The year 1908 for the historians of the Russian state differs little from the others in a string of complicated and confusing life. Recently, the First Russian Revolution, the Russo-Japanese War, just in Russia became an aviation power, the first (except for Mozhaisk) aviators appeared. What stands out in 1908?
Unprecedented terror on the part of the state, this year the number of death sentences in Russia has reached a huge value - 1340! It was a quantitative peak, and earlier, and later in the country of death penalty was significantly less, for comparison - three years before the Tunguska explosion and three years after it in Russia there were no more than a hundred executions! ..
But probably, this is not the strangest thing that happened in 1908. The statistics confirms: in the 2-month interval before and after the moment of the Tunguska explosion on Earth, a surprising surge of observations of anomalous phenomena was observed. In addition to the strange abundance of glowing in the night of white clouds, the peoples of different continents saw in the sky those same objects, which half a century later will be called the "UFO".
The invasion of the UFO over Russia began in April 1908, the observers described both "fireballs," and "a thundering glowing mountain," and "something like a samovar." For two days a strange object was hanging over the railway station of Arys in Siberia. In Orenburg, after spans of a surprising object, the townsfolk were in shock for some time, local church leaders held prayer services "in order to beg the beginning of the end of the world." In Minsk in early summer a terrible roar broke out in broad daylight, a bright fire appeared, then "a huge man, so huge that his feet stood on the ground" appeared in the sky, after the end of the vision, the Minskers picked up a large amount of jelly-like mass on this place, which however, disappeared, evaporated directly from rag bundles and bodies.
And only after that, an explosion in Siberia was rumbling far, about which there were so many scientific disputes and discussions. Only in the controversy over the sequence of events of June 30, 1908, for some reason, does not recall the events that took place the day before. What or who filled the Russian airspace in those fateful days? Of course, the simplest answer that begs itself is an "ordinary" UFO (if such a combination at all). But it is not necessary to hurry with the conclusions, not everything is so simple here.
The Morning of the Streltsy Execution is a painting by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov
