Tunguska (Revisited) 1

In addition to Russian research, the Germans have likewise concluded
that the meteor theory for Tunguska is poop.  It was gas, a gas
explosion.  Methane gas, per the Zetas. Andrei Ol'khovatov
notified me of this London Times article,
wherein he is mentioned.

July 21, 2001 THE TIMES
Siberia blast was "volcanic blowout"
by Giles Whittell in Moscow

    THE cause of a massive explosion over central Siberia that
    has remained one of the great mysteries of modern science,
    was a "volcanic blowout" of ten million tonnes of natural
    gas, a noted German physicist has claimed.  The eruption
    over the Tunguska plateau one summer morning 93 years
    ago has long been explained as the impact of the biggest
    meteorite to hit Earth since prehistoric times. It scorched
    nearly 1,000 sq miles of forest, incinerated entire colonies
    of reindeer and sent elderly men 200 miles away running
    for the bathhouse to be clean for their impending deaths.

    For the past half-century the "Tunguska event" has been
    explained as an incoming meteorite or comet exploding in
    the upper atmosphere with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima
    bombs. However, it left no cosmic debris or crater, forcing
    even experts to admit that its cause was one of the great
    mysteries of modern science. That may be about to change:
    17 factors, including the patterns of tectonic faults and
    fallen trees in the area, suggest that the explosion had
    nothing to do with outer space, but was caused by gas
    forced upwards from the planet's molten core, Wolfgang
    Kundt, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Bonn,
    writes in August's issue of the journal Current Science.
    The "outgassing" may also have created, in a few
    earth-shaking minutes, a geological structure close to the
    surface of the Earth known as a kimberlite after the
    legendery diamond reserves found in the 19th century near
    the South African town of Kimberley, Professor Kundt
    writes.  "If they find that, as is indicated, it would turn
    Siberia into a rich industrial country," he told The Times,
    dismissing the comet and meteorite theories as
    pseudo-science. "If good physicists had been involved
    from the start this problem would never have occurred,'
    he said. "As it was (the early study of the Tunguska
    phenomenon) was left to geophysicists and geologists
    with no knowledge of extraterrestial bodies."
    The first outsider to visit Tunguska was neither a
    physicist nor a geophysicist, but a goldsmith named
    Suzdalev, who arrived in 1910 and swore the locals to
    silence about what he found. They obeyed, and it is
    unknown whether he left with a fortune in diamonds or
    nothing at all. The next expedition was in 1927, when
    Leonid Kulik, a Russian geologist, observed a stunning
    radial pattern of thousands of trees felled by the blast,
    their blackened trunks pointing to an epicentre in the
    middle of a 250 million year-old volcanic crater at the
    junction of seismic faultlines.

    Witness accounts from 1908, throughout the region
    were plentiful, but contradictory. They spoke of fireballs,
    twin columns of flame and trails of fire from several
    directions. There were also reports of eerie lights in
    the night sky before and after June 30, strong enough
    to read a newspaper by and visible as far away as
    Western Europe.  Amateurs have explained these
    accounts with theories about black holes, "anti- matter
    bullets" and, most popular of all, an exploding spaceship
    that was the subject of a best-selling Soviet book, Guest From Space.
    Two costly expeditions by the University of Bologna
    since the Soviet collapse have focused on meteorites.
    They claim to have found microscopic traces of space
    dust in spruce resin to support the view that the blast was
    caused by a stony meteor 200ft wide approaching at a
    45-degree angle and exploding four miles above the
    Earth. However, such a meteorite cannot account for 12
    conical holes in the ground near the epicentre and would
    have felled the trees in a parallel pattern, Professor
    Kundt insists. Andrei Olkhovatov, a Russian scientist
    who supports many of his findings, says that a meteor
    200ft across would have left at least 100,000 tonnes of
    debris along its approach path. "But the question arises,
    where are the remnants?" he asked. "Nowhere, nothing
    after decades of detailed research."