*A mysterious fire tornado that ripped through the jungles had torn out
trees in some areas, while leaving the vegetation untouched. *
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.
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.
One Russian scientist, candidate of physic-mathematical sciences Andrei
Ol"khovatov was one of the participants of the workshop.
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."
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.
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
[Homestead] High-energy fireballs hit Argentina, British Guiana,
Tvoivozhd, 09/28/2004