TUNGUSKA
Around 7am on June 30, 1908,  passengers of the Trans-Siberian express witnessed the great Siberian fireball. The carriages shook violently as the bright blue fireball roared overhead, while the driver thought his train was exploding. By 7.15am, the fireball had reached the isolated Siberian trading post of Vanavara. S B Semenow, a local farmer, was sitting on his porch at the time. He said a fireball "covered an enormous part of the sky" and appeared from the NW. The noise was tremendous, and Semenow collapsed in pain. He felt his shirt was on fire. Within seconds, the fireball impacted in a region of bogs and pine-covered hills traversed by the Tunguska river. A series of blinding flashes followed, and a pillar of fire reached so high it could be seen hundreds of miles away. Even as far away as 370 miles to the south, horses were knocked over and houses shook, while as far away as Paris and London, the sky was seen to light up brightly. Nights of up to 100 times brighter than normal were recorded from Western Europe to the Near East, and vast tracts of forest in the area were levelled. No metallic traces, which would be expected in a meteor, were ever found.
Source: Aliens, Encounters With The Unexpected by Marcus Day

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