EBE Award Winner! - Best Historical UFO Documentary - International UFO Congress Film Festival. In the U.S., the modern flying saucer era began in the desert of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, but for the former USSR, the modern flying saucer era began in 1908, as villagers from a sparsely populated area of central Siberia, near the Tunguska River, witnessed a large glowing object streak across the sky and explode in midair with the force of an atomic blast equal to over 40 megatons, completely destroying miles of forest. Hear from one of the last living eyewitnesses of this event as well as the experts, including a former KGB officer who describes the cover-up surrounding this event.