Scientists in northern Siberia are flummoxed as to whether the bottomless pit was caused by a meteor, global warming, or is a gate to hell.
The massive crater is located in Yamal, a region of Siberia known to be chalk full of underground gas. Possible explanations thus far are a meteorite, global warming, and some have even gone so far as to claim ” evidence ‘of the arrival of a UFO craft’ to the planet.”
However, given that this is Russia, every claim is contradictory and nobody actually knows anything. The Siberian Times reports:
The expedition organised by the Yamal authorities includes two experts from the Centre for the Study of the Arctic and one from Cryosphere Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. They plan to take samples of soil, air and water from the scene.
They will be accompanied by a specialist from the Emergencies Ministry.
A spokesman for the ministry’s Yamal branch ruled out a meteorite but said it was too early to say what cause the gigantic hole in the earth.
‘We can definitely say that it is not a meteorite. No details yet,’ said a spokesman.
Initial reports and images were suspected to be fakes, but the hole is a real phenomenon and it is believed to have been formed around two years ago.
Not a meteorite? Well, I always knew the gateway to hell would go through Russia….
If you’d like to form your own opionion and not trust me that it’s clearly the gates to hell, you can read more reports of the phenomenon on the SiberianTimes, NYPost, and News.com.au
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