On June 30, 1908, a massive fireball crashed near Lake Baikal in Russia before daybreak. Over 2,000 sq km of the forest was burnt because of its immense power. Even those 65 kilometres from the crash were knocked out of bed. Even people in the UK claimed to have witnessed the blood-red glow that illuminated the sky.
Leonid Kulik, the first Russian geologist to study the mystery, proposed one of the many possibilities for what the crashed item was. He presented the theory that a meteorite landed. But no impact crater was discovered.
There was also the theory that it could be a tiny comet but NASA researchers said the explosion was too weak to have been a comet in 1993. In addition, they suggested that it could have been a 27-meter-diameter stone asteroid that caused the outburst which was also destroyed upon impact.
There are even more fascinating theories, such as a small black hole colliding with the Earth without leaving an impact crater, passing through the planet, and emerging on the other side in the North Atlantic. However, since no Atlantic disturbance was recorded, this theory only has a few takes.
Another theory is that this anti-matter exploded in Tunguska, but so little is known about this anti-matter that this was ultimately just speculation.
The strange part is that trees in the blast zone grew much faster than normal, sparking some scientists to make assumptions that they had been mutated by radiation. Based on this theory, many people proposed that the blast was caused by a nuclear-powered alien spacecraft crash-landing at Tunguska. These aliens can't even steer a ship properly.
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