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even and unbroken; we could not see any flying objects. The presumed crash site. One of the witnesses stated: parting of the Yermikhi stream, above the watershed of which the Out of the blue my dog began to whine for no apparent reason. glow was rising, was brightly lit. Then everything began to dim Suddenly we heard a strange noise—some kind of hum. Two or and went out. The glow lasted around 10 seconds. three seconds later there was a flash—white at first, then blue, I went out onto the landing outside, went to the fence and then red and white again. And then, about three minutes later, opened the door. By then about 30 seconds had passed after the there was a terrific bang. The china all fell off the table... disappearance of the glow. There was a penetrating report, an Just over three minutes before the explosion, the first explosion, a very sharp bang. It made your ears ring and even "terminator" was delivered to a waiting position for a final made you weak at the knees. Plaster came down in the building. reconnaissance before striking. The object detected by the Everything moved and shook. There was a single bang. That was American military satellite was not a meteorite or bolide. Its at seven minutes to two. But a distant noise had appeared even instruments recorded the flight of the first terminator as it plunged before the beginning of the glow—something like the roar from an down to intercept the Vitim meteorite, which gets its name from aircraft [witnesses to the Tunguska the place above which it exploded. A explosion compared this noise with blinding flash lit up the taiga for a few a three-inch shell in flight—VU]. instants with a bright light, like The sound came from the same daylight, after which there came an quarter as the glow, but the bang explosion of such force that the blast came from the opposite side, where wave, coming from a height of 32 the glow had been heading. I heard The object detected by the kilometres, left all the dwellings for that someone was sitting in an arm - American military satellite was dozens of kilometres around without chair at home and the chair moved . . glass in the windows. under them... not a meteorite or bolide. The researchers who made their Victor Vedeshin, questioned by way to the explosion site indicated by telephone on 22 October 2002, said: the US satellite saw pines on the way ..1 was on duty that night at the with their tops and branches torn off. boat station. A strong wind blew Yet when the instruments indicated and at the same time a strong glow they had reached their destination, appeared in the sky. It was white, with they could not find a meteorite crater a greenish tinge to it, bright like a welding spark or lightning, or even anything remotely resembling one. There was no large- making your eyes hurt to look at it. Right then a shining flying scale uprooting of trees at the site because the first explosion took sphere appeared. It flew beyond the horizon in the direction of place much higher up than that at Tunguska and successfully Maximikhi... deflected the meteorite away from inhabited settlements. Vitaly Valiuk, who worked at the town hall in Bodaibo, noted: However, significant uprooting of trees was observed, especially Eight minutes to two in the morning. Dense cumulus clouds in at the top of hills, by hunters Dmitry Sasun and Piotr Fiodorchuk the sky. I was standing and smoking. Suddenly there was a flash. to the southeast of the place visited by the researchers. I thought it was lightning. But the glow grew as if someone was turning on one bulb after another. It became as bright as day. The Terminators in Flight Some object flew from the southwest to the northeast... You As with the Tunguska event, simultaneously with the first couldn't tell if it was a sphere or not. It had a turquoise glow explosion other spheres were flying towards the spot from differ- around it. It was perhaps the size of the lunar disc. And it had a ent sides. There are plenty of witnesses to this. For instance, tail behind it—reddish like the sparks from a bonfire. The angle Sergei Khamidulin noted: of fall was about 60 degrees. The speed of the object was very high. While it all flew past, I had time to finish my cigarette and 30 seconds later there came a rumble, like a distant explosion... Marina Kovaleva reported: It was five to two. The light was strong. That light lasted a few seconds, then everything turned pink, then it got darker and darker and darker, becoming a reddish light. Then there was a rumbling. You got the impression, well, I don't know, like something below the ground, not clear but dull [a subterranean rumble from the working complex was also noted by witnesses to the Tunguska explosion who compared it to the rumble of train wheels— VU]. And after that rumble the window panes rattled... The glow was visible in the settlements of Kropotkin and Mama, located around 140 kilometres on either side of the bolide's The object detected by the American military satellite was not a meteorite or bolide. The Terminators in Flight As with the Tunguska event, simultaneously with the first explosion other spheres were flying towards the spot from differ- ent sides. There are plenty of witnesses to this. For instance, Sergei Khamidulin noted: APRIL — MAY 2005 NEXUS 57 ——sie www.nexusmagazine.com