What caused the Tunguska Event, that massive, nuclear-bomb-strength blast that occurred in Siberia in 1908? A meteorite, is the standard answer. But a few days ago Russian researcher Yuri Lavbin claimed to have discovered "blocks of an extraterrestrial technical device" in the Tunguska area. Lavbin's theory is that a meteorite was headed for the earth, but it was blasted apart by an alien spaceship, thus causing the massive explosion. Why aliens blasting something out of the sky caused an alien technical device to fall to the ground isn't clear to me.
Lavbin
announced this discovery in Pravda (which is kind of like announcing a major scientific discovery in the
National Enquirer). He's transported a piece of this alien device to the city of Krasnoyarsk, though, of course, he hasn't yet allowed the general scientific community to view the thing.
So did he really find a piece of an alien ship? Or has he
mistaken a piece of Cold-War-era space debris for an alien ship, as some are speculating? Or has he
engineered a massive hoax? As is usually the case, time and scientific access to this 'extraterrestrial technical device' should provide the answer. In the meantime, here's a poll so that you can vote on what you think he's found:
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It's all humbug.
So much crap out there these days that it all seems to be a lie. Don't believe what you hear, or see. Question it always.
Bah humbug to you Mr Polo. 😛
As for handling the object, well; IIRC, there is an object, a sphere, that some UFO enthusiasts have handled and call something like "interstellar object with unknown metal alloys" (not an exact quote) that at least was freely available for purchase from a Stockholm souvenir shop. At worst, the Russians might bring back something Made in China. No need for intentional hoax, just human tendency to believe what they want, against all evidence.
They may not know what it was, but they do know what it wasn't.