We describe the set of explosive
orbits in the region of attraction of an unstable attractor which is isolated in the
sense of C.C. Conley. Sufficient conditions are given for the existence of explosions in
certain parts of the region of attraction and for an unstable attractor to have
finitely generated integral Alexander-Spanier cohomology groups. Finally, we
study the case of singularities that are unstable attractors in flows on the
2-sphere.