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      The Tunguska Event: Eyewitness Account


    N. N. Polyuzhinskii, Observer, Ilimsk Meteorological Station

* Letter of 21 June 1908[1 <#fn_1>]: *

On 17 June 1908,[2 <#fn_2>] at 8 hours and 30 minutes in the morning,
there was heard a powerful noise and a sound resembling strong thunder
and cannon shots, following one after another (like small shot),
probably from the meteor (aerolite) flying through.

* Supplementary report to A. V. Voznesenskii, one month later: *

30 June New Style (17 June Old Style), on Tuesday around 8 o?clock in
the morning, with 10 degrees of cloud cover in the air, thunder was
heard from the south-southeast, not unlike rapid-fire pistol shots, then
the thunder grew stronger and stronger, not unlike powerful gunpowder
explosions and cannon shots, which in nearing Ilimsk went over into a
horrible crashing, just as there came a small earthquake (swaying of the
icon-lamps and jolts felt by people who were sitting peaceably). After
the crashing (in the air) there rushed a noise (a roar), and the thunder
began to move off in a north-northwesterly direction; the thunder
continued around 20 minutes, during which time there was no lightning.

During the thunder one Ilimsk petty bourgeois was 4 versts[3 <#fn_3>]
outside of Ilimsk up the Ilim river and saw ?a flying star with a fiery
tail,? which fell into the water, but its tail disappeared into thin air.

In the village of Yarskaya (about 60 versts downstream from Ilimsk on
the Ilim river) three women saw a ?fiery sphere? (a flying one); where
it disappeared to is unknown, since the women became frightened of it
and ran home from the field.

In my first report on this, the time of the thunder?s appearance was
indicated incorrectly, by mistake.

? translated by Bill DeSmedt <../../whoisbill/billdesmedt.htm>



[1 <#text_1_2>] The 21st of June by the ?Old Style? (Julian) calendar
then in use in czarist Russia corresponds to the 4th of July in the
modern (Gregorian) calendar.* [Return to text.]* <#text_1_2>

[2 <#text_1_2>] The 17st of June ?Old Style? corresponds to the 30th of
June in the Gregorian calendar. *[Return to text.]* <#text_1_2>

[3 <#text_3>] One verst equals 3,500 feet.* [Return to text.]* <#text_3>