236)  Sat 7 Nov 92 10:20p
By: Jim Sanders
To: All
Re: Tunguska Version 1
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 Several have asked for a re-post. Here is version 1.
 "Shortly after 7 A.M. on June 30, 1908, early rising farmers,
 herdsmen,  and   trappers in the sparsely settled vastness of
 the  central  Siberia Plateau watched in awe as a cylindrical
 object,  glowing  with an intense  bluish --- white light and
 trailing a fiery tail,  raced across a clear blue sky  toward
 the northern horizon. At 7:17, over a desolate region of bogs
 and low,  pine covered hills traversed by the  Stony Tunguska
 River, it disappeared;  instantly, a  "pillar of fire" leaped
 skyward,  so high  it was  seen  hundreds of miles away;  the
 earth shuddered under the impact of a titanic explosion;  the
 air was wracked  by thunderous claps;  and a superheated wind
 rushed  outward,  setting yurts  of the taiga  on fire.  At a
 trading post forty miles from the blast, a man sitting on the
 steps of his house  saw the blinding  flash and  covered  his
 eyes;  he felt  scorched,  as if the shirt  on his back  were
 burning,  and the next moment he was hurled from the steps by
 a shock wave and  knocked unconscious.  Four hundred miles to
 the south the ground heaved  under the tracks of the recently
 completed  Trans-Siberian Railway,  threatening  to derail an
 express.  And  above  the  Tunguska  region  a mass  of black
 clouds,  piling  up  to a height  of  twelve miles,  dumped a
 shower af "black rain" on the counrtyside --- dirt and debris
 sucked --- up by the explosion --- while rumblings like heavy
 artillery fire reverberated throughout central Russia.

 Since seismographs and barographs everywhere had recorded the
 event, the entire world knew that something extraordinary had
 occurred  in the  Siberian wilderness.  But what?  Scientists
 conjectured that a giant meteorite must have fallen,  explod-
 ing  from the intense heat  its impact generated.  On hitting
 the ground, such a body would,  theoretically, have blown out
 a huge crater  like the one in Arizona,  three-quarters  of a
 mile square,  left  by a meteorite  that fell  fifty thousand
 years ago,  but the Siberian "impact site" turned out to be a
 dismal swamp, with no trace of a meteorite to be seen."

--- DB 1.39/004487
 * Origin: Volunteer BBS (615) 694-0791 (8:995/113)


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(9237)  Sat 7 Nov 92 10:22p
By: Jim Sanders
To: All
Re: Tunguska Version 2
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 Here is the second version that I have... Jim

  The Tunguska Incident.. Another view:

 Extracted from "THE COMET IS COMING!" by Nigel Calder
 Copyrighted 1980  *  British Boradcasting Corporation
 35 Marylebone High Street,  London, England   W1M 4AA

 Quote:
 Early in the morning of 30 June 1908 the driver of the Trans-
 Siberian express heard loud bangs and imagined that his train
 had exploded.  When he stopped, his wide-eyed passengers said
 they had seen a bright blue ball of fire streaking across the
 sky, trailing smoke. Six hundred kilometres away to the north-
 east,  in the  valley of the  Podkamennaya Tunguska river,  a
 blast uprooted huge areas of forest.  It slaughtered reindeer
 and  scattered  the tents  of  nomads  camping  far  from the
 explosion. In present-day terms,  it was like an H-bomb going
 off.  Experts hearing the news suspected  a big meteorite but
 inconvenient wars  and revolution prevented them reaching the
 scene until 1927. Then, and in subsequent Soviet expediltions,
 they found the shattered forest  but no large crater,  only a
 number of small holes and some meteoritic grains a tenth of a
 millimetre in diameter.

 The strange goings-on  in Siberia were  therefore open to any
 outlandish or other worldly explanation.  When the physicists
 discovered anti-matter people  suggested that a chunk of that
 deadly stuff,  annihilating  ordinary matter,  had caused the
 Tunguska Event. A distinguished British nuclear-weapons maker
 supported the suggestion that a natural nuclear bomb fell out
 of the sky at Tunguska. Flying saucers became popular, so the
 Siberian backwoods were flattened by an alien spaceship crash-
 ing, or taking off. No  sooner  had astronomers become inter-
 ested in black holes than one of those was said to have bored
 through the Earth: in at Tunguska and out through the Atlan-
 tic.

 By far the most plausible explanation of the Tunguska Event was
 that a small comet hit the Earth. This suggestion originated in
 in 1930 with Francis Whipple of Kew, London, not to be confused
 with Fred Whipple, Snowball Maker, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 But the rise  of the snowball theory  of comets encouraged that
 view  of Tunguska,  and  by the  l960s  Soviet  scientists were
 inclined  to agree with it.  In 1975, an Israeli scientist, Ari
 Ben-Menahem of Rehovot, reassessed all the information and con-
 cluded  that the main  explosion occurred  8.5 kilometres above
 the ground and was equivalent to 12.5  megatons  (million tons)
 of high explosive going off.  That equals a moderately large H-
 bomb.  To cause such a blast, David Hughes of Sheffield calcul-
 ated that the impact  on the  atmosphere  of a  Whipple-Whipple
 snowball  a mere forty metres  in diameter,  and weighing about
 50,000 tons, would be sufficient.

 The absence of large stones and craters makes sense if the comet
 consisted  mainly of ices.  That it was not spotted in space be-
 fore it  hit is  unsurprising:  so small  a comet  would  not be
 visible to the naked eye until a few minutes before impact. Mat-
 erial shed from the comet as it sloped in through the atmosphere
 above Europe and Asia  explains a mysterious  brightening of the
 night sky noted  in those regions  in July 1908.  There was just
 one snag. An American Nobel prizewinner had supported the propo-
 sition that  the Tunguska Event  was caused by a body containing
 anti-matter,  by saying that the amount of radioactive carbon in
 Earth's atmosphere was increased by the event. Hughes and a col-
 league went to some pains to account for the radiocarbon,  until
 a letter from  the famous man said he meant the opposite:  there
 no increase in radiocarbon.

  The Tunguska comet  coincided with a  daylight meteor shower
 consisting  of dust particles  left in the orbit of the comet
 Encke, so it was probably a very small fragment of that comet.
 Lubor Kresak of Bratislava has made out the detailed case for
 this identification.  If tbe whole nucleus of Encke,  100,000
 times more massive, hit Siberia, it would kill more than rein-
 deer.  But the  threat to  the earth  comes not just from the
 active comets  that brandish their heads and tails around the
 Solar System,  but from the small,  dark apollo objects,  the
 micro-planets that cross the Earth's path.
 End of Quote

   This appears to have as many holes in it as the Meteorite
 theory.  What material created the fusion?  These scientist
 appear to be guessing like the rest. Comets do NOT maneuver
 as witnesses in other writings have stated.

 For your opinion.  Comet or Space Ship?
 Jim Sanders

--- DB 1.39/004487
 * Origin: Volunteer BBS (615) 694-0791 (8:995/113)


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(9238)  Sat 7 Nov 92 10:24p
By: Jim Sanders
To: All
Re: Tunguska Version 3
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 Here is my Third and last Version.. If I find any more, I will post

     Radioactive? Yes, many newspapers carried, early in 1959, a new
 theory about what had previously been regarded as the fall of a gi-
 ant meteorite  in Siberia  over fifty  years ago.  The London Daily
 Express of May 4, 1959, published an article which stated:

   A theory that a spaceship from another planet reached Earth 51
 years ago is causing a major split among Russia's leading scien-
 tists.
    An expedition from Moscow is now working in the remote forest
 where on June 30, 1908, what has been known as the 'Great Siber-
 ian Meteorite' fell,
    Radiation measurements are being taken.
    Three of the Russian scientists, Professors Kukarkin, Kninov
 and Fesenkov, say it was  PROBABLY  a meteorite. But they cau-
 tiously use the word "phenombnon" instead.
    And Professors Alexander Kazantsev and B. Lapunov insist it
 MUST have been a rocket or ship coming from Mars.

 Kazantsev, who has been accumulating evidence for the spaceship
 theory for years,  has released some details  to the Czechs and
 the Poles.
       Never has the mystery been considered with such thorough-
 ness.
     These are the facts: On that June day the inhabitants of the
 Jenissi district of Siberia saw a  gigantic ball of fire.  Imme-
 diately afterwards  there was a colossal  explosion which devas-
 tated a forest area of 70 miles in diameter.
     The shock waves were registered in England
     Scientists looked in vain for traces of a meteorite and a
 crater. Curiously, in the center of the devastated region only
 the tops of trees had been snapped off.
     But the meteorite theory persisted-until the atomic bomb
 exploded over Hiroshima.
     Then just afer the war, Kazantsev tentatively said that the
 Hiroshima devastation bore great similarity to that in the
 Siberian forest.
     He said then: 'An atomic explosion took place in Siberia at
 the height of one and a half miles.' He was not taken seriously.
     In 1951 he was helped by Professor Lapunov and both of them
 formed the idea of an atomic propelled vehicle which exploded
 while trying to land.
     Several expeditions were sent to the site. One came back last
 summer with the report: No meteorite evidence at all.
     This report set the controversy alight again.
     Soviet aerodynamics expert,  Manotskov,  has lent strength to
 the spaceship theory.   He says that the Siberian 'fireball'  was
 braking as it approached Earth, so that its final speed was about
 one to two kilometers per second, instead of between 30 to 60
 kilometers per second as with meteorites.
       The SYDNEY SUN,  Australia,  quoting from the official Czech
 trade union newspaper,  PRACE,  stated that  the Russian scientist
 in a book called A GUEST FROM THE UNIVERSE had written that people
 living near the explosian died of a then unknown illness  with the
 same symptoms as exposure to atomic radiation and  that the explo-
 sion had its biggest impact at some distance from its center
 exactly like an atom explosion.

 I still say it was an exploded UFO or missle..NOT a comet or
 meteorite... For thos that asked.. Jim

Carl Sagan just barely touches on the sibject but will say very little about
it.

--- DB 1.39/004487
 * Origin: Volunteer BBS (615) 694-0791 (8:995/113)