The professor reached for a glass, drank the juice and continued. “But I don’t really believe in random coincidences, so I continued checking the calculations.” The result was unchanged. I began to analyze the diary entries of the expeditions and came across a recording of an ancient tale of a Yakut, whose camp we came across near the Patom crater. It read: “The moon cuckoo decided to lay an egg in the fire eagle’s nest. But the fiery eagle flies fast. He caught up with the cuckoo, knocked it down and tore it to shreds. Don't go to the nest, you'll die, though. The fiery eagle also looks after the nest.” And then it dawned on me, the ancestors of this Yakut a hundred years ago noticed that there were not one meteorite, but two! The second one caught up with the first one and “torn him to shreds.” – So that two meteorites collided? Can't be! This is unlikely,” Fandorin said. “You see, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, you are not a mathematician and yet you understand the insignificance of the probability of such an event. But there is a simpler explanation - the Tunguska meteorite was attacked from orbit, torpedoed or rammed, and all so that the “lunar cuckoo” did not reach the “Nest”! Fandorin and I sat dumbfounded. This is how this Miklukha Maclay wrapped up. Only Nora remained calm. “Do you think that one of the “meteorites” was of alien origin? asked Fandorin. “No, I think both!” And in the “nest” the embryo of the “chick” of the “fiery eagle” is moving! – Wait, wait. If we think further, then there is also a “fiery eagle” spinning in Earth’s orbit. Besides mathematical calculations and hypothesis, is there any other confirmation of this? asked Fandorin. “No.” But in February of this year, near the city of Chelyabinsk, another meteorite exploded in the atmosphere at an altitude of 30 kilometers. At the same time, there is footage of amateur photography, which clearly shows that before the explosion the meteorite caught up with something.