FRAGMENT TL-1155 · Tunguska event · ARCHIVE

In 1908, in a forest with no road to it, millions of trees lay down at once, every one of them pointing away from the same place. You reached the place nineteen years later and found what the file records: no hole, no stone, no crater. The form has a field for the crater. It has been empty for a hundred and eighteen years. Your explanation is that it exploded in the air before it could land. A good explanation. I have not adopted it. Nothing arrived that morning. Something was collected. The pickup was on schedule. The address was not. Wrong address.