posted on May, 19 2012 @ 11:38 AM
reply to post by templar knight
Perhaps the most enigmatic aspect of the Tunguska explosion is its geomagnetic effect. I would like to cite the above-mentioned Internet
article:
“In 1958 American geophysicists made an unexpected discovery. It turned out that man had obtained the ability to produce geomagnetic
disturbances in the atmosphere – namely, local geomagnetic storms lasting up to one hour, or more. These local geomagnetic storms were recorded, for
the first time, in August 1958, when powerful thermonuclear charges exploded over a small island in the Pacific at altitudes of 76 and 42 kilometers.
Very soon, scientists uncovered the cause of this effect. It was the fiery ball of the nuclear explosion, producing intense radiation and neutron
fluxes. Under the influence of this radiation the level of ionization of the ionosphere increases sharply, producing electric currents that creates a
magnetic disturbance.
“But a similar geomagnetic effect occurred several minutes after the Tunguska explosion! It was recorded on magnetometers of the Irkutsk Magnetic
and Meteorological Observatory, but forgotten about for many years. Only in the summer of 1959 did Dr. Kim Ivanov, a young but already experienced
geophysicist working at this Observatory, find these records in its archives.
“During seven hours before the explosion of the Tunguska space body, the geomagnetic field was very calm. At 0 h 20 min GMT, that is six
minutes after this body exploded, the intensity of the geomagnetic field increased abruptly, reaching its maximum value at 0 h 40 min GMT. It remained
at the same level for the next 14 minutes and then began to decrease. But the initial undisturbed level of the geomagnetic field returned only five
hours later. This process differed utterly from usual natural geomagnetic storms generated by solar flares, being identical to artificial geomagnetic
storms generated by nuclear explosions in the upper atmosphere.”
Neither an asteroid nor a comet impact could have produced such an affect. So... But alien technology shooting down the Tunguska meteorite looks,
nonetheless, improbable.