What on Earth is Ball Lightning?

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  @TodayIFoundOut · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @Zepplin76 · 2 years ago

  Ball lightning is future humans trying to send Arnold Schwarzenegger back.

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  @soulesslemming · 2 years ago (edited)

  I’ve never seen ball lightning, but I’ve been in thunder snow, which is absolutely terrifying. You could feel the static in the air. All the hairs on your body stood straight up and you could see flashes around you from the lightning, but it was &nbsp;snowing so hard you couldn’t see 5 feet in front of you. It was like being in a neon light there was a purplish blue glow everywhere.

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  @Luciphell · 2 years ago

  This is why you don&apos;t mess with a mage.

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  @owen1079 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l92Y79tmlxA&amp;t=1250">20:50</a> Girlfriend&apos;s eyes now tracking me as I suspiciously walk over to the microwave, whistling, with a box of matches...

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  @xLoLRaven · 2 years ago

  Honestly, with phenomena like ball lighting, it&apos;s no wonder tales of magic used to be so commonplace. After all, if nowadays we still have trouble comprehending it, what were our ancestors supposed to think? Just imagine...<br><br>During an intense storm suddenly a ball of lighting comes barreling through your home/church, bouncing and swerving, before striking someone dead. What else would you think other than &quot;yeah, he just got smote&quot;. It&apos;s up there on the same level as getting hit by a meteorite.

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  @carwashadamcooper1538 · 2 years ago

  I have personally witnessed ball lightning come into my friend&apos;s living room and proceed into the television which promptly exploded.<br>This caused major damage to the house, and minor injuries to the people watching the TV.<br>I escaped injury, but my friend needed stitches in her leg to close the cut caused by a large shard of the picture tube from the TV.<br>Her father also got cut, but much less severely.<br>The TV fire was quickly extinguished by smothering with a &nbsp;blanket, and I later learned that most of the wiring in the house along with all of the electronics needed to be replaced.<br>I know his was 1986ish, because we were watching a rental copy of Nightmare on Elm Street when it happened.

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  @thomaskrejci5237 · 2 years ago

  I’ve seen one kill a person less than hundred meters from me in 1995 in Brno, Czech Republic.<br>It was at a disability hospital, a four-story building forming half court-yard with a tractor parked there and a person smoking a cigarette next to it.<br>I watched a perfect orange sphere about the size of the football descending along lightning rod cable without touching it. It took about two seconds for it to descend the 3 stories, then about 2 m above ground it jumped horizontally towards the tractor. When it touched it disappeared, and the man on the other side of it fell down dead.<br>There was no smell no sound and only thing they found on the person was small burn underneath his watch.<br>I remember the authorities not believing me. I was 19 at the time.

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  @danf321 · 2 years ago

  Dang! &nbsp;Ball Lightning would have been a good story for X-Files!

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  @stephengreen3566 · 2 years ago

  The last theory doesn&apos;t account for multiple witnesses seeing the exact same thing.

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  @p.r.2311 · 2 years ago

  I had an experience with this when I was about 8. I was sitting at the table in the dining room. The table was next to a window. The weather was bad. A lot of rain. When there was a flash of lightning &nbsp;an orb of light about the size of a basketball came in the window. It wasn&apos;t just a steady light. It looked like crackling electricity but no sound. It flew over the table, then dropped down to skim over the floor and flew towards the refrigerator. As it approached the refrigerator, it flew up and over the refrigerator and through the wall to outside.<br>My Aunt was in the kitchen and witnessed it too. I don&apos;t remember a smell afterwards. It didn&apos;t do any damage to the house. It was a spectacle I will never forget.

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  @mackaronen · 2 years ago

  I saw 2 ball lightnings on Ahvenanmaa, Finland. It was as the worst lightning storm I&apos;ve ever seen was calming down. We where sitting out on the porch drinking. The sea was really wild and it rained pretty much, so there were no boats out. There were still a lot of lightnings, 5-10 per minutes. All of a sudden I see a orange ball coming out of the bay next to ours, I was emitting a warm glow, not at all blinding, distance maybe 200-250m, hovering about 2 meters over the surface, it was absolutely quiet. We discussed what it could be, UFO or ball lightning. Then my mother saw another one, exactly alike, coming out of the new bay over. They continues on a collision course for about a minute, until the got out in the waterway. There they merged went down the waterway in an incredible speed. I would say about 200-300km/h, some disagreed and said 100-200km/h, and some said a lot faster. All I know is that it was one hell of a lot faster then any boat I&apos;ve seen in my life. Especially in such rough waves. The thing I thought was most eerie, was the absolute silent.

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