Was Ball Lightning Phenomenon Captured on Video in Canada?

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  @starvinforGarvin · 1 year ago

  When i was in grade 7 (1984) i was walking in front of my public school. It was raining a bit and lightning struck the corner of the school. It flashed down the corner wall and hit the concrete side walk forming a ball about the size of a basket ball. It was blue and white and rolled around on top of a puddle on the sidewalk slowly getting smaller until it disappeared. I just stood there staring at it.

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  @krakulandia · 1 year ago

  "And unfortunately it's most likely not a ball lightning. It's just a regular UFO."

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  @tbaIIer · 1 year ago (edited)

  The day of my high school graduation party back in 1995, we all went inside the house because of a thunderstorm that popped up mid day. &nbsp;My cousins and I were sitting in my room playing Super Nintendo (Sim City if I remember correctly) and a lightning bolt struck my TV through the open window from behind me. &nbsp;A ball of light formed above my now blown out TV, and then zipped across the room toward the doorway and struck my sister in the head as she walked into my room. &nbsp;It made a loud popping sound when it hit her head and my sister yelled &quot;ouch!&quot; &nbsp;Fortunately she wasn&apos;t seriously hurt, but it was totally bizarre and insane and I&apos;ll never forget it.<br><br>The object in the video looks like a blown up transformer. &nbsp;I&apos;ve seen quite a few of them over the years.

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  @tristanpirker8027 · 1 year ago

  During a thunderstorm in the summer of 1991, I was driving my car on a small side road in my home town in Austria (Styria). The rain was coming towards me horizontally, interspersed with small hailstones. The wind was extremely strong and lightning flashed every few seconds followed by loud thunder. As I drove onto a small, narrow wooden bridge, what I first thought was a yellow softball came rolling towards me (visibility was very poor due to the heavy rain). When this &quot;softball&quot; suddenly jumped vertically upwards onto the bridge railing and rolled away from me first and then back towards me, it was clear to me that it wasn&apos;t a softball because I could see from the proximity that there was heat and electrical charges coming out of it. The ball lightning (I&apos;ve been convinced ever since that it was one) then fell from the railing into the small stream under the bridge and produced the loudest thunder I have ever heard!

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  @lociflow6154 · 1 year ago (edited)

  When i was young, me and my best friend were standing on a hill next to some fields in a forest, we saw an oval-shaped light floating about half a meter above the ground, slowly making its way across the field, it made no sound at all. Just silently floating its way forward. It went straight through a fence and headed in our direction. We stared at it for about 30 seconds to a minute trying to figure out what it was and then we ran away as fast as we could. We still talk about that day 15 years later.

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  @dramtoet1809 · 1 year ago

  My grandma told me that she saw a ball lightning hit her house. It definitely was something strange because it made a big impressing telling the story years later. I have no reason to think she made this up.

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  @Nethershaw · 1 year ago

  The &quot;ball&quot; in this video disintegrates into three distinct optical sources arranged in a configuration and elevation consistent with common three-phase electrical transmission lines.

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  @MrBottlecapBill · 1 year ago

  I saw ball lighting in my bedroom as a kid. &nbsp;Lighting struck hard and close to my house during a storm and I saw the blue white ball slowly move from the electrical outlet on my wall across the room slowly before hitting the other wall and vanishing. &nbsp; It was crazy. &nbsp; I also saw a crazy meteor blasting through the atmosphere when I was a kid playing outdoors in the winter one time. &nbsp;It was huge and lite up the entire neighbourhood flying north west. &nbsp;I can still see it in my head. &nbsp;I&apos;ve never seen one like that ever again.

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  @joetamaccio9475 · 1 year ago

  I’d like to note that during the Krakatoa eruption as the Dutch ships were passing through the streets, they reported ball lightning also most of the people lost their hearing because of the loud booms of that volcano. A lot of people died from inhalation and most, if not all lost their hearing, but they did report ball lightning, and lots of it.

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  @antcorke4485 · 1 year ago

  My Dad was almost hit by ball lightening during a heavy downpour and thunderstorm. He came home from work, got out of his car and ran towards the house door, when this bright, hot ball rushed past behind him. My mother was standing in the doorway and saw it happen. He felt the heat from it. This happened before I was born, so pretty happy that it missed him!

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  @fleshtonegolem · 1 year ago

  You can&apos;t gauge the size because it&apos;s SO BRIGHT compared to the rest of the scene it washes out the neighboring pixels completely. It&apos;s likely HALF that size in reality

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  @Dwayne-dude · 1 year ago

  When I was a kid, I was sitting in the living room with several relatives watching TV during a thunderstorm. &nbsp;There was a bright flash and an almost simultaneous loud crack of thunder, then all of a sudden a bright ball of light materialized near the ceiling, seemed to roll along the ceiling towards the front of the house, and then disappeared through the wall. &nbsp;It was a yellowish color, about the size of a volleyball, but I don&apos;t remember if there was a smell or not. &nbsp;The TV went all static when it appeared, but cleared up shortly after it disappeared.<br><br>Everyone freaked out about it, but someone said it was ball lightning.

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