Msnbc (Oberg): Russians add new twist to old UFO myth

Msnbc (Oberg): Russians add new twist to old UFO myth

Tale of 1908 Tunguska explosion gets even more tangled

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By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

Updated: 6:04 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2004



HOUSTON - A flurry of reports from Russia about the discovery of fragments
of an alien spaceship at the site of the 1908 Tunguska explosion may be
nothing more than wish fulfillment by devotees of a half-century-old Russian
space myth, or they may actually have been based on genuine spacecraft
fragments - but of Russian origin.



Either way, or even in the highly unlikely event the reports turn out to be
credible, these stories reflect the way the century-old Tunguska blast
continues to resonate in the human psyche.