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time, flames broke through the cloud. Witnesses say that everyone thought the world had come to an end.

The event was also described as, " A ball of fire, coming down obliquely. A few minutes later, we heard a deafening sound like peals of thunder, followed by eight loud bangs like gunshots." Others said a ball of fire appeared in the sky and as it approached the ground, it took a flattened shape, but still others said it looked like a falling star with a fiery tail that disappeared into the air.

One peasant recalled, "I was sitting on the porch of the house at the trading station, looking north. Suddenly in the north the sky was split in two, and high above the forest the whole northern part of the sky appeared covered with fire. I felt a great heat, as if my shirt had caught fire. At that moment there was a bang in the sky, and a mighty crash. I was thrown twenty feet from the porch and lost consciousness for a moment. The crash was followed by a noise like stones falling from the sky, or guns firing. The earth trembled. At the moment when the sky opened, a hot wind, as if from a cannon, blew past the huts from the north. It damaged the onion plants. Later, we found that many panes in the windows had been blown out and the iron hasp in the barn door had been broken."

"I saw the sky in the north open to the ground and fire poured out. The fire was brighter than the sun. We were terrified, but the sky closed again and immediately afterward, bangs like gunshots were heard. We thought stones were falling... I ran with my head down and covered, because I was afraid stones may fall on it."

A HISTORY MYSTERY:

Apparently scientists have not been able to definitively resolve the fiery event in Tunguska, but from the beginning the debate excluded the electric force, which is the one force that allows for a unified solution and excludes no field of evidence. Those who are for the Electric Universe theory ask that this new perspective on the physical world be judged by its productive ability and its ability to explain all relevant date.

Still, most likely the origin of the fiery object in the Tunguska event is the comet Encke which is the acknowledged source of the Beta Taurid meteor shower. On June 20, the shower was at its peak.

TO CONCLUDE:

For the source of this and more information, go to these sites:
http://www.coolsciencefa cts.com/2006/the_tunguska_even t.html
http://www.thunderbolts. info/tpod/2006/arch06/060203tu nguska2.htm

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