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heralding the appearance of Uot Usumu Tong Duurai. This suggests that the Tunguska explosion is identified as Niurgun Bootur. heralding the appearance of Uot Usumu Tong Duurai. This postponed several times on account of reports from Siberia of suggests that the Tunguska explosion is identified as Niurgun animals migrating away from their intended destination. The Bootur. researchers took the exodus of fauna as a direct indication of the complex's energy plant having entered another active phase. THE 1984 CHULYM EXPLOSION What the researchers both awaited and feared, because of the Decades passed, and then on 26 February 1984 a meteor highly unpleasant forecast contained in the Olonkho, took place in crossed the sky of western and eastern Siberia at a height of September 2002. The first report of the flight of a space body roughly 100 kilometres, precisely following the trajectory of the came from the American military. Drawing on data received 1908 Tunguska body. At that time, from a military satellite, the US passengers in a bus observed from an Department of Defense distributed elevated section of the Mirny high- information about a large meteorite way far to the north a thin "pillar of falling in the area of Bodaibo in the fire" extending from the ground to . Irkutsk region of Russia. The satellite the sky that then began to undergo A few minutes before the recorded the appearance of a shining various geometrical metamorphoses. first explosion, the complex object at a height of 62 kilometres, The sight lasted several minutes. It % moving at an angle of 32 degrees to was red in colour. began to disgorge the the horizon. Observation continued Fishermen in the area of the River " i " to the point where a powerful Chona observed rising into the air terminators’. explosion took place at a height of 30 from the hills to the north (the kilometres. Preliminary calculations "Valley of Death" region) two enor- put the power of the explosion at an mous, shining spheres that, gradually equivalent of 200 tonnes of TNT. picking up speed, soared vertically The first interviews with witnesses upwards and disappeared behind the to the Vitim meteorite explosion clouds. The whole event took several minutes, after which time _ pointed to a parallel with the Tunguska event in terms of phases the clouds continued to glow for a while. Then, without reaching of development. Despite the fact that the night of 24-25 the ground, the bolide exploded in a shower of sparks in the area September 2002 was overcast—a low 10% cloud cover with rain, of the River Chulym. the lower edge of the clouds being at 1,100 to 1,200 metres— An expedition dispatched to that area found, as with the there was no difficulty in establishing the sequence of events and Tunguska event, no traces of meteoritic material apart from mag- spotting the obvious similarity to the Tunguska event. netite and silicate spherules. They discovered no large-scale In this case, everything followed the already familiar pattern uprooting of trees, as the explosion took place at great height. and began with the exodus of fauna. Hunters questioned reported To all appearances, this was Kiun Erbiie, the herald of Uot that animals left the area shortly before the Vitim explosion. Usumu Tong Duurai, and so by the start of the new millennium Thirty minutes before the explosion, the energy complex began the researchers were in a fervour of expectation. to enter its most active phase. It is noteworthy that one of the wit- nesses questioned noticed that his dog became agitated and began THE 2002 VITIM METEORITE to whine half an hour before the explosion! Tf tha « nt la. first explosion, the complex began to disgorge the “terminators”. THE 2002 VITIM METEORITE If the ancient legends are to be believed, the emergence of Uot Usumu Tong Duurai is always accompanied by terrible destruction. Expeditions to the Valley of Death area planned for the end of the 20th century and the beginning of this century were Usumu Tong Duurai is always accompanied by terrible The Energy Pillar and the Red Glow destruction. Expeditions to the Valley of Death area planned for A few minutes before the first explosion, the complex began to the end of the 20th century and the beginning of this century were _—_ disgorge the "terminators". Here are some eyewitness accounts. Yevgeny Yarygin was on duty at the elec- trical distribution centre in the settlement of Muskovit: ..1 was on duty in the switchboard room whose window faces south. The weather was cloudy, rainy, and it was drizzling. We were sitting and chatting. A glow appeared outside the window. Shadows appeared. The light was coming from the window. Through the windows we could see a bright hemispherical glow beginning to rise from behind the hills to the southeast [at a bear- ing of roughly 160-170 degrees; VU]. The light was white, like you get in welding. The white light seemed to rise upwards and behind it the light began to shift into the red and maroon [a red pillar was seen by the bus passengers before the Chulym explo- sion, and also by witnesses to the Tunguska explosion—VU]. Little "rays" were visible above the ascending hemisphere. The glow spread over the whole sky. The light was 56 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2005 A few minutes before the www.nexusmagazine.com