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My mother and I witnessed ball lightning once, when I was in my late teens. A lightning strike hit our metal gatepost out the front, then a flash came, and this weird ball of fuzzy and crackling blueish-white light came in through the slightly opened kitchen window--past the pan of fried onions on the hob--then flew around the room in circles, before vanishing back the way it came. Demystify the phenomenon all you want, but I tell you that this object acted just like a living thing.
All I remember is riding down the back alley on my bike as a kid on an overcast blustery day, when nearing the end of the alley, a blue glowing ball about the size of a volleyball came zig-zagging in front of me. Then I woke up under my bike with abrasions and bruises from sliding on the gravel in the alley. What happened to the blue ball after that I have no idea. 20 or more years later I read about ball lightning in some science rag and I finally knew what hit me!
I remember seeing a video on ball lightning a very long time ago. The experiment seemed to be produced in a tube and the "ball lightning" would pass through solid material. Seemed to be a lot of arcing involved in the process.
The MASER effect is most consistent with what I observed of three balls in a single storm in Lancaster, PA in 1985. Two of them I only saw briefly out one window of the building and the third for a prolonged duration out of an opposite window, about the size of a basketball, hovering in the air and then descending to just above the telephone lines which it remained a few feet above and accelerated into the building wherein the power instantly went out. Also it changed color from blue to red or from red to blue, I cannot remember which direction.
I too experienced ball lightning follow along a telephone line and hitting our window as we watched in surprise and this was in our home in Lehighton PA.
I was fortunate enough, in Canterbury, New Zealand, returning from a day's skiing at Mount Hutt in 1981, to have ball lightning run parallel to my car down a valley, as I drove along the road on the side of the valley. It popped into existence with a very bright flash, and appeared to be about 1m in diameter, although it was hard to tell, because it was as bright as looking at the sun directly. It was moving slightly faster than my Landcruiser (100km/h) , and it slowly overtook us, about 50 metres left of us and about 20 metres from the valley floor. It cast extreme shadows inside the cabin of the car, and a couple of the guys were shouting "It's a UFO!" I knew immediately what it was, and accelerated to keep pace with it. It stayed on its course, and I guess it must only have been 20 seconds (at most) that it lasted for, but it felt much longer. It then stopped being a constant brightness, and started pulsing brighter and darker (with no apparent change in size) for about 3 seconds, and then it simply vanished. The brightness of it was such that we were all suffering serious after effects with our vision, and I pulled the car over and stopped immediately. I was incredibly excited, because I knew that very few people are lucky enough to ever witness ball lightning. Congratulations Nature: YOU ARE AWESOME!
My theory is that they are or sometimes are some kind of probe controlled by you know who!! The Colorado ball lightning video was what got me thinking this 🤔 Go watch it and pay close attention to what's in the clouds
In the late 1980s - early 1990s I saw what I believe to be ball lightning. It was not stormy but it was a very windy Fall-Winter night. The ball lightning floated out from the living room fireplace, which was empty and clean. It ambled over to a novelty magnetic globe suspending toy placed near the extra wide front hearth. (toy was turned off at the time). Upon touching toy's top support structure, the ball lightening disappeared with a loud crack. The ball lightening appeared as a very small, intense bluish white center, surrounded by a light blue halo, about ping pong ball size. The surrounding halo may have been an optical effect caused by the intense light in the center. It was very otherworldly and ephemeral, lasting just about 3 seconds.
The soliton theory should rather be combined with the plasma theory. A ball lightning very precisely behaves like a soliton (as known from soliton waves in water) but its composition, interaction with the environment, and its behavior when it discharges rather resembles the expected behavior of a plasma. Thus a ball lightning might be described as a solitonic plasma
( This statement is _mine own_ ) Ball lightning is merely an entity or collection of charges that creates a polarized air layer around it, thus containing itself via the _powers of electrical induction._ That is, the air layer around the entity is electrically induced to have a polarized 'charge,' thus containing the oppositely charged entity into a spherical shape. It moves erratically because this is simple chaotic dynamics. It *explodes* when the electrically induced air bubble/pocket surrounding the initial charged entity ''bursts,' thus allowing the interior same-charged entity within that 'bubble' to repel itself at maximum velocity, due to like charges repelling, thus generating what many would consider a ' relatively large explosion.' It can also merely 'sizzle out' due to an electrical 'leak,' thus allowing the induced charges to settle in a non-violent manner. Due to the dynamics of such a chaotic system, there are various outcomes of how this could play out, and all observed ball lightning outcomes and dynamics have been fully "played out' within the expectations of the model I have thus far presented. The duration of ball lightning is also perfectly explainable via my _electrical induction chaotic dynamics_ model; due to the chaotic dynamics of such a system, the equilibrium of the electrically induced boundary layer is obviously an unstable equilibrium. Such equilibria are stable so long as it does not reach the 'tipping point. Also, these phenomena take place within a three-dimensional spatial reality, so there is the possibility of a 'stable equilibrium' along one axis and an 'unstable equilibrium' along another axis; I am inclined to believe that this factuality is true for nearly all such *ball lightning* cases. This is why it is seemingly stable for long periods of time, to the point where observable instabilities are seen to 'recover' and also why it can seemingly lose all such s ability in an instant.
How does that form though and what powers it? For air to create an inductive bubble that is quasi-stable, it would need some kind of AC to create the magnetic field for induction. Without an external power source, it would run out of the energy needed to maintain this configuration in nanoseconds, even in a highly conductive plasma form (just due to heat loss). Even if it has an external power source in theory, creating the plasma structure needed to maintain this configuration is nearly impossible from a complexity standpoint, along with air convective currents immediately disputing it. If this was plasma in a vacuum I could maybe see your idea a little more, but not in the atmosphere. Care to address?
I was a skeptic until i saw this phenomenon clearly exhibited over a period of about 10 seconds during a severe thunderstorm watched from our office windows. A blue sphere, approximately 20 cm in diameter formed on wires strung between utility poles. The pale blue ball moved slowly along the wires and eventually disappeared with a bang seemingly when it encountered a metal box on one of the poles. A colleague watching from the floor above confirmed the identical observation.
....I like the new lightning series, but I still especially like your videos, in which you narrate freely without reading the text - makes it easier for me to follow, understand and relate to. For example, your epic precession series :-))) and your podcasts I like a lot, too. Hope you also do more of those in the future. 🙏😊
Bob Greenyer studies BL in all it's forms and iterations over time. Many names for the science. Low energy nuclear reactions is another, along with electro-nuclear collapse (Matsumoto created BL in the lab. His book is Steps in the Discovery of ENC Collected papers 1989-1999. Quite excellent.) Cheers. @SciDeb
I was told a story by my family. About 4-5 people have witnessed the ball lightning. They were home during a summer thunderstorm, in a single family house, with the window open. The lightning ball went inside the house through the window, went around the room, then exited through the window again, leaving everyone scared to death, even though they knew what it was. Luckily it didn't touch anything and didn't hurt anyone.
Just reading through the comments shows it may be more common than we think, its just extremely had to capture due to its transient nature and the longer lasting events seem maybe more rare.
My father, and I and my brothers all witnessed ball lightning while at a resteraunt in S Florida. Lightning hit the powerline and then it traveled at least a mile down the line while we were looking out the window. It blew up 3 transformers on the poles along the way. It seemed bigger than 20cm but it was fast, and the sound of the 3 transformers blowing were loud like a gun shot, like a shotgun almost. We will never forget that afternoon. The resteraunt lost power immediately. Luckily they had gas grills so we were able to eat, in the dark. It was nice we had a window seat, it was the only light in the place. It was an awesome experience to be honest.
I was privileged to see ball lightening many years ago whilst returning back to durban from the Kruger national park in S.A Between the towns of colenso and escort in the province of natal ( now kzn ) I noticed the clouds were extremely threatening so decided to pull over and wait until the storm had passed us. No sooner had I pulled over when I noticed about 5 orbs approx 1 metre Dia bouncing from the field to the right of us . They bounced and upon hitting the earth they went up again and carried on. I would guess they were about 200 meters in front of us. They bounced over the road and continued bouncing on the field on the left of us until they disappeared over a hill side . My wife and 2 sons also saw them. To this day I have never met anyone else who has seen this phenomenon. Had no idea what it was until many years later when I saw a TV program on the subject. Many thanks for a very informative explanation of this fascinating subject. Rgds andy west.
Here is a slightly off topic question: Could stellar novas be primarily a heliopausal event? That is, could the assumption that stellar novas result from the explosion of a star be wrong? Could it be that, during a nova, heavier ions are thrown outward from the heliopause, while less dense electrons are thrown inward? This may allow planets and stars in a system to survive such an event.
I once witnessed a plasma ball that sustained for maybe 5 seconds when an electric steam iron was shorted by spilt water. It sizzled then went pop. However i think many reported cases are actually seeing the auras of warpfield bubbles surrounding alien probes and vehicles, which are much more common than most people would think. I recently filmed one of these orange orbs (it's on my channel), with no doubt that this is what it was. The diffracted light is continuous spectrum rather than the line spectra of specific fluorescing elements - a thermal spectrum like sunlight or starlight, also the same spectral distribution as the cosmic microwave background - representing all wavelengths of light in proportion to their energy levels, so biased towards the redder end of the spectrum by the conservation of energy, bluer photons having more energy so being less common. The emissions source is the vacuum itself - we're seeing stimulated emission of radiation from vacuum at the interface of warped and flat spacetimes, caused by blue-shifting of the quantum vacuum's virtual photonsphere (the EM mediator per QED), raising the floor of the EM four-potential or zero-point. The second law of thermodynamics then does its thing between source and sink as the disparate values of false vs ambient vacuum potential attempt to equilibrate. As such it is most succinctly characterised as _Casimir radiation_ - the EM equivalent of white noise - from a kind of thermal-bath effect not unlike Unruh radiation, but caused by squeezing the vacuum rather than observer acceleration. The force being harnessed to cause these manipulations is what we know as the strong nuclear binding force, responsible for gluing protons together against their mutual Coulomb repulsion into atomic nuclei, this too reducing to a curvature of spacetime, only more extreme and much shorter-ranged than gravity as a function of mass-energy density per the field equations, but more to the point, anyone getting about with any degree of efficacy has always been using this warp tech, and we have many such guests here with us, some more long-term than others..
Plasma is the most abundant form of matter in the universe. We hardly see it here on earth and so perceive it as mysterious and weird. My bet is that most of the observations of BL are plasma.
in c.1960, Alamogordo NM my dad was playing cards with his brother, wives. a dark and stormy night. there was a clamor in the laundry room. When he opened the door there was a ball of light. maybe 4" diameter. It chased him around the kitchen-dining room-living room a few times. Then I forget what happened but I think is dissipated. I recall it entered thru a 4" vent in the laundry room with the water heater and soft water system.
While separate phenomena, the maser and plasmoid theories both have in common the potential to be created by manipulating precisely a lot of energy across a distance. In these cases the time was short but one has to wonder what could be achieved if national defense grade radio and or laser technology potential for military purpose were being explored, which is why I favor one of these two, or maybe both, when it comes to explaining the recent spate of interest in UAPs, which I point out describes a phenomenon and not necessarily a vehicle...I could imagine the appearance of movement at impossible speeds across great distance in the atmosphere by moving the point where the phenomenon is displayed without having to move an object or violate laws of inertia and mass. That said it also explains why our governments are quite content with making comments that perpetuate the kind of confusion/befuddlement and wild speculation about aliens that they might hope for when trying to conceal or disguise their experimental evidence taking place where it would be impossible to hide. Cheers.
Sadly, your comment demonstrates baseless and paranoid delusions. Remember and consider what Benjamin Franklin so famously stated, "Three can keep a secret, but only if two are dead."
This is just a theory, it's interesting how the interaction between Space & our Planet creates all this complex electromagnetic behavior. When you think about that, It really feels like electricity, static charges, magnetic fields, plasma, photon's, radiation all play such a bigger role in the structure of our universe than we currently understand.
I was thinking about this and I have another "theory" to add. Joseph Dwyer discovered that cosmic rays carve a path for lightning to follow. He thinks it changes the molecules of air, but what if it is just entangling that line? Maybe all the hit molecules are entangled in their own system temporarily. If thats what allows the lightning, then ball lightning could also be an entangled system. I was thinking sometimes the lightning could possibly split a molecule up, or even an atom. We do it so it could happen once in a while in nature. In this case some of the energy from the strike could be trapped in this system. It could sometimes happen from sparks too. I think that could explain this phenomena I plan on suggesting this in a book Im writing so wanted to see what people think about it.
Ball lightning occurs due to the imbalance of opposing charges, for example in your vehicle lead-acid battery. If you short the battery with your screwdriver, in specific order, you will generate sparks and also create little molten balls which are hollow inside. The cavity was created by ball lighning but much weaker than the atmospheric phenomena. Therefore, ball lightning is due to an extreme imbalance of electrons energies, and hence, if you think about it, tells you something about fundamental structure. If you correctly solve the mystery you should derive four charges and not just two.
Me and my Illuminati cohorts are the producers of ball lightning. We have the special little machine that we get to use for fun to collectively jerk your chains and make you think ball lightning is real when it's really not. Next time you see ball lightning, wave. It's probably just me.
Thank you for always great content and for placing the ad at the very end of the video so that it does not interrupt the Content of Interest. You will find having less subscribers and more down-votes in content that is incoherent. Hint, nudge.
My intuitive take on ball lightning it base purely on statistical data. Given enough time/times you could walk through a solid wall. Electrical energy is and has always been tipping the click clock probably click fast. I’ve seen in daylight a small to large ball lightning that exploded and was silent. Mind you there was a record lightning strike storm that night.
seems he had no clue about what he was doing getting hit by a current that hard. 😂 the first one was short and funny. nice theory's. but till you can reproduce it little logic is present. 13:17 some how doesnt work in true science. none of those even remotely explained it lol. to many mights and maybes
Ball lightning? Clumped photons reacting to matter; the atoms contained in the atmosphere. A photon is created when energy is added to atoms. The electrons of the atom are pushed into a higher energy shell but when the energy that created the push dissipates, the electron drops back into its native shell releasing and releases a photon. The photon is a “particle” surrounded by “waves” of energy of a certain frequency and wavelength consistent with the energy signature of the creating energy pulse. Ball lightning is created when a massive amount of energy causes the electrons of the contents of our atmosphere to be pushed to a much higher energy shell. When the massive increase to the atom shell collapses, not just one photon is created. The photons that are created are pushed together by gravity and create the massive “photon” known as ball lightning. Gravity is caused by the push of aether (quantum space) surrounding large bodies of matter. This push is in all directions, not just towards the center of mass. This push is what causes the Casimir Effect, not some sort of electrostatic force. Gravity is not an attraction between atoms of matter. Matter and quantum space repel each other and the large clumps or concentrations of matter push quantum space aside; but the aether (quantum space) pushes back in the form of gravity. Quantum space (the aether) is quite dense around matter because of this repulsion. Ball lighting exists and is visible only as long as there is matter enough to react with. All photons are invisible until they strike or interact with matter; at which time the photon becomes visible. It turns from a particle vibrating at a certain frequency and wavelength into something that can be seen. The light or photons of ball lightning are only seen because the outer circumference of the ball is reacting to the matter of the atmosphere. As soon as the energy of the clumped photon uses up its energy reacting to matter, it disappears from the visible spectrum.
MASERS... 🤔 They haven't been able to replicate it in a laboratory. May I suggest a microwave oven? Very easy to make plasmoids in a microwave oven... 🤷
I work in high energy electrical research, so formed an interest in this subject years ago. Funnily enough, I at one point remembered a story told by a family member, and their discription was consistent with many other witness accounts, even when they had no clue what ball lightning was. There are also old stories from my country, where ball lightning supposedly tore trenches through the land during a particularly bad storm. I've seen some strange phenomena in my work, but nothing close to ball lightning unfortunately, but I have no doubt it is a real phenomenen.
I like the self similarity idea EU theory implements. When a star is starved of electrons, it grows it's shell to increase its surface area, maintaining electrical potential. I wonder if the same can apply here, a very charged atmosphere and a high energy z-pinch event to start the ball lightning's feeding process as it consumes its own electrons.
Well, since it can pass through walls, there has to be a standing wave that powers it, and that standing wave has to be in the aether. I guess you could think of it as a polyhedron vibrating at a resonant frequency. It would only be generated where the environment allows for EM energy to focus on one point for the time it takes, maybe a tenth of a second.
@@hgbugalou recombination of electron and ionic plasma, perhaps(?). if the plasma is greater than the electron content, it'll hunt for more electrons in its local area to bring it completely to a ground state. To be honest, I'm no expert in this field :)
Thanks. I think that info was what I needed to figure it out: The inside of a submarine is basically an "echo chamber" for EM waves. As you close the circuit with the new batteries, that very sharp impulse generates a wave, which is reflected off the inside, briefly creating a standing wave. At a nodal point, a ball of plasma could easily be generated, which itself would be a resonant sphere/polyhedron in the aether.
@@silvergreylionHave you heard Eric Dollard's descriptions of how electricity actually 'sloshes' back and forwards rapidly for a brief period every time you open and close a circuit before it settles down to an equilibrium state? (I guess commonly referred to as a power surge)
@@MentalFilm I have not heard those, but I'm quite aware of that too. It's due to the inherent capacitances and inductive parts in the circuit. A battery is also inductive, because the ions have momentum.
I might have missed it in the video, but haven't there been a few accounts of deposits of unusual elements being found after ball lightning events, leading to speculation that fusion might be occurring?
Yes, and I believe the smell of sulfur and ozone are also present. Interestingly enough, according to John Keel in his book, The Eighth Tower, described that the smell of sulfur also followed the sightings of monsters. Also quantities of silicon and silicon carbide were found in the wake of sightings of monsters and UFOs. His theory of Ultraterrestrials and the SuperSpectrum is worth looking into to.
New subscriber I see you have taken on expanding earth theory. I have been trying to spread the word about it myself for a number of year's with little success. I noticed today that Neal Adams the artist who did the majority of the work in the past 20 years. Has passed away his wife is currently auctioning off all his work and all his expansion earth videos are available for 2$ each.
@@MentalFilm between basketball and small beachball fairly centered in the cabin. 737 straight path 30 to 45 seconds minute and a half tops, manifested inside the plane inside a stormcloud traveled 30 to 40 feet from front to rear and winked out. My mother and a few other people awake at 2:30 saw it.
And nothing was demystified... Didn't the 18th century Russian scientist that got killed leave any notes of how he created the lightning ball that killed him?
I am not kidding, I saw what I think was ball lightning when I was about 14 years old. It was during a summer evening, I was standing on the balcony watching over the playground in front of the appartment building. All of the sudden for just a few seconds, a soccer ball sized glowing orb thing floated over the playground and out of nowhere an enormous bang and it was gone, all that was left was a wisper of smoke. Again, I am not larping here, this is genuinly what I saw with my own eyes. I will never foget this moment, that bang was incredibly loud, much louder then anything I've heard during thunderstorms.
I thought I was crazy. I saw one when I was a kid. I saw a video earlier and now there's a lot of video evidence everywhere. Ill never forget Mothers day at our family reunion. No one remembers but a cousin and I
Nice video and presentation. For a ball lightening to move the way it was must have some form of a path established in space prior to its migration, through wall.
@@MentalFilmbefore a final lightening discharge downstream it establish a path through atmosphere upstream into the cloud. Likewise horizontally between opposite charged clouds in the open without a wall. Why should ball lightening be different?
@@philoso377 Ah ok, understood. I think the name "lightning" may potentially be a bit of a misnomer. In the sense that it seems almost certainly to be an event strongly associated with electrical phenomena, but it may be a more unique mechanism going on such as an electromagnetic plasma or vortex/soliton as many have proposed. If it's a soliton and passes through material objects, it implies that the structure is formed at the "aether" lever rather than within the molecular structure of materials such as air, glass etc. and might account for its somewhat bizarre hovering effects akin to the "antigravity" behaviour of superconductors etc. Just my tuppenceworth.
Yes we and all matters are submerged in an ocean of Aether. Aether enables electromagnetic wave without it there is no GPS, light or gravity. Here is an educated guess on the precursor leading to the ball lightening. There are two distant electrostatic sources high in the atmosphere A and B, both are high impedance source. (Relatively atmospheric lightening sources are low impedance responsible for their violence.) A and B are relative distant clouds and carry opposite charge. Some Ions from the clouds drift and charge up the earth beneath them respectively. Once both landscape are respectively charged, ion on opposites ends begin to drift horizontally towards the intermediate space. The drift path originates in cloud scale diameter at relatively low ion density enters a continuous magnetic pinching into smaller and smaller diameter and higher density, eventually a rope of ion path was formed. Let’s call that dark mode plasma and the section where opposite ions met, the glow mode plasma, hence ball lightening. It remain suspended above ground because of the earth beneath it has already reached equal magnitude and polarity. It dissipated in front of the wall but reestablishes behind the wall, often confused for it can pass through wall.
When I was a teen in southern Kentucky, it was common during the summer for small cumulus clouds with flat, dark bottoms to form in the afternoon. Since I was interested in science, I often looked up to watch the clouds as I walked back to my parent's house from the milk barn. One day, a perfectly round, bright, slightly orange ball emerged from the bottom of one of the clouds. I immediately recognized it as ball lightning. It traveled probably somewhere between a quarter and half of a mile, and faded away. It was perfectly silent from my position. My first thought was, "Wow! I can see why people confuse them for UFOs!" The type of cloud I saw it emerge from never form normal, arcing lightning, so it is definitely possible for ball lightning to form outside the presence of thunderstorm-like lightning.
Fascinating account! Reminds me of Close Encounters with the glowing spheres of light (UFOs) emerging from those heavy gathering clouds with their flat bottoms. I wonder if they were based on eye witness accounts as much of the movie claims to have been inspired by such research.
My father claimed to be hit by blue ball lightening. He was standing at the sink doing the dishes when a lightning strike hit a telephone pole behind our house. Dad said a blue ball of light followed the telephone line and came right through the wall. It danced and sizzled around a chandelier for a moment then dissipated with sizzling/crackling noise. He felt an obvious electrical tingle in his hands and jerked them out of the water. The ball was about 8 feet away at its closest... he said anything about the size other than it varied.
A friend of mine said ball lightning appeared over his chimney, about 80' from him. He estimated 3 to 4 feet in diameter. When it exploded it knocked him off his feet.
They are plasmoids, ive have the fortune of having one shoot out of our old land line telephobe , fly across the room and go straight through the windows intact. It passed just a yard away from me. This was the late seventies. Was a very cool experience, it happened because lightning struck the phonelines. The phone became a melted blob of baculite. 😂
@SciDeb phonelines dont carry that kind of voltage so im not seeing how anything other than lightning could account for what we saw. It was a self contained sphere until it bounced on the ground outside and fizzled out
@SciDeb ill remember that to the day i die, it went maybe 15-20mph through the room and through the glass pane of the window, bounced a couple of times and fizzled out. As a 7-8 year old i was mesmerized , but to be fair so was the grown up in the room. We where six people there when it happened so i know im not misremembering
@@MentalFilm Yes, even though i was young it is burned into my memory forever. (Having four who where adults back then all having the same memories is just confirmation). The whole thing was over in less than ten seconds, its a fascinating phenomenon that behaves almost life-like, my guess is its a form of plasma we dont fully understand.
@@bogganalseryd2324 Super fascinating indeed! (I lean towards the plasmoid explanation myself). Do you remember if there was any smell after the event?
I saw a luminous spherical glove between low clouds, an evening in Catania (Sicily), of about 2 or 3 km distant, cold white, during about 9-12 seconds, from my panoramic window, in 2002 (if i well remeber).
driving my truck across the flat areas of Arzona's flat landscape, I saw a ball of lightening bigger then my semi, was completely soundless. Then a few months later while passing through an electrical storm in Pennsylvania, on top of a large hill, i had a vision
My sister recently had an encounter with one. She owns a grooming business and has a nice grooming room in her basement. Recently it was raining but no apparent Thurber or lighting when all the sudden a lightning ball, about 6” came into the window of her grooming room moved across the room then in front of her at her work station. A loud snap occurred and her body parts that were touching the table were electrocuted ( leg and hand). The power to the grooming room went out during this ( not anywhere else in the house). It hurt and was sore for days after but no apparent major damage. Nothing and no one else in the room was hurt, not her single employee , nor the dogs, one of which was being washed in the metal tub at the time. Oddly enough the dogs didn’t even react .
My mother told me two stories about ball-lightning; one her father witnessed and that she felt the impacts of when she was ~7-8 years-old in the 1950s, and another her brother witnessed as an adult in the 1980s. Both around Dubuque, Iowa. The one she was partial-witness to, there was a significant lightning storm, and she said her dad saw a ball of light gracefully float through the woods/sky near tree-canopy level, that popped like a bubble against the tree, but exploded so violently it sundered the top part of the tree and shook my mother awake out of bed. The story her brother witnessed, they were living in a cabin at the time. During a thunderstorm, while he and his wife were eating dinner at the table, his wife's hair started standing up on-end. Then a ball of lightning came down the chimney, frantically revolved around in-place within the fireplace, then exploded out. No damage at all to the cabin or their persons. These two anecdotes seem to align with the idea presented that "confined" vs "open-air" ball-lightning having very different energy-levels. They also seem to indicate they are indeed some sort of electromagnetic phenomenon. Fascinating stuff!
One wonders if these could fit into the Standard Model as parts of the higher muon and/or tau electron/positron , or that of the unproven yet Higgs boson. All of these (said) quarks are manifested from the quantum foam, and like all fermions, leptons, kaons, pions, baryons, mesons, bosons, ... could be another quark manifested object ... and they only last for seconds or minutes at the highest of existence until decaying back into dark matter sub-particulates.
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My mother and I witnessed ball lightning once, when I was in my late teens. A lightning strike hit our metal gatepost out the front, then a flash came, and this weird ball of fuzzy and crackling blueish-white light came in through the slightly opened kitchen window--past the pan of fried onions on the hob--then flew around the room in circles, before vanishing back the way it came. Demystify the phenomenon all you want, but I tell you that this object acted just like a living thing.
It was flowing through and guided by the combined electromagnetic and electric fields that pervade reality. Nothing more.
MFMP on YT speaks to how BL comes from EVOs and they may be how life operates. EVOs are exotic vacuum objects. Thanks!
@@corkygoss7403fascinating stuff.
Amazing. Thank for sharing your account!
Yes I had the distinct sense when I saw the ball lightnings that they were conscious and observing.
All I remember is riding down the back alley on my bike as a kid on an overcast blustery day, when nearing the end of the alley, a blue glowing ball about the size of a volleyball came zig-zagging in front of me. Then I woke up under my bike with abrasions and bruises from sliding on the gravel in the alley. What happened to the blue ball after that I have no idea. 20 or more years later I read about ball lightning in some science rag and I finally knew what hit me!
Thanks for sharing this description!
That's wild !!!!
Saw it once in the late '70s with a friend during a lightning storm. The memory has faded somewhat. But it was distinctly cool.
I remember seeing a video on ball lightning a very long time ago. The experiment seemed to be produced in a tube and the "ball lightning" would pass through solid material. Seemed to be a lot of arcing involved in the process.
The MASER effect is most consistent with what I observed of three balls in a single storm in Lancaster, PA in 1985. Two of them I only saw briefly out one window of the building and the third for a prolonged duration out of an opposite window, about the size of a basketball, hovering in the air and then descending to just above the telephone lines which it remained a few feet above and accelerated into the building wherein the power instantly went out. Also it changed color from blue to red or from red to blue, I cannot remember which direction.
I too experienced ball lightning follow along a telephone line and hitting our window as we watched in surprise and this was in our home in Lehighton PA.
@AndyWitmyerAll of us seeing it surrounding Harrisburg area roughly?
Thank you for your description of this event!
I was fortunate enough, in Canterbury, New Zealand, returning from a day's skiing at Mount Hutt in 1981, to have ball lightning run parallel to my car down a valley, as I drove along the road on the side of the valley. It popped into existence with a very bright flash, and appeared to be about 1m in diameter, although it was hard to tell, because it was as bright as looking at the sun directly.
It was moving slightly faster than my Landcruiser (100km/h) , and it slowly overtook us, about 50 metres left of us and about 20 metres from the valley floor. It cast extreme shadows inside the cabin of the car, and a couple of the guys were shouting "It's a UFO!"
I knew immediately what it was, and accelerated to keep pace with it. It stayed on its course, and I guess it must only have been 20 seconds (at most) that it lasted for, but it felt much longer.
It then stopped being a constant brightness, and started pulsing brighter and darker (with no apparent change in size) for about 3 seconds, and then it simply vanished. The brightness of it was such that we were all suffering serious after effects with our vision, and I pulled the car over and stopped immediately. I was incredibly excited, because I knew that very few people are lucky enough to ever witness ball lightning.
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Incredible! Thanks for your detailed description!
Especially lucky enough to witness it from relative safety.
My theory is that they are or sometimes are some kind of probe controlled by you know who!!
The Colorado ball lightning video was what got me thinking this 🤔
Go watch it and pay close attention to what's in the clouds
In the late 1980s - early 1990s I saw what I believe to be ball lightning.
It was not stormy but it was a very windy Fall-Winter night.
The ball lightning floated out from the living room fireplace, which was empty and clean.
It ambled over to a novelty magnetic globe suspending toy placed near the extra wide front hearth. (toy was turned off at the time).
Upon touching toy's top support structure, the ball lightening disappeared with a loud crack.
The ball lightening appeared as a very small, intense bluish white center, surrounded by a light blue halo, about ping pong ball size.
The surrounding halo may have been an optical effect caused by the intense light in the center.
It was very otherworldly and ephemeral, lasting just about 3 seconds.
Awesome! Thanks for your detailed description.
The soliton theory should rather be combined with the plasma theory. A ball lightning very precisely behaves like a soliton (as known from soliton waves in water) but its composition, interaction with the environment, and its behavior when it discharges rather resembles the expected behavior of a plasma.
Thus a ball lightning might be described as a solitonic plasma
I'm sure I've heard this proposed many times, and tends to fit my own view. Kind of surprised it wasn't discussed in this video?
I like this a lot. Know of any research papers with this hypothesis?
This is interesting too, microwave bubble theory: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4916449/
( This statement is _mine own_ ) Ball lightning is merely an entity or collection of charges that creates a polarized air layer around it, thus containing itself via the _powers of electrical induction._ That is, the air layer around the entity is electrically induced to have a polarized 'charge,' thus containing the oppositely charged entity into a spherical shape. It moves erratically because this is simple chaotic dynamics. It *explodes* when the electrically induced air bubble/pocket surrounding the initial charged entity ''bursts,' thus allowing the interior same-charged entity within that 'bubble' to repel itself at maximum velocity, due to like charges repelling, thus generating what many would consider a ' relatively large explosion.'
It can also merely 'sizzle out' due to an electrical 'leak,' thus allowing the induced charges to settle in a non-violent manner. Due to the dynamics of such a chaotic system, there are various outcomes of how this could play out, and all observed ball lightning outcomes and dynamics have been fully "played out' within the expectations of the model I have thus far presented. The duration of ball lightning is also perfectly explainable via my _electrical induction chaotic dynamics_ model; due to the chaotic dynamics of such a system, the equilibrium of the electrically induced boundary layer is obviously an unstable equilibrium. Such equilibria are stable so long as it does not reach the 'tipping point. Also, these phenomena take place within a three-dimensional spatial reality, so there is the possibility of a 'stable equilibrium' along one axis and an 'unstable equilibrium' along another axis; I am inclined to believe that this factuality is true for nearly all such *ball lightning* cases.
This is why it is seemingly stable for long periods of time, to the point where observable instabilities are seen to 'recover' and also why it can seemingly lose all such s ability in an instant.
How does that form though and what powers it? For air to create an inductive bubble that is quasi-stable, it would need some kind of AC to create the magnetic field for induction. Without an external power source, it would run out of the energy needed to maintain this configuration in nanoseconds, even in a highly conductive plasma form (just due to heat loss). Even if it has an external power source in theory, creating the plasma structure needed to maintain this configuration is nearly impossible from a complexity standpoint, along with air convective currents immediately disputing it. If this was plasma in a vacuum I could maybe see your idea a little more, but not in the atmosphere. Care to address?
Probably a good story, but I skipped it to watch the video I clicked on. Thanks anyways.
I was a skeptic until i saw this phenomenon clearly exhibited over a period of about 10 seconds during a severe thunderstorm watched from our office windows. A blue sphere, approximately 20 cm in diameter formed on wires strung between utility poles. The pale blue ball moved slowly along the wires and eventually disappeared with a bang seemingly when it encountered a metal box on one of the poles. A colleague watching from the floor above confirmed the identical observation.
That's just power lines short circuiting, which isn't the same. Ball lightning would detach from the wires and fly around
These comments are great, way to go Sir.
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I have seen this "Ball Lightning" during a cloudless night.
....I like the new lightning series, but I still especially like your videos, in which you narrate freely without reading the text - makes it easier for me to follow, understand and relate to. For example, your epic precession series :-))) and your podcasts I like a lot, too. Hope you also do more of those in the future. 🙏😊
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All about ball lighting, channel on YT
Bob Greenyer studies BL in all it's forms and iterations over time. Many names for the science. Low energy nuclear reactions is another, along with electro-nuclear collapse (Matsumoto created BL in the lab. His book is Steps in the Discovery of ENC Collected papers 1989-1999. Quite excellent.) Cheers. @SciDeb
MFMP has plenty to study and see utilized as open science. Thanks!
I was told a story by my family. About 4-5 people have witnessed the ball lightning. They were home during a summer thunderstorm, in a single family house, with the window open. The lightning ball went inside the house through the window, went around the room, then exited through the window again, leaving everyone scared to death, even though they knew what it was. Luckily it didn't touch anything and didn't hurt anyone.
Great
I seen it in Sudan in 1989 during an intense thunderstorm. A ball of fire flew from the clouds down towards the earth. It wasn't traveling very fast.
Just reading through the comments shows it may be more common than we think, its just extremely had to capture due to its transient nature and the longer lasting events seem maybe more rare.
My father, and I and my brothers all witnessed ball lightning while at a resteraunt in S Florida. Lightning hit the powerline and then it traveled at least a mile down the line while we were looking out the window. It blew up 3 transformers on the poles along the way. It seemed bigger than 20cm but it was fast, and the sound of the 3 transformers blowing were loud like a gun shot, like a shotgun almost. We will never forget that afternoon. The resteraunt lost power immediately. Luckily they had gas grills so we were able to eat, in the dark. It was nice we had a window seat, it was the only light in the place. It was an awesome experience to be honest.
I was privileged to see ball lightening many years ago whilst returning back to durban from the Kruger national park in S.A
Between the towns of colenso and escort in the province of natal ( now kzn ) I noticed the clouds were extremely threatening so decided to pull over and wait until the storm had passed us.
No sooner had I pulled over when I noticed about 5 orbs approx 1 metre Dia bouncing from the field to the right of us . They bounced and upon hitting the earth they went up again and carried on.
I would guess they were about 200 meters in front of us. They bounced over the road and continued bouncing on the field on the left of us until they disappeared over a hill side .
My wife and 2 sons also saw them. To this day I have never met anyone else who has seen this phenomenon.
Had no idea what it was until many years later when I saw a TV program on the subject.
Many thanks for a very informative explanation of this fascinating subject.
Rgds andy west.
Here is a slightly off topic question: Could stellar novas be primarily a heliopausal event? That is, could the assumption that stellar novas result from the explosion of a star be wrong? Could it be that, during a nova, heavier ions are thrown outward from the heliopause, while less dense electrons are thrown inward? This may allow planets and stars in a system to survive such an event.
Quite interesting
I once witnessed a plasma ball that sustained for maybe 5 seconds when an electric steam iron was shorted by spilt water. It sizzled then went pop.
However i think many reported cases are actually seeing the auras of warpfield bubbles surrounding alien probes and vehicles, which are much more common than most people would think. I recently filmed one of these orange orbs (it's on my channel), with no doubt that this is what it was. The diffracted light is continuous spectrum rather than the line spectra of specific fluorescing elements - a thermal spectrum like sunlight or starlight, also the same spectral distribution as the cosmic microwave background - representing all wavelengths of light in proportion to their energy levels, so biased towards the redder end of the spectrum by the conservation of energy, bluer photons having more energy so being less common. The emissions source is the vacuum itself - we're seeing stimulated emission of radiation from vacuum at the interface of warped and flat spacetimes, caused by blue-shifting of the quantum vacuum's virtual photonsphere (the EM mediator per QED), raising the floor of the EM four-potential or zero-point. The second law of thermodynamics then does its thing between source and sink as the disparate values of false vs ambient vacuum potential attempt to equilibrate. As such it is most succinctly characterised as _Casimir radiation_ - the EM equivalent of white noise - from a kind of thermal-bath effect not unlike Unruh radiation, but caused by squeezing the vacuum rather than observer acceleration.
The force being harnessed to cause these manipulations is what we know as the strong nuclear binding force, responsible for gluing protons together against their mutual Coulomb repulsion into atomic nuclei, this too reducing to a curvature of spacetime, only more extreme and much shorter-ranged than gravity as a function of mass-energy density per the field equations, but more to the point, anyone getting about with any degree of efficacy has always been using this warp tech, and we have many such guests here with us, some more long-term than others..
Plasma is the most abundant form of matter in the universe. We hardly see it here on earth and so perceive it as mysterious and weird. My bet is that most of the observations of BL are plasma.
It's usually methane filaments. Blue spheres running across lakes, etc... The lightning effects mentioned are even more rare.
in c.1960, Alamogordo NM my dad was playing cards with his brother, wives. a dark and stormy night. there was a clamor in the laundry room. When he opened the door there was a ball of light. maybe 4" diameter. It chased him around the kitchen-dining room-living room a few times. Then I forget what happened but I think is dissipated. I recall it entered thru a 4" vent in the laundry room with the water heater and soft water system.
While separate phenomena, the maser and plasmoid theories both have in common the potential to be created by manipulating precisely a lot of energy across a distance. In these cases the time was short but one has to wonder what could be achieved if national defense grade radio and or laser technology potential for military purpose were being explored, which is why I favor one of these two, or maybe both, when it comes to explaining the recent spate of interest in UAPs, which I point out describes a phenomenon and not necessarily a vehicle...I could imagine the appearance of movement at impossible speeds across great distance in the atmosphere by moving the point where the phenomenon is displayed without having to move an object or violate laws of inertia and mass. That said it also explains why our governments are quite content with making comments that perpetuate the kind of confusion/befuddlement and wild speculation about aliens that they might hope for when trying to conceal or disguise their experimental evidence taking place where it would be impossible to hide. Cheers.
Sadly, your comment demonstrates baseless and paranoid delusions.
Remember and consider what Benjamin Franklin so famously stated, "Three can keep a secret, but only if two are dead."
There are top secrets. Energy is logically the subject area. Argue that if you like. Thanks for your thinking on this. Cheers.
@@Chris.DaviesRemember when Benjamin Franklin famously ran the Manhattan Project?
Oh, wait.
These phenomena have been described for centuries
This is just a theory, it's interesting how the interaction between Space & our Planet creates all this complex electromagnetic behavior. When you think about that, It really feels like electricity, static charges, magnetic fields, plasma, photon's, radiation all play such a bigger role in the structure of our universe than we currently understand.
I was thinking about this and I have another "theory" to add.
Joseph Dwyer discovered that cosmic rays carve a path for lightning to follow. He thinks it changes the molecules of air, but what if it is just entangling that line? Maybe all the hit molecules are entangled in their own system temporarily.
If thats what allows the lightning, then ball lightning could also be an entangled system.
I was thinking sometimes the lightning could possibly split a molecule up, or even an atom. We do it so it could happen once in a while in nature.
In this case some of the energy from the strike could be trapped in this system.
It could sometimes happen from sparks too.
I think that could explain this phenomena
I plan on suggesting this in a book Im writing so wanted to see what people think about it.
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Fools be claiming that Covenant plasma weapons are unrealistic, but then ball lightning shows up and socks them in the jaw.
Nikola Tesla reportedly created ball lightning frequently enough that he considered it a neusense 😮
Im the Netherlands at the television tower in Smilde You can see then very often with a thunderstorm.
Ball lightning occurs due to the imbalance of opposing charges, for example in your vehicle lead-acid battery. If you short the battery with your screwdriver, in specific order, you will generate sparks and also create little molten balls which are hollow inside. The cavity was created by ball lighning but much weaker than the atmospheric phenomena.
Therefore, ball lightning is due to an extreme imbalance of electrons energies, and hence, if you think about it, tells you something about fundamental structure. If you correctly solve the mystery you should derive four charges and not just two.
Me and my Illuminati cohorts are the producers of ball lightning. We have the special little machine that we get to use for fun to collectively jerk your chains and make you think ball lightning is real when it's really not. Next time you see ball lightning, wave. It's probably just me.
Thank you for always great content and for placing the ad at the very end of the video so that it does not interrupt the Content of Interest. You will find having less subscribers and more down-votes in content that is incoherent. Hint, nudge.
My intuitive take on ball lightning it base purely on statistical data.
Given enough time/times you could walk through a solid wall.
Electrical energy is and has always been tipping the click clock probably click fast.
I’ve seen in daylight a small to large ball lightning that exploded and was silent. Mind you there was a record lightning strike storm that night.
seems he had no clue about what he was doing getting hit by a current that hard. 😂 the first one was short and funny. nice theory's. but till you can reproduce it little logic is present. 13:17 some how doesnt work in true science. none of those even remotely explained it lol. to many mights and maybes
Ball lightning?
Clumped photons reacting to matter; the atoms contained in the atmosphere.
A photon is created when energy is added to atoms. The electrons of the atom are pushed into a higher energy shell but when the energy that created the push dissipates, the electron drops back into its native shell releasing and releases a photon. The photon is a “particle” surrounded by “waves” of energy of a certain frequency and wavelength consistent with the energy signature of the creating energy pulse.
Ball lightning is created when a massive amount of energy causes the electrons of the contents of our atmosphere to be pushed to a much higher energy shell. When the massive increase to the atom shell collapses, not just one photon is created. The photons that are created are pushed together by gravity and create the massive “photon” known as ball lightning.
Gravity is caused by the push of aether (quantum space) surrounding large bodies of matter. This push is in all directions, not just towards the center of mass. This push is what causes the Casimir Effect, not some sort of electrostatic force.
Gravity is not an attraction between atoms of matter. Matter and quantum space repel each other and the large clumps or concentrations of matter push quantum space aside; but the aether (quantum space) pushes back in the form of gravity. Quantum space (the aether) is quite dense around matter because of this repulsion.
Ball lighting exists and is visible only as long as there is matter enough to react with. All photons are invisible until they strike or interact with matter; at which time the photon becomes visible. It turns from a particle vibrating at a certain frequency and wavelength into something that can be seen. The light or photons of ball lightning are only seen because the outer circumference of the ball is reacting to the matter of the atmosphere. As soon as the energy of the clumped photon uses up its energy reacting to matter, it disappears from the visible spectrum.
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MASERS... 🤔 They haven't been able to replicate it in a laboratory. May I suggest a microwave oven? Very easy to make plasmoids in a microwave oven... 🤷
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This video is lacking a summery, comparison and conclusion
I work in high energy electrical research, so formed an interest in this subject years ago.
Funnily enough, I at one point remembered a story told by a family member, and their discription was consistent with many other witness accounts, even when they had no clue what ball lightning was.
There are also old stories from my country, where ball lightning supposedly tore trenches through the land during a particularly bad storm.
I've seen some strange phenomena in my work, but nothing close to ball lightning unfortunately, but I have no doubt it is a real phenomenen.
I like the self similarity idea EU theory implements. When a star is starved of electrons, it grows it's shell to increase its surface area, maintaining electrical potential. I wonder if the same can apply here, a very charged atmosphere and a high energy z-pinch event to start the ball lightning's feeding process as it consumes its own electrons.
Well, since it can pass through walls, there has to be a standing wave that powers it, and that standing wave has to be in the aether.
I guess you could think of it as a polyhedron vibrating at a resonant frequency.
It would only be generated where the environment allows for EM energy to focus on one point for the time it takes, maybe a tenth of a second.
EU is a hot garbage 'theory', though your point about ball lightning may be valid, though I am wondering what you mean by "consume". Care to expand?
@@hgbugalou recombination of electron and ionic plasma, perhaps(?). if the plasma is greater than the electron content, it'll hunt for more electrons in its local area to bring it completely to a ground state. To be honest, I'm no expert in this field :)
Changing batteries on submarines can produce ball lightning. And its been recorded and documented.
Thanks. I think that info was what I needed to figure it out:
The inside of a submarine is basically an "echo chamber" for EM waves.
As you close the circuit with the new batteries, that very sharp impulse generates a wave, which is reflected off the inside, briefly creating a standing wave.
At a nodal point, a ball of plasma could easily be generated, which itself would be a resonant sphere/polyhedron in the aether.
@@silvergreylionHave you heard Eric Dollard's descriptions of how electricity actually 'sloshes' back and forwards rapidly for a brief period every time you open and close a circuit before it settles down to an equilibrium state? (I guess commonly referred to as a power surge)
@@MentalFilm I have not heard those, but I'm quite aware of that too. It's due to the inherent capacitances and inductive parts in the circuit.
A battery is also inductive, because the ions have momentum.
Thank you STP as always. You may want to compare notes with Bob Greenyer. Peace Cheers Onward.
I might have missed it in the video, but haven't there been a few accounts of deposits of unusual elements being found after ball lightning events, leading to speculation that fusion might be occurring?
Yes, and I believe the smell of sulfur and ozone are also present. Interestingly enough, according to John Keel in his book, The Eighth Tower, described that the smell of sulfur also followed the sightings of monsters. Also quantities of silicon and silicon carbide were found in the wake of sightings of monsters and UFOs. His theory of Ultraterrestrials and the SuperSpectrum is worth looking into to.
(3:20) Interesting that the ball lightning seems to have the same colors of stars.
New subscriber I see you have taken on expanding earth theory. I have been trying to spread the word about it myself for a number of year's with little success. I noticed today that Neal Adams the artist who did the majority of the work in the past 20 years. Has passed away his wife is currently auctioning off all his work and all his expansion earth videos are available for 2$ each.
I saw ball lighting inside a plane on my way to Alaska once. Wild.
Could you maybe give some more details? Size, color, shape, behaviour, duration? Did you or anyone see where it entered or exited?
@@MentalFilm between basketball and small beachball fairly centered in the cabin. 737 straight path 30 to 45 seconds minute and a half tops, manifested inside the plane inside a stormcloud traveled 30 to 40 feet from front to rear and winked out. My mother and a few other people awake at 2:30 saw it.
@@batzzz2044 Wow, super interesting! Thanks much for sharing.
And nothing was demystified... Didn't the 18th century Russian scientist that got killed leave any notes of how he created the lightning ball that killed him?
I am not kidding, I saw what I think was ball lightning when I was about 14 years old. It was during a summer evening, I was standing on the balcony watching over the playground in front of the appartment building. All of the sudden for just a few seconds, a soccer ball sized glowing orb thing floated over the playground and out of nowhere an enormous bang and it was gone, all that was left was a wisper of smoke. Again, I am not larping here, this is genuinly what I saw with my own eyes. I will never foget this moment, that bang was incredibly loud, much louder then anything I've heard during thunderstorms.
I was also 14 when I saw ball lightning.
There's a great book called 'Ball Lightning' by the author Ci Xin Liu (The 3 Body Problem, Death's End - etc)
I thought I was crazy. I saw one when I was a kid. I saw a video earlier and now there's a lot of video evidence everywhere. Ill never forget Mothers day at our family reunion. No one remembers but a cousin and I
Nice video and presentation.
For a ball lightening to move the way it was must have some form of a path established in space prior to its migration, through wall.
Interesting. What's this based on?
@@MentalFilmbefore a final lightening discharge downstream it establish a path through atmosphere upstream into the cloud. Likewise horizontally between opposite charged clouds in the open without a wall. Why should ball lightening be different?
@@philoso377 Ah ok, understood. I think the name "lightning" may potentially be a bit of a misnomer. In the sense that it seems almost certainly to be an event strongly associated with electrical phenomena, but it may be a more unique mechanism going on such as an electromagnetic plasma or vortex/soliton as many have proposed. If it's a soliton and passes through material objects, it implies that the structure is formed at the "aether" lever rather than within the molecular structure of materials such as air, glass etc. and might account for its somewhat bizarre hovering effects akin to the "antigravity" behaviour of superconductors etc. Just my tuppenceworth.
Yes we and all matters are submerged in an ocean of Aether. Aether enables electromagnetic wave without it there is no GPS, light or gravity.
Here is an educated guess on the precursor leading to the ball lightening.
There are two distant electrostatic sources high in the atmosphere A and B, both are high impedance source. (Relatively atmospheric lightening sources are low impedance responsible for their violence.) A and B are relative distant clouds and carry opposite charge. Some Ions from the clouds drift and charge up the earth beneath them respectively. Once both landscape are respectively charged, ion on opposites ends begin to drift horizontally towards the intermediate space. The drift path originates in cloud scale diameter at relatively low ion density enters a continuous magnetic pinching into smaller and smaller diameter and higher density, eventually a rope of ion path was formed. Let’s call that dark mode plasma and the section where opposite ions met, the glow mode plasma, hence ball lightening. It remain suspended above ground because of the earth beneath it has already reached equal magnitude and polarity. It dissipated in front of the wall but reestablishes behind the wall, often confused for it can pass through wall.
When I was a teen in southern Kentucky, it was common during the summer for small cumulus clouds with flat, dark bottoms to form in the afternoon. Since I was interested in science, I often looked up to watch the clouds as I walked back to my parent's house from the milk barn. One day, a perfectly round, bright, slightly orange ball emerged from the bottom of one of the clouds. I immediately recognized it as ball lightning. It traveled probably somewhere between a quarter and half of a mile, and faded away. It was perfectly silent from my position. My first thought was, "Wow! I can see why people confuse them for UFOs!" The type of cloud I saw it emerge from never form normal, arcing lightning, so it is definitely possible for ball lightning to form outside the presence of thunderstorm-like lightning.
Fascinating account! Reminds me of Close Encounters with the glowing spheres of light (UFOs) emerging from those heavy gathering clouds with their flat bottoms. I wonder if they were based on eye witness accounts as much of the movie claims to have been inspired by such research.
My father claimed to be hit by blue ball lightening. He was standing at the sink doing the dishes when a lightning strike hit a telephone pole behind our house. Dad said a blue ball of light followed the telephone line and came right through the wall. It danced and sizzled around a chandelier for a moment then dissipated with sizzling/crackling noise. He felt an obvious electrical tingle in his hands and jerked them out of the water. The ball was about 8 feet away at its closest... he said anything about the size other than it varied.
A friend of mine said ball lightning appeared over his chimney, about 80' from him. He estimated 3 to 4 feet in diameter. When it exploded it knocked him off his feet.
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Let me guess, it's something got to do with plasma 😂
They are plasmoids, ive have the fortune of having one shoot out of our old land line telephobe , fly across the room and go straight through the windows intact. It passed just a yard away from me. This was the late seventies. Was a very cool experience, it happened because lightning struck the phonelines. The phone became a melted blob of baculite. 😂
@SciDeb phonelines dont carry that kind of voltage so im not seeing how anything other than lightning could account for what we saw. It was a self contained sphere until it bounced on the ground outside and fizzled out
@SciDeb ill remember that to the day i die, it went maybe 15-20mph through the room and through the glass pane of the window, bounced a couple of times and fizzled out. As a 7-8 year old i was mesmerized , but to be fair so was the grown up in the room. We where six people there when it happened so i know im not misremembering
@@bogganalseryd2324 Thanks for your description! Fascinating. :)
@@MentalFilm Yes, even though i was young it is burned into my memory forever. (Having four who where adults back then all having the same memories is just confirmation). The whole thing was over in less than ten seconds, its a fascinating phenomenon that behaves almost life-like, my guess is its a form of plasma we dont fully understand.
@@bogganalseryd2324 Super fascinating indeed! (I lean towards the plasmoid explanation myself). Do you remember if there was any smell after the event?
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I saw a luminous spherical glove between low clouds, an evening in Catania (Sicily), of about 2 or 3 km distant, cold white, during about 9-12 seconds, from my panoramic window, in 2002 (if i well remeber).
I assume you mean a globe?
@@MentalFilm Right.
driving my truck across the flat areas of Arzona's flat landscape, I saw a ball of lightening bigger then my semi, was completely soundless. Then a few months later while passing through an electrical storm in Pennsylvania, on top of a large hill, i had a vision
My sister recently had an encounter with one. She owns a grooming business and has a nice grooming room in her basement. Recently it was raining but no apparent Thurber or lighting when all the sudden a lightning ball, about 6” came into the window of her grooming room moved across the room then in front of her at her work station. A loud snap occurred and her body parts that were touching the table were electrocuted ( leg and hand). The power to the grooming room went out during this ( not anywhere else in the house). It hurt and was sore for days after but no apparent major damage. Nothing and no one else in the room was hurt, not her single employee , nor the dogs, one of which was being washed in the metal tub at the time. Oddly enough the dogs didn’t even react .
I hear I e roll thru a wooden house and stop b4 everbody then blow like water but no wet around....well....father go ww2 RAF. AND
A roaming plasma ball with a spherical frequency, a non propagating energy burst caused by extremely high potential too high to instantly discharge.
Different timeframes, inside the “Ball’ lightning can be a million years - they are sentient if your sensible and live a kosher existence.
My mother told me two stories about ball-lightning; one her father witnessed and that she felt the impacts of when she was ~7-8 years-old in the 1950s, and another her brother witnessed as an adult in the 1980s. Both around Dubuque, Iowa.
The one she was partial-witness to, there was a significant lightning storm, and she said her dad saw a ball of light gracefully float through the woods/sky near tree-canopy level, that popped like a bubble against the tree, but exploded so violently it sundered the top part of the tree and shook my mother awake out of bed.
The story her brother witnessed, they were living in a cabin at the time. During a thunderstorm, while he and his wife were eating dinner at the table, his wife's hair started standing up on-end. Then a ball of lightning came down the chimney, frantically revolved around in-place within the fireplace, then exploded out. No damage at all to the cabin or their persons.
These two anecdotes seem to align with the idea presented that "confined" vs "open-air" ball-lightning having very different energy-levels. They also seem to indicate they are indeed some sort of electromagnetic phenomenon. Fascinating stuff!
Really interesting! Thanks for sharing these 2 accounts.
Unlucky, I haven't seen one yet, only in videos.
One wonders if these could fit into the Standard Model as parts of the higher muon and/or tau electron/positron , or that of the unproven yet Higgs boson. All of these (said) quarks are manifested from the quantum foam, and like all fermions, leptons, kaons, pions, baryons, mesons, bosons, ... could be another quark manifested object ... and they only last for seconds or minutes at the highest of existence until decaying back into dark matter sub-particulates.