I was taking dancing lessons at my dance teachers home with a class of 10-15 other ladies. It was in the hills of Berkley, California. The front room was large, a very clean room, which had, a wood celling, wood walls, and a wood floor that was underneath the short pile Asian rug that she had covered her floor with. We moved the furniture off of the rug so there would be enough room for all of us to dance around. After the dance class, then, we were to sleep over. We shuffled our feet on the rug for about 3-4 hours, dancing pretty much straight through.

Teacher had asthma so she had three layers of curtains on each window and doors. All curtains were at least 3" away from in front of each other and would meet to the floor in length. Also 3 layers of curtains were even on the entrance frame to the kitchen. There was two windows that were across from each other that were small. Those windows were 2 paned windows, about 5' up from the floor. The front door was a double-door made out of wood, there was a double glass door to walk through after the front door and a kitchen frame entrance.

There were 3 layers of curtains in front of each one of those places. So the room itself felt warm, very dry, dust free, and draft free. The laundry room did not have the curtains pulled together, they were completely pushed to the side so that room was all the way open. That room was connected to the front room. Teacher took all the blankets that had already been washed, put them into the dryer without any antistatic squares that a person would usually buy for inside the dryer. And again because of her asthma she never did that. So as she was pulling out the blankets you could hear and see the static popping and flashing about on the blankets because the lights were turned off.

We were lined up to take the blankets then lay down to sleep on the floor with washed and dried pillow cases and pillows. Everybody fell asleep fast. To let you know I wouldn't express this next action not unless it was a true natural phenomenon that happened. I am a true ribbon rubber with the end of my fingertips laying flat, also rubbing the ribbon in between my fingers. It helps me to relax. Soooo, I began to rub the soft silk, thick ribbon. (It was a wide and thick sewed ribbon strip, around the blanket) Static sparks began to pop up off of the ribbon and a lot of them. It was like a light show, beautiful. By the way, the season was sometime in the winter and we danced into the evening around up to 8:00pm. We all settled down very shortly after we received our blankets. It was dark out, with an overcast sky....

After I was laying down and got comfortable, I was looking at the static sparks shooting up from the ribbon. At the end of the sparks where the ribbon is, where the static spark starts from, there was a shape of a tiny ball where the spark came out of. When I rubbed the ribbon where the static was shooting up, the static sparks started moving around different than normal(normal would mean, positive electricity does not touch each other, it always has a little distance from each other). After I started to rub the ribbon with the ends of my fingers, up to my first knuckle, flat on the ribbon, moving in a sweeping action from right to the left, not fast, all the separate shooting static sparks began to pile up like a pile of dirt on the ribbon.

Then all of a sudden(I am not sure of the accurate measurement of distance) one spark shot up, about 1", then moved over 2" and landed on the ribbon and stayed lit. Immediately another spark from that pile of sparks jumped up the same way, arched over and combined together with the spark to the left. When both sparks combined together that spark got bigger. I gave the ribbon one more sweep to push the sparks together on the right side. Then all of a sudden, one more spark jumped up from that pile and combined to the left where the 2 sparks combined. Then again it became a bigger static spark ball(with making words into a action verb (no sound)think of the words "bloop, bloop, bloop, that is what it looked like when they combined together).

As I was looking at this glowing static ball that was floating above the ribbon, it started to float up. I put my left hand, with palms up, underneath it and it would not lay on the skin of my left palm, it stayed about 2' above my palm. AT this point I was scared to call out to anyone to tell them to look, cause maybe, it would pop and disappeared with my breath. Then as I moved my same hand up to embrace it, it floated up further and then it traveled over to the right side of my hand then slowly floated down. I tried to palm it again but I did not succeed, it only kept floating down(and I don't mean fast). Then It touched something and popped.

A note: I was laying down flat on the floor with a pillow. Very quickly I decided to try again the same thing the same way. And still I was afraid to move(sitting up) or talk. I figured I might disturb the space around me and move the atoms around enough to push the static electricity away. Or my breath would discharge the area..... STARTING AGAIN IMMEADETLY, I rubbed the ribbon enough to create static electricity sparks, again. The sparks moved around abnormal, they had the same shape with the little ball shape connection at the bottom of the shooting spark, I sweep the sparks to the left with my fingers with my right hand , they piled up then again, one spark shot up the same way and also two others followed and it was,"BLOOP, BLOOP, BLOOP".

The glowing ball separated from the ribbon same as last time with 3 sparks an started floating up. I put my left hand under it. Again, it wouldn't come in contact with my skin on my palm,(When you take two magnets and try to touch both positive sides together, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN, THEY WILL NOT TOUCH TOGETHER)... As it was floating above the palm of my left hand, I took my right thumb and index finger making a circle, then positioning the circle on my left wrist to measure the diameter of the BALL LIGHNING, so I would never forget the size of the POSITIVE STACTIC ELECTRICITY BALL I MADE.(4x4 centimeters in size, that's about aprox., all the way across the circle; 1 1/2 inches.

Well the ball again was floating in the atmosphere so it started to float off my hand (now realize, the amount of time that was passing by, as I was doing doing all this plus the step below. It would seem to all add up to about 5-6 seconds, that the ball lightning was up in the air. (WOW, I thought).As the ball started to float off my left palm, I took my right hand and lowered it to try to push it up from underneath to keep it from floating down and poping. I was successful with enough movement going real, real, slow, to be able to palm it again and keep it above my right palm enough to count to: one thousand one, one thousand two. Then it again floated to the side of my hand, I tried to palm it again with my left but I did not succeed, it just floated away from my hand then popped on something.

Sooooo I was hopping I could try again, BUT..... all the static electricity was gone. I could not rub anymore static electricity to come out of the ribbon... DARN it was fun though. IT TOOK TEN YEARS UNTILL I FOUND SOMEONE WHO EXPERENCED BALL LIGHNING. THIS LADY SAID IT CAME OUT OF HER TELEVISION. WITH HER CURIOUS AND CONFUSED THOUGHTS, SHE REASEARCHED, FINDING OUT IT WAS CALLED "BALL LIGHNING". So I today looked in the web and was shocked about what I found. a complete match with that, glowing ball *"BALL LIGHTNING"*

joanne beale **********, CA USA - Tuesday, February 03, 2015 at 08:23:10 (PST)