My father was a 14-year-old boy at the time of the Tunguska explosion, and he said he was playing with other boys in the streets of his hometown in Nicaragua.
The event probably occurred between 7 and 7:30 p.m. My father described it this way: "Suddenly, an intense light more brilliant than the sun covered the sky and the entire town. We became paralyzed when we saw, slowly rolling across the sky, an enormous fireball moving apparently from west to north.
"All the townspeople exited from their homes and knelt on the ground, praying for God's forgiveness. They embraced each other in confused crying and moaning, also asking each other for forgiveness. People yelled that it was doomsday. The fireball also made a frightful noise, like a wildfire.
"Maybe the fireball took two or three minutes to disappear. But a few minutes later, a tremendous explosion was heard whose echo remained vibrating in space with a noise like that of a big waterfall. The brilliance left by the fireball was diminishing but did not disappear for the rest of the night. That night, the whole town kept praying until the new day arrived. Really, it seemed like the end of the world."
What my father witnessed was one of the most compelling and frightening event of modern times. The entire world witnessed or felt the effects of the object wrapped in fire, which was responsible for the devastation in Tunguska. Scientists agree it was a massive explosion that occurred around 7:14 a.m. local solar time in Tunguska. They estimated the energy of the blast was about 30 megatons of TNT, or about 1,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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