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round in shape, about half the size of the Moon, with a bluish that the objects observed from various parts of the taiga could not tinge, flying rapidly in a direction from Filimonovo towards have been meteorites. There were many of them and they fol- Irkutsk. The glow left a trail in the form of a pale bluish stripe lowed different trajectories, but towards a single point. that extended almost the full length of its course, then gradually Amazingly, the scientists and researchers who so carefully ques- vanished from the end. The glow hid itself behind the mountain tioned numerous witnesses were unable to spot in their accounts without breaking up. I was unable to note the duration of the phe - _ any difference between the behaviour of the meteorite and that of nomenon, but it was very short. The weather was absolutely clear the "terminator spheres" that closed in large numbers from differ- and it was still. ent directions in order to destroy it. It At that same time, the flight of a is a well known fact that the flight of heavenly body was observed in the | ...an observer at a weather station ff 2 meteorite through the atmosphere is south of the Krasnoyarsk territory, 60 always very short (a matter of sec- km north of Minusinsk, 930 km from on the River Kezhma, about 600 onds) and very fast (between 6 and the site of the explosion, but moving | km from the Tunguska explosion 22 km per second), at an angle to the along a different trajectory. Roughly Earth's surface along a straight trajec- at the same time, an object was seen site, (noted) in his observation tory, leaving a trail of fire and smoke in the region of the Nizhneye- journal for June 1908...that there that extends for 200 to 300 km and Ilimskoye settlement, 418 km from . takes some tens of minutes to the explosion site. And then, ithas | Wa$ certainly more than one body disperse. been reliably established, a heavenly in the air at that time. The reports of researchers and body flew over the village of explanations of scientists speak of a Preobrazhenka, which is on the single Tunguska object. Yet the Nizhniaya (Lower) Tunguska River. eyewitness accounts of the event And all these objects were flying in the same direction—towards itself and the evidence gathered by researchers stubbornly indicate one destination: the Shishkov and Kulik blast areas and that there were several objects in the sky, following different Voronov's crater! trajectories from different directions, but most significantly The picture that forms from eyewitness accounts clearly shows moving slowly, parallel to the Earth's surface, sometimes t Alexandrovka “Se — 2 Ne NEXUS #55 Map of the region showing the flight paths of the different objects. DECEMBER 2004 — JANUARY 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com