Or maybe it was a meteor.
Of all the competing theories, the strongest seems to be a worn out comet nucleus for Tunguska. It was even seen prior to it’s impact by a young farm boy in 1908. As you know, a comet is a dirty snowball and when all the “snow” has been boiled away what’s left is a loose, black, dirtball. That’s a perfect candidate for a butterfly explosion 5 miles above the surface.