Whatever it was, I have never experienced anything like it before or since, and I continue to thoroughly enjoy a good thunderstorm. At the time, I had never heard of ball lightning and thought that somehow an electrical charge must have built up on the metal frame of the door due to the storm. I wasn't precisely afraid, but I did decide it would be a good idea to move to the end of the couch away from the sliding door for the duration of the storm. If I had not seen it, I would have had no way of knowing it had happened. It left no scorch marks on the door or on the carpet, and didn't affect the electrical circuits or the TV near where it appeared. It floated out into the center of room and seemed to hover just above the floor, lasting no more than 30 seconds before it disappeared with an audible pop. The ball was a little larger than a baseball and appeared white with a yellowish tinge. I've always liked storms and was enjoying the frequent lightning, when suddenly a ball of electricity emerged from the frame of the sliding door perhaps 5 feet from where I was sitting. During a summer thunderstorm, I was sitting in the living room near the large sliding glass door to the balcony. I was living in a top-floor apartment in Springfield, Virginia. I experienced what I believe must have been a form of ball lightning in the mid-1980s. The glow, along with the moving wall-ceiling pattern, lasts for perhaps 5-10 seconds and then all phenomena vanishes and the room abruptly darkens. I sit up and stare at the glow, but as cannot see behind the furniture, can't see if there's a "ball"-only the steady soft glow. Am wearing earplugs, so don't know if there're any accompanying noises. The ceiling and walls appear covered with a moving pattern of pale "worm shaped" lights (just a lighter shade of "dark, if that makes sense-no color.) Am lying on my back and notice, peripherally, a soft orange-yellow glow coming from down low behind my husband's nightstand which is in a corner of the room. ![]() A flash of light, like a flash-bulb going off, finally opens my eyes. The bedroom, with only 1 (blocked) window, is densely dark, w/only very faint light coming from open door. Puno, Puno PERU - Wednesday, Jat 22:00:33 (PDT)ĭallas, TX June 15, 2012-Am asleep during severe thunderstorm (in early a.m.) with enough loud thunder & lightning to semi-rouse me. Struck the tree, and also we thought that was the source of the ball ![]() Had one of its branches completely burned then I realized a lightning had My room) that belongs to our neighbour, around 20mts away of our house, it Where they showed me the tree in front of our house (and also in front of Then I listened my brothers calling me to go upstairs to the terrace roof, I was alone with closed doors, my window also closed Lightings, it was there by 3-5sec then suddenly again desappeared, noĮxplosion, no sound. Instantaneously, a bright light appeared in the middle of my room it was aīall of 20cm floating with a soft trembling (120cm over the floor), itsĬolor was the color of the "electricity", I mean the same color of Puno in PERU, then a thunder sounded very strong in my ears. Suddenly a storm and heavy rain started pouring down in my Andean city When I was a teenager, one afternoon while I was studying in my room, Va USA - Thursday, Februat 02:40:27 (PST) ![]() This is not something to play around with if anyone has the The heat from the impact was so fierce that it burned his It struck him square in the chest and blew his The "ball" made no course changes, just traveled in a straight lineĪbout 3 feet off the ground. This happened during the beginning of a thunderstorm in western lower In the spring of 1984, my youngest brother was struck and killed by "a ball of Goodwin's site forĪ story from 1638 when BL killed four in a church. For moreĪmerican Physics Society web site. Lightning struck his metal mast, and witnesses said that a ball of fireįlew out and struck him on the forehead, killing him instantly. Reichmann attempted to reproduce one of Franklin's thought-experiments. Scientists to decide that ball-lightning does not exist.įirst scientists to experiment with thunderstorm electricity (evenīefore Ben Franklin) was killed by BL. And this particular article about the self-fulfilling prophecy which causes many
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