Prof. Dr Jan Pajak THE NEW ZEALAND EXPLOSION OF ... - Totalizm

C-19operational Magnocraft", briefly presented in chapter G of this monograph. One type ofevidence utilized in support of this proof was the uniqueness of the damage such vehiclesmust cause on Earth during an accidental explosion. For example the area of destructionformed by exploding UFOs should take the characteristic shape of a "butterfly" (see FigureC6), whose main axis must be parallel to a magnetic meridian. At the time of arriving toNew Zealand in 1982 the author knew about only one case of such an explosion, i.e.Tunguska in Central Siberia, where a cigar-shaped stack of three UFOs, type K6, explodedon 30 June 1908. Therefore, the legend concerning Raki-ura was of extreme interest tohim, as it could mean another site where similar spaceships have exploded existed also inNew Zealand. Immediately after hearing this legend the author initiated a search for thecentre of this explosion. However, this search brought first fruit in late 1987, when - with theactive help of his friends and acquaintances, the author finally managed to locate in NewZealand the position of a huge crater existing near the township of Tapanui.C2. The huge Tapanui CraterThe Tapanui Crater (see Figures A1, A2, and C1) is located in the West Part of theOtago Province of the South Island of New Zealand, within a triangle defined by the threefollowing towns: Tapanui, Waipahi, and Mataura. Its geographical co-ordinates are: 46 04'Sand 169 09'E. It lies entirely on private property. Its owner is Mr Rex Hellier (Pukeruau, R.D.1, Gore, New Zealand). The Tapanui Crater has the form of a rimless depression withhorizontal-bottom, embedded on a western slope of a small hill locally known as"Pukeruau". The slope of the hill where the Crater is located is slanted about 7 degrees,thus causing uneven heights on the Crater's eastern and western edges. The Crater isformed in clay and covered with silicone sand, so that its bottom does not reach the nativerock. Its size (i.e. length x width x depth) is about 900x600x130 metres. The outline of theTapanui Crater in aerial view roughly resembles an ellipsis - compare aerial photographsfrom Figure C1 with the Crater's outlines shown in Figure C2. But the part of the Craterwhere the shockwaves of the explosion entered the ground is shaped into a triangle withthe apical angle of around 100 degrees - see Figure C2. The main axis of the TapanuiCrater is declined at -37 degrees (westward) from the geographic north direction (thedeclination angle of -37 degrees probably results from the local course of the Earth'smagnetic field in Tapanui at the moment of explosion).Meteorite impacts or underground nuclear explosions provided data which developeda commonly prevailing opinion as to how a "typical" crater should appear. For the majorityof people such a crater must have a classical "parabolic-bowl" shape similar to thatdisplayed by the famous Diablo Crater in Arizona - see Figure C4. Unfortunately, thegeneral shape and main features of the Tapanui Crater differ significantly from thoseexpected for a "typical" crater. Furthermore, at first glance the visual appearance of theTapanui Crater caused by its on-slope location and reinforced by the washing out of a partof its western edge, is rather ambiguous, confusing, and non-distinct. The combination ofthese factors inclined people who have seen the Tapanui Crater to dismiss its significanceand to provide various non-explosive interpretations for its origin. This in turn has probablybeen the main reason why, in spite of overwhelming evidence available in its vicinity (andpresented in this publication), the Crater's explosive origin has remained unacknowledgedfor so long. However, readers familiar with cratering phenomena already know that apartfrom underground explosions producing craters considered to be "typical", there are alsotwo other types of explosions (illustrated in Figure C3) which produce craters of entirelydifferent shapes. Therefore, when thoroughly analyzed, the general shape of the TapanuiCrater is consistent with the near-ground version of an aerial explosion (unknown so-far innature and unobtainable in nuclear experiments) when it is applied to the configuration ofthe land above which the Tapanui explosion took place (this consistency is documented in