Sunday, November 4, 2007

Strange Light captured on film

No this is obviously a fake but there is an actual phenomenon out that does exist. It's called ball lightning. Ball lightning does not look like "lightning." Instead, it usually appears as a mysterious glowing sphere which drifts horizontally through the air. It is typically the size of a grapefruit, but sometimes appears as small as a pea, or as large as a bus. It sometime hovers at a few feet or tens of feet altitude, but can also bounce along the ground. It usually lasts only a few seconds, but sometimes persists much longer. Various colors of "BL" have been seen, sometimes it changes colors, and sometimes it has internal structures such as glowing layers or moving sparks. Sometimes it disappears silently, other times it explodes with extreme violence. more

2 comments:

Larry said...

My sister and I saw ball lighting in the 70's. We watched a glowing ball coming towards our window like Glenda the goodwitch.-It suddenly dispersed in a bright flash in our kitchen-freaky!

wolfman said...

That must have been an eerie experience. I would like to encounter ball lightning just once in my life. I've read that they are extremely rare.