"However, researchers claim to have found evidence of increased levels of cosmic dust particles in Greenland ice cores which are dated to 1908 and which they link to the Tunguska event of the same year."
"Not surprisingly, the blast did not leave any remains of the object intact," Peiser said. Peiser said there is a "general consensus" among experts worldwide that the culprit was an exploding comet or asteroid. This is the collective opinion of most Russian investigators although some say they cannot confidently rule out a stony asteroid." In an interview with when the book was published, Gallant said scientists are gathering "accumulating evidence tending to support the notion that the exploding object was a comet nucleus. There were few witnesses in the remote region and the explosion left no crater.īut the available evidence, along with modern computer modeling and general knowledge of space rocks, leaves little doubt in most scientific minds as to what happened.Īuthor Roy Gallant spent 10 years investigating the scene of the event for his book, "Meteorite Hunter: The Search for Siberian Meteorite Craters" (McGraw-Hill, 2002). "It's a rather sad comment on the current state of the anything-goes attitudes among some 'science' correspondents that such blatant rubbish is being reported - without the slightest hint of skepticism," Peiser told .Īsteroid experts don't have all the answers for what happened at Tunguska. He runs an electronic newsletter, CCNet, which is among the most comprehensive running catalogues on the subject. Peiser studies catastrophic events and related scientific processes and media reports. "The Russian team stupidly stated long before they went to Siberia that the main intention of their expedition was to find the remnants of an 'alien spaceship!' And bingo! A week later, that's what they claim to have found." "I'm afraid this is a rather stupid hoax," said Benny Peiser, a researcher at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. "We intend to uncover evidences that will prove the fact that it was not a meteorite that rammed the Earth, but a UFO," Labvin was quoted by the Russian newspaper Pravda on July 29. He said in late July that an expedition to the scene would seek evidence that aliens were involved. The Russian research team is called the Tunguska Space Phenomenon foundation and is led by Yuri Labvin.
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