Sod was shaken loose from our ceilings and glass was splintered out of the window frames. Some have suggested it was a black hole. Others have wondered if it was a piece of anti-matter. A number of science-fiction accounts have degraded the event to fantasy. Some critics hold that the entire history of nearly five decades of field work represents little more than a chain of mistakes.
Most scientists disagree and point to a comet or an asteroid being the cosmic culprit.
To this day the vast Tunguska region remains a desolate area of mosquito-infested bogs and swamps amid the beautiful hilly taiga. To reach the epicenter you are dropped off by helicopter. Or you hike in. For a trained eye, evidence of the blast is not difficult to identify, even after 90 years. The power of the blast felled trees outward in a radial pattern over an area of 2,1504 square kilometers, more than half the size of Rhode Island.