Ive seen lightning 100 meters away (10 times closer).
Can confirm thats how it looks when lightning disintegrates. But that ball should be emitting some sort of noise from the air it heats up.
Its millions on degrees, I argue it shouldve been making a continuous thunder sound just like there was continuous lightning.
I have seen a ball lightning at around 40 feet from me. Was about the size of a softball, and it sat hovering over a large puddle of water in a driveway making a lightning "sizzle" noise for several seconds before exploding into a blinding white lightning flash and thunderous boom. I nearly shit my pants.
I was a kid at my grandparents house one afternoon. There was a thunderstorm. A beachball sized ball of lightning formed at the power lines in front of their house and floated down towards the house. Several family members watched this beachball float across the front yard. The ball reached the front porch and touched the metal railing and disappeared. We were amazed.
I remember reading the Little House books as a kid - I can't remember which book, but there was a scene where balls of lightning come down the stovepipe and are attracted to Ma's knitting needles. IIRC, somehow she tossed them into the stove.
Ive seen lightning 100 meters away (10 times closer). Can confirm thats how it looks when lightning disintegrates. But that ball should be emitting some sort of noise from the air it heats up.
Its millions on degrees, I argue it shouldve been making a continuous thunder sound just like there was continuous lightning.
I have seen a ball lightning at around 40 feet from me. Was about the size of a softball, and it sat hovering over a large puddle of water in a driveway making a lightning "sizzle" noise for several seconds before exploding into a blinding white lightning flash and thunderous boom. I nearly shit my pants.
I was a kid at my grandparents house one afternoon. There was a thunderstorm. A beachball sized ball of lightning formed at the power lines in front of their house and floated down towards the house. Several family members watched this beachball float across the front yard. The ball reached the front porch and touched the metal railing and disappeared. We were amazed.
This has been known phenomena for decades. I learned about it in the 4th grade actually througha textbook.
Fascinating to see so clearly recorded though.
When I was in grade school I read books about this phenomena. It spoke of balls of light going down chimneys and exploding a home.
I remember reading the Little House books as a kid - I can't remember which book, but there was a scene where balls of lightning come down the stovepipe and are attracted to Ma's knitting needles. IIRC, somehow she tossed them into the stove.
That's a good one.
A Chinese researcher waited for years in an area known for ball lightning to capture its spectrum, he finally succeeded in 2012.
https://remoteview.substack.com/p/an-explanation-for-the-observed-spectra?utm_source=publication-search