I spoke at length with someone I know who works in the field of weapons, blast injuries and aerial blast area predictions.
and this is what I have put together about the incident in the Ural Mts.
From the other thread, copied and pasted. Sorry about the photo of Bijou. I don't know how to remove him LOL.
Maria
03-06-2008, 11:56 AM
I just got off the phone with an expert in weaponry, ours vs. the USSRs.
The short answer is that it was probably something similar to an early primitive nuclear bomb. Perhaps closer to what we think of as a dirty bomb.
Also included as a high probability was a small primitive nuclear weapon using either low levels of nuclear fusion or nuclear fission, which the USSR was trying very hard to develop at that time. The internal crush injuries are consistent with blast weaponry in the absence of other projectiles in the area of the blast. IOW, if they were in a snow bank on a bare hill, and running away from the impending blast, there were no objects in their area to cause external injuries. No buildings, no pavement, no flying debris to cause incidental injuries.
He concurred that they were most likely blinded and already dying from radiation injuries when they reached the forest area but that hypothermia is the actual and quite handy cause of death.
He does not discount that the students may have concocted their own dirty bomb as part of a covert operation related to the Ural Polytechnic University where they were students.
He also has a theory that they were guenea pigs for gov't. testing as students, given a suitcase or knapsack containing materials and instructions for use in the final campsite area, and that it was detonated or otherwise exploded with unexpected force.
The " ill" member of the team who dropped out may have been the one to have had more contact with the device or material up to that time, either intentionally or incidentally if the experiment was not disclosed to the students in advance, resulting in his illness which well may have been non-lethal radiation poisioning symptoms.
My contact does have a healthy belief in UFOs, as well as Yeti, but says that due to the intensity of the Cold War and the weapons race between the USA and USSR at that particular time, he doubts there was anything otherwordly involved.
I think these kids were used as test subjects. He agreed with me that the campsite had definitey been tampered with and staged. The film in the cameras could not have withstood levels of radiation, meaning that either the photos of the group alive were taken at an earlier time
for deliberate documentation by people who did not continue on the cross-country skiing to the summit of the mountain, and that the other photos said to be from their cameras are faked.
He also said the skis were deliberately shown prominently in the photos of the wrecked tent to say " They were simple skiiers, nothing more". This may not be true. They may have been budding scientists.
As for the absence of the woman's tongue, he believes it could have been bitten involuntarily, and part of it swallowed in an instant, thus would be found on autopsy in her GI tract. The other theory is that if her body was one found 2 months later, an animal could have fed on it if her mouth was open or the tongue was protruding.
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