Biggest explosion in documented history is STILL a mystery: New study fails to find cause of 1908 Tunguska blast that 'split the sky in two' and flattened 80 million Siberian trees

Didn't Mulder sort this out years ago on the X Files?

What if this had happend in the 1950 s Nuclear war for sure

I see the DM has been trawling the kindergarten for writers again. Unintelligible drivel. What we do know, was this was an impact by a celestial body, because the blast pattern tells us so. What type of body, we do not know. There were no fragments from a meteor. An icy comet is more likely. But there is the interesting problem of the illuminated nighttime sky. Would ice crystals in the upper atmosphere be able to refract or reflect sunlight from beyond the horizon, to illuminate the night - like some vast noctoluminous cloud? It is an interesting possibility.

When an object moves from frictionless space into the atmosphere, which provides resistance, kinetic energy is released in the form of heat energy. If the object is moving fast enough, any atmosphere at all will behave like solid rock does against objects travelling at earthly speeds. Think of it like when on earth something hits water at high speed. The water seems like solid rock. The same goes for things hitting the upper atmosphere at the sort of speeds possible in space.

There was an alien timeship on it's way somewhere, and there was a disturbance in the warp tunnel. Resulting ripples made this happen. And those time travelling spacefarers never even realised they indirectly caused this.

I don't think it's a mystery as such. Clearly something has come from space and exploded or broken up near impact.

There has to be some sort of common residue embedded in the trees facing the blast however small? Have they done a spectrometer analysis of samples from trees over a wide area?

I've got a copy of "The Fire Came By" by a John Baxter(?)-that looks at this in some depth, but written for the layman. Trouble is-I can't find it!!!!

The thing I find intriguing is how the font on the science pages is always larger than other pages of the DM

How lucky can people be, this happened over unpopulated tundra and not over a major city. How long can this luck, seen since, hold?

For many years scientists have been trying to prove that this was caused by a Tesla experiment.

Yeah I heard that a meteor(ite) came in so fast that the heat build up from friction through the atmosphere was so intense that it fractured to the point of exploding, so the theory goes, but if its still up for debate, who knows.

The Daily Mail needs to employ some fact checkers, it's not the largest explosion in documented history at all. That prize goes to the Russian 50 megaton Tsar Bomba test in 1961, the fireball alone was 5 miles in diameter and the mushroom cloud 40 miles high! Everything within a 34 mile radius was incinerated and burnt to a crisp, at 62 miles away the thermal pulse was still so intense it could cause 3rd degree burns to human flesh and ignite exposed wood, at 560 miles away the shock wave was still powerful enough that it shattered windows and furthermore due to atmospheric focusing the blast caused damage as far away as Finland and Norway. The Tsar Bomba test was actually scaled back because the Soviet Union feared fallout from the test would contaminate its own cities, had they utilised its full capability it would have had a rating of 100 megatons. Had such a bomb been dropped on Birmingham for instance during war it would have destroyed cities as far away as Exeter and Newcastle!

It has been determined that this article blew up in the UKDM's face, in meteoric fashion. PS: Saw me a show on TV where some scientist explained the figure "8" damage pattern of the blown-down trees, & demo'd it on a small scale. PS: Don't forget the asteroid ka-booming over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. That one was just a baby.

"locals believed the explosion stemmed from the visitation of the god Ogdy." I'll go with that one, seems the most plausible.

The comments are brilliant.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle

They had a referendum and Siberia voted to leave Russia so the sky fell down.

We do not have a similar event for comparison but a lot of the witness testimony does not describe what we would expect from a meteorite/Asteroid strike. The one that I find strangest is that these things transit from outer space to terminating somewhere in the atmosphere or ground in a very short time as they are traveling in the 10's of kilometers a second, however many eyewitness reports have this thing taking 10 minutes to go through the atmosphere with a brilliant white light before terminating in its fiery explosion(s) ( more than 1 reported). A ten minute journey would surely limit the velocity of this thing to something inexplicable as a meteorite/Asteroid strike!

My monies on Ogdy, only logical explanation.