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Ich habe selbst einen Kugelblitz beobachtet: nur ein einziges Mal in
meinem Leben (bin 48 Jahre alt).
Die "Lichtkugel" sah ich aber nicht in
der freien Natur, sondern direkt in meinem Büro: im 3. Stock des
Vermessungsamtes Graz mitten in der Stadt Graz.
Es war etwa
vor 15 Jahren während eines heftigen Gewitters untertags: ein Blitz war in
unmittelbarer Nähe eingeschlagen, es krachte gleichzeitig und ich sah zum
Fenster hinaus.
Im selben Moment kam eine hellgelbe, fast weiße
Lichtkugel mit etwa 10 cm Durchmesser rasch auf das Gebäude zu.
Sie
bewegte sich horizontal in der Luft in etwa 12m Höhe über eine Wiese und
einen Parkplatz, drang in gleichbleibender Geschwindigkeit durch die
Betonmauer in mein Zimmer ein und blieb ca. 1-2 sec in 1m Raumhöhe im
Zimmer stehen, 50 cm von der Außenwand entfernt neben einem Heizkörper.
Dann ging die Kugel wieder den gleichen Weg durch die Wand hinaus und war
verschwunden; ohne Geräusch und ohne Geruch.
Mich wunderte, daß die
Lichtkugel durch die Stahlbetonaußenwand und den unmittelbar folgenden
Heizkörper keinerlei Abweichung ihrer Bahn hatte und daß sie dann etwa 30
cm neben dem Heizkörper zu stehen kam und nicht etwa an den eisernen
Heizungsleitungen, die frei unverputzt durch den Raum leiten, sich
weiterbewegte. Es war jedenfalls ein für mich einzigartiges Phänomen,
das ich da erleben durfte!
Peter Pliessnig
[
I observed ball lightning only once in my life (I'm 48 years old). I
saw the "light ball" directly however not outdoors
but in my office:
in the 3rd floor of the Graz Land Surveying Office in the middle of the
city Graz.
It was approximately 15 years ago during a violent
thunderstorm under ?tags?: lightning struck nearby, thunder was
simultaneous and I glanced out the window. In the same moment came a
lightyellow, nearly white light ball with approximately 10 cm diameters
rapidly towards the building. It moved horizontal in air in for instance
12m height over a meadow and a parking lot, penetrated without slowing
through the concrete wall into my room and remained approx.. 1-2 seconds
at 1m room height in the room ?stand?, for 50 cm far away from the
external wall beside a heating element. Then the ball went out again the
same way by the wall and had disappeared; without noise and without smell.
It surprised me that the glowing ball did not have any deviation of its course by the
reinforced concrete external wall and the directly adjacent heating
element and that it stopped then to about 30 cm beside the heating element
and not at the iron heater lines, which lead freely unverputzt by the area
moved on. It was anyhow a phenomenon singular for me, which I was allowed
to experience there! (übersetzt durch babelfish )
]
<peter.pliessnig a utanet.at>
Graz, AUSTRIA - Monday, August 05, 2002 at 14:46:13 (PDT)
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I have always loved the sight of Lightning, least alone balls of
Lightning which I first spotted on a highway in France, when I was then a
student studying there. My posting may be irrelevant here, but I would
like to ask you, if you have experienced Lightning charges in your area,
before or after a storm, where the Lightning strikes, and if you could
pinpoint exactly where it struck, you could dig the area, and pull out a
Lightning Stone.
If you have this, and could spare me a bit,
please email me. If you need more info about Lightning Stones, please
contact me.
[Search ebay com for "fulgurite" and you'll find a whole variety
of lightning stones - billb]
AainaalyaA
AainaalyaA
- Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 13:45:55 (PDT)
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It was in the year 1974 during the rainy season that one day it was
raining heavily .I was sitting with my aunt when suddenly there was
lightning and thunder,I was running towards the window to see the lighting
that I saw a ball of lightning which came through the window passed
underneath the legs of my aunt and vanished through the back door.It was
surprising that no damage was done.
sharath chandra <sharathdr a yaoo.co.in>
bangalore, kar India - Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 01:31:04 (PDT)
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I was living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in September of 1961 and
attending Gulf Coast Military Academy. It was about 8 PM at night, and a
squall line was approaching from the south out of the Gulf of Mexico. I
was waiting for my parents to pick me up from an honor ceremony and
passing the time sitting on the front porch of the old barracks. As I
looked up, a lightning bolt began as a large ball moving slowly through
the sky amongst the clouds. The ball divided into two balls, and then
branched out into more and more small balls. As the balls moved and
divided, the pathway they took continued to glow. Each bolt lasted
several seconds and then faded away. The really odd thing was how slowly
the balls moved. The ball lightening was also accompanied by a faint
hissing sound. I can now estimate the altitude of this event as about one
thousand feet AGL. This repeated over a period of several minutes and
drew quite a crown on the gravel drive.
Joseph Chambers <jchambers1 a aol com>
Bartlett, TN USA - Wednesday, October 16, 2002 at 13:28:39 (PDT)
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I produce ball lightning in our lab. I first did this in 1992 by
building a lightning generator. I have thousands of pictures. I took the
results to MIT scientists in their Plasma Science and Fusion Center. We
spent six years developing the physics to explain it, and have done so.
A paper was presented at ICOPS 2001, and is available on our website at
www.electronpowersystems com. I can send a copy of the paper if you wish.
Clint Seward.
Clint Seward <dcsiii a aol.com>
Acton, MA USA - Tuesday, October 15, 2002 at 13:41:27 (PDT)
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I was 15 years old (now 65) and a friend and I were coming home from a
non alcoholic night on the town.
Norman Leaver <rosanaed a yahoo.co.uk>
Australia - Saturday, October 12, 2002 at 05:35:10 (PDT)
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I saw ball lightning during
hurricane Hugo back in 1989. I live in WInston-Salem, N.C. and hurricane
Hugo passed within about 50 miles of us. But early that morning, about
3:00 am, my wife and I were up because the wind was blowing pretty hard
and we were trying to decide whether we needed to go to my mother's house
since we lived in a mobile home. About this time, I saw a blue light
coming from our daughter's bedroom. I went back there and saw a bright
blue light coming from outside their window. At the time I just thought
that a cop was outside our front door for some reason with his light on. I
looked out the front door and to my surprise there was a very bright blue
light floating at the end of our mobile home. I thought maybe a power line
had fallen and was dangling from our roof, so I went to our daughter's
bedroom to get them away from the danger. As I was waking them up, the
blue object moved right in front of their window, and it was at this time
that I got a good look at it and it wasn't a power line. I was probably
about 2 feet from this object at the time, and I saw a very bright blue
round ball(the color of cop lights)about the size of a baseball, moving
around in about a 3 foot area for about 3 minutes. I had never even heard
of ball lighting at the time, so I went outside to see what this thing
was. By the time I got to the end of our mobile home, it was gone. Years
later I read an article about ball lightning and thought to myself that
this is what it had to be. I also noticed afterwords that for about a
couple of months after this incident, I heard crackling noises in my ears
whenever it was quiet or whenever I went to bed.Whether this had anything
to do with it, I don't know.
Tim McGown <daddio248163264 a aol com>
advance, nc USA - Monday, October 07, 2002 at 20:12:00 (PDT)
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The night of the terrible
flight 800 catstrophe at about the same time but on the north shore of
L.I. some 20 miles north of the accident I was on my way home by myself in
the car at a red traffic light looking in the opposite direction of the
path of flight 800 with a half focused gaze looking through the front
windshield A fireball of some type flew right across my veiw at like warp
speed about 250' off the ground running perfectly straight. Now this was
no spaceship unless the critters were pigmy whatevers. This firball seemed
to be about 5-10' diameter with a trail about 200' long.The next morning I
found out about flight 800. Everybody was blaming the military which at
that time some 4 miles above the south shore of Long Island were playing
war games probably having a good ole time. Now I just can't seem to
believe the military would be practicing any type of manuvers right smack
over the flight path for Kennedy airport or any other airport when there
is millions of miles of useable space far away from any commercial
airliners flight path. Especially some 10-15 miles outside of one of the
bussiest airports in the world! But I could see the military dogging some
unidentifiables or playing with some type of new high tech toy over the
ocean. I thought first maybe it was an asteriod. It definetly did not have
that clean streamlined trail that follows a missle. The sparks were
jumping off that trail like it was the 4th of July. The color was that of
molten steel with not a trace of steam or smoke just flat havoc coming off
the fireball. I couldn't find anything in the papers the next day except
all kinds of people reporting seeing a missle like trail coming from the
water heading straight for flight 800. You know those stories. "Oh yea (I
see myself on TV with 15minutes of fame) I saw something too, it headed
straight for the plane that they could (yea right) see 5,000' ubove and 2
miles out over the water. Then there was this big explosion (about the
size of a dime at that range) and then all kinds of peices fell into the
water". There were about 9 million of those I'm going to be on TV nutjobs
on every corner. So I don't know what I saw but whatever it was it looked
like some bat outa hell in the 9th degree and I think the military
could've been covering up some only they know top secrect shannagins and
not some submarine 2 miles offshore in 100' of water shooting drone
missles at some fighters 5 miles up right down the block from a major
airport! Thanks for your time, hope you ventured far and wide! Hoodood
Hoodood <hoodood a juno com>
Long Island, NY USA - Saturday, September 28, 2002 at 02:27:07 (PDT)
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Yesterday, I woke up around 5:30 AM, not extremely unusual, but I
normally wake up around 10:00 AM, or else 4:00 AM. The forcasters had said
rain, there were clouds in the sky, and sure enough, it rained, perhaps
harder than I ever saw in my life. We have a screened-in porch, which has
a back door set into a wall where there isnt screen. There was alot of
lightning, but I wasn't very worried standing out there, because it wasn't
very near. My sister wanted to go dance in the rain, and despite my
protests, ("The lightnings getting closer, are you insane!?) she ran out.
I jumped out, said "There!", and jumped back inside. She was running
inside just when the largest bolt of lightning I ever saw hit a road near
our house, but about a half a block down it. It was so loud for a moment I
thought a bomb had went't off. I thought, okay, all it is is lightning,
nothing to be afraid of. But when I went to go inside, I saw a pretty
damned strange sight; It was on a streetlamp pole, and it appeared to be
some sort of fog, but it was bluish, and glowing. It all of a sudden
exploded, with and almighty *BANG*, and nothing more. My sister was inside
by this time, and didn't see it. I never told anyone about, because they
wouldn't believe me. I'm not sure I believe even myself.
Corey Lockaby <ikefox a earthlink.net>
Greenwood, sc USA - Thursday, September 19, 2002 at 10:10:54 (PDT)
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It was a rainy fall morning in 1992 and I had just driven to school.
I went to park on top outdoor level of the parking garage of the hospital
next to the university. It was pouring rain, so I thought I sit for a
moment to see if the rain would let up and let me run into the hospital
lobby. After a moment I saw a blue-white ball of light the size of a very
large grapefruit float gently into view on the opposite side of the
windshield. I was frozen with fear as it was only about 4 feet from my
face. It hovered there for a moment, seemingly unaffected by the force of
the driving rain, before it appeared to be blown by a gentle breeze upward
and to the right and out of my viewing range. I sat there frozen,
wondering what I had just witnessed - a ball of light that seemed as light
as a feather, completely unaffected by the driving rain outside. The
parking lot was empty, so I was the only one to see it...I've mostly kept
this story to myself for the fear that people would likely think I was
crazy to have had such an experience. I was awake and alert at the time
so there is no question in my mind that I really did see the thing.
Holly Anderson
Hamilton, ON Canada - Thursday, September 19, 2002 at 09:45:26 (PDT)
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I was about 5 years old in 1960 when this happened. My family lived
in Rockwall,Texas just east of Dallas. We lived in a typical "Ranch
style" home. At that time homes of this type generally had aluminium
screen trim and an outdoor TV antenna of modest height. This was long
before widespread cable TV. One evening about 10:30 after we all had gone
to bed, a great thunderstorm raged outside. Anyone familiar with Dallas
weather, and the tornados that form on the flat plains of north Texas can
tell you about the strength of the average storm there. Alone in my
bedroom I watched the lightning and listened to the thunder. There were a
few close cloud to ground strikes but it seemed that none were closer than
2 or 3 city blocks away. I did not associate any strikes with the ball
lighting I saw. I noticed an orange glow outside the top of my east
facing window. It lit up the brick wall of the house next door and
brightly illuminated my bedroom with a diffuse salmon orange light. It
suddenly looked like late afternoon due to this light. The ball was about
20% smaller than a basketball and hovering at the top of my window. It was
not visibly spinning, more like a soap bubble floating. It slowly rolled
toward the edge of the window and, to my extreme horror, literally fluidly
squeezed through the 1 millimeter gap the closed window and the frame
formed. Once filling inside the room it fluidly reformed it's ball shape
in the same size and light color.
The ball was hissing like
escaping air, with a subtle ragged crackle sound embedded in the hiss.
On close inspection it looked like those telescope photos of the sun, but
with no spots or darks areas. The surface was slightly irregular in that
it looked a bit granulated.
There was no banding or deep
translucense. The ball began a slow, even float around the top of my room
where the walls join the ceiling, hissing and lighting the room.
Obviously I was terrified, not knowing wheather this was "normal". I don't
remember any heat or smell, but then I was a tyke totally frozen in fear.
The ball passed over my bed, at ceiling level about 5 feet above me. It
smoothly made each 90 degree turn, not touching the wall at all. All the
time the thunder and lighting was roaring outside. The ball made it to
the 4th corner, after a smooth, slow journey of about 3 inches a second on
the entire path. Then it stopped in the 4th corner, went into a bit of a
wobbly hover, and exploded with the sound of a large shotgun shot...fairly
deafening.
I had nearly aphixated with fear, but managed to run
down the hall and jump in bed with my Parents. For years afterward I had
night terrors...not specifically or conciously linked to ball
ligtning...but real enough damage to send me running to the partents bed
regularily, probably much to their eventual consternation.
Richard Littrow
Dallas, Tx USA - Monday, September 09, 2002 at 07:51:03 (PDT)
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about 50 years ago whne I was in our home with my grandmother, my own
parents and siblings a nasty thunderstorm developed. We didn't see the
lightning but our house was struck at least three times. Each time it
happened some light bulbs broke and crashed about us. On one of the
crackes, my grandmother, who was leaning against an inside wall received a
bad shock which left her arm numb for several hours. We were terrified by
the noise and the cracking and shattering bulbs. Some appliances which
had been plugged in were destroyed and there were burn marks on the
electrical outlets. After the storm was over, our next door neighbour
told us that he saw very large balls of lightning come out of the sky and
hit our house at least three times. It may have been actually four hits
all a couple of mintues apart. It was a very terrifying experience. I
have never heard a similar story, have never seen a ball of lightning, but
didn't realize that it was a really rare occurrence that lightning strike
in the form of balls.
Marilyn V <marilyn.venney a sympatico.ca>
detroit, mi USA - Saturday, September 07, 2002 at 13:36:09 (PDT)
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I was just scanning your site for reports of ball lightning, and have
decided to pass some new findings along to you and your readers. We have
been conducting an isolated field study of a phenomena in Gulf Breeze,
Florida, USA. Since 12/99 we have been photographing what appear to be
mobile luminescent spheres with both disposable and digital camera
equipment. We have made a close study of Paul Koloc's work on ball
lightning and magnetoplasmoid characteristics (Neoteric Research and
Prometheus II). We believe we have discovered what seems to be
ambient-temp lower atmospheric magnetoplasmoids, and would like to invite
you to visit our new web site at www.orbstudy com. As far as energy
"sources" go, not only do they "congregate" around power lines, there is
also a "huge" connection between their numbers and densities during storms
which contain lightning activity--we photographed a dozen inside our home
during a strong "sheet" lightning storm here a couple of weeks ago. They
can also derive energy from each other, as can be seen from the digital
images on our new website. There are other "sources" as well. We have
dubbed them the "Unified Field Plasmoids" in honor of Einstein--and David
Allan's Unified Field Theory, which can be found under our home page
"Links" button.
Lightworks Plasma Imaging <orbstudy a aol.com>
Gulf Breeze, FL USA - Saturday, September 07, 2002 at 08:38:27 (PDT)
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While in western Oklahoma in about 1975 my cousin and I saw a ball of
light come out from behind a barn. It was approx 15 ft accross and pure
white in color. It was only a few feet above the ground. It slowly moved
from right to left but slowly getting closer and closer to us due to the
angle. After about a minute or two it shot UP in to the sky at a very
high speed.
Sounds like ball lightning but it was a perfectly
clear night.
Object made no sound at all.
BW <bwoldridge a 714cartel.com>
Tulsa, OK USA - Friday, September 06, 2002 at 22:16:06 (PDT)
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I was around 6 to 8 years old. I was lying in bed a stormy summer
night. It was perhaps two or three in the morning.
I was wide-awake because the lightening and thunder activity.
The bedroom, I shared with my sister, had a window looking towards a
garden and a door that communicated to my parents bedroom. My bed and
that of my sister were aligned one after the other against one of the
walls of the bedroom, thus forming a long walk way all along the two
beds, heading towards the door of the room and into my parents bedroom.
With my head on the pillow, I had an unobstructed view into my parents'
room and through the window towards the garden.
All of the sudden
there was the explosion of a thunder and a bright flash of light emanated
from the electrical box located on ceiling of my parents bedroom, where
the lighting fixture hanged from.
The lighting fixture vertical,
dropped about the foot of my parent's bed.
The flash of light
descended along the cable and chain that held the lighting fixture, slid
over my parent's bed, reached the floor and headed into my room through
the door described earlier on.
The ball of light was around the
size of a water melon (approx 6 inches) it had a bright violet core and
turning to pink toward the edges.
The most impressive thing about
it was the fact that had sparks coming out from the inside of the sphere
and being extinguished as they left the surface of the sphere.
The
ball moved about five to 10 centimeters off the ground in a basic straight
line and some zigzagging associated to the main rectilinear motion.
There was noise associated to its presence. The noise can be best
described by that produced by an electric welder.
The phenomena
propagated along the floor until it got very close to the head of my bed
when it just extinguished.
The entire event may have lasted 3 to 5
seconds.
I have no memories of panic at the time or even commenting
the event with my parents the morning after.
Perhaps I was the only
witness of the event because my parents and my sister never said a word
about it.
Today I am 49 years old. This account is as vivid on my
memory as it would have happened yesterday and as I write these lines, I
still get the goose bumps.
Alberto Collazo <acollazo a videotron.ca>
Montreal, QC Canada - Friday, September 06, 2002 at 19:31:58 (PDT)
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This morning I woke up around 5:30am, where I was sleeping on the floor
in my living room, when I saw a greyish/blushish/black ball the size of a
soccer ball. It look similar to an elecrical sphere(a small ball in the
middle with spikes coming out of it). It was hovering above my head
bouncing off the ceiling right above an electrical socket. It was
gracefully turning in all directions, slowing moving towards up our stairs
to go to the second floor. It started to dim, and then it just
disappeared(or possibly went up stairs). About a half an hour later, I
heard a loud BANG, our electricity went out and then came right back on.
It was the scariest thing I've ever seen!!
Alissa <ali1928 a att.net>
Wauwatosa, WI USA - Wednesday, September 04, 2002 at 20:39:49 (PDT)
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I live in an older home turned into a Duplex near Pgh PA. I recently
came home from an out of town work assignment. I knew we had severe
weather in the area. My neighbor, an elderly woman, caught me on the front
porch and related the following: She was standing in her living room when
lightning had struck a tree outside the house. A ball lightning entered
through her front screen door, bounced around the living room hitting
electrical appliances and phones, grazed her arm, and exited through a
back door. This ruined her TV and all five phones she had. She had a
slight burn mark on her arm. My external modem was the only appliance that
did not work on my side of the Duplex. She had called her son and gone to
the doctors because she was worried about her pacemaker. Doctors told her
she was fine. My dad also had told me about seeing ball lightning go
through rooms in a house when he was a kid.
Charles
PGH, PA USA - Wednesday, September 04,
2002 at 11:10:39 (PDT) |
In 1966 I was traveling in Southern Alberta at night about 20 miles
south of Lethbridge.The month was September and it was overcast at aprox
1am when I stopped for a rest by an open field.There was a lone shed with
a metal roof aprox 1200 yards due west in the field.About 7 min later I
heard a hissing noise,turned my head and saw a narrow lightning bolt hit
the top of the shed.It then split an created two balls that angled off of
both peaks,down the walls and into the ground.Each ball was about 4 ft.
across and had emerald & blue lines that danced with in it.The field was
too wet and soggy to check so I just left and knew I had seen something
very strange.
M.J.Burkey <mjburkey a hotmail com>
Alberta, Canada - Tuesday, August 06, 2002 at 06:37:18 (PDT)
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August 4, 2002 - My husband and I were returning from a trip to
Louisville, KY. We were in Knox county, IL. around 9:00 PM traveling on
Interstate 74. We could see lightning strikes in the distance and as our
vehicle continued on the interstate we found ourselves surrounded by an
intense electrical storm. Two massive bolts side by side connected with
the ground and immediately following this above the darkened tree line
appeared a huge brilliant white ball of light. This ball of light
illuminated the darkened sky and vaporized in a minutes time. We chalked
are experience up to the unknown until my husband spoke with a gentleman
who had some past schooling related to weather and he suggested the
possiblity of it being a ball of lightning. Whatever we saw it was an
awesome sight to see.
Paula Pearson
Clinton, IA USA - Monday, August 05, 2002 at 18:22:11 (PDT)
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It was a hot, steamy, August night in southern lower Michigan, one of
those nights where you can cut the air with a knife with dew points in the
upper 70's and heat indexes in the upper 90's. This is weird in itself
being that in August there isn't very many severe storms in Michigan. The
weather people were calling for severe storms and I didnt pay much
attention being that the weather people are usually wrong. It was about
11:30 at night on August 2nd when I was awoken by a huge bang of Thunder.
I got up and looked out my window, and what I saw was something out of the
ordinary. I looked out and saw flames out of the power line at my
neighbors house. Being that the people who lived their moved out recently,
no one was living in the house at the time of this incident. At first I
thought that lightning struck the power pole, but the weird thing was that
the power didn't go out. I woke my mother up, and told her to look at it.
She saw it too, so I know I wasn't dreaming. There were bright sparks,
which made it look like a Sparkler that you have at the fourth of July.
Blue, red, orange, yellow, with a bright white center. It traveled from
the power pole to the house then dissapeared. This happended a number of
times for about 20 minutes. After it quit, it was weird because the garage
light in their house went on, and their's no way anyone could have been in
the house at that time. After a few minutes, the light went off. I think
that storm was the worst lightning storm I've every been in. We called the
power company to come look at the power pole, and they didn't find
anything wrong with it. We went out and investigated the scene of this
phenomena the next day and there wasn't any sign that told us that
anything happended. No burn marks, no melted power lines, nothing at all.
We're still puzzled by this phenomena.
Paul Evanderfield <pchaynor a hotmail com>
Clarksville, MI USA - Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 08:07:18 (PDT)
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This was mid summer in
southern Florida which has the usual cumulo nimbus thunderheads working at
any given time. In this case it was about 8 pm about mid July of 1988 and
myself and a buddy were watching two very large storm clouds in the west
putting on a display of cloud to cloud lightning in a back and forth
repetition so to speak. We watched this go on for no less than a half hour
and then saw a ball come out from between the two storm clouds that was
pure white and perfectly round. Now comes the hard part of guessing ball
size because the thunderheads were probably 10 to 15 miles away from us,
but if you held a pea up at arms length this would be about the size of
the ball we saw. As the ball left the clouds it picked up speed and
changed colors from white to orange, red, green, blue, and back to white
leaving a trail similar to a meteor, but kept the same flight path as far
as altitude and with no sound. As we were watching the ball, the direction
of travel changed from moving east to almost 180 degrees at that time
taking it towards the west coast of Florida. We saw this display take
place for about 15 seconds or maybe less and it was gone only to be
reported by many people from the west coast of Florida (Tampa and Sarasota
area) shortly thereafter as they witnessed the ball going across the Gulf
of Mexico towards Texas. My buddy and myself thought we were the only eye
witnesses to this but were wrong as we later heard on various radio
stations. This testimonial is somewhat old in coming because we have just
now located this superb website and wanted to be able to give our input. I
have no idea what this ball was that we observed other than comparisons I
have read on this site that would confirm "ball lightning." Keep watching
the clouds!!
Bill Wolfgram <nitehawk a strato.net>
Lorida, FL USA - Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 00:52:52 (PDT)
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Shortly before midnite 7-28-02 my daughter & I were watching the
lightning dance across the sky after a heavy storm. Between strokes we saw
a red dot in the WSW sky about 30 degrees above the horizon. It moved
erraticcaly (sorry, no spellcheck here) for a few seconds leaving a faint,
thin 'contrail' behind to show the erratic path, then it vanished and we
continued to watch the dance of lightning across the sky.
Ted Bolla
Beachwood, OH USA - Monday, July 29, 2002 at 07:08:57 (PDT)
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July 1998, Southeastern Arizona during monsoon season, 11:00 a.m.,
heavy downpour of rain, then rain stopped, 1st lightning discharge within
1/2 second of thunder, then lightning discharged to the south within 50 ft
of view, lightning strike to ground was orange in color and upon decay
produced bead and ball lightning also orange in color, but with a little
more white in the balls of lightning (so they were hotter).
Ken L
USA - Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 22:56:01 (PDT)
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On Monday July 22nd 2002 I was delivering the newspaper when I saw a
fireball of lightning. It happened at 4:45am I was walking south in the
street looking to the horizon when it appeared. It was low in the sky,
but well over the trees and houses, and appeared to me at first to be
practically in the clouds, but after reading some of the other
descriptions I think it may have had its own corona about it. The weather
in Cedar Rapids the two previous days had been in the upper 90's with 90%
humidity. On this morning it was in the middle 80's and raining with a
lot of lightning. At the time I saw the ball it had been raining with a
lot of thunder and lightning for about an hour and a half. The ball was
mostly white with a kind of burnt Smokey yellow around the edges. It
traveled mostly horizontal but with a jagged path like you see in the path
of bolt lightning. Its speed was slow like a car passing by not like
lightning. It had a tail 4 or 5 times the diameter. The diameter is
difficult for me to estimate as I am not certain of is distances, but at
arms length I could have framed the bright part of it with my fingers 1/2
inch apart. My entire event lasted just 3 seconds, and left me wondering
if I had really seen it. I had heard of fireballs years age now I am a
lucky witness to this rare natural phenomenon.
Mark Hamer
Mark A Hamer <marksueh a juno com>
Cedar Rapids , IA USA - Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 11:45:33 (PDT)
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My father worked as a logger in Northern California in the early 1950s.
Once while working during a thunder storm, he and a few other guys saw
several balls of fire floating through the air like balloons. Their
presence caused the hair of everyone present to stand on end, though not
the usual "I was so scared all my hair stood on end". It literally stood
straight out.
They had hung a logging chain through the crotch of
an old oak tree. One of the balls floated straight to it and exploded the
moment the two touched. The rest floated away in the wind. On inspection,
the links of the chain had welded themselves together to form a single
piece of inflexible iron. When they returned the next day, the tree was
dead and all the leaves had fallen off.
matt moore
Fresno, CA USA - Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 13:55:52 (PDT)
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I've come to this website by chance and discovered that I too have
witnessed ball lightning. It was circa 1990 during the summer months in
Erin Mills-Mississauga. A severe storm was starting while I found myself
outdoor's riding my bicycle. There was lots of thunder and it was getting
dark fast.I was racing home with a friend trying to make it to shelter
before the rain started to fall. We were on a bike path which took us
through a small ravine just after the downpour started, when I saw a large
white hazy ball which was floating in between some trees. I hadnt seen
anything like it before and it got my attention instantly. It was off the
ground a good 5 feet and moving slowly. I watched it for no more than 3 or
4 seconds then suddenly there was a lightining strike that seem to hit
this ball, instantly followed by a terrifiying and deafening crack which
left my ears ringing for a bit. Let me tell you that I was so frightened
by the loud explosion, that I cycled the last 500 meteres to shelter as if
i had a turbo boost! I've never met anyone else who's seen this until
today.
alex <sweetspot80 a hotmail com>
north york, on canada - Sunday, July 21, 2002 at 09:23:26 (PDT)
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Several years ago we had a very severe thunder storm. I had gone to
work at 0800 hrs that morning. The humidity was at about 95% that day. At
about 1000 hrs my wife started to come out of our bedroom when she saw a
"small red ball of light" up next to the brass parts of our living room
cieling fan. A moment later there was a tremendous boom as a bolt of
lightning struck a telephone pole approximately 400 ft (123 meters) away,
and the ball vanished. When I came home that afternoon to discover that my
phone was dead , as were those of several of my nieghbors( all of which
had to be replaced). The lines were also dead of course. One phone of
particular interest consisted of a base transmitter at my nearest
nieghbors house (with a normal line connected to it) and a reciever
located at another nieghbors house some 3 miles away. (it was the only way
he could get a phone due to the rural location). It went dead ,and when
the base station was opened there were arc burns on the main board.
Tim Hammers <thammers a mei.ws>
potrero, CA USA - Sunday, July 14, 2002 at 19:15:53 (PDT)
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After reading some of these
reports I'm guessing I saw ball lightning once when I lived in Glendale CA
back around 1989. I was driving along the street and saw a light hovering
above the trees about 2 blocks away in front of me. It appeared small and
was bright bluish-white and hovered for about 10 seconds. I was thinking
it was a helicopter with a spotlight on but it was not moving at all and I
could not hear it. It started to accelerate towards my direction (not at
me!) about half a block then broke up into 4 or 5 smaller reddish-orange
balls which lasted perhaps a second or less. All the while it stayed
above the trees.
Jeff
Denton, TX USA -
Wednesday, July 10, 2002 at 10:48:11 (PDT) |
My husband and I live in the country and have several open fields
surrounding our property. We were sitting in our van one evening, watching
streaks of lightning from a storm in the distance (that missed us). The
streaks were awesome and we had been sitting there only a few minutes when
we saw the ball lightning. We didn't know what it was at first, except I
remember reading about it once. There were thirty or so balls "floating"
through the open field about ten feet off the ground. One came right by
our van and we could see it was about the size of a volleyball and had a
wispy tail of light trailing behind it. It moved steadily in one
direction, made no sound at all and dissapated in just a few seconds. The
whole event lasted only a few minutes, but I'll never forget it as long as
I live. I'd love to see it again!
Linda E. Johnson <Johnsonl a benning.army.mil>
Box Springs, GA USA - Tuesday, July 09, 2002 at 07:25:35 (PDT)
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The year was 1976. My wife
and I lived out in the country. Our nearest neighbor was over a half mile
away. We had no running water or electricity. We lived in a very remote
area. The night was pitch black, not a star in the sky and no moon.
Late one night around bed time, after I had turned off all of the lights
and settled into bed, we noticed a little spot of light. The light was
about the size of a dime, green in color and it was just floating around
the room. I looked outside for some explanation of the light, there was
nothing but pitch dark, not even a sound. Normally we slept in the dark
that night we slept with the lights on.
John
Schwartz <Jschwartz3 a new.rr com>
Crystall falls, MI USA - Wednesday, July 03, 2002 at 18:45:44 (PDT)
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When I was a kid, I was
flying a kite just before a thunderstorm. (Real smart, I know) I was
ahead of the thunderheads, but they were getting close enough that I was
starting to get worried. All of a sudden, balls of white fire started
forming on the kite string and falling straight off them toward the
ground. (the string was angled sharply, almost parallel with the ground)
The balls were 6"-18" in diameter. Needless to say I dropped the
kitestring and ran like hell for my house. This was in an open field,
gently rolling, with only a sprinkle of rain. It was in West Virginia,
and there is a coal vein very close to where this happened (I just read
about the static and carbon below) I thought it was strange.
Jacob Sconyers
Boston, MA USA - Wednesday, July 03, 2002 at 14:36:40 (PDT)
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Afternoon thunderstorms are
the norm during the summer on the gulf coast of Alabama. About 10 years
ago I was sitting with two friends in my house when lightning struck just
out side. Bill was sitting with his back to the wall and Teresa and I
were across the room facing him. About a second after the strike, a
glowing ball, white or light blue and about the size of a soft ball
appeared to come through the window or the A/C unit that was in the
window. It moved horizontally into the room for about 15 feet in 3 or 4
seconds and then just vanished. There was no noise or odor and we did not
detect any heat. Teresa and I looked at each other as if to say "Did you
see what I saw" but Bill never noticed it despite the fact that it passed
within inches of his head from behind. Actually, it looked as though it
went through his head but I doubt if this is possible. It must have
passed very close though. What was so strange to me was the fact that it
moved so slowly, made no noise or emitted no odor and then just
vanished.
ron jones <rjones a mobile-county.net>
mobile, al USA - Tuesday, July 02, 2002 at 14:54:31 (PDT)
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During the week of June
16,2002, my father was looking out his kitchen window and saw a neon,
glowing blue orb appear suddenly, above his pool. It was a little larger
than a softball. It hovered in the air a few feet above the pool. It
circled around a few times before shooting behind the pool shed and
dissapearing. He says it seemed to last approximately 5-10 seconds at the
most. When he shared this story with me, we had actually been discussing
Ghostly phenomena, but we contributed this incident to be an experience
with ball lightening.
Kristin Delaney
MA USA - Monday, July 01, 2002 at 00:34:39 (PDT)
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When I was elleven yrs. old
I was inside getting ready to go to the end of the driveway looking out
the window when all of a sudden a yellowish white ball went across the
front of my house.It ws so fast I just barely saw it go by my house it was
about 2 inches from my window when it zipped past.A couple mins. later I
went back to the window to see what was outside and I again saw the ball
zip by my neighbors house only this time it went from the side of his
house to the top and dissapeared.About a year before I heard this thing
about ball lighting on the discoverey chanel so I think thats what it is.
after that the sky was clear all day. P.S. it wasnt very light out because
it was in the winter.
adam blaisdell <blazeadam a hotmail com>
mi USA - Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 20:38:36 (PDT)
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There were a11 of us sitting
in or at an open air bar area in Negril, Jamaica June 20, 2002. We were
standing or sitting in different areas just chatting, playing cards or
having an afternoon drink.
The sky became grey with clouds and we
suspected a rain shower was on its way, which is usually the case around
3pm daily.
Everyone of us saw something a little different. The Bartender saw a
white light travel down the beach which exploded into a fireball while at
the same time a flash of white light behind me, headed straight toward the
man that sat in front of me. The white light traveled past me and the
lady I was speaking to, headed toward the man that was in front me (who
saw it coming and ran out of his chair) traveled over his chair and thru
the wooden bar that a young boy was sitting at having a coke and playing
cards....and exploded into a red fireball that knocked out the Coke
machine and the phone lines. The explosion was simutaneous with the
explosion on the beach and the noise was that of a cannon ball that your
ear was directly on.
Needless to say, each of us had a little different experience. Some of us
were momentarily deaf, while others felt tingling all over their bodies.
I had tingles in my arms and fingers for 2 hours.
Scared and shocked, we were all out of breath from the experience. And we
have no explanation. Feel free to email me to offer any type of
explanation.
Obviously, lightning struck and split and traveled
in different directions which ended with two fire ball explosions, but
never having the experience, we are still left with no answers.
Cheryl <caob a prismnet com>
Austin, TX
USA - Friday, June 28, 2002 at 11:29:09 (PDT) |
I saw ball lightning in the
late 80's in Bury during a thunderstorm. i was looking out of the window
when a very bright blue-white ball zigzagged lazily through the sky. As I
recall from the report afterwards, it "bounced" on a road about 1/4 mile
away then went through the front window of a house, melting a hole in the
window, bouncing on the carpet and out through the back of the house. The
incident was documented in local press (Bury Times) and I think it may
have got a mention in the UK national press. However, I can't find
anything on the net about it.
Mikey <mikeyw69 a ntlworld com>
Bury, Lancashire, UK - Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 05:34:26 (PDT)
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when i was a teenager two
friends and i were walking down a country road,we noticed a red ball in
the southern sky that looked liked a red airplane light ,but did not blink
or pulsate or make any noises you would associate with aircraft.suddenly
the red ball of light made an s curve and dropped into the middle of the
road about a quarter of a mile behind us and flew directly over our
heads,making absolutely no noise,then flew to the south at astonishing
speed and dissapeared.i am now fifty years old and my friends and i can
still remember this like it happened yesterday.
bill sharp <billsharp48 a hotmail com>
oktaha, ok USA - Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 16:09:44 (PDT)
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Ball Lightening
June
17, 2002, 9PM. It was a stormy night and I was sitting in my bedroom
watching TV. I looked out my bedroom door and noticed a large, bright,
white light float down the hallway. It reminded me of a spark you see
when you pull out a cord from an electrical socket while the appliance is
on - bright with alot of energy. It moved straight down the hallway. It
must have entered my house from the living room windows which are 8 feet
tall. A few seconds after I saw the light pass, there was a loud bang -
like an explosion (I live about a mile away from "Ground Zero" and thought
it might actually be a bomb). It activated every car alarm in the area.
I just found out today that this was a "Ball Lightening". Hope I never
see one again.
L. Croft <dali68 a aol com>
Jersey City, NJ
USA - Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 14:28:50 (PDT) |
I grew up in Iowa where
there are lots of thunder storms. In 1958, when I lived in Vinton, Iowa
and was around 11 years old, I walked to the neighborhood grocery store
one summer day during a rainstorm. As I was walking down the block where
the grocery store was located, I heard a huge, loud "crack." I looked
across the street just in time to see a huge fireball (picture a large
beach ball and multiply it by about 5) enter the open kitchen door of the
house across the street. As I stood riveted to the spot in fascination, I
watched the fireball roll through the kitchen, the dining room and out the
front door. Just as it occurred to me that if it continued on its present
trajectory it would come right across the street and roll over me...it
disappeared! It all happened so fast that even now when I think about it,
I wonder if it really happened at all! However, I had a friend with me
and she saw it too.
Later in life, when I lived in Oregon, which generally doesn't have many
electrical storms, I experienced another interesting event. My Mom went
down to the laundry room to do some ironing one morning and she called to
me to come down and see what she found. There was the iron, sitting on
the ironing board where it always sat...plugged in and ready to turn
on...in a pool of metal. Apparently there had been a lightening strike
somewhere near our house the night before (during one of our rare storms)
and the lightening had come through the plug-in, down the iron's cord and
had flash heated and melted the plate on the iron which slid down into a
pool on the ironing board. It is a miracle that it did not set the pad on
the ironing board on fire.
Susan
Seattle, WA USA - Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 10:54:12 (PDT)
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in 1984 i was with a friend
in a house we rented in bellingen nsw australia we both felt concerned
about the loud thunder in the air no rain ,we where inside so we did not
see any lightning my friend went into the bathroom i had put the kettle on
and was standing by the kitchen bar when a big bang that blew the pictures
of the wall exploded the lightbulbs by the telephone i was leaning on the
kitchen bar and this explosion went right through me out on to the floor
it was 3ft wide the color was fire colours and blue it was opaqe the noise
was like thunder right in your ears unbeliveable my friend came out of the
bathroom to see this ball rolling down passed her feet down a 6 ft hallway
and dissapated out of the wall it did not burn anything but i will never
forget that noise i was white as a ghost my friend drove me to a
neighbours house who fed me custard and ice cream he is now dead but he
insisted that sugar would help me and said that the iorn in the
surrounding hills and fields attracted the lightning this was confirmed
the next day by the telecom tecnician who said he had seen many burnt
lines and electrical damage in this area especially round the next valley
they call the devils gate unofficially that is to this day i have very
high energy levels i have never been drunk or taken drugs but i have to
take a blood pressure tablet a day to slow me down i do account my high
level of energy to my electrical charge yours sincerly sandra finn age 52.
Sandra Finn
Bellingen, NSW Australia - Monday, June 17, 2002 at 17:36:36 (PDT)
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It was fall of 1998 a friend
and I were riding around talking about unusual happings and creepy
encounters well after midnight. Since the area I live is rich with cival
war history and cival war ghost stories this was a normal topic of
conversation. We were riding up a long twisty road leading to one of the
look outs in the george washington national park and wildlife reserve--a
mountin-- generaly spooked from the conversation in general the following
events did not help matters at all. Just as we rounded a sharp curve and
as a song ended on a particuly somber note, a orb of blue light with a
fuzzy white border appered maybe 30 yards away, it dashed back and forth
across the road, (we had slowed at the sight comptemplating wheather to
keep going or pull a u-turn) stopped, and headed for us. It went through
the car and dissapeard-- it happoned so fast we did not have time to
scream! I do not remember feeling any heat with its passing, there was
actually a chill that went through the car. there wasn't any damage other
than two frightned teenagers we looked at each other and simotaniously
said "did you see that"? last night i found out that ball lightning
existed, what a relif to find our close encounter was with nature not the
super natural:)
TaRaysha <Yarx2 a aol com>
linden, VA USA -
Monday, June 17, 2002 at 08:38:58 (PDT) |
In 1971 or 1972,my family
and I were on our way back from vacation in Oklahoma.We hit a heavy
snowstorm near Williams Arizona,so heavy we had to follow the tracks of
the trucks in front of us.It was spring so we weren't carrying
chains.Anyhow,I heard my Dad say "what the heck is that".In the sky in
front of us and to our left we saw a fairly large bluish-orange-red
fireball going across the horizon.We were all startled and thought maybe a
plane was crashing due to the bad weather.We got a motel for the night and
before we left the next morning my parents called the local police to see
if there had been a plane crash and to report the strange fireball we had
seen.The police said there had been no crash and said we had probably seen
lightning.It was unlike anything I have ever seen.I remember right after
it happened everyone in the car was totally silent for what seemed a long
time.It was eerie.Incidentally this was on the old Route 66.I am curious
to know if this was reported by anyone else or if there are any scientific
reports on this particular incident.
Thank You ,
Darren Alexander
P.S. Replies appreciated
Darren Alexander <robmattsdad64>
Redding, CA USA - Monday, June 17, 2002 at 01:01:15 (PDT)
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I was looking out my bedroom
window at night during a lightning storm when I saw a ball of fire in the
sky. (I would turn out the lights and watch lighting because it fascinated
me, this was when I was a kid). There was a lot of lightning going on, you
didnt have to wait more than a few seconds to see another bolt. I was
looking to the north-west, the fireball appeared about 45 degree's up from
the horizon, and I guess that it was about half a mile or a mile high - or
at least it was at about the same height as the cloud ceiling. The
fireball appeared out of nowhere, and travelled slowly from right to left.
It lasted from 3 to 7 seconds. It travelled at an angle of about 30
degrees UP to the left. If you held your arm out and measure the distance
it travelled with your thumb and index finger, it would be about 3 or 4
inches. Then it dissapeared, or went into some clouds so I could no longer
see it. I didn't see an explosion.
I've read a lot of the posts on
this page, and my experience with ball lightning is very different! The
ball I saw was high in the air, travelling UP, and it was BIG. This was a
huge fireball, I would estimate between 20 and 100 feet in diameter. For
instance, a 747 flying high overhead would look smaller than this
fireball. Also I should say, it didn't just look like a ball of fire, it
looked like lightning and fire mixed together, so with a bright core that
seemed to have electricity zapping around in it, and it was firey and red
on the outer part of it.
Obviously I found this to be very
strange, and I think I stayed up until the storm was over hoping to see
another lightning ball, but of course I didn't, and I have never seen
anything like it since.
On the same night I saw lightning
travelling between clouds, like from lower clouds going up to higher
clouds, as well as lots and lots of normal lightning.
This
happened in approximately 1990 when I would have been 13.
Dave
Richardson <iambludshot a hotmail com>
Toronto, ON Canada - Sunday, June 16, 2002 at 00:10:33 (PDT)
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During the 1970's my wife
worked night shift for the local sheriff. One night during a storm she saw
a ball outside drifting toward the office plate glass window.
The
ball floated through the window, continued past her desk, entered the
communications room and blew out the radio system.
A man was on
duty in the same office and had to have seen the ball, but he and my wife
never mentioned it to one another. I guess it was so unreal, they were not
sure what they saw or if it was imagined.
REH <focusing1 a yahoo com>
WAUCHULA, FL USA - Saturday, June 15, 2002 at 17:59:06 (PDT)
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Am 4. Juni 2002, nachts um
23:45 Uhr, während eines leichten Gewitters, schlug ein Kugelblitz in Form
eines grünen Feuerballs (Zeugenaussage) in ein Alu-Richtscheit (diente als
Pol), dass an der Hauswand lehnte, ein. Gegenstände, die sich unterhalb
der Hauswand befanden wurden in einem Bereich von 3 m Länge fast komplett
zerstört. Dicke Plastik-Blumentöpfe und -Kasten, Besen und Schaufeln
zerschmolzen bis zur Unkenntlichkeit. Ein Fahrradreifen am Kinderfahrrad
wurde angesteckt.
[On 4 June 2002, at night at 23:45 o'clock, while a light
thunderstorm,
ball lightning hit in form of a green fire ball (testimony) into an
aluminum Richtscheit (it served as pole) that at the hauswand leaned.
Articles, which were underneath the hauswand within 10ft were destroyed
early completely. Thick plastic flower pots and box, broom
and shovels so melted to be unrecognizable. A bicycle tire on
the kids' bike was stuck on.]
Ralf
Wirtz <r.wirtz a simplexnumerica com>
Juelich, NRW Germany - Monday, June 10, 2002 at 00:52:53 (PDT)
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In about 1986 I was playing
in my parents' front garden in Dundee, Scotland. In front of some hills
about 2km away I saw a huge, orange, bouncing ball, lazily bouncing
towards the coast. As I remember it, the ball was bigger than a block of
flats. This seems unusual as I have read that ball lightning doesn't get
much bigger than a bus. However, in the local paper a few days later an
elderly couple had written in to say they observed the same lightning from
a main road about 5km away. The path of the ball is covered by mostly
fields and minor roads. I am surprised no one there appeared to have
noticed!
Robert
Edinburgh, Scotland - Sunday, June 09, 2002 at
02:22:57 (PDT) |
Many years ago when I was a
young teenager my sisters and I slept in an upstairs bedroom. There was a
thunderstorm and a bright bluish white ball came through the window and
bounced off walls and ceiling. It was traveling so fast and I immediately
through the covers over my head. My sisters were sleeping and I had no
idea what I had seen (and my parents didn't either the next morning).
So, consequently, I do not know if it was an open or closed window. If
open, it would have had a screen. Electric lines came into the house just
below the window but there was no damage to the electical or to the walls
inside or the window or screen. Because I went under the covers I have no
idea how long it lasted or if it was already gone. It was instantaneous.
It was many years before I found an answer to what it was.
Gayle Glaser
St.Louis, MO USA - Thursday, May 30,
2002 at 19:21:34 (PDT) |
Ball Lightning
This
took place on our farm around 1975-76. It was summer around 17:00 and the
day was very warm, hot and thundery - quite unusually for Ireland. I had
mumps and the pain in my neck disappeared that day, due, I assume to the
high pressure.
My mother, father and brother were seated at the
kitchen table facing into our yard. They were startled by a 'light'
travelling accross the yard at high speed. This was followed a loud bang
and the adjacent pantry, which contained all the electrical trips and
fuses for the house and some farm buildings, was flooded with a brilliant
neon green light.
My father went out to see what had made the bang
and discovered a tranformer on the steep slope behind the house was on
fire. Barbed wire that was wound around the pole to prevent anyone scaling
it had been split as though chopped with a hatchet. Oil had sprayed out on
our roof and flames were licking around the base of the heavy tranformer.
A shed containing other electrical trips and fuses at the other
side of the house was also on fire. The fire brigade was called.
2 delivery men came into the yard quite scared. They had been delivering
cow feed, unloading into a shed some way down the hill from the house.
They were standing on the back of the trailer when a bright ball of fire
headed towards them, and they ducked to avoid it. It passed over their
heads towrds our house. Our farm and buildings are situated between 2
hills, so this ball would have had to travel downwards and then up again
to follow this path.
My uncle arrived into the yard from my
grandfather's house a short distance away. He was in the drive when a
fiery ball had passed through a small orchard between the 2 houses and
over his head. It had broken off some branches in the orchard.
It
seems the ball of lightning had travelled up hill hit the electricity
tranformer and deflected 90 degrees towards the orchard and my granfathers
house. About 1 minute after this heavy sheet rain started.
All
our electrical trips were blown. Luckily the heavy rain put out the fire
on the electricty pole which in danger of falling into our house. The
national electricity service (NI Electric) came out to fix the transformer
and told us the damage done inside our house was caused by extremely high
voltage and we were very lucky no-one had been in that room.
The
ball lightning was witnessed by 3 people in this story and the fallout,
sounds and peripheral events by a further 5 people.
Suzanne Clarke <suzanne.clarke a ntlworld com>
Belfast, UK - Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 09:07:01 (PDT) |
Okay, this happened to me,
about 4 years ago. It was 12:00 p.m, and the weather was thounder-storm
like weather.
Only there wasn't any lightning or rain, oh, you
could smell the rain in the cool air. But I was standing in my room,
behind my window looking at the clouds waiting for it to rain. When for
some reason I kept looking at a tree that was in the yard in front of the
window about 10 feet away. When all of a sudden this very brilent light
came from the tree and the center of the light was a very bright red glow
like a ball, with thick rings around it, first red, then, orange, then
yellow, then the very out side of the ball was a very bright white light.
It happened so fast like something just crashed into the tree and created
this bright ball of light, and it only lasted for about 2 or 3 seconds,
that I could see, cause for some reason I got blow backwards through my
room which is about 12 feet across and out into another room. The very
weird thing about this is that I did not get thrown into the air when I
was blown back, but more like slided back, like some kind of force from
the ball was pushing me. After the shock of what just happen whore off
after a few minutes, I went back to see what damage had been done to the
tree or anything else. But I couldn't find any evidence of what just
happend, the tree was fine, everyone thing was like nothing happened. But
then, an hour later there was lighting, lots of lighting, and lots of
rain. I still haven't figured this one out. But I still see it very
clearly.
Levi <flyingstright a aol com>
cal USA - Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 00:41:54 (PDT)
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I once was looking out the
window watching what I thought was a thunder and or lighting storm when a
big green cloud came through and seem to have sent a ball of purple light
kind of like lighting at a tree which later I had to go and cut down the
rest of the way and clean it up, I still don't know what it was. i hope
someone could tell me. Can any of you?
Rob
<Bigboy a usa com>
Johnson, IA
USA - Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 09:03:28 (PDT) |
When I was a little girl my
family lived in Chicago, Illinois. One morning there was a very bad
electrical storm. I looked out the window that faced the alley that ran
next to our house. There was a huge burst of light and a large clash of
thunder. One of the electical lines came down in our alley. As it hit the
ground a bowling ball sized ball of light came bursting out. It bounced
down the alley. I watched it go across the street from our house and down
to the next alley. It bounced 3 more times and with another burst of
light, it disappeared. When I was older, lightning hit our house and
entered into our refridgerator. Balls of light danced around in the
kitchen and then disappeared. I have been fortunate to witness this
phenomena twice in my life.
Fran Frisk
Mishawaka, Ind USA - Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 17:56:26 (PDT)
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It was in central Florida, I was still in high school. It was in 1976
about 10:00pm and there was a pretty good storm going on. I awoke to the
feeling my body was tingling, I got out of bed and walked to my bedroom
door and saw my mother standing in her bedroom doorway, when we felt a
bolt of lighting hit the houseand at that moment we both saw a ball of
lighting appeared in front of us and travel down our hallway and round
the corner and disappear as it headed towards the living room. On one
was hurt but it was one of the strangest thing I ever saw.
B. Hoyer <sixhoyers a yahoo com>
Beaverton , Or. USA - Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 00:28:19 (PDT)
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It was in about 1965, and I
about 11, in Connecticut. My mother, my sisters, and me had just gotton
out of church, and were driving home. On the way home we got caught up in
a freak thunderstorm. It was storming and pouring so hard my mother, and
the other cars had to pull over to the side of the road till it abated. I
was in the left back seat. Suddenly this ball of lightning appeared
outside the car, about 1 1/2 yards up and to the left of me. I think it
was about 12" in diameter. It appeared there for about a second; then it
exploded, making a thunderclap. My older sister said," Don't touch
anything metal," and that's all that was said. We drove home when the
storm let up.
Jane <leah a sierratel com>
Bakersfield, CA USA - Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 01:00:55 (PDT)
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On May 10th 2002 in Hershey
Pa around 11:10pm I was standing outside waiting for a friend, when I saw
what I thought was a formation of jets in the sky (Ft. Indiantown Gap is
nearby) when my eyes adjusted I soon realized that there were about 15
objects resembling balls of light swarming around each other in a close
cluster. the entire group was traveling west. it then stopped and traveled
east until it was out of my view. no noise was heard, and it was fairly
calm with clear sky. I couldn't really tell what altitude the objects were
at, so I'm not sure what speed they were traveling at. If this is what
ball lightning is, I'm glad I got to see it.
Dave Windle <hazzardous01 a hotmail com>
Lebanon, Pa USA - Saturday, May 11, 2002 at 15:31:41 (PDT)
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I was a new mother in 1987,
and spending a typical, albeit stormy, day playing with my infant son on
the living room floor. I had just picked the baby up to rock him when I
heard a loud clap of thunder. At the same time something that looked like
an electric tumbleweed burst out of the fireplace and rolled with great
speed across our newly carpeted floor. It hit the opposite wall and
instantly disappeared without even leaving a hint of a scorchmark. I ran
with my baby to my bedroom and stayed there shaking for quite a while. I
described the phenomenon to my husband but he had never heard of such a
thing. Several years later I was looking at an "Eyewitness Book" and saw
an artist's rendition of "ball lighting"! I was thrilled to be able to
put a name to that strange event.
Karen
Blakeney <cbblake a bellsouth.net>
Gulfport, MS USA's - Friday, May 10, 2002 at 15:18:13 (PDT)
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A few years back, there was
a tremendous storm acompanied by heavy rain fall and lots of lightning. I
have always lved storms, and decided to go out and have a closer look -
despite the fact that I would get soaked almost instantly.
Unfortunately, my "friend" decided that it would be amusing to lock me
out, and found it highly amusing when I suddenly began yelling and
screaming and banging on the door whilst pointing madly up at the roof.
The reason for my sudden desire to get inside was the truly
strange globe of brilliant blue light that was hovering just below the
prongs of our T.V. aerial. It was fairly small; about the size of a
Grapefruit at a rough guesse. I wasn't aware of any unusual noises or
odours, and there were no strange sensations generated by it either.
I have always been interested in paranormal and abberant
phenomena, and had a pretty good idea what I was seeing. Unfortunately, it
came as such a shock that I was more than a little afraid (for one thing i
thought it might explode or do something else unpleasant).
I looked up, merely 15-20 seconds after I had first seen the globe, and it
had vanished without fanfare (or luckily detonation) :)
Sefton Redshaw
Derby, Great Britain - Friday, May
10, 2002 at 14:09:30 (PDT) |
MAY 9 2002 8:49 PM DOORING A
THUNDERSTORM LAST NIGHT I SAW A BLUE BALL OF LIGHTNING ABOUT THE SIZE OF A
FOOTBALL GO ACROOS THE YARD AND DISSAPEARD WITHOUT A TRACE WITH NO NOISE
OR BUZZING SOUND,AND I SAW OTHER BALLS OF LIGHTNING THAT NIGHT IN MY YARD
BUT WITH NO CONNCTION WITH A LIGHTNING BOLT ITSELF.I SAW ABOUT EIGHT BALLS
OF LIGHTNING THAT NIGHT.HAS ANYBODY SEEN THAT MUCH BALLS IN ONE SINGLE
STORM????
Micah Josenhans <stormmj 13>
Crisfeild, md USA -
Friday, May 10, 2002 at 13:11:19 (PDT) |
My husband and I had been
woke from a terrible storm one night. As I laid there looking out the
window I saw a ball of light about the size of a flashlight flashing on
and off and jumping all around. I Proceeded to get up and look out my
front door and all over my front yard were balls of light that jumped and
moved very fast all over the yard. My husband and I watched these lights
until they stopped approximately fifteen minutes later. I am unsure if
this was ball lighting, but I am very much interested in finding out what
meterological explanation there may be. I have never seen anything like
it in my life!
Melody Justice <Zen a kimbanet com>
Martinsville,
va USA - Friday, May 10, 2002 at 11:28:57 (PDT) |
In 1973, a couple of years
after emigrating from England to Canada, my room mate and I decided to
hitch hike from Vancouver to Montreal(not recommended today) then fly to
England. While travelling east through Ontario, we could see lightning in
the distance to our left. It was very late at night, black with no stars
and raining. We were dropped off at a campsite just off the main road and
using our flashlights we quickly put up our little tent in the first
campsite we came to. We got into our sleeping bags and soon the storm was
on top of us. I have always loved thunderstorms, but this was the most
violent I had, or have ever seen, with intense fork lightening, cracking
deafening thunder and by now a deluge of rain. I admit to being scared. We
looked out of our tent and saw to our left about 30 feet away among the
trees about 8 or 10 round white glowing balls of different sizes, from
tennis ball to basketball size. They were bouncing around in mid air about
20 feet off the ground. We watched them for, I would guess, 10 to 15
seconds whispering to each other that they were lightning balls. (we had
both heard of them) I say I was scared but my friend was petrified and had
broken into a sweat. She insisted we tie up the tent opening. The storm
gradually passed and after it did we looked outside. The balls were gone.
We are friends to this day and still talk about what we saw that night. I
decided to check the Internet to see what there was on this subject and
was amazed to see just how much information there is, and that only 5% of
the population have witnessed ball lightning. Guess we here are some of
the priviliged few.
Lin Parks
Vancouver, B.C. Canada - Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 13:12:44 (PDT)
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Around midnight me and
some friends were on a small hill top that over looked La Verne,CA. just
after a short rain fall, the sky was still full of heavy,low clouds.A
light of multi collors primay of yellow,orange traveled through the clouds
at a slow rate of speed.The light shifting in colors making the clouds
glow.The light came at us from the north/east over the mountains that
devide LA County from the desert cities such as Barstow and
Victorville.The light came at us from the North/East over Big Bear City
and Mt.Baldy traversing the mountains and when the light reached our
location it's direction changed heading south.When the light reached the
LA County Fair grounds in Pomona it came down and hit a transformer
somewhere in the fair grounds and a bright blue light lit up the whole
erea.Seconds after the hit,city lights in grids started failing and there
was a power-outage in a two mile radiouse for the next several hours.
Could this have been a "LIGHTING" ball?
E. Lacey <JAFO1
1965 a aol com>
San Dimas, CA USA - Saturday, May 04, 2002 at
17:14:07 (PDT) |
During a severe thunderstorm
in Australia where there was mostly cloud to cloud discharges, a
girlfriend of mine and I went to a lookout point to watch the lightning.
Below us there was a field that was dry from the summer heat and the grass
was brown. At one point, there was a very large cloud to ground strike
rather close to us in the field below. As the lightning hit, a large ball
of deep blue coloured electricity moved across the field quickly. It was
not elevated above the ground as it left a balck trail behind it. My
girlfriend commented on the fact that the grass burned even though the
field was very wet from the rainfall. As this ball moved away from us, it
hit several large rocks in it's path. Upon impact, the ball would split
into several smaller fragments and keep going, burning more trails behind
them. This happened until the electrcity was no longer visable. The
whole episode only lasted a few seconds, but has remained in my memory for
years. It was a spectacular effect, and I have watched for it during
every thunderstorm I've seen since. But still no luck.
Mike Bartils <ambient_sound_tx a hotmail com>
Sunbury, VIC Australia - Friday, May 03, 2002 at 13:41:52 (PDT)
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BALL LIGHTENING?...
I'M NOT CERTAIN WHAT I WITNESSED, BUT I WILL RELAY THE FACTS...
THIS OCCURRED IN COLORADO SPRINGS, CO ON ABOUT JUNE OF 1998. I WAS AT A
FRIENDS HOUSE LATE AT NIGHT, ABOUT MIDNIGHT. THE SKY WAS CRYSTAL CLEAR,
WITH A LIGHT BREEZE AND MILD TEMPERATURE. MY FRIEND AND I WERE OUTSIDE ON
THE TERRACE AND SOMETHING CAUGHT MY EYE IN THE SKY. I LOOKED UP AND
THOUGHT "IT'S JUST ANOTHER PLANE".
I HAD BEEN WATCHING THE LIGHTS
FROM PLANES ALL EVENING, SO I JUST ASSUMED THAT THIS WAS THE SAME. AS I
LOOKED, I NOTICED THAT THE SINGLE WHITE LIGHT AT A VERY HIGH ALTITUDE;
SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET, WAS NOT BLINKING AS MANY AIRCRAFT LIGHTS WILL...
IT WAS CONSTANT AND LOOKED VERY SIMILAR TO THE STARS AND OTHER
BODIES IN THE SKY EXCEPT FOR ITS MOVEMENT PATTERNS WHICH IS WHAT CAUGHT MY
EYE...
THE LIGHT MADE VERY DELIBERATE AND MECHANICAL-LIKE
MOVEMENTS BACK AND FOURTH IN A TRIANGULAR SHAPE IN THE SKY.
THE
LIGHT NEVER CHANGED BRIGHTNESS OR APPEARANCE IN ANY WAY. THE SPEED OF THIS
LIGHT MOVEMENT IS HARD TO ESTIMATE, HOWEVER, IT WAS MOVING AT AN
INCREDIBLE VELOCITY IN PERFECTLY STRAIGHT LINES, FOLLOWING THE EXACT
PATTERN EACH TIME; IN A TRIANGULAR SHAPE.
WHEN THE LIGHT CHANGED
DIRECTIONS, IT NEVER APPEARED TO CHANGE SPEED, SIMULAR TO A BALL BOUNCING
IN A PINBALL MACHINE; VERY RIGID AND CALCULATED MOVEMENT.
AFTER
OBSERVING THIS , I YELLED TO MY FRIEND TO COME AND LOOK AND HE DID AND
SAID "WOW, WHAT THE H*LL IS IT"?
I WATCHED TIS LIGHT FOR ABOUT 2
MINUTES AND IT APPEARED TO SIMPLY VANISH FROM THE SKY, BUT IN A SOFT
MANNER, KIND OF LIKE WATCHING AN OLD CAR HEADLIGHT AS IT IS TURNED OFF.
THE MOVEMENTS THAT WERE ACHIEVED BY WHATEVER THIS WAS WERE
INCREDIBLE, AND AT THE ALTITUDE IT OCCURRED, IT MUST HAVE BEEN TRAVELING
AT HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OF METERS PER SECOND.
Sammy Cotton
Charleston,
SC USA - Friday, May 03, 2002 at 12:09:20 (PDT) |
At approximately 3am, at a
time when thunderstorms were in the forecast but did not occur in our area
or to our knowledge, my husband and I were awakened by the sound of
something hitting metal. At almost the same time that we heard the noise,
a light as bright as an arc welder pulsed through our window. It looked
like a ball that had hit something and split into several "rays" of
intensely bright light. Immediately afterwards, it started to rain. We
were startled because we had never seen anything like this, so we got up
and looked outside. We couldn't see anything expect an elliptical area of
mist or other gaseous material hovering in the street in front of our
house. We are wondering if this is an example of ball lightning. Any
input?
Dr. E. Turner <drlturner a hotmail com>
Santa Cruz, CA USA - Monday, April 29, 2002 at 20:35:28 (PDT)
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I was 5 or 6 years old when
I saw ball lightning. Sometimes my father would take me out to the car at
night to watch thunderstorms in our driveway. We watching a particularly
violent storm one summer night when my father went inside for more ice
water. As I watched the house awaiting his return, I saw a red fiery ball
the size of a basketball arc soundlessly 5-10 feet over the house. It was
so bright that it appeared to leave red dashes in its wake. I didn't
observe any crash or burning; it just passed silently away. Once it was
gone I ran as fast as I could inside! No one believed what I had seen
(including myself) until I found a description of ball lightning in a book
years later. Now it's even more heartening to see there are others who
have experienced this phenomenon too. It's something I have never
forgotten.
Terry Lewis
Ridgewood, NJ USA
- Monday, April 29, 2002 at 13:28:03 (PDT) |
On 4-25-02 at 5.02 am, I was
awakened by a simultanous burst of light and a loud noise outside of our
home. There was no evidence of thunder storms in our area at that time,
but there had been many hours earlier severe weather watches in the area.
In a minute or two this simultaneos light and noise was repeated. The
light was just a burst and the noise was one loud clap. No
reverberations. Within two minutes I saw a flickering red glow under a
shelf in my bedroom. This flicker within seconds changed to a steady
glow, where upon I bolted out of bed and pulled a basket from under the
shelf and out of the red glow. THe glow disappeared. Further inspection
should no damage in any area in the home. For several hours there
remained a distinct odor similar to that odor from a burnt transformer at
the location of the red glow. Could this have been a lightning
ball?
James Spittel <jmstermite a webtv.net>
Crystal Lake , Il USA - Thursday, April 25, 2002 at 17:22:44 (PDT)
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It was a very clear day to
begin with and we were shearing up ontop of a hill in a large shed. We
noticed the storm coming and eventually when it got too much we stopped to
have lunch- in this shed we had half of the side of the shed on a gliding
roller door this was open and we also had a clear sheet peice of roof so
there was enough light in the shed during the day. All the farmers were
sitting on chairs staggered in the shed and was sitting restign on the
floor agianst the roller door with the dogs. With everyone not talking as
the rain was tooloud on the roof to hear anyway suddenly the dogs were
whinning and then with a lound bang we turned to look at the center of the
shed to see a ball of light the size of a tyre shoot straight through the
clear section of the roof through the floorboards to the ground. All of us
were on edge absolutely dumfounded! In all the years none of the old men
had seen anything like it! and the dogs were very edgy all day as wel as
myself- I have reported it to as many scientists as possible as to give
fact to this phenomenon- it exists I saw it! with 8 other usually very
sceptical old men! please contact me if any other questions are needing
answered.
bethany mcbrien <bmcbrien a mac com>
Australia - Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 19:01:26 (PDT)
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In the summer of 1996, I had
just turned 15 and was working at a Schnucks grocery store in High Ridge,
Missouri. I was a bagger, and as a bagger, it was my duty to help people
take their groceries to their cars if they asked. I was helping one such
lady out to her car, when I saw what I now believe may have been ball
lightning. From the store parking lot, we had a panoramic view of the
southern sky, and stormfront was sliding across our field of vision. As I
was helping load the lady's trunk, I noticed a small whitish ball drifting
around lazily under the clouds. I said "What's that?" to the lady, and
she and I stared at the ball for several minutes. We both noticed that it
was definitely very high up, and very far away. It seemed to have a haze
around it, and it floated like a balloon on the wind. At first I thought
it may have been a weather balloon, but I have seen pictures of weather
balloons, and they are huge, and when they're inflated, they're not very
round. I still can't explain it.
M Dennis <musicmajor1010 a aol com>
House Springs, MO USA - Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 20:42:39 (PDT)
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In the spring 0f 1943 I was
at a pool hall over a beer hall called the Smoke House on W Court St.
There were several fellow students playin pool and as I entered from the
stairs and stopped to greet everyone there was a tremendous crash of
thunder and a crash at a window to my right. One man I remember was
standing by the window and was stunned by the crash but not physicaly
injured. I froze in place as a round purple ball as large or larger than
a basketball came in the window and seemed to float or roll down to the
floor and continued across the room under the pool table and reached the
wall opposite the window. The ball was translucent and I am almost
positive I could see thru it.. The ball was a beautiful purple and
retained its roundness during its' entire trip. Everyone at the table
scattered and the ball went up the wall 6-8 feet at the same speed
vertically as it moved horizontally. The motion was fluid. As the ball
reached the 6 or 8 feet seemed to hesitate and fell back towards the floor
where it exploded with a tremendous bang. The person that used the term
implode could be right. There was a very strong ozone smell in the air.
I was a trained weather observer and forecaster later and in my experience
this was extremely rare
Thomas B Dowlearn
<tdowlearn a zxs4u.net>
Seguin, Tx USA - Saturday, April 20, 2002 at 02:32:56 (PDT)
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It's really strange after
all these years to be relating this story but here goes. I must've been
somewhere between 4-6 years old and my memory of the event is sketchy.
It was Spring ('75-'77) and I was out playing on our screened in back
porch in Bullitt County, KY. It was nighttime or maybe it was just dark
as night and there was a big storm brewing. I vaguely remember mom
telling me to come back in the kitchen or that supper was ready or
something like that when I saw an orb of light descending through the
trees. I was standing in the middle of the room which was rather large
and watched the orb as it passed through the screen of the back door. It
came towards me slowly (at least that's how I remember it) and was approx
the size of a large grapefruit (though at the time I was small so it
appeared bigger) and went directly into my midsection. I also remember it
tingled and not being afraid. The next memory I have is of mom bending
over me and asking was I okay or was I being silly and playing o'possum.
Evidently this thing laid me out flat and rendered me unconscious. I have
always loved storms and been fascinated by lightening ever since and watch
shows about "storm-chasers" every chance I get!
Donna R. McNutt <katgurl_13 a hotmail com>
Louisville, KY USA - Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 09:24:51 (PDT)
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1) - about 45 years ago,
Annaoplis Valley, Nova Scotia - It was a clear day in the summer. My
father was outside the house talking with a friend on the lawn and I was
with them. We noticed this ball shaped object about the size of a
basketball moving slowly across the ground towards us. It was very bright,
yellow to white in color, not a solid object but you couldn't seen through
it. The outer edge was not smooth but was moving (bubbling like effect).
AS it neared there was a low level sound of crackling. It moved across the
ground at about 6 - 12 inches in a bouncing motion and stopped right
behind the heals of the person talking to my father. It stayed there about
half a minute then slowly moved over to the base of one of our maple
trees, about 15 feet away and then exploded with a very loud bang. It
certainly had the appearance of a large ball of matter (energy)
2) - several years later I was standing on a dock at our cottage and there
was a thunderstorm about 25 miles away but only broken clouds aorund where
I was. All of a sudden 3 balls of lightening again about the size of a
basketball but these were not very well formed. They were about 1 yard
apart horizontally and flew by missing me by about 5 feet at tremendous
speed. There were three moderate bangs as they went by that sounded more
of the sonic boom nature. ABout 10 minutes later the thunder storm had
moved in over our lake.
Rick Young <rthyoung a rogers com>
Ottawa,
ON Canada - Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 18:15:59 (PDT) |
1966 i saw a ball of fire in
the sky moving very slowly at first about 100 yds above me moving west to
east in level flight moving around 15 miles an hour it increased speed
while moving west and then sped up at a very fast rate all the while
desendinding it then split up into three balls and appeared to land around
ten miles west of me it was around two in the morning and there wasnt
anyone else about i exspected to here all about it the next day as i live
on the south side of chicago and someone else had to see and report it but
there was nothing in the papers the next day at the time i wasnt scared or
anything i mean this was no spacecraft or allien it looked like a round
meteor that was on fire but it was moving way too slow almost like a
ballon or something although it did startle me when it sped up and split
into three parts this has boughtered me for almost forty years any chance
any one else out there saw this thing if so give me a buzz
john dow <hidow a webtv.net>
chicago, il USA
- Monday, April 15, 2002 at 20:19:47 (PDT) |
REGARDS TO BALL LIGHTENING
IN 1998 WILE LIVING IN AUSTRALIA BRISBANE TO BE EXACT I SAW BALL
LIGHTENING NOT OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE BUT INSIDE.A BEDROOMMY SON SAID THAT
THERE WOS SOME THING THERE SO ILOOKED IN AND SAW IT YELLOW IN COLOUR THE
SIZE OF AN TENNIS BALL OR MAYBE A BIT BIGGER.AND A BURNING SMELL.BUT IT
FREAKED ME OUT JUST STATIONARY SUSPENDED IN MID AIRFOR ABOUT 60
SEC,
craig hill <ilovssbbws a yahoo.co>
london,
uk - Saturday, April 13, 2002 at 18:28:05 (PDT) |
About two weeks ago I saw
St. Elmo's Fire about a hundred yards away above a house. Due to my field
of view and the cloudiness of the night my first impression was that
lightening had hit a transformer but what was seen was not accompanied by
any residual flame. Lightening struck in the general direciton once or
twice then again and I saw what appeared to be red and blue flames leaping
in half circle patterns from the visual horizon (the house top in front of
me, presumably 20-50 yards closer than the visual phenonimon) which
reminded me much of the spinning "flower" fireworks in how the flame shot
out and retracted quickly. The colors were alternating and I saw between 3
and 5 "flames". The visual was followed by a flash of iridescent lime
green that seemed to fill the local sky for at least a mile, this being
not an assertion of it's actual output but only of the impression it left
me with. This "flash" could well have been the a reflection of the given
light off of black top pavement (?)
I quickly figured out after
seeing all of these lights that this was not a fire and that I had seen
some sort of phenomenon (and how handy a word that is :) I put it away
knowing that it would be a fun experience to share. The next day I told me
wife about it and she said it may have been St Elmo's Fire, she has a
science degree and had read about it in her studies before. I looked it up
and the accounts seem to fit.
I thank God for the beautiful visual
and though I don't hold to the myth of St. Elmo's Fire I believe that
whatever good gift God has given me it is because He loves me. I look
forward to the day that I will look upon his thrown covered in the mercy
of His shed blood and see the Light of lights. I thank the Lord Jesus
publicly for this beautiful sight and praise Father God, the Creator of
Energy.
JD <huckleberryjohn a hotmail com>
Dallas vicinity, TX USA - Monday, April 08, 2002 at 02:59:46 (PDT)
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Today, April 7th, 2002, my 9
year old daughter and I were in the car during a thunderstorm. We were
driving and all of a sudden a crack of thunder came down and there was a
yellowish red ball about the size of a basketball on the hood of my car.
It made a bang and was gone. I could feel the heat and electricity on my
leg through the gas pedal. My daughter felt it on her feet. We got home
and I told my husband that the car had been hit by lightning but there
were no marks. I searched the lightning database on the internet and
decided it was ball lightning. It was weird.
Jane Flury <janeflury1 a aol com>
TX USA - Sunday, April 07, 2002 at 21:34:12 (PDT)
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