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The Mystery Behind the Tunguska Event

Pages from Earth’s History.
First published in 2004 in NEXUS magazine, distributed in 26 countries worldwide.

On June 30, 2019, the world marked 111 years since one of the most mysterious catastrophes in recorded history — the explosion of the Tunguska cosmic body. Few events of the 20th century can compare in scale and destructive force.
The total energy released by the explosion exceeded the combined power of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by more than 2,000 times.

In addition, the Tunguska explosion triggered a number of anomalous phenomena:
  • An unusual glow in the sky, observed even 10 days prior to the event, along with the intensified appearance of noctilucent (silver) clouds;
  • Intense light and thermal radiation;
  • Malfunctions in meteorological instruments and surface-level seismic disturbances;
  • A powerful shockwave that circled the globe twice;
  • Massive forest devastation across an area exceeding 2,000 square kilometers;
  • Faint traces of radioactivity found in tree rings and polar ice layers dated to 1908;
  • Anomalous properties of soil and rocks in the Tunguska impact region;
  • Abnormally rapid vegetation growth at the explosion’s epicenter;
  • A period of global cooling that lasted for several subsequent years.



Despite the sheer scale of the event, it went largely unexamined for many years. The first official attempts to investigate what had occurred in the remote Siberian taiga were not made until 1927.
Since then, dozens of scientific expeditions have visited the area. Hundreds of research papers have been published, and several hundred hypotheses have been proposed to explain the causes of the incident. Yet none have been able to fully account for the entire range of phenomena that both preceded and accompanied the Tunguska explosion. In fact, some of the phenomena witnessed by eyewitnesses defy explanation within the framework of existing theories.
Much of what occurred during that time cannot be interpreted through the lens of the current scientific paradigm. Moreover, there is a growing sense that what we’re dealing with lies outside the conventional understanding of our world. It is possible that now, more than ever before, we are on the verge of uncovering a truth — one that could become a turning point in the evolution of human consciousness.
But to reach that understanding, we must find the courage to look beyond established scientific dogmas and approach the most puzzling aspects of this event with a truly open and unbiased mind.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of generations of scientists and explorers, we now have a rich body of factual and scientific material — a foundation that may finally help us shed light on the true cause and nature of the mysterious events that unfolded 111 years ago near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River.
Rather than revisiting the core arguments of the well-known mainstream hypotheses, let us focus instead on a set of facts that have long remained in the shadows — facts that, for reasons unknown, have consistently eluded proper attention. Strikingly, when these overlooked details are overlaid with elements from ancient epic traditions, they reveal an entirely different picture of the event that shook Siberia at the dawn of the 20th century.
What makes the following material both engaging and thought-provoking is that it invites the reader to form their own conclusions about the nature of the Tunguska explosion — without relying solely on the often subjective and one-sided interpretations put forward by prior researchers.
At the very outset of our investigation, it is important to highlight that the Tunguska event was not an isolated incident. There were other, seemingly connected phenomena, both before and after the explosion, which appear to be links in a single chain of events. Therefore, adopting a kind of forensic approach, we will examine them together as part of a unified "case file."
To perceive a reality that has long escaped the attention of traditional researchers, we must be willing to shift our perspective across space and time, revisiting events separated by decades — and in some cases, even centuries.
In the process of examining these facts, we will deliberately depart from the conventional narrative method that focuses on exposing the flaws of existing theories. Those theories are already widely known. Instead, you are invited to take part in this investigation, directing your attention to little-known or neglected details. Through this analytical journey, you may begin to see the truth for yourself — and come to your own independent conclusions.


To begin, let us turn to the testimonies of eyewitnesses — even in such a sparsely populated part of Siberia, there were thousands. By the late 1960s, about 3,000 people were found who still remembered this extraordinary phenomenon!
Before diving into the factual material, it is worth sharing a hypothesis that emerged during the research process — a suggestion that may seem surprising to many. This hypothesis, developed through the analysis of a vast amount of data, offers a radically new interpretation of the Tunguska explosion.
Based on thousands of eyewitness reports, scientific conclusions, passages from the Yakut epic Olonkho, the reconstructed sequence of events, and analysis of the aftermath of the explosions — as described both in ancient oral tradition and modern scientific efforts — we may confidently propose that in the vast, uninhabited expanse of northwestern Yakutia lies a very ancient underground technical installation. Long, long ago, someone built a complex in the “Valley of Death” that still operates to this day — serving as an anti-meteor and anti-asteroid defense system for the Earth.

Undoubtedly, such a hypothesis stretches the imagination! It is almost impossible to conceive that such a thing might exist. Could it be that for thousands of years, something more advanced than our current technologies — and beyond even our boldest science fiction dreams — has been coexisting silently alongside us, completely unnoticed?

Naturally, none of the researchers investigating the unusual and scientifically inexplicable consequences of the Tunguska event could have imagined that all the traces left by the explosions were actually evidence of the activity of an ancient planetary defense complex, constructed by someone unknown! And yet, there is one detail, preserved in the centuries-old memory of the local population, carried through millennia in their epic poetry.

Passed down through generations by word of mouth, the legends tell how one day, this land was suddenly engulfed in impenetrable darkness, and the surrounding area was shaken by a deafening roar. A storm of unprecedented force arose, and the ground trembled under mighty blows. When the chaos subsided and the darkness lifted, an unimaginable sight appeared before them: in the midst of scorched earth stood a tall vertical structure, glistening in the sun, visible from many days’ journey away…

For a long time, the structure emitted sharp, unpleasant, ear-piercing sounds, gradually decreasing in height until it completely disappeared beneath the earth. At the place where the towering structure had sunk, a massive vertical “crater” remained.

As we move through the presentation of facts, several passages from the Olonkho epic will be quoted. Reading them creates a persistent impression that strongly supports this hypothesis, due to the technological character of the events described in these ancient tales. One cannot help but wonder: why did those who translated and analyzed these texts fail to see or even suspect this?

Let us begin with a detailed reconstruction of the events, trying to piece together everything that preceded and accompanied the 1908 catastrophe as a single whole.

The first to sense the impending disaster were the shamans of the tribal clans. Two months before the explosion, rumors began spreading through the taiga of an approaching “end of the world.”
Moving from village to village, the shamans warned the people of the impending cataclysm. Herds were driven away from the upper reaches of the Podkamennaya Tunguska — down toward the Lower Tunguska and beyond, to the Lena River.

The movement of the Evenk people began immediately after the tribal council (suglan) of all the clans migrating in proximity to each other, shortly after the Month of the Calves (May). At a secret council of elders, it was decided to change the migratory route, and each clan was instructed to follow a new path, close to one another.

Then came the “Great Kamlanie” (a collective shamanic ritual), during which the “Great Shaman” proclaimed the coming of the “End of Light.”

“The ancestors said: we must leave our homeland. No one should remain here between the Month of the Calves and the Month of Muchun (June), so said the ancestors.”
“The Upper Beings wish to visit Dulu... No one must witness this…”

Movement through the taiga began...

Obeying their inner instinct, and seemingly in support of the shamans' warnings, animals began to leave the forest, birds took flight from their nesting grounds, swans departed the lakes, and fish vanished from the rivers. An enormous region of the taiga, spanning tens of thousands of square kilometers, became devoid of wildlife. Only those who did not believe the shamans' words remained in the danger zone...

Everything described above speaks for itself. It seems evident that someone warned the shamans in advance, through communication with “ancestor spirits,” about the coming event.

Animals, birds, and fish reacted instinctively, responding to the growing influence of the Earth's electromagnetic field in that section of the taiga — a physiological response to the rising energy. From the study of the Olonkho texts, discussions with local hunters, and interviews with surviving witnesses who retained memory of those distant events, a picture began to emerge: that the complex in question is dispersed across different regions of the taiga, mostly underground.

The destruction or deflection of meteors and asteroids appears to be achieved using a force field, the concentrated carrier of which takes the form of electromagnetic entities resembling glowing fireballs.
Essentially, these are similar to ball lightning, but with a major difference: while the largest known ball lightning recorded by science is about 2 meters in diameter, the spheres used in meteor defense are colossal, ranging from 9 to 60 meters across!

It was precisely these objects that thousands of people across Siberia witnessed flying in 1908, which led eyewitnesses of the Tunguska catastrophe to believe they had seen a massive sequence of ball lightning phenomena.
Terminator Flight to the Tunguska Impact Zone
The preparation of the “plasma spheres” is carried out by a power installation located deep within the Earth’s crust, whose location was chosen quite deliberately. It is situated in a geophysically distinct area of the planet — the East Siberian Magnetic Anomaly.
The journal Technology for the Youth (No. 1, 1984) referred to it as a “magnetic super-anomaly, whose source lies at a depth of half the Earth’s radius.” In other words, the power unit of the complex draws on the planet’s internal energy for its operation and, apparently, is itself partly responsible for the manifestation of this super-anomaly.

The preparation for intercepting the approaching Tunguska meteorite (and it truly was a meteorite — in this sense, Kulik was partially right) began two months before the explosion, as evidenced by the behavior of shamans and wildlife in the taiga. Approximately ten days before the explosion, the complex located in the “Valley of Death” began to enter an active phase. The activation of the power installation and the increase in its energetic output — associated with the generation of energy (electromagnetic) spheres — affected the surrounding environment so profoundly that it caused powerful atmospheric anomalies, linked to an increase in the Earth's electromagnetic field intensity.

The influence of the installation was so powerful that ten days before the explosion, in many European countries and across Western Siberia, nighttime darkness was replaced with a strange brightness, as if a period of white nights had begun in those regions. Bright, elongated noctilucent clouds, stretching from east to west, began to appear in the twilight skies at dusk and dawn, glowing strongly and forming along electromagnetic lines, much like those observed between the poles of a magnet. A growing sense of an unusual natural phenomenon approaching was recorded, notably by E. Krinov, one of the early researchers of the Tunguska explosion.

(Years later, researchers from Tomsk would uncover a forgotten publication by Professor Weber, who reported a powerful geomagnetic disturbance recorded at the University of Kiel (Germany) for three days prior to the intrusion of the Tunguska object — and which abruptly ended at the precise hour when the gigantic bolide exploded over the Central Siberian Plateau.)
Ten days passed, and then early in the morning on June 30, 1908, a celestial object entered the Earth's atmosphere at tremendous speed.
It traveled along a trajectory from the southeast to the northwest. Precisely determining the meteorite’s flight path plays a key role in reconstructing the event, especially because — as we shall see — there were multiple objects in the sky over the Siberian taiga, approaching the explosion site from different directions.
This inconsistency in eyewitness accounts, with people observing different objects over widely separated regions of Siberia, all moving along different trajectories toward the same location, puzzled researchers and even led to hypotheses suggesting the presence of a maneuvering spacecraft over the taiga.

38 minutes before the destruction of the Tunguska meteorite, the complex in the "Valley of Death" entered its final phase. The generation of the so-called “terminator” spheres began. At the Stepanovsky gold field (near present-day Yuzhno-Yeniseysk), an earthquake began 30 minutes before the meteorite’s impact.

One of the eyewitnesses of that event recounted the following:

He was standing near a small lake when the ground beneath his feet began to tremble. It was something like an earthquake. Suddenly, a strange and inhuman sense of fear arose from within, as though some invisible force was driving him away from the lake. At that very moment, the water in the lake began to sink downward, and as it drained into what appeared to be a deep fissure, the lakebed was revealed, opening like giant jaws or sliding doors. On the edges of these two massive “leaves,” serrated teeth could be seen.
According to the witness, he was overcome by an animalistic, uncontrollable fear and fled the area as fast as he could.

After running a considerable distance, he tripped over a bush and fell. When he got back on his feet and looked back, he saw a beam of bright light rising from the place where the lake had been. At the top of this column of light, a sphere had appeared. The whole scene was accompanied by a terrible roaring and buzzing sound. His clothing began to smolder, and the radiation burned his face and ears…
The Terminator’s Emergence from the Shaft (Reconstruction)
The episode described aligns in a remarkable way with the texts of the Olonkho epic and the stories of elders about the site of “Tong Duurai”, through which the Ottoamok stream flows (translated as “holes in the ground”), where there are vents of incredible depth, known as “laughing abysses.”
According to legend, fiery whirlwinds fly out from these vents. About a century before each explosion—or series of explosions—a thin column of fire would soar up from the “iron vent”, and at its summit appeared a very large fiery sphere. Along with it emerged an entourage—a swarm of deadly, blood-colored whirlwinds, which wrought destruction upon the land. Accompanied by four consecutive thunderclaps, it would ascend to an even greater height and fly off, leaving behind a long fiery-smoky trail. Later, from afar, the thunder of its explosions would be heard…

Notably, Yakut legends frequently mention explosions, fiery whirlwinds, and the ascension of blazing spheres produced by a “vent belching smoke and fire with a ‘clanging steel lid’,” beneath which lies an entire underground world. Within it dwells the “flame-throwing, disease-spreading” villain, a giant called Uot Usumu Tong Duurai, translated as “the criminal invader who pierced the earth and hid in its depths, destroying everything around with fiery whirlwinds.”
That’s what the legends tell us. But here is a contemporary account from G.K. Kulesha, an observer at the meteorological station in Kirensk (about 460 km from the site of the Tunguska explosion):

“On June 30, in the northwest from Kirensk, an extraordinary phenomenon was observed, lasting from approximately 7:15 to 8:00 AM.
I did not witness it myself, as I was recording meteorological data at the time. However, this is what happened (I summarize the accounts of eyewitnesses):

At 7:15 AM, a pillar of fire appeared in the northwest, about four sazhens (8 meters) in diameter, shaped like a spear. When the pillar vanished, five loud, abrupt blasts were heard, like cannon fire—sharp and distinct, one after the other. Then, a thick cloud appeared in that place. About 15 minutes later, the same type of blasts were heard again, and another 15 minutes after that—once more. A ferryman, a former soldier and a reliable, intelligent man, counted 14 explosions in three series. He was at the riverbank and observed the entire event from start to finish.

The fiery pillar was seen by many, but the blasts were heard by even more people.
There were peasants in town from the village of Korelina, located 20 versts (about 21 km) from Kirensk on the nearby Tunguska River; they reported experiencing strong ground shaking—so strong that windows were shattered in homes… the spike in the barograph trace bears witness to this…”
In the archives of the former Irkutsk Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, records by A.K. Kokorin, an observer at the meteorological station on the Kezhma River, were found. In the observation journal for June 1908, under the “Notes” section, an extremely important entry was discovered. It confirms that more than one object was present in the sky at that time:

“At 7 o’clock in the morning, two fiery circles (spheres) of enormous size appeared in the north; four minutes after their appearance, the circles vanished. Shortly after they disappeared, a strong noise was heard, resembling the sound of wind, moving from north to south; the noise lasted about 5 minutes. Then followed sounds and crackling, like cannon fire, causing the window frames to tremble. These blasts continued for 2 minutes, followed by crackling noises, like rifle shots. These last sounds continued for 2 more minutes. All of this occurred in broad daylight.”

At that same time, T. Naumenko observed the flight of a (sphere) from the village of Kezhma, located on the Angara River. He claimed the object was larger than the Moon and crossed the Sun, which at that moment was 27° above the horizon. Simultaneously, the Tunguska meteorite was passing over the village of Mironovo (latitude 58° 14′ N, longitude 109° 29′ E).

The first people to witness the flight of one of the "terminators", carrying a powerful electromagnetic charge, were residents of the village of Alexandrovka (in the southern Altai Krai), almost 1,500 km from the explosion site! In the account of Ivan Nikanorovich Kudryavtsev, a witness to the flight of the fiery sphere, there are details indicating the electromagnetic nature of the “terminator”:

“June 30, 1908, was a clear day... I was sitting facing the northwest window. Our village, Alexandrovka, stretched along a gorge... Opposite the village rose the peak of Mt. Glyaden along the Seminsky Ridge. The Sun had already risen by 7 a.m., but had not yet appeared from behind Mt. Glyaden. And then, suddenly, a glowing sphere appeared in the sky, quickly increasing in size and brightness. It flew northeast. Its size was like the Moon, but brighter—though not blinding; one could watch it without looking away. Its flight was very fast. A white smoky trail, wider than the sphere itself, remained behind it.
As soon as this sphere appeared, the whole area was illuminated with an unnatural light, not steadily increasing, but pulsing in wave-like flashes. There was no noise or rumble during its flight, but the strange, flickering light caused a sense of fear and unease...”
E.E. Sarychev, interviewed by D.F. Landsberg in the city of Kansk on October 11, 1921, recounted:

“…With the appearance of the noise, a kind of radiance appeared in the sky, circular in shape, about the size of half the Moon, with a bluish hue, flying quickly in the direction from Filimonovo to Irkutsk. Behind the radiance trailed a bluish stripe, stretched almost along the entire path and then gradually disappeared from the end. The radiance, without exploding, disappeared behind a mountain. I couldn’t determine how long the phenomenon lasted, but it was very brief. The weather was perfectly clear and calm.”

At exactly the same time, the flight of a celestial object was observed in the southern Krasnoyarsk Krai, 60 km north of Minusinsk, approximately 930 km from the explosion site—yet it was moving along a different trajectory. Around that time, the object was also seen in the vicinity of Nizhne-Ilimskoye, about 418 km from the site, and then, as reliably established, passed over the village of Mironovo on the Lena River, 500 km from the explosion. The object was also seen above Preobrazhenka on the Lower Tunguska—and all these objects were flying in the same direction: toward the final point—the Shishkovsky and Kulikovsky blowdowns and the Voronov crater!

The composite picture from eyewitness accounts clearly shows that the objects seen across the taiga could not have been a single meteorite—there were many, moving along different trajectories, but all converging on a single point. Surprisingly, despite the meticulous interviews conducted by scientists and researchers, they failed to recognize the difference in eyewitness reports between the behavior of a meteorite and that of the “terminator spheres”, which moved in large numbers from different directions for its destruction.

It is well known that a meteorite’s flight is brief (a few seconds), extremely fast (6–22 km/sec), occurs at an angle to Earth, and follows a straight trajectory, leaving behind a long fiery-smoky trail stretching at least 200–300 kilometers and lingering for tens of minutes. Yet in the scientific reports and explanations of the Tunguska event, the celestial body is always referred to in the singular. But eyewitness testimonies and accounts collected by researchers consistently point out that there were several objects in the sky, moving along different trajectories, from various directions, and—most importantly—slowly, parallel to the Earth’s surface, sometimes stopping, and even changing direction and speed—maneuvering, which completely rules out the possibility that these were meteorites or comets. Meteorites and comets do not fly like that!
There could be no mistake in the evaluations by thousands of witnesses, especially given that the morning was cloudless. People within a radius of over 800 kilometers from the impact site observed the unusual flight of massive, sparkling fiery objects, trailing rainbow-like light. But the key point is this: they did not all see the same object, but different ones—yet similar in appearance and behavior—the “terminator spheres.”

After the installation generated and brought the “terminator spheres” to the surface through underground shafts, they began moving toward a certain control point—the place where, apparently, their final reconnaissance and alignment occurred before destroying the meteorite. At a certain phase of their flight, the “terminator spheres” would pause, synchronize their positions relative to the incoming meteorite, and then, with terrifying roar and enormous speed, rush head-on to intercept it..
Rise of the Terminators: Flight to the Tunguska Meteorite Impact
Below is a self-explanatory excerpt from an eyewitness account by a man living in the village of Moga on the Lower Tunguska, 300 kilometers east of the Tunguska explosion site. This testimony is presented in Yuri Sbitnev’s book Echo:

“…I remember that time well – I was just nineteen. Got up early… It was clear, calm… Our hut, just like now, was up here – on the little hill. I was sharpening my scythes.

I’m hammering away, sharpening the scythe, but something didn’t feel right – the sound wasn’t mine. I stopped. And I heard it – a rumbling began… The sky was perfectly clear – not a cloud, not a speck. Of course, there were no airplanes or helicopters back then – we only got used to those much later. But there it was – a rumble. Didn’t sound like a thunderstorm. And it kept growing, louder and louder, rolling across the sky…

And suddenly, another sun rolled out into the sky. I mean, our sun was already shining, heating the top of my head, and this new one came rolling right into my eyes. I couldn’t look – everything went black. I dashed into the hut, and this new sun – its light came through the window and moved across the stove like this…”
The house, like most Russian homes along the northern rivers, faced east and south. One small window looked northwest, and through it the "sun" was shining, casting a crimson glow on the white wall of the large Russian stove. This glow moved from right to left, toward the east. In the other windows and on the opposite wall of the stove, the usual sunlight was shining...

“I watched as the sun from that window lit up the stove—it was so intense I just stood there with my mouth open. I’d never seen anything like it. And the rumbling kept rolling on and on. There was no escape. Grandfather sat up on the stove and loudly, in a clear voice, began to pray. He sang, and told me: ‘Stepka, pray! All of you, pray! It’s happened... It has come…’ (The shamans had warned of the end of the world.)

But how could I pray? Where could you run? There was nowhere. The rumbling was everywhere. And the fiery sphere—like it was aiming right at us. It crept... crept along the stove... then stopped. Stopped…”

The fireball that had appeared in the clear, cloudless sky approached the Earth with a growing roar. It grew visibly larger, flaring ever brighter, until it was impossible to look at directly due to its intense, blazing light. In one imperceptible moment, the thunderous crashing became a continuous hum, and the sphere stopped moving—hanging in the air, as if the setting sun had frozen just above the horizon. It's hard to determine how long it remained still, but the fireball didn’t move at all—so much so that even a mind stunned by the event could register it. The sphere stood still...

“I was too scared to look out the window, but from the stove I could see—it had stopped.

Then suddenly it tore away, scraped along the stove, and vanished. The thunder that followed—my God! The Earth shook, I was thrown to the floor, and the window seemed to explode outward—glass flew everywhere... I didn’t lie there long. I jumped up, thinking: ‘Where’s Grandpa? Was he thrown off?’
He was lying belly-down right on the edge of the stove, asking me over and over: ‘Stepa, what was that? Stepa, what was that?’
He was soaked and pale—white as a sheet... The Earth still seemed to be trembling, the floor was shifting under my feet, or maybe my legs were just shaking. It was terrifying!”
“...Where did it go, that sun—no one could understand. Just moments ago, it had been shining. So brightly that shadows vanished in an instant. And the light, colliding with the light, deprived the Earth of its familiar and beloved outlines. Everything— from the tiniest blade of grass to the mighty cedar—suddenly appeared strange, no longer as it had always been. The colors disappeared. The familiar depth and warmth of the world were gone. The gentleness vanished. The Light of Being was extinguished…”

Judging by the details in the story, the observation occurred very close to the place where the “Terminator Sphere” was generated—right near the point where the energy column (the fiery whirlwind) brought the “Terminator” to the surface. That’s why everything was accompanied by terrifying noise. A crucial detail is preserved in an eyewitness account recorded by Yuri Sbitnev. Here it is:

“Someone saw that from the fireball, another fiery column descended, and for a moment it looked like an enormous tree with a round, flaming crown. Someone else noted that this raging mass of light seemed to hurl out another sphere, which then rushed toward the ground. But others claimed there was no second sphere at all—rather, the flame itself, that sun, hurled itself downward at an angle...
Many saw it, and many saw it differently. But everyone agreed on one thing: the movement of that mysterious fire-object ceased, and it hung motionless in the sky for a time. And there was a roar… Then, it was as if an explosion followed—the Earth shook, and the thing darted away, took off, and that same thunder rolled again—only now fading. The ferocity of the fire diminished—less and less—until it could barely be made out in the vast white sky, and then it was gone. And the thunder faded… shrank… vanished completely. It had been—and now it was gone.”

Here are some intriguing lines from the Yakut epic Olonkho:

“Sweeping up a storm of stone,
Causing the lightning to flash,
Causing the thunder to rumble behind
In four resounding peals,
Straight flew Nyurgun Bootur.”

Careful study of Olonkho leads to an important conclusion: some of its episodes contain a framework that precisely describes the phases of events that periodically unfolded over the Siberian taiga. It becomes clear why the texts of Olonkho so astonishingly echo the accounts of eyewitnesses.
From the Yakut epic Olonkho:

"From a distance of three days' journey
One could see the smoke rising,
Expanding upward like a mushroom.
Dust and ash
Shrouded the Earth,
The smoke coiled thick and black,
Rising to the heavens like a cloud,
And eclipsed the light of the sun."

This phase was witnessed by thousands of people at various times. Below is a report by the Dutch ambassador, Baron de Bie, discovered by I.V. Bogatyrev in the State Archive of the USSR Navy. It requires no commentary:

"On April 2 (15), 1716, on the second day after the Easter holiday, at around 9 o’clock in the evening, a very brilliant meteor appeared in the clear, cloudless sky. Its gradual development is described below:

In the northeastern part of the sky, a very dense cloud first rose from the horizon, pointed at the top and wide at the base. Its ascent was so rapid that it reached halfway to the zenith in no more than three minutes.
At the very moment this dark cloud appeared, a huge, brilliant comet rose in the northwestern part of the sky, ascending to 12° above the horizon. Immediately afterward, a new dark cloud rose from the north, on the western side, moving swiftly toward the first cloud, which was advancing more slowly. Between these two clouds, from the northeastern side, a bright light formed in the shape of a column. For several minutes, this light did not change position, while the cloud approaching from the west cut across it at incredible speed and collided with the other cloud with such terrifying force that a vast flame appeared in the sky from the collision. It was accompanied by smoke, and the glow of the light extended from the northeast all the way to the west.
The actual smoke rose about 20° above the horizon, while rays of flame shot through it continuously in all directions—as if a battle between many fleets and armies were taking place.

This phenomenon lasted a full fifteen minutes in its most dazzling form, and then gradually began to fade. It ended with the appearance of numerous brilliant "arrows" reaching up to 80° above the horizon. The cloud that had appeared in the east then dispersed, and shortly after, the other cloud vanished completely. By 10 o’clock, the sky was once again clear and glowing with bright stars.

It is impossible to convey the degree of terror inspired by the moment when the two clouds collided—as if they both shattered upon impact—and how, with extraordinary speed, they were followed by a multitude of smaller clouds moving westward. The flames that burst forth from them resembled thunderclaps—unusually bright and blinding."
Hunter V. Okhchin, whose cabin was located 35 km from the epicenter of the Tunguska explosion, recalled:

"Centuries-old Siberian trees were torn out by the roots. The treetops were engulfed in flames. And in the next moment, people saw a massive black mushroom-shaped cloud rising on the horizon."

As one analyzes the consequences of the explosions that have occurred over the Siberian taiga over the past 100 years, there arises a deep sense of gratitude and reverence for the intelligence and power of those who, millennia ago, built a complex to protect our beautiful blue planet and all the life it sustains. Even the very first strike against the meteorite—delivered at an altitude of several kilometers above the Earth—is executed in such a way that it “undercuts” the meteorite, altering its trajectory to direct the subsequent explosions and debris away from populated areas into a safer zone.

Let us return to the morning of June 30, 1908, and observe everything that took place through the eyes of eyewitnesses. The entire sequence of events unfolded approximately as follows:

Time: around 7:15 a.m. At this moment, the meteorite was traveling along a trajectory from the southeast to the northwest. In the village of Preobrazhenka, I.M. Volozhin saw “a trail of smoke cross the sky, with flashes of fire flickering through it.” This was the meteorite, hurtling at immense speed toward the Earth.

1. Generation and Emergence of the “Terminator Spheres”

At that moment, from the Kirensk region, observers reported:


“…in the northwest, a fiery column appeared, about four sazhens [approx. 8.5 meters] in diameter, shaped like a spear. When the column vanished, five loud, abrupt cannon-like blasts were heard, following one another quickly and clearly…”


At the Teterya trading post, “fiery columns” were seen in the north. Similar “fiery columns” were also observed in other locations—Kezhma, Nizhne-Ilimsk, and Vitim—none of which lie along the same trajectory.

2. Red Glow During the Generation of the Terminator Spheres Before the Explosion

The emergence of the “Terminators” onto the surface marked the most energetic phase of the event. As a result, the “energy columns” and “Terminators” radiated a bright white light—blinding and intense, like arc welding. The brightness was so powerful that witnesses reported the illusion that everything around them darkened or faded.


Then, after the “Terminator” emerged onto the surface, the energy intensity of the process decreased. Consequently, the “energy columns” and “Terminators” turned red, casting a crimson glow over the region of the future explosion.


Kainachenok Maksim Semyonovich, age 50, an Evenki man interviewed in Vanavara, recalled:

“My parents were standing on the Segochamba. The ground was shaking there, and there was thunder. First there was a red light, then the thunder came. The redness was in the direction away from Vanavara. At the moment the meteorite fell, my uncle Aksenov had gone out to check on the reindeer. He said that first everything above the site of the explosion turned black, then red—and only afterward did they hear the thunder…”


Elkina Anna Yakovlevna, age 75, an Evenki woman living in Vanavara, confirmed:

“Very early in the morning… a little higher than where the sun rises, there was rumbling. Very high up. The whole sky was red—and not only the sky, but everything around: the ground and the sky. Then there was a powerful thunder. The sound was like bells—like hitting metal. The thunder lasted for half an hour…”

3. Flights of the Terminators

Immediately after the appearance of the luminous (energy) columns, glowing “Terminator Spheres” emerged in the sky and began flying toward the site of the explosion. Like many of the thousands of eyewitnesses interviewed, N. Ponomarev from the village of Nizhne-Ilimskoye reported:

“At 7:20 in the morning, a loud rumble was heard beneath Nizhne-Ilimskoye, which turned into peals of thunder... Some homes shook from the impact. Many residents saw that, before the thunderclap, a fiery object—‘like a burning log’—raced across the sky from south to northwest. Immediately after that, a blast was heard, and where the fiery object disappeared, ‘a fire’ appeared, followed by ‘smoke’...”


K.A. Kokorin, a resident of Kezhma, interviewed by E.L. Krinov in 1930, recalled:

“Three or four days before St. Peter’s Day, around 8 a.m., I heard sounds like cannon fire. I immediately ran out into the yard, which opened toward the southwest and west. The sounds were still continuing, and I saw—toward the southwest and at about halfway between the zenith and the horizon—a flying red sphere, with rainbow-colored bands visible at its sides and behind it…”


At the same time, in Kirensk, a fiery red sphere was seen in the northwest—some witnesses described it moving horizontally, while others said it flew at a steep angle.

Near Mursky Porog (close to the village of Boguchany), a bluish light flashed, and a fiery object swept by from the south—much larger than the sun—and left a wide, glowing trail behind it...

A later video recorded the flight of a Terminator Sphere over Australia on June 15, 2020.

Interestingly, most meteorites that cross over Australia follow a trajectory from southeast to northwest—the same as in the Tunguska event.

In the video, it is clearly visible that the “Terminator” is moving very slowly compared to the speed expected of a bolide or meteorite.

Meteorites cross the sky at vastly greater speeds, making the slowness of this object highly anomalous and incompatible with natural meteoric behavior.

4. Undercutting the Meteorite

To intercept and destroy the incoming meteorite, a technology was employed—one that humanity would later encounter more than once. This was a technology of force compensation, designed to minimize the devastating pressure of the shockwave and the effects of radiative impact. Without this compensatory intervention, the consequences would have been catastrophic. The number of casualties and the size of the impact zone would have exceeded the destruction caused by a powerful hydrogen bomb many times over.

According to the most conservative estimates, the energy of the explosion on June 30, 1908 was more than 2,000 times greater than the combined power of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

To minimize the effects of the first strike on the meteorite—and to force the incoming body back out into space—the first Terminator Sphere was deployed from above, entering the calculated interception point in a downward trajectory.

From the correspondence of S. Kulesha in the Siberia newspaper (Irkutsk), dated June 30 (July 13), 1908 (Old Style):


"On the morning of June 17 (30)... In the village of N-Karelin (about 200 versts north of Kirensk), peasants saw—high above the northwest horizon—some extremely bright object (so bright it could not be looked at), glowing with a bluish-white light. It moved for about 10 minutes from top to bottom…

As it approached the ground (the forest), the brilliant object appeared to dissipate. In its place, a vast black cloud formed, and a powerful rumbling noise was heard (not thunder), like falling boulders or cannon fire. All the buildings trembled. At the same time, flames of indeterminate shape began to burst forth from the cloud..."


The Terminator slowly descended, as if awaiting the incoming meteorite. A few seconds before the collision, the descending Terminator released a burst of energy discharge, accompanied by massive thunderclaps. As a result, a giant cross appeared in the sky. At the center of this cross, a hole formed in Earth’s energetic membrane.

In other words, the Terminator's discharge created something like a passage—or a “black hole” in space—leading directly into outer space, into the vacuum. As a result, everything below began to be drawn into this hole, like into an enormous and powerful vacuum vortex: trees, stones, streams, animals, people—everything was pulled upward.

Below is a video recording that unintentionally captured the moment of the appearance of this cross in the sky, accompanied by powerful bursts of thunder.

Eyewitness Testimony of S.B. Semenov, who was in the village of Vanavara, 100 kilometers from the site of the disaster:

“Suddenly, the sky in the north split apart, and high above the forest, a fire appeared, spreading across the entire northern part of the sky. At that moment, it felt so hot—as if my shirt had caught fire. I was about to tear it off when the sky closed up again, and there was a powerful explosion that threw me three sazhens [about 6 meters] to the ground.
At the moment when the sky opened up, a hot wind rushed from the north past the huts, like a cannon blast. It left tracks in the ground and damaged the growing onions. Later, we saw that many windows were shattered, and the iron latch on the barn door had been broken…”

At that same moment, P.P. Kosolapov, standing near Semenov, felt his ears burn—but reported no visible light phenomena.
Even 50 kilometers from the explosion, people’s clothing began to smolder from the unbearable heat that surged suddenly from the cold taiga. At 60 kilometers, no one could remain standing. At a distance of 400 kilometers, the flash of light outshone the sun.

Local residents interviewed by scientists in subsequent expeditions claimed that just before the terrible flash, trees and yurts in some areas were seen to be lifted into the air. Segments of land on hillsides and along rivers were displaced, and waves traveled against the current.
This observation directly suggests that the explosion had a vacuum-like component—sucking everything inward. Simultaneously, another component of the explosion was directed outward, as trees at the blast epicenters fell with their tops pointing away from the center. This bidirectional behavior indicates the use of a force-compensating technology!

Eyewitness testimonies reveal a patterned distribution of shockwave pressure. Materials from investigations and interviews contain many facts that experts overlooked. For instance, witnesses described the tremors, blasts, and flashes as either terrifying or barely perceptible, even though the settlements reporting them were located relatively close to one another.
There are accounts from several witnesses near the explosion site who said they did not notice any major blast or felt no earthquake, while in settlements over 600 kilometers away, houses swayed, windows shattered, and cracks formed in stove walls!

In other words, the main force of the explosion had been compensated, such that the vast majority of people were spared—even though casualties among animals (thousands of reindeer perished) and some humans were unavoidable. Not everyone heeded the warnings of the shamans and left the danger zone.
Researchers have encountered the effects of force-compensation technology more than once. The course and aftermath of the Tunguska explosion show distinct similarities with the Sasovo explosion of April 12, 1991. Detailed investigations revealed that in both cases, the main force of the shockwave—and the consequences of these colossal, high-energy explosions—were transferred into another space (dimension)!
One specific hallmark of this compensation technology, in addition to the cross-shaped (three-dimensional) vector distribution, is the distinctive sound that both precedes and follows the main explosion. In both the Tunguska and Sasovo events (the latter occurring 500 km south of Moscow, leaving a massive crater—28 meters wide and 3.5 meters deep in the center of town), the roar of the explosion was preceded by a sound described by Tunguska witnesses as a powerful wind-like noise, moving from north to south. Others likened it to the whistle of a 3-inch artillery shell in flight.
Significantly, this sound occurred before the explosion, and then after the detonation, a new sound arose—as if something was flying away from the site of the catastrophe. In the Sasovo case, eyewitnesses described it as the sound of a falling or retreating jet, correlating with the opening and closing of a “black hole.”

A report by Nikitina, an employee at the Sasovo station, states:

“Suddenly, a rising roar was heard. The walls of the observation tower I was in began to shake. Then there was an explosion of monstrous power. The windows shattered and fell to the floor...”

After that, witnesses described a receding sound. Overall, the sequence of events appears to follow this pattern:

  1. A rising roar (like a buildup of energy or wind);
  2. A powerful explosion;
  3. A sonic boom—the kind associated with an aircraft breaking the sound barrier;
  4. A fading roar, similar to the sound of a jet retreating at high altitude.
The use of force-compensation technology clearly points to the involvement of intelligent forces behind these events. Without such intervention, the outcome of these explosions would have been far more terrifying and destructive—and would likely have taken the lives of thousands of unsuspecting people.

The first strike against the Tunguska meteorite consisted of two coordinated phases:

In the first phase, a “Terminator Sphere”, already positioned and awaiting the meteorite, descended smoothly from above, aligning itself directly in the path of the oncoming object. When only fractions of a second remained before impact, the Terminator released its charge, compressing the space-time membrane, and a cross-shaped rupture appeared in the sky—an opening into another dimension.

In the second phase, another Terminator Sphere, having just made a 300-kilometer jump from the village of Moga, struck the meteorite from below and to the right, at an altitude of approximately 6–7 kilometers. The purpose of this precisely angled strike was to fragment the meteorite, reduce its mass, and transfer to it a vector impulse that would “bank-shot” the debris into the opened dimensional rift—as if knocking a ball into a pocket—redirecting it into space.

The explosion was accompanied by a blinding flash, which caused radiation burns to vegetation and ignited fires within a 25-kilometer radius. A massive electromagnetic discharge, released at the moment of the “Terminator’s” impact, remagnetized the soil, exerting a powerful influence on the surrounding environment and the space-time structure of the explosion site.
This disturbance led to an alteration in the flow of physical time, a phenomenon that was detected decades later by scientific expeditions. The warping of space-time through a high-energy electromagnetic discharge is a core component of the force-compensation technology.
If we consider that UFOs also manipulate space-time using electromagnetic fields to move between dimensions, then several key details in eyewitness accounts of the Tunguska explosion can be reevaluated in a new light—revealing fascinating aspects that earlier investigators had overlooked.

Testimony of Ivan Kurkagyr, son of a direct witness to the Tunguska meteorite:

“…There were many chums [Evenki tents]. In the morning, thunder was heard. An incredibly loud storm broke out. It shattered the chums and carried people away through the air. They found themselves on the Marnikov Bog. They couldn't understand how they had been transported there. The storm, burning through the taiga, also devoured their reindeer.
The fire spread quickly. One man had a chum nearby. He wanted to get home—he had money in his tursuk (a pack bag). Seeing the fire, he ran for the money. He rushed to the river, toward the chums. He saw the fire consuming his neighbors’ chums. People jumped into the river. The fire followed across the water. Floating logs ignited. They dove under the water, but the fire ignited even the divers, burning their heads. That’s how they all died…”

This account contains a remarkable detail: some people and animals, at the moment of the massive electromagnetic discharge that bent space-time, were instantly displaced to other locations—in other words, they were physically transported through space.
Another account of space-time distortion:At the moment of the explosion, the sky appeared to open, and people saw outer space—the starry heavens all around—an event interpreted as the opening of a passage for ejecting the meteorite into space.
A.S. Kosolapova, daughter of S.B. Semenov, interviewed by E.L. Krinov in 1930, reported:

“I was 19 years old when the meteorite fell, and I was at the Vanavara trading post. Marfa Bryukhanova and I had gone to the spring for water. Marfa was drawing water, and I stood nearby, facing north. At that moment, I saw the sky in the north open up all the way to the ground, and a flash of fire burst out. We were frightened. I just managed to say: ‘Why did the sky open during the day? I’ve heard of it happening at night, but never during the day,’ when the sky (the starry one) closed again, and then came sounds like gunfire…”
By the time of the first strike, several “Terminator Spheres” were already present in the area, hovering motionlessly and scorching the treetops and surrounding vegetation with their high-frequency radiation. In those final minutes before the main phase, several more “Terminators” rapidly approached the region, which would later be named after Leonid Kulik.
Many witnesses who observed the fiery spheres crossing the sky reported that their flight was accompanied by blindingly bright light and intense heat radiation.
Now, pay attention to how this awe-inspiring event was perceived through the eyes of an inspired olonkhout—a traditional storyteller of the Olonkho epic.
KYUN ERBIYE (The Solar Messenger)

Uncatchable in flight,
Casting no shadow,
A swift herald—Messenger of the Celestial Dyesegei,
Gleaming in his radiant chainmail,
Swifter than lightning he flew—
Kyun Erbiye, the warrior.
He flew,
Leaving a fiery trail,
A howling whirlwind in his wake...
He flew
Like a falling star,
Only the air hissed behind him.
He flew like an arrow
Beyond the edge
Of the western yellow skies,
Toward the lower steep slopes
Of the skies hanging over the abyss.
He soared at great height—
Only thunder rumbled...
A blue flame flared behind him,
A white flame blazed after him,
Red sparks swirled in swarms,
A glow flared in the clouds...

It is remarkable that the phrase “beyond the edge of the western yellow skies” corresponds precisely to the region of the Podkamennaya Tunguska, where the 1908 event occurred.

To properly understand the chronology and progression of the event, one must clearly visualize the spatial relationships:
  • The altitude of the first explosion: approximately 6–7 km above the Earth
  • The blast zones: spanning tens of kilometers in radius
  • The distances over which the fragments of the shattered meteorite were dispersed: hundreds of kilometers
  • The time interval between explosions reflects the flight time of the fragments from one detonation point to the next
Over the Shishkovsky blast zone, the meteorite was fragmented into several pieces, which began to scatter in different directions. However, “Terminator Spheres” approaching from various directions intercepted and destroyed them. This explains why, on one hand, researchers discovered multiple blast epicenters within the impact zones—marked by trees that had fallen in different directions—and on the other, why all eyewitnesses reported hearing first a terrifyingly powerful explosion (the fragmentation), followed by something like artillery cannonade for 5–6 minutes (the destruction of the smaller fragments).

A modern example of this exact sequence of events occurred during the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion on February 15, 2013. There, following the initial powerful detonation and fragmentation of the meteor, witnesses also described what sounded like artillery fire—precisely as was reported in the Podkamennaya Tunguska event in 1908.
Yegor Nikolaevich Ankudinov, a resident of the village Berezovo in the Nizhne-Ilimsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, was at the time felling pine trees in the forest with his father and uncle to build a house.

“The day was red,” he recalled. “We had just finished breakfast and started cutting down trees in the forest. Suddenly—‘Bang!’—something exploded nearby. The ground shook, and dry branches fell from the trees. Then, a little while later, another blast echoed—but this time far, far away, somewhere up north…”
From the newspaper Krasnoyarets, dated July 13, 1908:

“Kezhemskoye Village. On the 17th (30th), at 7 a.m., a noise swept through the air—like a powerful wind. Immediately afterward came a terrifying explosion, accompanied by a subterranean jolt that literally shook the buildings. It gave the impression that some giant log or heavy stone had slammed into the structure.
After the first explosion came a second—just as powerful—and then a third. The time between the first and third explosions was filled with an extraordinary underground roar, resembling the sound of a dozen trains running at once over metal rails.
Then, for the next 5 to 6 minutes, what followed was indistinguishable from artillery fire: about 50 to 60 concussive blasts occurred in short and nearly regular intervals, gradually diminishing in strength toward the end.
After a pause of about 1.5 to 2 minutes, six more explosions were heard, one after another—like distant cannon fire, yet still clearly audible and accompanied by ground tremors…”
The gigantic plasma spheres, crashing into the meteorite fragments, released colossal amounts of energy to destroy the celestial intruder and everything it contained.
Considering the likelihood that a large number of small fragments would be produced during the meteorite’s breakup, a new hypothesis arises: the electromagnetic charge of the “Terminators” possessed a specific property.
The vector (charge) of the Terminator’s magnetic field may have caused all the small fragments to become magnetically attracted to it—clustered together—and then obliterated in the subsequent energy discharge of the explosion.
It is possible that over the Shishkovsky (Zone 1) or Kulikovsky (Zone 2) blast sites, two large fragments were blown off the main meteorite by an explosion and thrown 100 km to the right (Zones 4 and 5), where they were intercepted by “Terminator Spheres”. Upon colliding with them, the Terminators literally melted the meteoritic material.
From the force of the blasts, droplets of molten meteorite scattered in all directions at immense speed, cooling in flight and scorching tree bark upon impact. Professor V.A. Zolotov, who continued the work of Leonid Kulik (the first researcher of the Tunguska phenomenon), discovered silicate spheres embedded in tree bark at the site—containing the element ytterbium, which does not occur in pure form naturally on Earth.

The energy possessed by the Terminator Spheres was so immense that, in addition to electromagnetic radiation, powerful electrical discharges (lightning) occurred between the Earth and the Terminators.
Eyewitness TestimonyThe brothers Chuchancha and Chekaren of the Shanyagir clan were sleeping in their chum (tent) on the morning of June 30, pitched by the Avarkitty River. They awoke to violent shaking and the loud whistling of the wind.

“Chekaren and I crawled out of our bags and were about to jump out of the chum when suddenly a thunderclap struck—very loud. That was the first strike. The Earth began to tremble and sway. A strong wind hit our chum and knocked it down…
Then I saw a terrifying sight: the trees were falling, their needles were burning, dry branches on the ground were burning, the reindeer moss was on fire. Smoke was everywhere, my eyes hurt—it was very hot, as if everything was going to burn.
Suddenly, over the mountain—where the forest had already fallen—it became extremely bright… like a second sun appeared. My eyes hurt so much I had to close them. And then came the agdyllan (a powerful thunderclap). That was the second strike.
The morning had been sunny, without clouds, and our usual sun shone brightly, as always—but this was a second sun!

After that, we saw another flash in the sky, now in a different place, and then another powerful thunderclap. That was the third strike. A strong wind came, knocked us down, and I hit a fallen tree.
We watched the trees falling, saw their tops break off, and looked toward the fire. Suddenly Chekaren shouted:

‘Look up!’ and pointed. I looked and saw a lightning bolt—it flashed and then struck again with a thunderclap. But this time it was a little weaker. That was the fourth strike, like normal thunder.
And now I remember clearly—there was one more strike, the fifth, but it was weak and far away…”
Later, researchers noticed a clear pattern: the closer to the epicenter, the higher the percentage of trees catastrophically damaged by lightning. In the very epicenter, there were areas where the lightning-strike rate reached 80%!

This observation is supported by findings from scientists in Novosibirsk, who proved that the initial treefall was caused by a radiation blast, and concluded that the object that exploded had linear dimensions no greater than several tens of meters. Only the subsequent explosions disrupted the pattern of this initial radiative treefall.

Experts determined that electrical discharges (lightning) pierced the sky for between 2 and 15 minutes, producing a sound pattern resembling artillery fire. Importantly, throughout that period, the source of the discharges remained stationary over the epicenter—it did not travel at high speed. In other words, the object arrived, slowed down, and exerted multiple effects on the area below—radiation, temporal (chronal), and mutagenic.

The main mass of the Tunguska meteorite was destroyed over the Kulikovsky blast zone, but one fragment, torn off in the explosion, escaped that area and, after traveling about 120 km, impacted the ground.

Given the systematic destruction of everything connected to the meteorite, one may hypothesize that it contained something biologically dangerous to life on Earth—perhaps pathogenic bacteria.
That is why one of the “Terminator Spheres” soared upward to a significant altitude, and then descended into the Earth, delivering a final strike underground to destroy the remaining mass of the Tunguska meteorite, which resulted in a powerful earthquake.

At the impact site, a gigantic crater was left behind—200 meters in diameter and 20 meters deep—later named the Voronov Crater.
From the report by Vakulina, head of the Nizhne-Ilimsk postal station, in a letter dated July 28, 1908: “

On Tuesday, June 17, around 8 a.m. (unverified time), according to the accounts of many local residents, a fiery sphere was first seen in the northwest, descending diagonally across the horizon from east to west. As it approached the ground, it transformed into a pillar of fire and instantly disappeared; after its disappearance, a column of smoke was visible rising from the ground.

A few minutes later, a loud noise in the sky was heard, with muffled, thunder-like booms. Following those came eight powerful blasts, resembling cannon fire. The final blast had a whistling sound and was especially violent, causing the ground and buildings to shake…”

Some eyewitnesses reported that the force of the impact knocked people to the ground, and many lost consciousness, unable to recover for several days. The shock was so intense that horses collapsed to their knees, paralyzed by fear and unwilling to flee—clearly terrified by the event. In some places, cracks opened in the ground.
An additional confirmation of the hypothesis that the destroyed meteorite carried bacteria dangerous to life on Earth is the fact that, even after the meteorite was destroyed, the installation continued to scan the Earth’s surface for any remaining meteoritic material.

Astonished eyewitnesses reported observing the flight of "Terminator Spheres" over the impact site until the evening of June 30! These “Terminator Spheres”—or, as researchers initially interpreted them, secondary bolides—were observed by about half of all witnesses.

This idea is also indirectly supported by the unusual elemental composition of the microspherules found in the catastrophe layer of the local peat. The composition is atypical for natural cosmic bodies, displaying high concentrations of alkaline elements.

When analyzing the mechanism of the Terminator Spheres, one may reasonably suppose that, possessing a powerful electromagnetic charge, they were capable of attaching themselves to the meteorite in flight and altering its trajectory, redirecting its vector outward, beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

However, if the meteorite’s trajectory was too critical, making redirection impossible, the “Terminators” simply destroyed the stone fragments—literally melting the meteoritic material, which in the process of cooling, transformed into microspherules.
In numerous soil samples taken at various distances from the meteorite destruction sites, researchers discovered magnetite spherules containing up to 10% nickel, which strongly supports their cosmic origin.

In addition to the magnetite spherules, silicate spherules were also found. Their sizes range from 5 to 400 microns, with the majority measuring between 80 and 100 microns.

Among the magnetite spherules, there is a noticeable diversity of forms and surface textures. Alongside the more common spherical formations, droplet-shaped particles are also observed—these were formed by the splattering of molten meteorite material under the influence of the extreme temperatures generated by the “Terminator Spheres.”

Some spherules have a glossy surface, while others appear matte, rough, or even finely porous. This porosity results from gases evaporating from within the meteorite’s substance while it was still in a viscous state.
The spherules are often hollow, with an internal structure resembling slag.

Occasionally, aggregates of magnetite and silicate spherules are found, indicating that they were formed simultaneously and reflecting the complex composition of the Tunguska cosmic body, with which their genesis is associated.

Research conducted in 1961–62 established that there is a distinct pattern in the distribution of these spherules on the surface.

Their increased concentration is confined to a belt approximately 50–60 km wide, stretching in a northwest direction from the epicenter of the meteorite explosion, and can be traced for over 250 km.
In the disaster zone, which covers an area with a radius of approximately 130 km centered on the Kulikovsky epicenter, three zones of the catastrophic peat layer enriched with microspherules can be distinguished.
The first zone, shaped like a thin crescent, curves around the center of the catastrophe.
The second zone follows the trajectory of the bolide, in the area of impact zones 4 and 5, located east and northeast of the Kulikovsky blowdown, in the upper reaches of the Yuzhnaya Chunya River, and thus coincides with the initial phase of the meteorite’s destruction.

The third zone, which is vast and unbounded, lies precisely in the area of the Voronov crater!

It is not by chance that the microspherules found in this zone exhibit distinct structural and compositional features that set them apart from those in other zones. This is because the destruction occurred directly within the ground, resulting in a mixing of soil material with meteorite matter during the process of vaporization.

The bolide completely vaporized upon explosion, dispersing the evaporated material in the form of tiny spheres across an area of 15,000 km². Their total mass is estimated at approximately 10 tons.
It is precisely for this reason that none of the expeditions sent to the explosion site were able to find any substantial fragments of the meteorite itself—only dust, composed of silicate and magnetite spheres, which had been carried by the shockwave around the Earth.
If we take into account that the epic Olonkho and preserved legends recount that several decades after the epic flight of Nyurgun Bootur, a figure called Kyun Erbiye ("the radiant heavenly messenger") soared into the sky—a herald of Uot Usumu Tong Duurai—this gives reason to assume that the Tunguska explosion was in fact Nyurgun Bootur.

Several decades later, on February 26, 1984, a bolide streaked across the skies of western and eastern Siberia at an altitude of about 100 kilometers, replicating exactly the trajectory of the Tunguska cosmic body. At that moment, passengers on a bus traveling along an elevated stretch of the Mirny highway observed, far to the north, a thin "pillar of fire" stretching from the earth to the sky, which then began to undergo various geometric transformations. The vision lasted several minutes. Its color was red!

Fishermen in the Chona River region witnessed two enormous glowing spheres rising into the sky from behind the northern ridges (from the area known as the "Valley of Death"). Gradually gaining speed, they ascended vertically into the clouds and disappeared. The entire event lasted several minutes, after which a glow was observed in the clouds. Then, before reaching the ground, the bolide exploded in a shower of sparks over the Chulym River. A dispatched expedition, as in the case of Tunguska, found no remnants of meteorite material, except for magnetite and silicate microspherules.
There was no large-scale forest blowdown, as the explosion occurred at high altitude. It appears that this was “Kyun Erbiye,” the forerunner of “Uot Usumu Tong Duurai.” Therefore, by the beginning of the new millennium, the tension and anticipation among researchers had reached its peak.
According to ancient legends, the launch of Uot Usumu Tong Duurai was always accompanied by terrible destruction. Expeditions prepared in the late 20th and early 21st centuries to the area known as the “Valley of Death” were postponed several times due to reports from Siberia about animal migrations from precisely the locations the expeditions planned to enter. For the researchers, the departure of wildlife was a clear indication that the energy installation complex in the area was once again entering an active phase.

There is reason to hope that what researchers had long awaited—yet feared, due to the ominous prophecy in Olonkho, may have occurred in September 2002. The first report of a cosmic object flyby came from the U.S. Department of Defense. Based on data from a military satellite, the Pentagon released information stating that a large meteorite had fallen near Bodaybo, in the Irkutsk region of Russia.

The satellite detected a luminous object at an altitude of 62 kilometers, descending at an angle of 32 degrees to the horizon. Tracking continued until the object reached a point where a massive explosion occurred at an altitude of 30 kilometers. The explosion’s estimated power was equivalent to 200 tons of TNT.

The initial survey of eyewitnesses to the Vitim meteorite explosion revealed its phase similarity to the Tunguska Event. Despite the fact that the night of September 24–25, 2002 was overcast, with 10/10 cloud cover and rain (the lower cloud layer was between 1100–1200 meters), it was still possible to reconstruct the stages of the event and observe a clear resemblance to Tunguska.

Once again, everything followed the now-familiar pattern, beginning with animal migration. Interviews with hunters confirmed that shortly before the Vitim explosion, wildlife had fled the area.

Thirty minutes before the explosion, the energy complex began entering its active phase. Notably, one eyewitness interviewed immediately pointed out that his dog grew restless and began whining exactly 30 minutes before the blast!
Pillar of Energy and Crimson Sky: The Terminator Rises Before the Explosion
A few minutes before the first explosion, the installation began bringing the “terminators” to the surface. Here's how eyewitnesses described what they saw:

Yevgeny Sergeyevich Yarygin, electrician on duty at the power control station in the settlement of Muskovit:

“…I was on duty in the control room; the window faced south. The weather was cloudy and rainy, with a light drizzle. We were sitting and talking when a glow appeared outside: there were shadows, and the light came through the window. Through the window, we could see a bright hemispherical glow rising from behind the mountains to the southeast (azimuth approximately 160–170 degrees). The light was white, like from welding. The white light seemed to rise upward, and then it turned red and burgundy (this red column of light was also seen by passengers on the Mirny highway before the Chulym explosion, as well as by eyewitnesses to the Tunguska explosion — Uvarov’s note). Little rays were visible above the rising hemisphere. The glow filled the entire sky. The light was even and continuous; no flying objects were visible. The ravine of the Yeremikha River was brightly lit, along the watershed where the glow was rising. Then everything began to fade and went dark. The glow lasted about ten seconds.
I went out onto the platform, stepped outside, and walked to the fence. I opened the gate. About 30 seconds after the glow disappeared, there was a sharp impact, an explosion, a crack—very loud and abrupt. My ears were ringing—my knees buckled. Plaster fell from the ceiling in the house, everything shook and rumbled. There was one single blast. It was seven minutes to two.
But a distant sound had begun even before the glow appeared—similar to the rumble of an airplane (eyewitnesses to the Tunguska explosion described this as the sound of a flying 3-inch shell — Uvarov’s note). The sound came from the same direction as the glow, but the blast came from the opposite side, toward which the glow had moved. People later said that someone sitting in a chair at home felt the chair move across the floor…”
Viktor Ivanovich Vedeshin (interviewed by phone, October 22):

“...I was on night duty at the boat station. A strong wind suddenly blew, and at the same time, a powerful glow appeared in the sky. The color was white, almost greenish, very bright—like welding or lightning—it hurt to look at. Then a glowing flying sphere appeared and flew over the mountain toward Maksimikha…”

Vitaly Valyuk, employee of the Bodaybo mayor's office:

“It was two minutes past 1:52 AM. The sky was covered with dense cumulus clouds. I was standing, smoking. Suddenly, there was a flash. I thought it was distant lightning. But the glow intensified, as if someone was turning on one lamp after another. It became as bright as day. An object flew from the southwest to the northeast... A sphere, or maybe not a sphere—it was hard to tell. There was a turquoise glow around it. It was about the size of the moon's disc. A reddish tail followed it, like sparks from a fire. The descent angle was about 60 degrees. Its speed was very high. While it flew by, I finished my cigarette, and about 30 seconds later, a rumble was heard, like a distant explosion…”

Marina Alexandrovna Kovaleva:

“It was five minutes to two. The light was intense. It lasted a few seconds, then everything turned pink, and then darker, and darker, transitioning into a reddish hue. Then came a rumble. It felt like it came from underground—not sharp, but muffled (note: eyewitnesses of the Tunguska explosion also described the rumble as sounding like the wheels of a passing train — Uvarov’s note). After the rumble, the windows started to rattle…”

From the settlements of Kropotkin and Mama (120–150 km from the impact area):One witness reported:

“My dog suddenly started whimpering for no reason. Then we heard a strange sound—some kind of buzzing. Two or three seconds later, a flash followed—first white, then blue, then red, and again white. And then, about three minutes later, a massive BOOM. All the dishes fell off the table…”
Three minutes before the explosion, the first “terminator” was deployed to a standby position to conduct final reconnaissance before striking. The object recorded by the American military satellite was not a meteor or bolide. The instruments registered the flight of the first terminator, which, descending from above, executed a “cut” maneuver on the Vitim meteorite—so named after the area over which it exploded.
A blinding flash lit up the taiga for a few moments with an intense, almost electric light, followed by an explosion so powerful that the shockwave—descending from a height of 32 kilometers—shattered windows across tens of kilometers.

A group of researchers, using coordinates from the American satellite, reached the indicated epicenter. Along the way, they saw pine trees with broken tops and branches. But when instruments confirmed that they were standing precisely at the explosion site, they found no crater—nothing resembling even a minor impact depression. There was no mass treefall either, because the first explosion occurred at a much higher altitude than the Tunguska event, and by performing the “cut,” it altered the meteorite’s trajectory away from populated areas.

Significant treefalls, especially on mountain ridges, were later discovered by hunters Dmitry Sasun and Pyotr Fedorchuk, but southeast of where the research group had been looking. These locations suggest that the object’s main body, after being intercepted, continued its flight before a second phase of destruction took place further along its altered trajectory.
The Terminators in Flight
Just like in the case of the Tunguska explosion, alongside the first blast, other "spheres-terminators" flew in from different directions toward the explosion site. There was no shortage of witnesses to this. Sergey Khamidulin recounts:

"On the night of September 24 to 25, I was fishing on the Kudiminsky Islands (5–6 km downstream from Mama on the Vitim River). The sky was overcast, and there was a light drizzle. I was fishing with my wife. Suddenly, it got brighter. It became completely light, like daytime. Then an object 'emerged from the clouds,' and it seemed to be flying low. The light from it was like welding light, 'but you could look at it, it didn't hurt your eyes.' The angular size of the disk was 'smaller than the full Moon.' The sphere was crumbling (sparks were flying off it). During its flight, there was a sound ('some kind of rustling'). It wasn’t coming toward me, it passed by (to the south). The object flew over the Vitim River and disappeared behind the mountains to the northeast (the azimuth of the ‘disappearance’ point was 30–40 degrees). The light vanished after the object disappeared behind the mountains. About 1–1.5 minutes later, a rolling thunder-like rumble was heard. 'Like thunder, it sounded twice.' There was no shockwave or tremor..." (There is a sketch of the flying sphere with a tail.)

Valentina Leontieva, a security guard at "Lenzoloto," was on duty that night:

“At two o’clock, something fell. A rounded object raced across the sky. A tail trailed behind it. I thought: a star? But it was way too big. Ten seconds later, there was an explosion, then a second one. The door in my office flew open…”

In the Vitim incident, there is abundant evidence indicating the electromagnetic nature of the 'spheres-terminators' and their powerful impact on the environment.
In the town of Mama (in the flight zone), the electricity was off that night. Yet, when the “terminators” appeared, lightbulbs in local houses suddenly lit up dimly! According to physicists, “the flyby caused a strong disturbance of the Earth’s magnetic field, and its fluctuations generated electric current in closed circuits.”

Additionally, St. Elmo’s fire appeared on sharp-pointed objects — small glowing balls typically associated with atmospheric electric field disturbances.
Georgy Kaurtsev, an employee of the Mama airport, recalled:

“That night, there was no electricity — the town was blacked out. I woke up and saw a flash outside. A turned-off chandelier started glowing dimly. 15–20 seconds later came a ‘ground rumble’…”

Vera Semenova and Lidia Berezan, security staff at the Mama airport, went outside around 1:50 AM and saw lights glowing at the tops of the wooden fence posts surrounding the meteorological platform. The lights lasted for 1–1.5 seconds. Incidentally, the flight path of the “terminator” was dozens of kilometers away from the town of Mama.

Due to the strong electromagnetic nature of the “sphere-terminator,” it emitted a buzzing sound, similar to the crackle of high-voltage power lines. Many witnesses recall hearing a characteristic “hum, buzz, or rustle” during the flyby. Its energy was so intense that it produced an electrophonic effect (generating a resonant energy field during flight), leaving behind a rainbow-colored tail, from which sparks flew off.
Destruction of the Meteorite

After the first impact, which redirected the meteorite’s path away from populated areas, the approaching “terminator spheres” began the systematic destruction of the fragments of the celestial visitor. As a result, there were several explosions from these collisions.
Ponomareva Olga Akhmetovna, telephone operator at the switchboard:

“…I was on duty. I had just lain down. First, there was a rumble, all the windows rattled. I thought someone was knocking on my switchboard door. I said, ‘Yes, yes?’ No one was there. I asked, ‘Who's there?’ Then it lit up like daylight. It flared—and went dark again. But the windows kept rattling. I thought it was an earthquake—but why was it so bright? When the rattling began, it was five minutes to two. The light lasted a few seconds, but the rattling, as it seemed to me, went on for another five minutes. I even went outside to see who was knocking. And everything was still shaking. There was a hum—‘like a jet plane flying.’ First the hum, then the flash (the hum still continued), and then the blast. (Just like in Sasovo – author’s note.)”

Evgeny Dmitrievich Chechikov recounts:

“We were out by the river that night... When the glow appeared, it was so frightening we fell to the ground. Then, when the glow faded, the sound of the explosion reached us. One explosion was heard, followed by two smaller, quieter ones, almost without pause…”

Sergey Pavlovich Chernyshov:

“It was between 2 and 3 a.m. I wasn’t asleep, just lying down. The flash lasted about three seconds, white light, extremely bright—impossible to look at. I ran outside—it was dark again. About a minute passed (later he said—8 to 10 seconds from flash to impact). From far beyond the mountains came a triple echo. The walls of the cottage creaked. The sound came from the Vitim direction. There were three explosions, it echoed so powerfully…”

Alexander Bronislavovich Sergiy, head of the Vitimsky settlement administration (interviewed on October 26):

“People saw a sphere with a tail, angular size ‘about that of the Moon.’ There was a growing sound—quiet at first, then louder and louder, to the point it became scary. After the flash, the explosion came 15–20, maybe 30 seconds later. The explosion was very powerful. Everything creaked and shook violently. People thought it was some kind of catastrophe—even though they’re used to blasts here. If the explosion was at 10 km altitude, it would be at least 4–5 tons in TNT equivalent, possibly much more. It’s hard to estimate—the explosion was aerial. There wasn't just one explosion—anywhere from one to six, like a drum roll—through the air and through the ground... A fragmented trembling of the ground, from two to six diminishing shockwaves…”

As for the estimated energy of the explosion, preliminary evaluations placed it at around 3 to 4 kilotons. Local residents involved in mining operations using ammonite claimed it was unprecedented in power. The dynamic shockwave was felt in a radius of 30–50 kilometers from the epicenter. Tree tops were blown off by the blast. The shockwave shattered windows in homes dozens of kilometers away.
Surface Scanning After the Meteor Interception
As with the Tunguska and Chulym events, the expeditions that followed the explosion over the Vitim region found nothing but magnetite and silicate spheres, formed as a result of the destruction of the meteorite body, which was believed to have carried dangerous bacteria.

Many eyewitnesses reported that after the passage of the Vitim bolide, two large radiant points moved along the same trajectory as the meteor. For two nights, these “stars” illuminated the taiga, seemingly searching for something. Similar accounts were given by witnesses of the Tunguska explosion.

Numerous people also noted that after the passage of the bolide (terminator spheres), the sky remained illuminated for several days — the result of the objects' intense electromagnetic impact. It is worth noting that high-altitude nuclear explosions are known to alter the conductivity of the ionosphere, which inevitably causes disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field — a phenomenon known as the geomagnetic effect.

The geomagnetic effect of the Tunguska catastrophe was discovered in 1959 by researchers from Tomsk — G.F. Plekhanov, A.F. Kovalevsky, V.K. Zhuravlev, and N.V. Vasiliev. They found traces of unusual geomagnetic field disturbances on old magnetograms dated June 30, 1908.
Based on these findings, it can be assumed that the destruction of the meteorite caused an unusual disturbance of the geomagnetic field, somewhat resembling a magnetic storm with a sudden onset, but with an unusually short duration.

One of the oldest Evenk doctors, A.N. Deskov, recalled that after the Tunguska event, rumors spread among the Evenks about strange illnesses. Despite the uncertainty of the situation, N.V. Vasiliev pointed out that “in conditions of a complete absence of medical aid, isolated cases of radiation sickness could have gone entirely unnoticed.” This is precisely why those who, thousands of years ago, designed and built the installation in the 'Valley of Death', directed the first high-altitude blast away from populated areas — to avoid harming humans.

Who built the installation in Yakutia’s “Valley of Death” — and for what purpose? Read about it in the next article.
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