A new expedition has headed from Krasnoyarsk to Evenkia (central part of the vast Krasnoyarsk territory) to see into the real nature of the phenomenon widely known as the Tunguska meteorite. Researchers will seek material evidence denying the main version of the century-old events. According to this version, a huge meteorite fell down in the taiga on June 30, 1908. "We intend to find proofs that not a meteorite but an extraterrestrial spaceship clashed with the Earth," expedition chief Yuri Labvin, heading the Tunguska Space Phenomenon public foundation, told journalists. Using metal detectors, 14 members of the expeditions want to examine the taiga near Poligus township and the Stony Tunguska River. The search area is located 500 km to the west of the site where previous expeditions were looking for the meteorite's remains.

According to Mr. Labvin, space photographs of this region show the presence of metallic debris, which can be related to a technogenic catastrophe, which occurred here 100 years ago. The expedition will return to Krasnoyarsk on August 5.

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Interesting, the tunguska event has been debated about for a long time
so weird, the way all those trees were knocked down, yet at the center trees still stood. It would be interesting to read about what they find, spacecraft, or meteorite.

I was always under the impression that the Tunguska blast was caused by a comet exploding in the atmosphere.

The air burst is what creates the effect of the trees in the center of blast remaining standing, because all the force travels vertically down their center (their strongest point), while trees farther away get hit at an angle, which sends force horizontally across trunk, leading to shear. This has been reproduced in labs.