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Siberia Crater: 2013 Crater Has Grown To 15 Times Its Original Size, Strange Glow And Explosion Reported At Site

By Patricia Ramirez
Published on: 12:05 PST, Jun 8, 2016

A massive crater in Siberia, Russia, made international headlines when it mysteriously appeared in the remote area in 2013. In the three years since its mysterious appearance, the Siberia crater has gotten 15 times larger than its original size. Between 2013 and today, scientists and researchers have been at a complete and utter loss to explain the origin of the Siberia crater. Now dubbed the Taimyr crater, the Siberia crater is located roughly 300 miles from an area where other, similar mysterious craters have formed more recently.

As Ancient-Code reports, the area where the Siberia crater was found has been renamed the “End of the World” by locals.

While scientists have been unable to explain what caused the Siberia crater to mysteriously appear, new information is being made public about the appearance of the inexplicable crater. According to numerous reports, the Siberia crater was formed roughly three years ago in a massive blowout. It’s only recently that data was released confirming the growth of the Siberia crater.

In the last three years, numerous scientists have come up with a variety of theories as to the origin of the Siberia crater, but none have managed to fully explain the appearance of the 300-foot gaping hole in the Siberian tundra. Explanations have ranged from the wholly scientific (methane explosion), to nefarious government dealings such as the creation of secret underground bases, to the totally supernatural, like alien invaders or subterranean reptilian creatures.

This week, the subject of the mysterious Siberia crater got even weirder when a Russian expert revealed new details about the night that the giant, growing crater was formed.

According to the Russian expert, the night that the Siberian Crater formed, residents as far as 100 km away from the site reported a strange “clear glow” in the sky, and other witnesses heard a massive explosion that coincided with the appearance of the Siberia crater.

Upon the first appearance of the Siberia crater, the site was littered with debris such as ice, dirt, oil, and other debris. The Siberia crater debris field was over half a mile wide. Because of the wide debris field, experts initially believed that the Siberia crater was caused by an underground explosion of some kind, most likely methane or other naturally occurring underground gas.

However, after that initial assessment, the almost-perfectly round crater continued to grow in size, and plausible explanations for its existence began to diminish. This week’s reports that witnesses saw a glow and other bizarre lights and heard a massive explosion just before the Siberia crater appeared have only added another layer to the mystery surrounding the giant hole in the outer reaches of Siberia.

Dr. Vladimir Epifanov gave a recent interview to Siberian Times in which he described the eyewitness accounts of the evening the Siberian crater suddenly appeared in the landscape.

“There is verbal information that residents of nearby villages – at a distance of 70-100 km – heard a sound like an explosion, and one of them watched a clear glow in the sky. It was about one month after the Chelyabinsk meteorite.”

Residents in the area surrounding the Siberia crater totally and completely believe that the sounds and lights they heard the night it formed are directly related to the creation or formation of the mysterious crater. Some who have seen the crater postulate that it could be the result of some kind of falling, exploding space junk or other debris (natural or man-made), but like other theories about the Siberia crater, not everyone agrees.

“It is not like the work of men, but it also doesn’t look like a natural formation.”

Some experts insist that the Siberia crater is the result of unprecedented climate change in the region, while others think that it couldn’t possibly be related to climate change at all due to its depth.

For many locals, however, the Siberia crater has no known earthly origins. They believe that this massive crater in Siberia and others like it are completely supernatural, a claim bolstered by local residents who claim to have seen mysterious lights in the sky near the mysterious formations. Many in the area believe the Siberia craters have something to do with the UFO phenomenon.

What do you think? Are the Siberia craters the result of some misunderstood natural process, or could they really be otherworldly?

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