MSNBC - Russians add new twist to old UFO mythIn this excellent commentary, James Oberg reviews the history of the Tunguska Incident and of every theory, realistic or crackpot, that anyone has advanced to explain it. Specifically, he tells us that the newest "find"--that "metal box" of an allegedly unknown alloy--that the latest expedition recovered from the site--was probably a chunk from Vostok 5, which landed way off-target back in 1960. (Vostok 5, for you space buffs out there, carried two dogs into space in one of the Soviets' repeated attempts to stay ahead of the West in the Space Race. Those of you with a deep and abiding love for the more vulnerable of God's creatures, don't worry--the Soviet Army retrieved their errant capsule and rescued the two K-9 cosmonauts alive.)

More broadly, Oberg--who, as far as I know, is not a saved man himself--throws welcome buckets of cold water on the UFO theory, and on UFOlogy generally. He also tells us what really happened: The Tunguska Meteorite was a big rock, about 200 feet across, that blew up roughly five miles up, and with such force that ot knocked down trees up to sixty miles away, but left no debris at ground zero.

As refreshing as Oberg's commentary is, it is still incomplete--for neither Oberg nor anyone else who writes about meteors and meteoroids these days seems to have a clue to where they came from. If you really want to know, check out Walt Brown's excellent site where he explains his Hydroplate Theory of pre-Flood earth. Basically, meteoroids--and asteroids and comets, too--are ejecta from the Noachic Flood, and specifically from the breaking-open of the fountains of the deep [Genesis 7]. And I repeat: UFO's are either man-made hoaxes, or else they are demonic manifestations--exactly what we ought to expect as the baleful prophecies of Daniel, John the Revelator, and Jesus Himself, uttered two thousand years or more ago, now approach fulfillment.