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se bbe Wt 1g heme Sh A arte POR Rik Spe arenas ee: Reman HTT deloeearts 1+ + highs rane ae ae ae nem steerer ioeaeieelnle. j go stage Tele : ¥ sy rameces “Approved BRyiRghe6 200 (ORIi71:Inlh RIC vE MOSH ROD BANG IN RECORDED HISTORY? —= CPYRGH Shortly after 7 A.M. on June 30, 1908, carly rising farmers, herdsmen, and trappers in the sparsely settled vastness of the central Siberia Platcau vago, bur the Siberian 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 roward be northern horizon, At 7:17, over a des olate region of bogs and low, pine: covered hills traversed by the Stony Tunguska River, it disappeared; in- stant, a “pillar of fire” leaped shy: ward, so bigh it was seen hundreds af miles away; the earth shuddered mutes the impact of a titanic explosion, the air was wracked by thunderoun cleyt, and a superheated wind rushed wa ward, setting parts of che taiga on bie Ata trading post forty miles from the blast, a man sitting on the steps ul hss house saw the blinding flash and ros ered his eyes; he felr scorched, as Wife shirt on his back were burning, #1! 1b next moment he was hurled frosi if steps by a shock wave and knocii tie conscious. Four hundred mile: «  } > south the ground heaved un'. 5 tracks of the recently coi i >. * Trans-Siberian Railway, threate «e+ derail an express. And aboot Tunguska region a mass ot * . & clouds, piling up to a height of «. ius miles, dumped a shower of “bla = -.- on the counnyside dirt wind! sucked up by the explosion # bh. rumblings like beavy artillery Par ts verberated throughout central Byes Since seismographs and barcuraphs everywhere had recorded the evr-> the entire world knew. that soa cay extraordinary had occurred in w+ %- ber’4n wilderness, But what? Seta + conjectured chat a giant Web must have fallen, exploding frau. intense heat its impact generaund 4. hitting the ground, such @ body 2-64 - theoretically, have blown out « ¢ crater like the onc in |Arizona, rege -quarters of a mile square, left by 9: teorite that fell fifty thousand peek “impact sit turned out te be a dismal swamy, ¥ th no trace of a meteorite to be arin ; | i i j 7 i ! Nevertheless, for want of a better ex- planation, scientists continued to ascribe the cataclysm to a meteorite, and Leonid Kulik, a mineralogist who headed government-sponsored — ex- peditions to the Tunguska in the early 1920s and again in 1938-39, searched for evidence to support this view. Although this search proved fruit- less, Kulik uncovered a wealth of in- formation about the blast. Near the swamp into which the meteorite had supposedly plummeted, — scorched irces, striped of branches, still stood, laut around this weird “telegraph-pole” forest, except where intervening hills had shielded them, every tree within ifty miles had been ‘blown flat, ics. sounk pointing away from the swamp. fiom this—and from his failure to find reen a small impact crater— Kulik con- whided that the meteorite had never ie ached the ground but had exploded to or three miles up in the air. The iest'mony of local herdsmen yielded wher curious details: the blast’s in- use heat had melted the permafrost, > susing water trapped underground ‘orth in fountains, and those reindeer rat had not been killed had developed zaysterious blisters and scabs on their ides. Stranger still, examination of the ees that had been germinating in +08 revealed thar they had then ; own at several times the normal race. During World War I Kulik was aptured by the Germans and died a prisoner. The riddle he had worked to ziive was forgotten. In August 1945, thowever, certain Russian scientists vere abruptly reminded of it by the .om-bombings of Hiroshima and ‘ Sagasaki, events which seemed uncan- uly familiar in both their manifesta-. tums (the fireball, the searing thermal inerent, the towering “mushroom” (oud) and cheir effects (the -instanta- » cous and near-toral destruction, the. +adiation burns on living flesh, the ac- - velerated growth of new plant life, «ven the“ would Jr paras bf telegraph-pole”. appearance | of scorched and branchless trees stand-* ing below che point at which an atom | bomb was detonated). Could the Siberian blast have been atomic? In 1958 a Russian engincer- ~turned-writer, Aleksander Kazantsev, published a story-article pinning that disaster on Martians killed on their way to Earth by cosmic rays or meteor- ite bombardment; their ship, with no one at the controls, hurtles into our at- mosphere at unreduced speed and burns up from friction, triggering a chain reaction in its atomic fuel that sets off che explosion, Few informed readers by then still accepted the me- teorite theory, and some, particularly younger men and women, found Ka- zantsev's hypothesis persuasive, but others rejected it in favor of an earlier alrernate explanation, according to which the head of a comet had pene- trated the atmosphere at such high ve- locity chat the heat thus generated had caused the comet to blow up. (Skeptics pointed out, however, that a comet could hardly have approached Earth without being secn.) Two further exyiscations involving _ natural causes have been advanced. {ur tens of thousands of years to-gush _- The first is that a tug: “black hole” —a chunk of matter sulisy sed to minuscule dimensions aml so cdegac that its grav- icy sucke up even bint - hic Siberia and passed in at itnsant through Earth, emerging in the Heod: Adantic. The second asserts dies es “anti-rock” of antimatter plitaed into the atmos- phere and expleded un contact with atoms of ardinary yiatier, producing a fireball of gamma rays. While this would account for the absence of residual material at ale site, it is not, most experts sey, cr patible with ob- servable phythel cs+ts of the blast. In the end, nit know what caused the asta lew in Siberia. We may fever bare fiw today, fewer scientists that #! ei time in the past receive a mes- sage beamed fran a oe corner of the universe inyuliity «to the fare o certain space veyape-® who vanished con out planet in + bei we call the yea L908. - ee ve 259