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ET Shipwreck in Russia?

 
 
FinderWolf
17:05 / 12.08.04
This is especially weird, since Warren Ellis just wrote about an anamoly being discovered specifically in Tunguska. Maybe he read about the 1908 discovery mentioned below -- or maybe Warren Ellis' writing has hypersigilic effects even though he thinks Grant Morrison is crazy for believing in magic(k). I've seen similar things happen with writers who don't believe in magic.

This is one of those things that mainstream US-related news agencies won't carry cause it's too 'fringe', I guess...
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Russian claim discovery of ET spaceship wreck

www.chinaview.cn 2004-08-12 15:36:55

  BEIJING, Aug.12 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian scientists said they have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion in Siberia almost a hundred years ago, China Daily reported today, citing the Interfax news agency as the source.

The scientists, who belong to the Tunguska space phenomenon public state fund, said they found the remains of an extra-terrestrial device that allegedly crashed near the Tunguska river in Siberia in 1908.

Their findings also include a 50-kilogram (110-pound) rock which they have sent to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for analysis.

The Tunguska blast, in a desolate part of Siberia, remains one of the 20th century's biggest scientific mysteries.

On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometers above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometers (miles) away and devastated over 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest.

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Jack Fear
17:35 / 12.08.04
There's a Convo thread about this hither.

The Tunguska Event is old hat in weird-science circles—not as well-known as the Bermuda Triangle, but right up there with the Marie Celeste. Probably better-known to the general public than that, actually, thanks to its use in a bunch of X-FILES mythology episodes.

Ellis's use of the Tunguska event in ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE has actually drawn some criticism for being lazy and cliché, in fact.

The mystery about Tunguska is that there was a tremendous amount of damage but no residue or wreckage. The most convincing explanation I've heard has it as a chunk of comet—massive impact, huge crater, but the projectile itself, being composed mainly of ice, simply evaporated.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
08:26 / 13.08.04
BBC Science article on Tunguska, which suggests the object was a low-density asteroid. Bloody large one, I assume, since it flattened a wallopping great chunk of Siberia's forest.
 
  
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