Billy Gregory-Haines, 41, and wife Maria, 39, were watching television in their home at L’Islet. ‘Maria saw this streak come straight through the glass porch, then a double-glazed door, and shoot across the room,’ he said.‘I saw it out of the corner of my eye as I was sitting at a different angle.’The couple watched as a ball, the colour of lightning, stopped for a split second about a foot from the TV screen and about 18 inches off the floor before leaving the same way as it had entered. Mr Gregory-Haines said the whole thing took about two seconds.‘We just looked at one another and said: “Did you see that?”‘The ball was a sort of a blue-and-white colour, absolutely crystal clear. Had I not seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed it,’ he said.Mr Gregory-Haines began to inspect the house for damage but found none.‘We started asking ourselves what might have happened if we had been standing in the way.’Mr Gregory-Haines said he and his wife did not believe in the supernatural.

‘I’m a rationalist and I think there must be some sort of scientific explanation,’ he said.The ball entered the room from the north.St Sampson’s School pupil Jessica Elliston, 14, who lives near Ville Baudu, Vale, had just gone to bed after returning from rehearsals for the Gadoc Easter production.She said she often looked at the stars through a roof light in her bedroom.‘I looked out of the window and saw this bright ball that was pure white and it just seemed to get bigger,’ she said. ‘I thought this was something different.‘

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They were very lucky...

My Mother-in -Law (rest her soul) got hit by ball lightning. She was in the kitchen, my husband was a teen at the time, sitting at the table. She had her hand on the handle of an iron skillet when the lightning came in through the window and struck the skillet. Her arm was paralized for almost a year afterwards.

It amazes me that it came throught the window and didn't break it.

What sort of explaination they have for this?
Is it some sort of Electric energy unleashed.

I don't know, Omnibus, we'll have to ask someone smarter than me.

i swear that ball lightning is intelligent

Ball lightning so far defies the laws of physics. Its behaviour is very amazing, able to go through seemingly anything without dispersing its energy as it goes through an object.


My experience
Me and my friend has had a similar incident, while watching TV at one my other friend's house. But the ball lightning, which we assumed is more supernatural than scientific, had a tail like a comet.

I precieved it as being white in the center and bluish on the outside, while my friend precieved as only being white. We only saw it on the corner of our eyes cause we were paying attention to the TV. The "ball lightning" (approximately 1" in diameter with a half a meter long tail) flew diagonally towards the ceiling. The only source of energy near it from where it had come from, was a 12" candle stick, and yet it seemed to come from between the bed and the drawers.

I sat on my friend's bed in bewilderment while she too wasn't sure what she had saw. I sat there for a few seconds and then said, "Did you see that?"
She responded, "Yeah, I thought it was just me."
Then I asked her what she saw, before I told her what I saw. With the exact description above.
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Interesting story.

http://www.crystalinks.com/lightballs.html <-- This site has some interesting info on ball lighting... far as I can tell, no one can agree on what, exactly, the properties of ball lighting are. eg:



Cool to the touch, but it'll melt your face off, hmm? Interesting.

I did find this part interesting, though:



Someone, please tell me how you'd go about doing this. No, I'm not going to try it (I like being alive) but I am curious to know about it.

So the ball is lightning, i think the thing is some sort of Alien Probe, there probably is an intelligent life out there.

Ball Lightning is made up of electrically charged ION's. They are a natural phenomenon that was just accepted by the Scientific Community a few years ago.
Most of the time they are harmless and the charge in them tends to stay away from live bodys. Though I have seen one that Grounded Out and dissipated. It was very LOUD! If you are a science geek like myself look up Ionic Plasma.

I have never heard of it coming into a house before now, but normal lightning , in following any path to a Grounding point will go anywhere and is hard to predict.

Roger, have any links supporting your statement?

I haven't come across any hard textbook explanations of ball lightning, only the average theories thrown here and there. They all sound possible, yet it's claimed properties are contradictory to one another as Gazerbeam pointed out above.

Hey Scopion, I was writing from memory on this so I used the Yahoo search engine to get more info. there are plenty of sights to choose from and about a weeks worth of reading. The Science Magazine had a good article on reproducing the phenomenon in the lab. This is using the charged plasma method. Read and enjoy! Roger

Sounds to be the same type of ball lightning that goes along with the tale of the "Moth-Man".

could be a mini ufo