On June 30, 1908, an unexplained phenomenon occurred in the early morning sky over the remote Tunguska River valley in Siberia. What catastrophic event could have occurred that would destroy millions of trees and bring so much devastation to this remote Tunguskan region of more than 800 square miles? Could it have been a UFO? Was it one of Tesla’s failed energy experiments? Was it a mini-black hole that went through the earth? A comet? An asteroid? What follows is an exploration of some of the possible explanations for this mysterious Tunguska event that occurred a hundred years ago now over the Russian skies of Siberia.

Eyewitness reports spoke of seeing a blinding bluish-white light moving downward and then turning into a cloud of black smoke. The light was described as being almost as bright as the sun. Sounds were heard as if the cannons were firing. Bangs were heard as if artillery were being fired. Tremors were felt on the ground. A shock wave knocked people down. A thermal heat wave was experienced when the hot wind ran between the houses. Treetops were visualized being uprooted and trees were burned and crushed [1].

When the Tunguska event occurred, the shock wave was recorded at seismic stations in Eurasia. Although the Richter scale was not developed until 1935, it has been estimated that in some places the shock wave would have been equivalent to an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale. [1]. The 1966 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records states that if the collision had occurred 4 hours and 47 minutes later, due to the rotation of the Earth, it would have completely destroyed the Russian imperial capital city of Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). [1].

At sunset that day, northern Europe experienced an eerie light instead of the usual darkness of night. People could read a newspaper at midnight. Photographs could be taken on the streets. Pink, green and white colors were reported. Was this nighttime glow the result of some gas leak? Was it comet dust? Comet dust is a viable theory, actually. Cometary or meteoric material will detonate upon contact with the atmosphere. A spectrogram could show that the celestial glow was pure reflected sunlight. The object’s trajectory could show that it came “out of the sun” and was masked in the early morning daytime sky. [2].

Due to the mystery as to the cause of the Tunguska Event, it has become a fertile field for science fiction. According to John Baxter and Thomas Atkins, in their book The Fire Came By [3], the explosion created a “pillar of fire” visible for hundreds of miles. Locals saw it change course 180 degrees mid-flight. With all the convincing evidence, the conclusion reached is that the explosion was most likely a nuclear-powered alien craft. A strong selling point for the book was the foreword written by famous science fiction author Isaac Asimov, who stated that he found the book fascinating.

In November 1978, Leonard Nimoy, famous for his role as Spock on the television series Star Trek, presented a television documentary titled “In Search of the Siberian Fireball” which suggested that a nuclear explosion may have been the cause of the the 1908 explosion. Although scientists interviewed at the time supported the comet theory, the alien spaceship theory was definitely a more exciting explanation for the explosion. [2].

Rumors have also suggested the possibility that Bigfoot could have been a lone survivor of a crashed alien spacecraft that landed on earth. If this had been the case, the alien intruder would have been left in a hostile environment destined to wander alone awaiting future contact from the lonely skies above. However, if there was an alien crash, no spaceship fragments were ever found, unless of course all traces of the ship were vaporized. [4].

According to the Tesla Memorial Society of New York [5], the mysterious explosion of 1908 in Russia could have been related to Tesla’s experiments in wireless transmission of electrical energy, although this is admittedly unlikely. Tesla was fascinated with “projected wave energy” processes that would create invisible particles of energy that could be transmitted great distances and result in electrical fireballs, spherical plasmoids, or lightning bolts. Telsa’s “Death Ray” was described in the New York Times on September 22, 1940. [6]. Is it possible that the Tunguska Event was a test firing of one of Tesla’s energy weapons?

Another postulation is that the explosion could have been from a mini-black hole passing through the Earth. This speculation is also unlikely. There is no evidence that the black hole emerges from the other side, for one thing, and whether or not such small black holes exist is unknown. [4].

Based on supercomputer simulations from Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, new simulations now show that an asteroid just 30 meters in diameter exploding above ground would be transported at speeds faster than sound. At this speed, the asteroid would take the form of a jet of expanding gas at high temperature, called a fireball. Because of the additional energy generated by the fireball, what scientists originally thought was an explosion at the Tunguska site of between 10 and 20 megatons of energy might actually have been only three to five megatons. [7].

The bad news about the possibility that a supersonic shock wave caused by a relatively small asteroid was the cause of the Tunguska event is that smaller asteroids statistically approach Earth more often than larger ones. Sandia Principal Investigator Mark Boslough notes that if asteroids this small cause this kind of destruction, then “we should do more to detect smaller ones than we have done so far.” [7]. The Tunguska event of 1908 impacted a remote area above the Tunguska River valley, but a similar explosion in a more populated area would be, in a word, catastrophic.

Fast-forwarding now to a hundred years after the Tunguska event, we see that the Tunguska River Valley is an oasis of fertile vegetation. The new plant life has a growth rate of four times the usual rate. The trees grow larger than their usual size. The entire region is like a Phoenix, rising from the ashes to produce herbs, roots, and fruits that have natural nutritional benefits unique to Tunguska. And like the Phoenix that rises from the ashes, Tunguska Blast is born.

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Tunguska event article sources

1. Wikipedia: Tunguska_event
2. http://www.jamesoberg.com/ovni/tungus.html
3. John Baxter and Tom Atkins, The Fire Came, Doubleday, New York, 1976.
4. http://paranormal.about.com/cs/earthmysteries/a/aa021604_2.htm
5. http://www.teslasociety.com/tunguska.htm
6. http://www.rense.com/general10/deathray.htm
7. http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/asteroid.html