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So about "ball lightning" is it confirmed real, or still a myth? Rate Topic: -----

#1 User is offline   Aaron 


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Posted 10 July 2005 - 08:20 AM

I remember hearing something about it on a primetime special a few weeks ago... just enough to know that its supposed to be a ball of light or electricity or something that floats... thats about all I know, I can say I never seen it, so is it real or what

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Posted 10 July 2005 - 08:30 AM

I am pretty sure it is confirmed now. It is often mistaken for a flying craft.
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Post icon  Posted 10 July 2005 - 10:42 AM

Basic Types of Lightning

Ball Lightning

Ball lightning explained

Wikipedia: Ball Lightning

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Posted 10 July 2005 - 10:58 AM

Wow... so I guess they are real, it still says some scientist don't believe they exist though... I wanna see one

And now I wanna see St. Elmo's Fire - never heard of that before

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Posted 10 July 2005 - 12:39 PM

I've seen a ball lightning ones. It was a ball of very bright, purple and white light, and it was rolling on the electric wires of the railway. Just for a few seconds, and then it was like a very loud blast and it was gone. Very, very neat, and scary !! original.gif
They are very real..Ive seen a show on tv where they could produce ball lightning, allthough those were very small and very brief.
Sometimes you can see little fires appearently floating in swampy areas. They are made from the gas in the swamp wich starts to burn spontaniously.

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Posted 10 July 2005 - 02:04 PM

Yes, definately real, im going to take a course in it in science hopefully

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 10:22 PM

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In a shockingly high percentage of cases the balls actually entered buildings through windows and doors.


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Strange, I remember reading a story from around the 1600s of a 'ball of fire' flying through an old tavern in England (?), people suspected it was the devil or some such thing. ohmy.gif

Can they be created in a lab using tesla coils etc?

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Posted 19 August 2005 - 04:36 AM

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QUOTE(Aaron @ Jul 10 2005, 08:20 AM)
I remember hearing something about it on a primetime special a few weeks ago... just enough to know that its supposed to be a ball of light or electricity or something that floats... thats about all I know, I can say I never seen it, so is it real or what
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i have a photo of what i think is ball lightning...but not positive...anyways..here it is...
also...an old farmer friend of mine from fallon, nevada, told me once, that ball lightning bounced across his field, passed straight through the glass of his sliding glass door, then hit and exploded his cast iron wood stove...don't know if his story is real, but the stove did look like a bomb hit it. yes.gif

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Posted 20 August 2005 - 09:16 AM

Ball lightning is almost certainly a very real phenomenon indeed.
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