Disasters and Catastrophes

World Trade Center Disaster

Photos of WTC Center on Art Bell website including "face of devil"

More Photos of WTC Center which can be purchased from UK Guardian

The "Exploded Planet of Heaven" Theory... or the "Primal Catastrophe"

"....the ancients firmly believed that the origins of mankind lay on a neighbouring planet in our solar system - a planet which exploded at the beginning of time and hence no longer exists in our physical universe...."
Alan F. Alford

In God, Heaven and the Afterlife Author Alan F. Alford writes ".... According to thousands of years of cumulative study, largely based on metaphysical science one suspects, the ancients concluded that man's origins did indeed lie on the exploded Planet of Heaven and that man could indeed return to the Source by first descending into the depths of the underworld. But this was, by all accounts, a most hazardous quest. Any soul who was ill-prepared would likely become trapped for ever in the fiery 'hell' of the underworld or lost for ever in a subterranean maze. Alternatively the ill-prepared soul might be distracted by the bright lights of Orion or Sirius, forgetting that these stars were merely the visible symbols for the more esoteric and invisible 'Morning Star'.

"The successful soul, on the other hand, would be one which was free of sin and perfectly initiated into the secrets of Heaven and Earth, especially the secrets pertaining to the celestial origins of mankind (known to the Sumerians as the mystery of the 'black-headed ones')...."

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"Amazingly, one American astronomer, Dr Tom Van Flandern, has been pushing this very argument - the exploded planet hypothesis - since the mid-1970s. According to Van Flandern, the asteroid belt and the comets are the result of explosions of several celestial bodies in our solar system - at least two planets and two accompanying moons per the latest scientific data. For further information on this subject, please see my articles under 'Exploded Planet Hypothesis'.

"At the moment, the scientific establishment remains vehemently opposed to Van Flandern's hypothesis, although the arguments bear all the hallmarks of a typical defense of academic dogma irrespective of scientific data. But if Van Flandern continues to win all the arguments, as he has done in recent years, the day might well come when the tide will turn and the exploded planet hypothesis will become less a 'theory' and more an 'explanation' of the origin of asteroids and comets...." CLICK HERE fore more of the story. Also read The Mystery of Atlantis in which Alford asserts that Atlantis was the exploded planet.

"..... Throughout the world, ancient peoples were obsessed with Sky-gods who would fight battles in the Sky and descend to the Earth. In my books 'The Phoenix Solution' and 'When The Gods Came Down',[4] I revealed that these Sky-gods were associated with the disintegration of a celestial 'mountain', with the depictions of such a mountain symbolising an exploded planet, and with the term 'mountain' thus referring metaphorically to 'planet'. In short, I concluded, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the religions of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia were 'exploded planet cults'...."
Alan F. Alford, author

Cosmic Catastrophes: Collisions with Meteors, Asteroids and Comets

The Comet That Launched Noah's Ark "(Apr 22, 1996 2:47 p.m. EDT) -- The biblical flood, a central tenet of three of the world's great religions, was nothing to do with divine wrath: the real cause was a giant comet that hit Earth, according to new research.

"In the same way as Jupiter was rocked two years ago by the million-megaton impact of the comet Shoemaker-Levy, so Earth was bombarded 12,000 years ago by the fragments of a similar celestial visitor. It caused tidal waves, the mass extinction of many prehistoric species such as the mammoth and sabre-toothed tiger, and turned the world dark for months.

"Professor Alexander Tollmann, the author of the study and an internationally renowned geologist, said: 'The consequence of the impact explosions appears to have included a chain of up to a dozen individual catastrophes, including earthquakes, geological deformation, a vapour plume and tidal waves'...." CLICK HERE for the rest of the story.

The Impact Catastrophe That Ended the Mesozoic Era "Theories about 'what happened to the dinosaurs' abound as researchers from many fields attempt to hone in on one of the great mysteries of our planet. Artist Bill Hartmann, a renowned planetary scientist in his own right, has captured one of the most plausible and exciting theories in a series of original paintings depicting the impact and resulting catastrophic effect of a 10 km asteroid believed to have hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico about 65 million years ago. Now available as an ExInEd Electronic PictureBook, these paintings and their accompanying captions tell the story of the dramatic impact and the climactic changes that may have occurred as a result. The Impact Catastrophe That Ended the Mesozoic Era is an exciting tale and is recommended for all ages..." Note: Link to picturebook not working, but gallery of paintings is worth a click.

Terrestrial Impact Craters Numerous photos.

Tunguska

"....In 1908 a catastrophic explosion occurred in the atmosphere over a remote area in Siberia, near the Tunguska River. Although the cause of this airburst has remained a mystery, nearly a thousand square miles of forest was instantaneously destroyed...." ASTRONET (Asteroid Tracking, Reconnaissance, and Observation Network)

The Cosmic Mystery of the Century
Also mirrored here.

"The explosions were heard in the early morning hours of June 30, 1908. It was a drama that has occurred countless times in Earth's history, and that is sure to play again.

"Those Tungus tribesmen and Russian fur traders who happened to glance into the southeastern Siberian sky that fateful morning must have been startled to see a fireball streaking through the atmosphere toward their trading post of Vanavara and leaving a trail of light some 800 kilometers long. The object, whatever its nature, was approaching from an azimuth of 115 degrees and descending at an entry angle of 30 to 35 degrees above the horizon. Their gaze followed the bright fireball as it continued along a northwestward trajectory until it seemed about to disappear over the horizon. Then it shattered in a rapid series of cataclysmic explosions lasting about half a second over a distance of 15 to 20 kilometers."

From "The Day the Sky Split Apart" by Roy A. Gallant

Tunguska Meteorite Paradox 1908 - 2000

Some Eyewitness Testimonies "...They came to region of the Shelle river, one kilometer from the Chamba river. There were two mountains, which they knew very well...
... It has appeared, that one mountain falled down. A pit was formed in that place and this pit was flooded by a lake. The second mountain was cut to half. The water in the lake was moving around. Something white as fat (or something "with smell as benzine"), was floating on the surface of water...."

Nova Online: The Doomsday Asteroid

Many Opinion's...

Zlobin's Hypothesis

1908 Siberian Explosion Reconstruction from eyewitness accounts, complete with full color paintings.

Siberian Explosion, 1908, was a Comet

The Lone Gunmen's Information Repository: Tunguska

The Great Siberian Explosion Illustrated.

Some Other Explanations for the Tunguska Explosion

Tunguska explosion of 1908 may have been a test firing of Tesla's energy weapon

Tunguska Incident: An Impact... or Atomic Explosion?

Another Hypothesis about Tunguska Equates the Causal Factor to be like a Nuclear Explosion ".... As could be predicted from the new model of the Earth, much about Tunguska is comparable to a nuclear explosion. One scientist states, "the cloud afterward was exactly like an atomic mushroom cloud." Meteors only case minor magnetic disturbances, but the Tunguska event caused a major disturbance, like what occurs after atmospheric nuclear explosions. A local magnetic storm began about six minutes after the explosion and lasted more than four hours. These observations resemble those that follow nuclear explosions. Had it been a bolide the magnetic disturbance would have begun as it entered the atmosphere. Nuclear explosions generate nitric oxide, nitrates and disturb climate, and so did the Tunguska event.

"Pressure and suction waves were experienced by observers. A pressure wave broke windows inward followed by a suction wave that sucked clods of dirt out of the ground and hurled an iron stove door across a room. Ionizing radiation after a blast would cause a vacuum, producing a suction, but a meteor would not...."

See also Dinosaur Extinctions: No Comet or Asteroid Impact Here ".... In August of 1971, this expedition, while in the Gobi Desert, uncovered the skeletons of two dinosaurs, Veliciropator and Protoceratops, still locked in mortal combat. Something very sudden had to overcome them or obviously both would have defended themselves against a common threat. Furthermore, both had their backs arched as if something had severely cramped their back muscles. Radiation affects high atomic-number elements more. The most abundant high atomic-number elements in biological organisms are calcium and potassium. These two elements are utilized in muscle function, and ionizing radiation may have caused extreme cramping of their muscles, arching their backs. Some have claimed that the tendons tighten after death producing this arching. Regardless, something had to overwhelm these dinosaurs very quickly in order for them to still be locked in combat...."

"If there's something that killed the dinosaurs,
I'd like to know about that so that is doesn't happen to me." Bill Maher -- Politically Incorrect (ABC, December 21, 1999)

Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse Includes mention of some recent near misses.

Close encounters with comets, meteors and asteroids ".... are nothing new to this planet. The memory of near collisions has evoked dread and tales of doomsday since the dawn of civilization....

"The experiences of our ancient ancestors offer numerous mysteries. Why did people in all parts of the world fearfully regard the planets Saturn, Venus, Mars and Jupiter as awesome destructive deities, warring among themselves and wreaking havoc upon the face of the earth?...."

Some Near Hits... and If We Keep Doing Nothing, Oops!

A Re-evaluation of the Extraterrestrial Origins of the Carolina Bays ".... However, the unique orbital and physical characteristics of a comet favor a model in which a high velocity retrograde comet or a low velocity prograde comet collided with the Earth. The incoming nucleus approached from the northwest and fragmented. The fragments, diverging from the main trajectory, volatized and subsequently exploded in the atmosphere near the surface. The resultant shock waves created shallow elliptical depressions which are best displayed in the sandy sediments of the Coastal Plain...."

Comet Phaethon's Ride

Geology and God, Part II "....The study of geology tells us that Earth history has always been punctuated by cataclysms and extinction events. We have been bombarded from space, turned upside down, had our climates twisted inside out and our oceans sloshing about, all out of control. Three thousand years ago we might have wondered why the gods were doing this to us, or why did the gods hate us so? Today, after 3,000-million years of evolution, we can look at this more objectively. And there is a bright note. What appears to be emerging is that in the aftermath of these traumatic events, we find the blossoming of new forms of life in the geological record...."

Planetary Defense, Asteroid Deflection and The Future of Human Intervention in the Earth's Biosphere

Collision with a Comet Could Have Disrupted Life on a Global Scale 11,000 Years Ago ".... an abrupt onset of frigid weather, known as the Younger Dryas cold event, is fast becoming the prime suspect in the mega-fauna extinction case. Suddenly, around eleven thousand years ago, glaciers which had been receding for several millennia were reestablished up to a thousand miles south of where they had been earlier. Modern dating techniques have, over the past few years, allowed scientists to determine that these glaciers formed and then dissipated in less than four hundred years--possibly within a century. The cause of this severely rapid flip-flop in climate is not yet known. There is, though, a very, very good possibility that the agent which formed the Carolina Bays produced this environmental crisis...."

A collision with debris from a comet could have caused a global catastrophe 11,000 years ago"....ice core and other time defining studies that this era of rich flora and fauna ended quite abruptly around 11,000 years ago. If we assume that a large comet had something to do with this rapid change then we have a pretty clear picture of why our ancestors' stories invoke an image of a serpent-like creature destroying this pleasant time...."

Sikhote-Alin Revisited "The Sikhote-Alin meteorite shower at 10:30 a.m. 12 February 1947 is the largest known such shower and among the best documented meteorite falls.... The cosmic intruder on that clear cold morning streaked across the blue Siberian sky as a monster bolide that plunged into the atmosphere from NNE to SSW at an angle of about 45 degrees. Trailing a dark dust tail some 35 km long, at an altitude of about 4.5 km it broke up as a swarm of tiny fireballs that disappeared behind the foothills of the Sikhote-Alin mountain range about midway between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. Eyewitnesses said the bolide was brighter than the Sun, and it was observed over an area 300 to 400 km in radius. They also reported that a few minutes after the fireball first appeared they heard thunderous roars like those from heavy-caliber guns echoing among the mountain ridges...."

Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter "The pieces of the former Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck Jupiter during the week of July 16-22 1994. The impacts took place on the back side of Jupiter, but only just, and the impact sites rotated into Earth's view within minutes. Each explosion produced a plume that reached thousands of kilometers above the cloudtops, placing the plumes far above Jupiter's limb and into direct view from Earth. The plumes rose and fell over a period of ten or twenty minutes, governed by the simple laws of ballistics. When the plumes fell back on the atmosphere they were reheated. Embedded dust glowed brightly in the thermal infrared for a period of order ten to twenty minutes, producing the spectacular infrared events seen on Earth...." View an animation of the comet's impact with Jupiter.

Disasters and Catastrophes. Cosmic Catastrophes. Asteroid Collisions. Primal Catastrophe. Predictions. Velikovsky.

Disasters and Catastrophes.
Cosmic Catastrophes. Asteroid Collisions. Primal Catastrophe. Predictions. Velikovsky.