Mentions theory of Prof. B. Lfopunov of the U.S. S.. R. Academy of Science that
a "cosmic ship" intended to land in Mongolia crashed in Siberia because of
mechanical difficult!es. Statement was made after analysis of report by 1957
Russian expedition to site of devastating explosion (1908) previously th Jught to
be caused by big meteor impact.
Dempster, Derek. Does Siberia hold the proof? Flying saucer review, v. 8,
Jan. -Feb. 1962: 4-6.
Summarizes the history of the Tungus (Siberia) meteorite of June 30, 1908--
videly P1ought to be a nuclear-powered spacecraft--and reports the latt!st
news on the subject from the U.S. S. R.
Edwards, Frank. Did a space ship explode over Siberia? Fate, v. 12, Oct. 1959:
44-51.
On the basis of a 1958 scientific expedition to the Tunguska region of Siberia,
Soviet scientist Alexander Kazantsev has developed the theory that the 1908
explosion there was an atomic-powered spacecraft which disintegrated at an
altitude of I. 2 miles.
Kazantsev, Alexander. Gosti iz kosmosa [Guests from space] Moscow, Moskovskii
Rabochii, 1963. 612 p.
A collection of science-fiction stories which present Kazantsev's ideas of
purported invaders from other planets. A S(•ries of 23 photographs ls included
mostly of paintings on rocks found in the Sahara Desert, one from Delhi, and
three from Siberia which show the fallen trees following the Tunguska catas-
trophe which the author claims was caused by a nuclPar explosion or by an
extraterrestrial space ship.
----- The Martian. In A visitor from outer space, science fiction stories by
Soviet writers; Violet L. Dutt, translator. Moscow, Foreign Languages
Publishing House, 1961, p. 149-162.
Fiction. An electronic computer deciphers the diary written on. earth by a
Martian left behind when his spacecraft exploded in the Tunga taiga, Siberia,
on June 30, 1908.
----- A visitor from outer space. In A visitor from outer space, science fiction
stories by Soviet writers; VioletL. Dutt, translator. Moscow, Foreign
Languages Publishing House, 1961, p. 110-148.
Fiction. Exploits the hypothesis of an extraterrestrial i:.pacecraft explosion
in Tunga, Siberia, on June 30, 1908. While many sdentists believe that
deva.station of a forest there over an area with a r:dius of about 50 kilometers
was due to explosion of a bolide, the meteor was ;.ut recovered and no crater
waE discovered.
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