The Extraterrestrial Explosion That Rocked Rural Siberia 

This is one of, perhaps the only, Tunguska Event docs I've seen that actually questions the narrative that nobody died in the event. Also certainly one of the only ones that gives significant attention to the accounts of the Evenki people. Most docs focus entirely on Leonid Kulik's investigations, giving only bare lip service to the accounts of the culture and people that were actually there when it happened. Kudos to the filmmakers for that.

This was a world class documentary. Thank you for this, absolutely amazing. One of the most underrated mysteries of all time.

I realize this doc is now 16 years old, but I find it amazing that 100 years later there is still physical evidence of the explosion on the ground in the form of the trees laid out in the forest.

Ooh, Tunguska event, nice. I'm going to need some snacks and a cold drink 😊

Those mosquitoes were the size of birds at that lake 😂

Id be in a bee suit the whole time.

These nomads remind me of the otter people from The Pacific west coast of America. The Tlingit I think.

God, I love this stuff. I'd be all in to go visit that place, but, no way could I handle the skeeters 53:08.

wow, this is the kind of documentary making that should be taught in film school

9:03 "Catching a helicopter is like catching a bus around here." I'd also add, "Falling out the 5th story hospital window, is like catching the common cold."

Fantastic documentary- thank you so much

Hi highly doubt the person selecting the soundtrack for this piece was sober.

Very watchable with an interesting mixture of the rugged outdoors, facts, fantasy, history, superstition, science & mystery. ❤

came for the Tunguska documentary, stayed for the Siberian travelogue. Enjoyed both!

It exploded in the air. The shockwave destroyed the trees. Smaller pieces fell over wider area starting fires.

If you come to northern Canada our people will look like them Siberian people

Great video on interesting topic. It was likely an airburst high in the atmosphere, perhaps 30km up. If it was a glancing trajectory, solid material may have skipped back out of the atmosphere and returned to space. As a child I saw such a bolide. It crossed the sky from west to east and exploded on the western horizon. I think it was very high because although it went near overhead there was a condiderable delay before the sonic booms arrived. It was at night with a full moon and it became as bright as day. The whole thing was over in about 15 seconds except for the smoke trail that lingered for some minutes visible in the moonlight. As very spectacular and memorable event In this case it is good they have marked the epicentre of such a momentous event.😮

Those are giant horseflies, & there bite hurts like hell - they take a chunk out of your skin. I couldn't stand it there without a full protective suit with totally sealed netting.

What lovely people giving such a warm welcome

You can see where the Native Americans came from.

That's about the ONLY way humans will cooperate with each other - when facing an extinction-level event from off-world. Our ON-world problems only make us hate each other.

❤ well done. Like the back stories.

In 2013 a meteor exploded in the sky above a town called Chelyabinsk Russia it was all over the news, it blew out windows etc. It was tiny and as far as I know nothing was found of it, well there wouldn't be if it was made of ice. I'd guess that's what happened and as I said if it was a mass of ice it will leave no trace of itself except the damage..

Yesss! I knew reindeer could fly! So Santa must be real after all!

Admiral Bird an American explorer was in the north polar region, an acquaintance of his, Nickola Tesla telegraphed him to watch the night sky on that same date of the event, he wanted Bird to watch for an electric effect from his, Teslas, experiment. What a coincidence!

the last few minutes says it all

And I thought some of the places I've been in, fit your bill. A lot of bugs in Glacier Park backcountry.

56:06 Jesus these bugs are driving me crazy!

Very well done!

It's amazing that after all of these years from the helicopter you can still see signs of the devastation caused by the explosion. Oh also apparently reindeer can fly.

Please provide audible translation so we could listen as a podcast.

What this documentary taught me is that Hillbillies are Hillbillies no matter where they are 😂😂😂

I've been interested in this for decades.

Big country when a meteor or Comet with the force of a 100 Hiroshima A-Bombs hits the country and nobody finds out about it for 20 years later .

I'm itching all over just from watching the mosquitoes & horse flies; I can't imagine what it must be like to actually be there!

That was Gold! The future looks rosy...

Bizarre this still persists it was a massive gas explosion , and Evenki eye witnesses confirm that and the fact that Tunguska has lower than average iridium levels , 1908 was an unusually hot year in Russia and the permafrost melt was at an abnormal level, the eye witness accounts all say the same thing a loud noise like rolling thunder for 30 minutes before the explosion in the mountain, then a flash in the sky and a great flame shot to earth which took a 70 degree turn as it travelled to earth . What happened was a gas field burst through the permafrost creating the small lake blowing tree stumps miles , the gas in millions of tons burst upwards in the atmosphere and when it hit the ionosphere it ignited and started bursting down towards the surface, the reason it took an almost right angle turn was the jet stream at high altitude bending the gas stream , when the fire neared the surface it ignited millions of ton of gas. No meteorite residue has every been found , no impact crater and no sign of any iridium in any of the Forrest effected from the explosion .

1908 - 30. of june - 07.15 lokal time an explosion took place over The Stony Tunguska. Minutes before that a shining cylinder was seen moving north toward the Baikal Sea high obove the surface of the Earth. It changed course to the east-north- east and then to the north-west and came over The Stony Tunguska, where it exploded. On the other side of the world at about 19.00 lokal time Tesla experimentally fired electricity from Long Island New York aimed for the thinley populatet region of Tunguska. Tesla found the result of his experiment way beyond expectations so in 1944 he offered the american government to fry Japan for the sum of 11 million dollars. As a boy I in Reader Digest read the short-story written by a soviet scientist. A spaceship startet from Mars .......... The story is mentioned in the video, so I suggest that you publist it.

The actual incident that happened in Tunguska is that according to Billy Meier, there was an extraterrestrial space ship with many people on board. This ship had a malfunction and the they decided to detonate themselves away from population in mid air. They ensured no government of thus earth could find anything about them or their ship.

I'm only like 8 minutes in to this so far, but it kinda feeaks me out cause I just found out I had Prussian ancestors living in Alaska in the late 1800s up to present. I did not know the event happened so recently. 😮

In the original book called THE FIRE CAME BY published in the 1970,s Kulik had to endure clouds of huge mosquitos and deadly large Cobra snakes on the Tunguska Plateau.

They need to trawl that lake with an underwater metal detector, maybe dive it for a closer look, if they find an anomaly. It’s only 40M deep, it would be cold, but doable with the correct equipment.

The biggest interdimensional cross rip before the Manhattan cross rip of 1984 😂

Well done. I almost didn't watch this vid. I thought it was just another attempt at a documentary.

Nicola tessla did this he was trying to make the sky glow over the north pole people in england say the sky was so bright you could read a news paper.

This is a very old video I saw on YT many years ago.

Those flies and other bugs are a nightmare!

Curious that the person mentioned Mars rocks being basalt. Considering the area where these rocks were found is within the area of the Siberian Traps, which was basalt lava flow, I think they are looking in the wrong direction for the origin.

Taking your life in your hands with those helicopter rides 😂

I suggest watching Randell Carlson's podcast on the history of Halloween. He deals at length with this subject and presents an intriguing hypothesis.

How do people survive without mosquito netting???? Please tell me! I am itching already!

Tunguska was explained in the RA Material ... Per RA, It was a fission reactor used by 6 density entities that was malfunctioning. It was moved to Tunguska to cause the least amount of impact (due to its remoteness & sparse population) and detonated. See the RA Material, Session 17 for details.

Wearing short sleeve shirts in an area with trillions of mosquitoes doesn't seem like a good idea.

Wow to finally get a look at the place like this is amazing is much bigger than i realized!! also the people are so beautiful and nice 🫶 ✌️

Anyone here in the comments besides myself that is in awe of how large Russia is?

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So called trees on the bottom of the lake, lol. The silt particles being stirred up were bigger than these so called trees

Big rock from the sky airburst would be humble guess or one on Nikola Tesla experiments even he was in a recorded comment about the Tunguska event when asked about it his comment was ........ wooops , who knows guess we never will good people .

Nuclear blast didn't have enough destructive force and area lacked the micro evidence. They call other theories "odd ball" even though they don't have evidence to support theirs. 😂😂😂

I bet if they looked in a ten mile or so radius they would find particals of it.

If it wasnt for the Chelyabinsk meteor, Tunguska would never have been solved.

“…. a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing…”

Which year was this documentary made ?... thanks

This was very interesting and informative, but It took me about 3 hours to get through it, because every time I heard, "We squeezed into the helicopter, along with 4 reindeer," I had to pause for a laugh break. I pictured the helo pilot yelling out the window, "Tough luck, Santa! Maybe you can convince a medevac pilot to squeeze you in on the next run!"

Very good, thank you. I wonder if you could also look into the Nicola Tesla experiment in Colorado around the same time. Was it really at exactly the same time, is this an idea or a possibility?

My Indigenous people are doing it right. A'ho Hoka Hey ✊

It was a calculation error made by Nicholas Tesla. Word is Vegas a friend on an expedition in North Pole & Tesla was going to show his friend a spectacular display of the possibilities of his Death-Ray. Ol’ Nick made a blunder on the calculations and blew a sizeable hole in the wilds Siberia. Whoopsy daisy

I'm sorry but the underwater footage of the supposed trees were actually some type of typical bottom weeds. Very small and flexible, and grows vertically. Absolutely nothing to do with trees or a meteor. Bummer.

When they find my legs , they'll think I was a cyborg.

This a good documentary but really wish the producers would’ve verbally translated the interviews

Last words are just.

PROBLEM is that there is no real crater, that would be the impact point. Plus they still have not found any fragments of a meteorite

28:22 At the age of 58 he joined the army to fight the Germans and died in a German prison camp of typhus 😢😢😢😢😢

I saw purple stuff around Tunguska on google images does that count?

Funny that a channel called REAL HISTORY has a video about Tunguska has used thumbnail image isn't Tunguska but rather a image of Hoia Baciu forest in Romania,,, I see this a lot.

Some blame the event on Tesla's death ray overshooting the north pole and landing in Tunguska.

His car was very cool , why would it need a rear view mirror 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍

The trees that remain to this day must be some sort of cedar or something for them to still be so whole.

I’m 7 minutes in and I am sincerely sick of the patronising, bored and mildly sarcastic tone of the narrator. It seems like he is only doing this because his boss sent him out and his job depends on it. Better get interesting from here on because this bloke is painful.

bro is sassy af

Bit strange it happened at the same time nikola tesla was demonstrating his energy weapon and pointed it at that place

Billions of people walking around with cell phones and nit one picture aliens

Ok an armed alien spaceship decides to save the earth by destroying a comet 5 miles from the surface. Was it at dinnertime or what?

Okay, I don't get it so someone please explain. How can 4 nomads with a couple of reindeer afford to charter a helicopter? How are reindeer valuable enough to justify flying them around in a chopper?

Certainly not a NOVA presentation. Real History, real people performing ouija board science!

The horse flies made it hard to watch,, lol.. Where I live they are like a quarter of the size than those and I cant even take those little ones.

Is there really still a barren space beneath where the meteor exploded?

I believed the object was a meteor or comet but according to many witnesses, it eventually changed trajectory. celestial bodies don't do that. Had it continued on its original course, it would've detonated over a major urban Euro area.

If they are of whom native Americans came from, then native Americans aren't very native, are they?

Those mosquitoes are huge😮.. i thought Mississippi was bad..

Excellent, well investigated, critical documentary with insight! Thanks! I have been reading theories about the Tunguska event since my childhood. It is odd that no better funded and equipped research has been or is being done about it. This is only possible in a closed and backwards country like russia.

Id love to go there...if not live

Randall Carlson, "The Cosmic Origins of Halloween".

1:58. no, I don't think so.

This was a disappoint. pretty much a total waste of my time thanks .👎

The underwater "trees" didn't look like trees at all. They may have been cyanobacterial mats like those seen in Antarctic lakes.

Were those really "trees" at 57:39? They were apparently filming about 40 meters down using a small camera with light attached, yet the beam was about two "trees" away - eight feet minimum, it stirred-up an awful lot of sediment, and the trees appear to sway in the wake of the camera. Perhaps small plants or tube worms would be a better explanation?

Seen this a long time ago. Good repost

I don't understand why they don't pack bug spray for the mosquitos & flies. I live in a place in Canada that has awful bugs when you are in the bush. No one goes in without sufficient supplies of repellent! It works very well but you do have to respray in about 4 or 5 hours. It was most certainly available when this was filmed so I am at a loss as to why they didn't take any. Also, why aren't they wearing bug jackets instead of just head protection?

It was nikola tesla that did that in tunguska.........