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In the 1960s the accepted story was that a meteorite 'exploded' over Siberia. It wasn't until much later that I learned that it was caused by Tesla. ;-) http://prometheus.al.ru/english/phisik/onichelson/onichelson.htm

This screams of Tesla:

http://prometheus.al.ru/english/phisik/onichelson/onichelson.htm

Here is an About.com article that talks about it more. http://paranormal.about.com/cs/earthmysteries/a/aa 021604.htm

The text below is lifted from this site: http://prometheus.al.ru/english/phisik/onichelson/ tunguska.htm

The Tunguska event took place on the morning of June 30th, 1908. An explosion estimated to be equivalent to 10-15 megatons of TNT flattened 500,000 acres of pine forest near the Stony Tunguska River in central Siberia. Whole herds of reindeer were destroyed. Several nomadic villages were reported to have vanished. The explosion was heard over a radius of 620 miles. When an expedition was made to the area in 1927 to find evidence of the meteorite presumed to have caused the blast, no impact crater was found. When the ground was drilled for pieces of nickel, iron, or stone, the main constituents of meteorites, none were found down to a depth of 118 feet.

Several explanations have been given for the Tunguska event. The officially accepted version is that a 100,000 ton fragment of Encke's Comet, composed mainly of dust and ice, entered the atmosphere at 62,000 mph, heated up, and exploded over the earth's surface creating a fireball and shock wave but no crater. Alternative explanations of the disaster include a renegade mini-black hole or an alien space ship crashing into the earth with the resulting release of energy.

Associating Tesla with the Tunguska event comes close to putting the inventor's power transmission idea in the same speculative category as ancient astronauts. However, historical facts point to the possibility that this event was caused by a test firing of Tesla's energy weapon.

In 1907 and 1908, Tesla wrote about the destructive effects of his energy transmitter. His Wardenclyffe facility was much larger than the Colorado Springs device that destroyed the power station's generator. Then, in 1915, he stated bluntly:

It is perfectly practical to transmit electrical energy without wires and produce destructive effects at a distance. I have already constructed a wireless transmitter which makes this possible. ... But when unavoidable [it] may be used to destroy property and life. The art is already so far developed that the great destructive effects can be produced at any point on the globe, defined beforehand with great accuracy (emphasis added).

He seems to confess to such a test having taken place before 1915, and, though the evidence is circumstantial, Tesla had the motive and the means to cause the Tunguska event. His transmitter could generate energy levels and frequencies capable of releasing the destructive force of 10 megatons, or more, of TNT. And the overlooked genius was desperate.

Tesla was just enough of a mad scientist to make what would otherwise sound kooky, at least somewhat plausible.

A Description of the RAN [Russian Academy of Science]'s Fight Against Pseudoscience in the Mass Media, by Ye. B. Aleksandrov, Academician of the RAN.

they were reports which primarily defense industries were receiving from their contractors and, according to their rules, they had to send these reports to someone for review. This was something new for me. But when I saw these reports my eyes almost popped out of my head because this was wild nonsense. I saw that there were some absolutely ridiculous projects which contradicted all the principles of physics but claimed, at a minimum, to be discoveries.

... Soon after I attempted to somehow influence the ministry's policy, I suddenly received a secret government decree that enormous work was beginning, with financing of about a billion dollars, as Glaz'yev told me (at new prices), to adopt and use new forces, rays, and particles discovered 30 years ago in secret laboratories of the Soviet Union.

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