In May of 1993, at 11:03 p.m. of the 28th,
seismographs all over the Pacific region recorded a very large scale
disturbance in the Great Victorian Desert of Western Australia. The recordings didn’t present the profile for
either earthquakes nor mining explosions – and they were showing that the blast
was more than 170 times more powerful than any mining explosion ever known in
that region of the world. In fact the
shock was more consistent with a large meteorite strike than anything. Such a strike would have made a crater with a
circumference of many hundreds of feet but no such crater could be found. The general world could have cared less and
so seemingly did Australia, for a day or so later the news was dead and life
carried on.
Meanwhile in Japan a doomsday cult called Aum Shinrikyo had
come into being and in 1995 gained notoriety when it released great quantities
of the nerve gas Sarin into the Tokyo subway system killing at least 12
people. The ensuing investigation into
their background found that the Aum Shinrikyo cult owned half a million acres
of desert property in western Australia very near the site of the mystery event
of 1993. There, authorities found a
laboratory of unusual sophistication and focus, and evidence that the cult
members there had been mining uranium.
It also emerged that Aum Shinrikyo had recruited into its’ ranks two former
Soviet nuclear engineers – and since the cults avowed aim was the destruction
of the world it seems quite credible that the desert event may have been the
background work for blowing up Tokyo.
This was the subject of a 1997 news story in the C section
of The New York Times – but surprisingly nowhere else, not even in Australia.
If any agency has ever taken steps to measure radiation around the mystery site
it has never been publicly reported.
This information is contained in the book
‘IN A SUNBURNED LAND’ by Bill Bryson ©2000
My Country
I love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains
of rugged mountain ranges
of droughts and flooding rains
Dorothea MacKellar
No comments:
Post a Comment