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‘Trajectry if the Bein ato where; our eyes were sore. It was very hot, hot enough to burn to death. Suddenly, above the hill where the forest had already fallen, it became very bright and...as if another sun had appeared...it hurt your eyes and I even closed mine. And immediately there was a mighty thunderclap. That was the second bang. It was a sunny morning, cloudless. Our sun was shining brightly, as always, and here this second sun appeared! After that we saw, apparently somewhere up above but in a different place, there was another flash and again a mighty crash. That was the third bang. A wind struck us, knocked us off our feet, struck the felled tree trunks. = We watched the falling trees, saw how It is possible that above the Shishkov a 1) or Kulik (zone 2 en tops broke and looked at the fire. Suddenly Chekaren shout - sites, two large pieces detached from the meteorite by the explo- ed, "Look up!" and pointed. I looked and saw a bolt of lightning. sion were thrown 100 kilometres to the right (zones 4 and 5)— It flashed and again struck, making a great thunderclap. But the where terminators caught up with them and literally reduced them crash was a little less than before. That was the fourth bang, like to dust. The energy of the "terminator spheres" was so powerful ordinary thunder... Now it's come back to me that there was one that apart from electromagnetic radiation between the Earth and more bang, a fifth, but it was little and somewhere far off... the "terminators" there were also powerful electrical discharges Later researchers noted that the closer they got to the epicentre, (lightning). the more trees they found which had been struck by lightning. At Take this eyewitness account. On the morning of 30 June, the the epicentre, there are places where 80 per cent of the trees have brothers Chuchancha and Chekaren from the Shaniagir clan were suffered lightning strikes. This is also confirmed by the discover- sleeping in their tent which was pitched alongside the River ies made by scientists from Novosibirsk who proved that the ini- Avarkitty. They were awoken by powerful tremors and a loud tial uprooting of trees was caused by a radial blast. They conclud- whistling of the wind: ed that a body had exploded whose linear dimensions were no Chekaren and I climbed out of our bags and were on the point more than a few dozen metres and that it was only subsequent of scrambling out of the tent, when suddenly there was a very explosions that muddied the picture of the original radial event. powerful thunderclap. That was the first bang. The ground Specialists have assessed that the electrical discharges rent the began jumping and shaking; a mighty wind struck our tent and air for between two and 15 minutes, creating the aural impression knocked it over... Then I saw a terrible wonder: the trunks of the of artillery fire, while all that time their source remained above trees falling, the needles burning on them, the dry brushwood burning, the reindeer moss burning. There was smoke every - Continued on page 77 POodkamennaya el Cun gquzka NEXUS = 53 Continued on page 77 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com