Smash And Grab: Three Ton Meteorite Stolen
Three Ton Meteorite Allegedly Connected To Alien Spacecraft, Stolen In Russia
Russian police were combing the northern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Friday for a three-tonne meteorite that has disappeared from under the nose of its keepers.
The giant rock was stolen from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908, news agency Interfax reported.
“It winds up that it disappeared back in June, when the foundation was moving out of its old building,” a police spokesman told the agency.
“Our colleagues are establishing what got lost, where the rock is and why they only came to us about it now,” he said.
Foundation director Yury Lavbin brought the three-tonne rock to Krasnoyarsk after an 2004 expedition to the site of the so-called “Tunguska event” — a mysterious mid-air explosion in Siberia in 1908 that was 1,000 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Lavbin claimed at the time to have discovered the wreckage of an alien spacecraft near the meteorite, during the expedition.
Scientists continue to argue over the cause of the explosion, which flattened over 2,000 square kilometres (800 square miles) of Siberian forest.
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Oh shit i just watched a show on that meteor and the supposed explosion that it caused the other day…how do you steal a 3 ton meteor? an inside job i would expect
August 10th, 2007 at 10:00 amMulder took it!
August 10th, 2007 at 10:11 amMore WMDs gone missing
August 10th, 2007 at 10:52 amJoe Dirt has it
August 10th, 2007 at 11:00 amIt could have happened to anyone…
August 10th, 2007 at 11:04 amTheft of a 3 ton meteor is not at all surprising. They steal bigger and heavier stuff in mother Russia. Each time I visit, huge water tanks disappear from a nearby town (they are the source of the town’s water). Luckily both were replaced. Train tracks and power cables were also stolen at some point.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:20 amMaybe the Muzz stole the rock to bring to mecca, that lump they’ve got right now
August 10th, 2007 at 11:21 amisn’t giving them the kind of mojo they need to take over the world, 3 tons might do the trick.
Ask Saddam … Oh, shit! That’s right …
August 10th, 2007 at 12:47 pmIt’s in Tom Cruise’s basement.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:12 pm@ John Cunningham
It’s in Tom Cruise’s basement.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:09 pmAnd I ain’t givin’ it back!
August 13th, 2007 at 6:06 pm