- A mysterious fire tornado that ripped through the jungles
had torn out trees in some areas, while leaving the vegetation untouched.
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- At night of 14 September 2004 many people got a chance
to witness the fall of a fire object near the southern Argentinean town
of Ushuaia. Further searches in the region yielded fascinating results:
the area of approximately 150 sq meters had absolutely no trees. At first
sight, it appeared as though the trees were chopped down; however, all
the vegetation remained untouched. More so, according to the Argentinean
media, scientists were unable to find any traces of the mysterious fire
object that had "melted down" the woods. The next day, on September
15th, another fire object was spotted in that same region.
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- Currently, researchers are trying to determine the nature
of such mysterious phenomenon. It is likely that it has got something to
do with the kind of research work many scientists from all over the world
have been preoccupied with for ages. In particular, Sandia National Laboratories
hosted a workshop in August of this year which was dedicated specifically
to such kind of unexplained phenomena involving descending burning objects.
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- One Russian scientist, candidate of physic-mathematical
sciences Andrei Ol"khovatov was one of the participants of the workshop.
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- In his exclusive interview to "PRAVDA.RU",
Mr. Ol'khovatov noted that due to the lack of evidences regarding recent
events in Argentina, it is rather difficult to draw any conclusions at
this point. However, if analysis of the eyewitnesses' words will be confirmed
concerning the fact that the fire object had in fact landed in the area
with major tree-anomaly and the date of the anomaly will correspond to
that of the fall, then this occurrence could be classified as something
of a mystic origin. In that case, it will be referred to as a "geophysical
meteors."
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- Scientists have yet been unable to determine physical
mechanism of geophysical meteors. All that is known today is the fact that
geophysical meteors somewhat resemble high-energy ball lightning and has
a tendency to remain in certain geophysical environment.
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- According to Ol'khovatov, geophysical meteors are far
from harmless. In January of this year, a fire ball has caused severe damage
to a house in the Iranian town of Babol. However, there were plenty of
far worse cases. In 1935 for instance, hundreds of kilometers of jungles
have been completely destroyed in South America, in British Guiana.
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- http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/14329_fireball.html
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