What is currently known about ball lightning?

[ольга]

Have you or your friends ever encountered them?

 

[Pinball1970]

Have you or your friends ever encountered them?

I had never heard of this till about 7 years ago. He said it was considered pseudoscience/ fake mystic type of a phenomena. I have never seen it but I believe this is now considered a real phenomena? Like sprites?

 

[ольга]

I had never heard of this till about 7 years ago. He said it was considered pseudoscience/ fake mystic type of a phenomena. I have never seen it but I believe this is now considered a real phenomena? Like sprites?

У моей бабушки был такой случай: они с дедом сидели за столом, когда в комнату медленно влетел огненный шар, повисел между ними, и выплыл обратно на улицу. При этом он прожёг дыру в оконном стекле. Бабушка рассказывала, что они в этот момент боялись даже дышать, и сидели не шелохнувшись.

 

[Pinball1970]

У моей бабушки был такой случай: они с дедом сидели за столом, когда в комнату медленно влетел огненный шар, повисел между ними, и выплыл обратно на улицу. При этом он прожёг дыру в оконном стекле. Бабушка рассказывала, что они в этот момент боялись даже дышать, и сидели не шелохнувшись.

Was there a thunderstorm at the time?

There are accounts of similar events going back hundreds of years.

This image from 1901.

 

[ольга]

Was there a thunderstorm at the time?

There are accounts of similar events going back hundreds of years.

This image from 1901.

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Да, гроза по видимому была. Потому что моя мама, зная об этом случае, всегда закрывала все окна во время грозы. Она боялась, что молния может влететь в открытое окно.

 

[exchemist]

I had never heard of this till about 7 years ago. He said it was considered pseudoscience/ fake mystic type of a phenomena. I have never seen it but I believe this is now considered a real phenomena? Like sprites?

I saw one once, on a tank farm in an oil plant in Essex, during a thunderstorm. Sadly, as it was in 1982 there were no camera phones to record it.

The mechanisms involved in the charge separation involved in ordinary lightning discharges are still not properly understood, still less an evanescent phenomenon like ball lightning.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

I remember reading that it was some type of self-contained EM field.

 

[ольга]

I remember reading that it was some type of self-contained EM field.

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