# The "Siberian Event" of 1947 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 9, 1999, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siberian-event-of-1947/5216 "1999-12-09T14:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siberian-event-of-1947/5216/1 "1999-12-09T14:11:00Z")
I read that in this century, there have been only two (cosmic) events that would have destroyed a city, and that both of them occurred in Siberia. One is the well-known “Tunguska Event” of 1908. Another one occurred in 1947. I had never heard of that one–has anyone else??? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siberian-event-of-1947/5216/2 "1999-12-09T14:43:00Z")
WARNING_ **WARNING** _COGNITIVE DISSONANCE ALERT How could you claim something happened in 1947 and at the same time state that you never heard of it? Details are in order, bub. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siberian-event-of-1947/5216/3 "1999-12-09T14:47:00Z")
I think that the Communist brainwashing techniques are beginning to lose their grip on his mind–the memories are beginning to come to the surface! ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siberian-event-of-1947/5216/4 "1999-12-09T14:56:00Z")
I think it depends on how you could define ‘a city-destroying cosmic event’ as there have been MULTIPLE instances where NORAD has seen a meteor and believed it for a moment to be a nuclear or non-nuclear missile. Thankfully, their detection of such things is getting pretty good, but that still didn’t stop them from getting a bit rattled when a meteor did an air-burst over one of the oceans during desert storm. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siberian-event-of-1947/5216/5 "1999-12-09T14:57:00Z")
Hey, give me a break. I read about it last night in a book written by the smartest man of all time–Isaac Asimov. But it was just a passing reference–no details. ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siberian-event-of-1947/5216/6 "1999-12-09T15:26:00Z")
Come to think of it… are you sure it was 1947 and not 1945? Ol’ Izzie Asimov could’ve been waxing poetic about Hiroshima… ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siberian-event-of-1947/5216/7 "1999-12-09T15:31:00Z")
From [http://meteorites.simplenet.com/info\_4.htm](http://meteorites.simplenet.com/info_4.htm) > [@](#): > > Sikhote-Alin > > Sikhote-Alin - Locality - Maritime Territory, Federated SSR, Russia > Type - Iron, Coarse Octahedrite > Class - (IIB) > Fell -On Feb 12, 1947 > > Sikhote-Alin — Fell on Feb. 12, 1947 in Eastern Siberia, Russia. This is the largest recorded witnessed meteorite fall ever. At 10:38 A.M. a large fireball appeared traveling from north to south to the forest of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains. The meteorite impacted in the mountains with a huge explosion which was felt over 100 miles away. It made over 100 craters of different sizes when the meteorite broke apart on impact. There were two different types of the this meteorite found. One type was Shrapnel Type click here since they look like torn bomb fragments. Many fir and cedar trees around the crater fields showed considerable damage from direct hits, thousands of trees were shredded and ripped apart by these shrapnel pieces. The other type is the Thumb Printed Type click here - Heres a beautiful thumb-printed regmaglypted individual. * * * “Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.” Dennis Matheson — [dennis@mountaindiver.com](mailto:dennis@mountaindiver.com) Hike, Dive, Ski, Climb — [www.mountaindiver.com](http://www.mountaindiver.com) ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-siberian-event-of-1947/5216/8 "1999-12-09T17:11:00Z")
Oh, just for fun… This guy manages to link the Sikhote-Alin meteroite, the Tunguska event, the “Roswell Incindent” and about a dozen other things together. [http://www.globaldrum.com/rvlakeside/birthday.htm](http://www.globaldrum.com/rvlakeside/birthday.htm)