The Fire Came by: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion

by John Baxter

Book Overview

One of the great accidents of nature occurred in Siberia in 1908 when a fireball appeared over the horizon and slammed into a remote forest area of Siberia, creating shock waves which were felt half a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038511396X
• ISBN13: 9780385113960
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Very Interesting Book!

"The Fire Came By" presents very convincing and compelling evidence for what was certainly the explosion of an alien starship in Russian airspace almost 100 years ago.

Not bad...vague, but thought-provoking.

Seeing as how the authors had to scour Soviet-era records and sift through eyewitness accounts from newspapers of the time, they managed to get just enough information together to make a reader ask questions--and maybe get a goosebump or two. In 1908 (not 1909...'Ghostbusters' was sooooo wrong!), a meteor was spotted flying over the Tunguska region of Siberia. The locals saw it, watched it come down, felt the sonic booms of its passage . . . then watched it change its course one hundred-eighty degrees in mid-flight. The object then exploded, causing damage to the landscape and injuries to people that would not be seen, explained, or understood until the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts nearly forty years later. The heat and concussion from the blast were felt well over sixty miles away. What happened? What was it? Nobody knows for sure, but with the tantalizing tidbits found herein, you'll have your own ideas. The authors don't say definitely what it was, but they have their opinions, which they offer alongside others they've encountered along the way, from Russian geologists and meteorologists to conspiracy-theorists. Feel like having your beliefs tweaked or your confident views on alien life shaken up? Pick this one up.

Convincing proof of the demise of an alien space probe

The authors provide convincing evidence, mostly from Russian scientific and international historical sources, that indicate that the massive explosion over Siberia in 1908 was not due to a black hole, or a comet, or a bolide, or any other hypothetical (unproven) natural cause, but was thermonuclear in type and that the object was seen by witnesses to maneuver, as if guided by intelligence, moments before its demise. The "Foreward" of the book, written by Isaac Asimov, may be summarized as "Hmmm, very interesting!" The reading experience is short but sweet; evidentiary photographs are included. It's the only convincing evidence I have seen about the possible origins of UFO's.

I read this book 25 yrs. ago. I would like to review it !

It has been a book that has been upon my mind since I first read it, and I feel that is of a significant value at this time!