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Revealed in upcoming episodes of this program are the contents of a recently

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unearthed repository classified by the secret government, the Phenomenon Archives.

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The sheer immensity of the blast at Tunguska has intimidated scientists and researchers

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for over nine decades. Since the scientific know-how to cause an explosion of this magnitude

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was not within humanity's capability until decades after the event, man-made causes were

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ruled out early on. But there are matters that have come to light since the unearthing

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of the Phenomenon Archives, which should encourage scientists to revisit all possibilities.

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Shortly after 7 a.m. on June 30, 1908, in the cold vastness of Central Siberia near

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the Tunguska River, farmers, herdsmen and trappers watch in awe as a cylindrical object

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glowing with blinding white light in a fiery tale streaks across the morning horizon. The

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object is six to ten kilometers above the ground, directly over a desolate region of

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tundra and pine forest. At 7.17, it explodes in a tremendous ball of fire, laying to waste

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over 2,000 square kilometers of Earth, equivalent to an area larger than Los Angeles. The resulting

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firestorms last for several weeks, burning an additional 10,000 kilometers surrounding

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the flashpoint. This explosion is felt several thousand kilometers away. Strangely, upon

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investigation of this location 19 years later, no impact crater of any kind is found, and

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no conclusive evidence is released from the site to enable scientists to determine what

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created this massive explosion. Until now.

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At the time, Russia was going through a major transition. The revolutionary uprising occurred

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in 1905. It failed. But soon after the Russians were to enter World War I, were in 1,700,000

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lives were lost. Then this R fell. The Bolsheviks took over. And, well, needless to say, no one was rushing

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up to Siberia to check out a bunch of knocked down trees and some sick farmers.

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After 90 years of investigation of this crash site by thousands of scientists from Russia

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and dozens of other countries, there is still no consensus among scientists as to the identity

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of the object or its origin. Recently, thousands of participants in an international space

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convention held in Belon, Italy, failed to grasp any further understanding or form any

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scientific consensus regarding the phenomenon.

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Professor Envy Vasilyev, chairman of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the Russian Academy

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of Sciences admits during this convention that the explosion is of a non-terrestrial

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object of still unknown origin and that an unambiguous comprehensive solution addressing

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all of the problems involved in a logical scientific explanation is not achievable with

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the available evidence.

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A group of scientists found the impact point and they found something very interesting.

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Namely, a forest that for many square miles had been knocked down and all the trees were

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pointing radially away from the impact point. And at the impact point was a great big hole

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in the ground. Now, what's interesting about it is nothing was found of whatever caused

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the impact. There is the forest torn down, there's the great big holes and nothing else.

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The available body of evidence both supports and contradicts all of the explanations previously

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put forward to account for the explosion. Conflicting evidence confounds many of the

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competing proposals. These range from the impact of an asteroid or comet to contact

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with antimatter particles, a mini black hole, or even a futuristic weapons discharge. Some

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evidence, apparently collected many years ago by Russian scientists, was confiscated

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and without explanation concealed by the Ministry of State Security, later to become known as

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the KGB. Now presented for the first time is an account of this mysterious explosion

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by one of the last surviving eyewitnesses. Exposed here are the fallacies in current

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scientific theories and explanations set forth to interpret what actually occurred in Tunguska

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on that fateful morning in 1908. A colonel in the former Soviet Union's KGB now admits

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to being an accessory to a covert Russian cover-up intended to suppress and conceal crucial evidence.

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Since his role in the government's scheme to conceal the conclusions reached by many

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Russian scientists privy to the evidence gathered at Tunguska, the Tunguska actually

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bears the scars of an authentic 90-year-old crash site of an interplanetary spaceship

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of extraterrestrial origin. Considering the role taken by the Russian government in attempting

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to conceal the truth about this event, coupled with the virtual impossibility of explaining

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the explosion by any natural means, this occurrence seems frighteningly similar to the event occurring

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in 1947 in the United States near Roswell, New Mexico. With all the available evidence

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considered, Tunguska may well represent the equivalent of a Russian Roswell.

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Just prior to the Tunguska explosion in 1908, observatories and meteorologists around the

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world note a series of atmospheric oddities, including the formation and movement of unusual

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clouds, an unusually strong aurora borealis and solar halos. No one is able to directly

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connect these atmospheric oddities with the Tunguska object. However, the coincidences

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in time between the sudden occurrence of these strange atmospheric activities followed by

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the explosion strongly suggest that they are connected in some way.

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I was about seven or eight years old at the time I saw it with my father. We were farming

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in a little village near the railroad tracks, and I'll never forget how it looked like a

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long, round chimney on its side with a long tail of fire. I remembered telling everybody

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I could that it looked at first like it was coming down, but then angled up for a little

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and then I was absolutely positive that it had changed its direction.

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As many as 900 eyewitnesses living near the crash give similar accounts, their stories

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consistently speak of an object that changes trajectory, maneuvering in a way that defies

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any logical scientific explanation of a naturally occurring event. It is physically impossible

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for a meteor or comet caught in the Earth's gravitational pull to change direction while

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falling through our atmosphere. Whatever the phenomenon may have been, it did not behave

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like any object known to nature.

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It disappeared over the next mountain ridge, and I remember like it was yesterday, how

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a few seconds later it seemed like the entire world ended. There was a flash that filled

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the entire sky, and it was like the sky opened up and split in half. I put my hands over

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my eyes and I could see the bones in my hands.

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One set of World War I and the civil conflicts within Russia which result in the Communist

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Revolution. It is 1927 before an expedition is mounted to investigate the site of the

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Tunguska event. Upon arrival at the site, the members of this expedition are awestruck

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by the carnage and the extent of the devastation still evident 19 years after the explosion.

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Trees the size of telephone poles are snapped like toothpicks in a radial pattern away from

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the central point of the blast, splayed out like spokes on a bicycle wheel. Even so, no

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crater is discovered and there are no traces of a large meteorite found in the vicinity.

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There are however many small metallic fragments embedded in the fallen trees. These are collected

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for analysis. Many people living near the explosion site reportedly die of an unknown

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illness, showing symptoms not previously known to the region.

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I could not get over the fact that so many of my friends and family were getting sick

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and many of them died when still young. They were healthy before and I just could not figure

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out why they got sick and died.

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Nine hundred kilometers from the blast, an observatory buried deep in Irkutsk, Siberia

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records disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field as well as several magnetic storms

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occurring at the same time or just following the Tunguska event.

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These anomalies cannot be explained by any natural means, no basis for explaining either

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the explosion or the resulting abnormalities exist until after World War II.

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Then, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aerial photographs of these

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cities are compared with aerial photographs of the Tunguska site. The photographs are

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surprisingly similar, with the notable exception that the Tunguska site is very much larger

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by comparison. Another stunning observation reveals that people living near the two bomb

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blasts in Japan experience identical symptoms of ill health to those in the vicinity of

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Tunguska. Many experts believe that the people who die of the strange illness near Tunguska

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lose their lives as a result of radiation poisoning.

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Stalin was known as the last one among the Tunguska and Hiroshima.

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When Stalin found out about the similarities between Tunguska and Hiroshima, he went absolutely

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nuts. He thought it could have been some UFO testing a new weapon that he could make use

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of or something that could be used against the Americans. Stalin just wanted to know

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what the hell went on out there and for someone to sort all of that out.

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In July of 1947, Joseph Stalin personally gives specific instructions to the head of

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the Ministry of State Security, later to become the KGB, to investigate Tunguska. He is to

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involve the world's foremost rocket scientist and designer, S.P. Karolov. Karolov later

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becomes the father of the Russian space program.

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Sergei Karolov was a larger-than-life figure. In the late 50s and early 60s, he would change

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the face of world history by, among other things, sending the first manned rocket into

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space. Considering his stature with his peers, the position he would take on the Tunguska

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event would likely represent the final word on the subject. To the supreme Soviet, the

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word of S.P. Karolov was as authentic as Russian vodka. But if they could have predicted

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his conclusions, they might have kept that vodka for themselves.

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Once the Russians succeed in developing the technology to explode thermonuclear weapons,

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they conduct numerous test detonations high in the atmosphere. They find that these explosions

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produced disruptions in the Earth's magnetic field, resulting in geomagnetic storms. These

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storms produce readings that are identical to those recorded by the Irkutsk Observatory

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during and after the Tunguska explosion of 1908. Further evidence of a nuclear blast

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and residual radiation fallout is revealed some years later, when Russian scientists

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and experts find that virtually all of the trees at Tunguska undergo abnormal accelerated

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growth for years subsequent to the blast. This is scientifically proven to be the result

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of genetic mutation caused by radiation exposure. Karolov himself equips an expedition to an

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expedition to investigate the explosion site at Tunguska. By the late 1950s, a number of

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expeditions confirm finding residual traces of radiation throughout the blast region.

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A mystified Karolov is unable to explain the occurrence through any natural means. He concludes

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that the blast must have been caused by the crash of an extraterrestrial vehicle.

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Once radiation traces were found out there, my superiors instructed a team of us to lock

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down the whole place and to take possession of all objects that were ever collected from

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the site. We told all of the people there who saw the object years ago to say that it

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was only a big meteor, otherwise they would get a free ticket to a Siberian prison camp.

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We thought for sure that we would find some alien body parts or spacecraft chunks or

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nuclear bomb parts, and the last thing we wanted to do was to share any findings with

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the Americans. Many of the scientists involved in this investigation

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of Tunguska lose their jobs or are invited by the KGB to a long-term expedition deep

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in Siberia. TASS, the Soviet government-controlled newspaper, does an about face, staking several

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times that the explosion is not a UFO after all, but is simply the result of a comet or

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asteroid impact. These reports help solidify this now long-accepted official story of the

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Tunguska blast. We did collect some papers and samples of odd-shaped metal and rock pieces,

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but I never did find out whatever happened to any of that, or whether or not anyone else

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found out about what the story was. All I was told to do was to have people not say

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that it was a UFO. We had all of the materials sent to a secret military base just south

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of Vanavara in Siberia, but I don't know what happened to it since then.

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That area became the top secret area in the Soviet Union, and people were brought in there,

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including their families. Security was extremely tight. The United States, trying to get information,

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set up listening posts, and then, of course, using the U-2 spy plane over flew the area,

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but the Russians spent a tremendous amount of effort isolating the test area and keeping

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everything as secret as they could out of the even the prying eyes of people in Moscow.

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You know, when we talk about the secrecy, we must begin to talk about the society, and

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we have this history here for the decades. It was anti-capitalist, it was anti-Japan,

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it was anti-German. Everybody was suspicious to each other. So, in living all this history,

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it was impossible then to change everything. So, when Khrushchev came to power, he made

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our society much less closed. But before everything was secret. Now, still many things remain

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secret, which had no explanation. For over three generations, the Russians have successfully

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kept the facts about Tunguska from the world. Scientists and experts from around the globe

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spin their wheels writing papers and treatises in an attempt to explain the explosion in

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Khrushchev by natural means. The most popular explanation of this event, the official story,

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is that it is caused by either an asteroid or comet. Comets and asteroids are essentially

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left over debris from the birth of our solar system four and one-half billion years ago

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when a giant star exploded, leaving an enormous ball of dust, which ultimately evolves into

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our sun and planets. The Earth orbits the sun in a sort of cosmic shooting gallery with

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comets and asteroids coming by all the time. At any particular moment, there's likely

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to be one or two between us and the moon that are 30 or 40 feet in diameter or larger. You

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don't usually distinguish between comets and asteroids because once it hits, it really

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doesn't matter what it was. Asteroids are made of rocky material, comets are made of

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icy material, but if you're hit by one, it really doesn't matter any more than you would

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care if you were shot, whether the bullet that shot you was made of ladder steel.

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If you look at the moon, it's heavily cratered. If you look at Mars, heavily cratered. Mercury

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is heavily cratered. The Earth was also heavily cratered. It's just that here on Earth, the

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effect of all the erosional processes and the tectonic processes which create mountains

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and earthquakes have erased the record. But in fact, the Earth would have looked just like

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those other bodies had it not been for the weathering and the tectonic processes, the

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geophysical processes. The largest well-documented impact was 65 million years ago. We don't

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know if it was a comet or an asteroid, but we do know that it struck the Earth in the

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Yucatan, in ancient Mexico, producing a crater about 150 miles across and that it created

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such a profound environmental catastrophe that most life on Earth came to an end. The

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majority of the species went extinct, including the dinosaurs.

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There have been several instances of comets and asteroids smacking the Earth. The most

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recent perhaps is the so-called Tunguska event in Russian Siberia, where in 1908 an object

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probably the size of several houses smacked into the Earth's atmosphere and caused an

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explosion that knocked down trees for 30 miles in either direction. And this was an object

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that was only about 60 meters in size, just over the half the size of a football field.

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And it didn't even hit the Earth because it broke up in the Earth's atmosphere.

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Meteors smack into the Earth or disintegrate in the atmosphere all the time. There's nothing

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new or surprising about that. What then makes the Tunguska blast so unique? Why was it kept

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secret for so long?

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Scientists offer one explanation that an asteroid about the size of a 25-story building, comprised

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of a loose conglomeration of small rocks and minerals, enters the Earth's atmosphere on

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a collision course with our planet. Due to atmospheric friction, the object heats up

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to several thousand degrees and explodes, disintegrating in a huge ball of fire. It is indeed possible

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that a rock weighing about 1 million tons could create such explosive power, and that

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it could even leave radioactive traces. And while this is still the cleanest and simplest

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explanation to accept, there are numerous evidentiary contradictions that oppose the

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asteroid theoretical conclusion.

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Normally, when an asteroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it heats up to incredible temperatures

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and explodes at a very high altitude. If the meteor is very large, it slams into the

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Earth, dredging up billions of tons of soil and rock.

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Perhaps the best known example is Meteor Crater in Arizona. That was made by an impact of

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an iron object about 100 feet across. And it exploded with an energy that we can estimate

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from the crater itself as about 15 megatons, about the size of the largest nuclear bombs.

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It left a scar, it's 50,000 years old, and there are half dozen other craters on the

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Earth of a similar age that are also easily seen.

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Virtually all of the other impact traces endured by Earth are erased almost as quickly as they

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appear, such that all impacts, except the most recent, go unnoticed.

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Any object larger than about 50 feet across, with an explosive energy then of the order

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of several megatons, equivalent to a large nuclear bomb, is able to penetrate through

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our atmosphere and to explode either in the lower atmosphere or at the surface. So when

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one of those penetrations takes place, we end up with the equivalent of a large nuclear

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bomb going off, which of course could do terrible damage.

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It is almost inconceivable that an object the size of a 25-story building and weighing

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over one million tons would disintegrate into dust particles without leaving any debris.

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The Arizona crater was caused by a meteor only one quarter the size of the one theorized

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to have caused the Tunguska explosion, and that meteor made it to the surface intact.

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This contributes to the questionable nature of this explanation.

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A meteor could not change course as many of the eyewitnesses testify. Neither could it

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create the atmospheric oddities associated with the event. Primarily made up of a loose

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collection of rocks, a meteor would not disrupt the Earth's magnetic field, nor create geomagnetic

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storms as occurred in the skies over Tunguska.

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Recently, the suggestion was made that it was actually a chunk of a comet that smashed

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into the Earth. In fact, it never really hit the ground, but it blew up a mile or so above

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the surface. And that is exactly what you would expect if something frail like a great

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big chunk of ice like that.

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Comets are made of rock and ice. Their spectacular tail occurs when the solar wind evaporates

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bits of ice, then blows these particles back for millions of kilometers. Scientists believe

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that there are trillions of comets beyond the furthest planet in a formation known as

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the Oort cloud. Periodically, one is dislodged from its distant orbit and is hurled toward

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the sun. A typical comet makes only one pass through the inner solar system during its

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lifetime.

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Something on the order of, let's say, 10 meters in size would certainly not make it

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through the Earth's atmosphere. And probably something getting up to 50 meters would explode

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in the Earth's atmosphere and you would have a shower of little debris coming down, but

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nothing that could create a large crater.

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Now if we start moving up in size, something on the order of 100 meters in size will certainly

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make it through the Earth's atmosphere unless perhaps if it's cometary and it's very, very

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fragile. Something about 80 meters in size impacted over Siberia in 1908, the Tunguska

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event.

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While pieces from the tail of a comet can cause reactions in the upper atmosphere prior

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to entry and explosion, the comet theory does present other ambiguities which point to the

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rejection of this explanation.

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Comets are defined by the visual spectacle they create with their brightness and long

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tail. It is therefore extremely unlikely their comet could suddenly sneak up on the Earth

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without being witnessed from elsewhere on the planet. A comet consisting mainly of ice

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cannot cause the extraordinary geomagnetic storms such as those which occurred over Tunguska,

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nor can it leave behind radioactive traces. Furthermore, a comet once subject to Earth's

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gravitational pull cannot change its course.

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Computer simulations clearly demonstrate that a comet of the size required to create this

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blast would disintegrate much higher in the atmosphere than the object that exploded over

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Tunguska.

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One of the more exotic explanations for the explosion is that particles of antimatter

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somehow formed over the Tunguska region then exploded when they came in contact with the

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positive matter molecules in the atmosphere. It is well documented in the scientific community

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that antimatter particles coming into contact with positive matter particles cancel each

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other out, potentially creating a massive explosion. This proposal stems from the residual

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radiation left over after the Tunguska explosion, the lack of a crater, and the lack of any

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eyewitness report of a mushroom cloud. The antimatter theory does not account for the

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atmospheric or geomagnetic oddities associated with the Tunguska explosion, or the eyewitness

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observations of an object streaking across the sky. With the lack of any rational explanation

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of how these antimatter particles formed and the fact that these particles would have

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caused an explosion at a much higher point in the atmosphere, this theory may be dismissed

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based on the conflicting evidence.

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One of the least likely natural phenomena proposed to have caused this explosion is that of a

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mini black hole said to have come in contact with Tunguska. Black holes are tremendously

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dense objects, such that a mass the size of the earth could fit into the space the

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size of a tennis ball. Their gravitational pull is so strong it can distort even light

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waves. Since the gravitational force and mass required to create a black hole is so enormous,

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it is virtually impossible for a pin-sized black hole to exist. A black hole any larger

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than a pin coming close to the earth would certainly have catastrophic planetary consequences.

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For this and other reasons, the black hole theory can also be dismissed as having no

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relevant merits. Since the available evidence for any naturally

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occurring explanation is conflicting and contradictory, some experts propose man-made

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causes for the explosion. The most publicized explanation is the theory that the explosion

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was caused by a high energy beam originating from the laboratory of Nikola Tesla in New

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York and that he created this beam as a demonstration for Admiral Perry who was making his final

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assault on the North Pole. According to this theory, Tesla overshot the mark and caused

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the Tunguska explosion. The National Network broadcast TV program's sightings presented

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this explanation as the one and only means by which this explosion could have occurred.

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This theory is absolutely ludicrous. There were hundreds of eyewitnesses who saw an object

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curl through the sky and then explode. Even our present day technology cannot muster the

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electrical energy required to create a thermal layer blast of 40 megatons, project that amount

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of energy halfway around the world and decimate 2,000 square kilometers of earth. Even if

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so great an electrical discharge could be generated, sending it through the fragile

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ionosphere would rip away and ionize half of the planet's upper atmosphere, killing

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all life on the planet. The pattern of tree destruction at Tunguska clearly indicates

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a gigantic high altitude explosion rather than an electrical discharge. Furthermore,

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an electrical discharge would leave no radioactive readings at the site. Therefore, a Tesla weapon,

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electrical energy discharge theory, is highly suspect and not supported by the available

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evidence. At the risk of confusing you, I'd like to add

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this footnote. In our review of the phenomenon archives, we have uncovered the design and

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blueprint for a Nikola Tesla particle beam weapon. You remember Tesla, the great inventor

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who some people said was a nutcase? Because this weapon was never officially tested, there's

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no record of what effect it could have had. According to the New York Times, Tesla himself

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boasted that it could cause armies of millions to drop in their tracks. Who knows, sounds

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pretty wacky, but Tesla wasn't exactly your average Joe.

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Of all the proposed scientific theories, the only one that addresses all of the variables

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considered while taking into account the Russian government cover-up is that the Tunguska

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explosion was not natural in origin. On October 4, 1959, over 51 years after the Tunguska

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explosion, the event earns a belated spot on the front page of the New York Times. Russian

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scientists report the discovery of radiation at the site and their inability to explain

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the explosion by any natural means. Tworted by conflicting evidence, their collective

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conclusion confirms that the event was a nuclear explosion caused by an object of extraterrestrial

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origin. Professor, so and so, he's quoted in newspaper, so and so, as saying in Moscow,

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that intelligent Martians may have developed artificial oxygen eons ago and moved underground.

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Many developed theories, he said, include these. A great explosion in Siberia 50 years

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ago in Tunguska was caused by the crash and disintegration of a nuclear spaceship, possibly

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from Mars. An atomic explosion was sighted on Mars two years ago. This is 1959, okay?

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As shocking as this may seem, it is now proposed that the Tunguska blast resulted from an explosion

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using nuclear or ion-powered engine belonging to an interplanetary spacecraft. The eyewitness

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accounts of an object descending, then, angling upwards slightly, can be explained by NASA's

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own study of spacecraft reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Reentry can only be accomplished

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within a two-degree angle of descent. If the spacecraft enters a too steep an angle, it

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disintegrates high in the atmosphere as a result of heat caused by friction. If the angle

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of reentry is too shallow, the spacecraft descends, it goes back up and out of the atmosphere,

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much like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond. It is hypothesized that the alien

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craft entered the atmosphere at too shallow an angle and began skipping out of the Earth's

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atmosphere when it attempted to change course. Overeating caused by atmospheric friction

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caused the craft to explode. The explosion itself and the associated evidence is not

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at all consistent with a meteor or comet chemical explosion, but is consistent with a 14-megaton

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thermonuclear blast about 6 to 10 kilometers high in the atmosphere. The residual radiation,

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people dying of radiation poisoning, the abnormal accelerated growth of trees as a result of

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genetic mutation, geomagnetic disturbances, the want of an impact crater, the complete

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lack of an meteor or comet degree, the collection of metallic fragments and the Russian government's

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suppression of all other evidence concerning this crash site leaves only one theory intact.

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The event occurring in Tenguska in 1908 was the result of an explosion of a nuclear or

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ion-powered engine of an interplanetary spacecraft. As early as the late 1960s, NASA began test-firing

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nuclear engines for 21st century spacecraft. It continues to research the viability of nuclear

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powered and ion powered engines for interplanetary and interstellar travel. These engines will

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likely require at least as much nuclear material to cause a similar sized detonation as that

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observed over Tenguska.

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Well, NASA has been involved in the development of ion propulsion for over 30 years now and

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very early they were able to demonstrate good engine performance, but because these engines

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have such low thrust levels compared to chemical rockets, very, very long burn times are required

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for typical planetary missions on the order of 8 to 12,000 hours. So the hardest part

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of working with ion propulsion is demonstrating that the engine has enough lifetime for those

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kinds of missions.

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The design and concept for such a spacecraft is not all science fiction. It is likely to

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be the design of our own human expedition spaceships within the next 100 years.

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Small scale early versions are already being built for unmanned missions, but the most

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important probes that will reach beyond the outer limits of our solar system.

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The N-Star Thrust Rule will be used first on the first new millennium mission, which

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is a comet and asteroid fly by. Subsequent missions in which it might be used would be

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small body rendezvous missions or perhaps outer planet missions.

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The question remaining is why condemn this enormous and important terrestrial event to

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obscurity? Why hide the truth and the evidence from the people of the world? Well, the fact

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is that this kind of government suppression is not without precedent.

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In 1947, the United States government began a massive cover up of an alien crash site

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at Roswell, New Mexico. For over 50 years it has continued this conspiracy, hiding the

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truth from the American people. Reports of the US military concealing both a recovered

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interplanetary spacecraft and alien occupants have made the Roswell crash by far the world's

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most famous example of humanity's contact with extraterrestrial life and government

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cover up. The Tunguska crash predates Roswell by nearly four decades. Even though no spacecraft

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or alien occupants are known to have been recovered, the suppression of facts and confiscation

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of materials collected from the site by the KGB, in addition to their program of discrediting

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eyewitness accounts, bears striking similarities to the US cover up of the crash site at Roswell.

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There was clear evidence that there is more history to the earth and the present situation

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than history now properly describes. And that became knowledgeable to both the United States

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and the Soviet Union in the mid 50s. And the accelerated programs to go into space. If

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you got to look back, you got to say, well, why all of a sudden space? Was there someone

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here before? Is there someone else here now? What about the planets? Are we the only planet

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with any form of life? Or are we the only planet that had life? The Soviets immediately

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started pursuing other things, grandiose. I think it was very deeply ingrained into the

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Soviet leadership that there is something real out there and that they had to have a

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program in place to defend the country as much from space threats as from ground threats

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or air threats or water threats. And so there was a military character to the space program,

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both from the standpoint of threat reduction and from the standpoint of threat projection.

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They wanted to get their military objects into space and then back into the atmosphere

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at the right place. And satellites could help guide that as well as manage the process,

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but also that there might be threats coming from extraterrestrial life. And they'd seen

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something of a direct impact. I mean, that particular event in 1908 was a pretty powerful event.

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Tunguska scared the pants off the Russians. They were sure that little green men were

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going to plop down in their living rooms and start kicking their butts across the tundra.

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The good news is that it gave them a hot foot for getting into space, which of course inspired

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guess who to do the same. So they had a tremendously aggressive program. Within the first five years,

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they launched the first satellites, the first satellites to go to the moon and photograph it,

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the first satellites to head towards Venus and head towards Mars. That's an extremely aggressive

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schedule. And I think it warrants us looking at why they were doing this. But you got to remember

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too that the Soviets are in a military society. That military is number one and a tremendous

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amount of resources were being spent on the space program, which may or may not have given back

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military gains. So I think we need to go rethink that, what were they doing? What was their

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intention? Perhaps further warming of relations between Russian and American politics. And

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scientists will ultimately allow for the release and analysis of the confiscated metallic

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fragments still hidden at the Siberian military base. With the rejection of all natural explanations

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for this explosion, only the release of the sole existing material evidence will assist

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scientists in explaining this phenomenon. Overlooked for nine decades, the crash site

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at Tunguska could represent the most significant and historic, yet nearly forgotten discovery

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in the history of humanity. Recounting the lessons of history from the long neglected

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stories of tragedy and intrigue, these are the phenomenon archives, what you've never

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seen and what you're not supposed to know. I'm Dean Stockwell, thanks for tuning in.

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