Perhaps, to this day, no one would have heard of the village of Vanavara, located a little north of Krasnoyarsk, if it were not for the Tunguska meteorite incident, which brought a cosmic secret to the cold lands.
More than a hundred years have passed since the news of the Tunguska meteorite spread all over the world in the summer of 1908. Until now, disputes about the nature of this phenomenon do not subside, more and more fantastic hypotheses and theories about a bright event in the north of Russia are being put forward.
And although according to the official version, the Tunguska explosion did not leave behind fragments of a celestial alien, from time to time there are reports of the discovery of the amazing nature of artifacts allegedly found at the crash site of the Tunguska body. There were even versions associated with the fall of the alien spacecraft, which led to the formation of the Tunguska anomaly.
Alien ship wreck
Particular interest in the Tunguska meteorite appeared after an interesting publication in 1946, from science fiction writer A. Kazantsev, where the writer presented his hypothesis about the event. The writer's story boiled down to the fact that the Earth was visited by alien guests. True, something "went wrong" and the alien spacecraft exploded over the taiga.
- Some, developing the version of Kazantsev, adorned the hypothesis with an explosion of antimatter, which the aliens allegedly could not "keep" in our space in a stable state.
Meanwhile, the famous writer drew parallels from the Tunguska meteorite to the nuclear explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kazantsev drew attention to the cities of Japan, which were bombed by the American military. There, to a lesser extent, buildings that stood directly at the epicenter of the tragedy collapsed, we see the same phenomenon in the vicinity of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, where the dead forest remained intact, the author of the idea reports.
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In the days of Soviet science, atypical anti-scientific theories, the publication and the author of the idea were subjected to very strong criticism. The version was too bold for that time, with a rather frightening background. Although it is no secret that in those years, responsible members of the government were worried about the problems of aliens, and even the search for weapons against guests from outer space was discussed.
However, it should be recalled that the initiator of the idea of an alien (Martian) spacecraft was voiced in 1937 in the story of Manuil Semenov "Prisoners of the Earth".
However, be that as it may, at the crash site of the "unknown" object, not only legends appeared, but, as usual, artifacts of the anomalous zone.
Artifacts of the Tunguska anomaly
One of the anomalous artifacts allegedly brought from the explosion site of the Tunguska meteorite is known as the "Holy Grail". The sensation about the strange find was published in the domestic and foreign press, where the artifact was called, then "glass", then "hello from aliens." In culture, artifacts born of the anomalous zone have left a visible imprint - who does not know the "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatskys, then the cult game "Stalker", etc.
The owner of this strange thing told about his great-grandfather, when a nuclear physicist by education brought a "magic cup" from an expedition from the place of a meteorite explosion.
For many years, believing in the healing properties of the artifact, its first owner put the miraculous object under the pillow every night and drank water from it during the day. Indeed, the man lived 103 years without complaining of poor health. And just before his death, he handed the noble thing to a descendant.
At first, the new owner of an artifact of unknown origin did not believe in the healing properties of the "glass", having thrown a powerful object into the basement. The attitude towards the artifact radically changed when his daughter suffered in an accident, receiving terrible injuries. The doctors' prognosis was extremely bad: if the girl survives, she will remain disabled forever.
It was then that the victim's father turned to the miracles of the "Holy Grail" for help. By order, he forced his desperate daughter to drink exclusively from this vessel. They say that the surprise of the doctors was immeasurable when a couple of months later, a girl on her own legs came to the hospital for a medical examination.
After the miraculous healing of his daughter, the owner of the "family heirloom" decided to understand at least a little the secret of the artifact. The man took the cup for examination for research and received an interesting conclusion.
In terms of chemical composition, the artifact consists of 90.5% silicon, including impurities: potassium, iron, nickel, osmium, selenium, neodymium, cobalt. The sample has a different isotope ratio than the terrestrial one. This is one of the few cases where the extraterrestrial origin of an artifact has been documented. Which, however, does not bring us any closer to the mystery of the Tunguska event.
The mystery of an old anomaly
Knowledgeable people say that anomalous phenomena are still observed in the Tunguska area. For example, a forest that grows abnormally fast has a high mutation rate, especially at the epicenter of an explosion.
The local soil contains a high content of such elements as arsenic, zinc, selenium, bromine, silver, iodine, etc. There is evidence that Soviet scientists created a fertilizer similar in composition to the soil from the epicenter of the Tunguska explosion. And, amazingly, as a result, the harvest of the experimental field has doubled.
Another shocking consequence of the Tunguska meteorite is the iridium anomaly. Scientists, examining samples of deep ice cover from that time period, found that there is much more iridium in this layer than in other layers.
Iridium is considered a rare earth element, but it is normal in meteorites. Researchers even calculated the estimated size of the Tunguska body - about 160 meters in diameter.
Aliens on Earth
Returning to the idea of a crash of an alien spacecraft, let us note: later discovered tiny balls at the site of the explosion of the "Tunguska meteorite" by supporters of alien origin were "identified" as the remains of a burnt out alien ship.
Modern versions of the incident are no less interesting and full of variety. According to one of them, aliens saved the earth from the inevitable destruction of our civilization by burning down the Tunguska meteorite before falling to the ground.
In another version, more mundane, Nikola Tesla's experiments with the electricity of space are to blame for the event. They say the experiments of the genius provoked the formation of a powerful and large plasmoid, which exploded in the atmosphere.
A very beautiful theory of the adherents of paleocontact takes us into the deep past, leading history from the moment a powerful alien race visited Earth. In those immemorial times, the aliens not only helped the primitive people with development, but also installed protective complexes on the planet.
Everyone, probably, knows the secret of ancient pyramids installed around the circumference of the Earth. Some of them are considered to be the oldest observatories. Some of the daring researchers believe that the pyramids, among other things, were part of the observation complex, tracking dangerously approaching celestial bodies.
Of course, say ufologists, the complex has lost its functions of "farsightedness" over the millennia, but an important part of the fortifications is working properly.
So, the alien complex for protecting the Earth can still shoot down space objects that threaten the life of the planet: the threat is assessed by the mass of the object. In addition, most likely, alien technologies are able to recognize the "invasion of epidemics", literally burning the carriers of dangerous viruses.
That is why no fragments could be found at the site of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite.
One thing is clear, in this case it is too early to put an end, there are still many questions to be answered, and one of them is: will anyone protect the Earth if something like this happens in the future.