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It was June 30, 1908 and at exactly 7:17 am when a huge explosion shook the Earth from several miles in the air above the Tunguska region of Siberia. It has the force of a large nuclear bomb and was probably a small asteroid or comet. Still, that date and place is widely known as, "The Tunguska Event."

FACTS ABOUT THE TUNGUSKA EVENT:

The Tunguska Event happened at the exact moment when Nikoll Tesla tested his, "Death Ray," by aiming his beam towards the Arotic Cirle where he hoped Admiral Peary would see a visual display in the sky. He must have been surprised.

The heat from the Tunguska blast generated by an object entering the atmosphere was so extreme it caused it to violently disintegrate before hitting the ground. Those who witnessed it from hundreds of miles away reported it was brighter than the sun and even at that distance, the shockwave knocked people off their feet. The explosion destroyed more than 60 million trees, but luckily it was such a remote area that only a few lives were lost.

It took nineteen years for Russian scientists to investigate the site, probably due to the isolation of Siberia, but then again, it also might be because of a long term of highly coordinated mass experiment that had been going on. When they finally got around to investigating the site, scientists persuaded the government to fund the expedition due to the assumption that iron from the meteorite might be retrieved and used by industry. Due to the fact that the explosion blasted in mid air, no meteorite was ever found. Still events like this are now called, "Impact events," and the possibility exists that at any given moment, an object could fall from the sky and take human life.

Seismic vibrations were recorded at as much as 600 miles away and at 300 miles away, witnesses reported, "deafening bangs," and a fiery cloud on the horizon. At about 110 miles from the explosion the object was seen in the cloudless sky as a brilliant fireball and thunderous noises were also reported. People were thrown to the ground and knocked unconscious, windows were broken, and thousands of animals were killed instantly.

WITNESS ACCOUNTS:

People living in the village of Nizhne-Karelinsk saw a large object shaped like a pipe with a white light moving vertically down for about ten minutes. A small dark cloud was seen and when the object approached the ground it seemed to explode and became a huge cloud of black smoke. After that, there was a loud crash, like gunfire. Buildings shook and at the same

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