Ball Lightning

[Weatherfreak14]

Has anyone seen Ball Lighning Before. I really want to see it.

[WindRunner]

No. Some claim that it doesn't exist, but I think otherwise. It would be neat to see it, though.

[cancunkid]

I wish I could say I have seen it. I am too afraid most of the time to look for any lightning! Give me a tornado before lightning. I usually only see it looking cool when I am on vacation at the beach or if I happen to be out driving which I believe might be my chance to see ball lightning. My fear of lightning is justified because I have a neighbor who's kid has a bedroom in the attic and his bed has been struck not once but twice! He has a metal bed next to a window, stupid people didn't move it the first time. I gotta say the kid doesn't see quite right but then he is a teenager so who knows

[P.K.]

No, but after reading through all the reports we get of it over here it would be cool to see.

[Stephanie]

This is an interesting story about "ball" lightning.

When my mother was a little girl, she was riding in front of her home on her tricycle as a storm started to brew. My grandmother was standing at the doorway or just outside and apparently saw ball lightning drop just behind my mother and started to bounce after her. My grandmother started to wave frantically at my mother to get off and run to the house when it dissipated!

[SouthFloridawx]

does anyone have a picture of it?

[Weatherfreak14]

My Moms aunt was in the kitchen when a ball lightning rolled in the kitchen sink and dissipated. Thats why I asked anyone if they saw it.

[weathermom]

My mom says I was in the car with them when they saw it many years ago, I guess I was too young to remember. I have heard some pretty freaky stories about it though.

[x-y-no]

I've never seen it myself, but my grandmother had a ball ligntning come through a window into her living room while she was in there. It bounced around a bit before burning a couch, IIRC.

Since she was an almost painfully honest person, I have no reason to doubt this story.

[conestogo_flood]

I have heard stories about ball lightning from the 1953 Sarnia, Ontario F4 tornado. My grandparents are who I heard it from, I thought they were crazy, but now I know people actually talk about this. I voted yes, but only because I have had a family member witness it.

[P.K.]

I've never seen it myself, but my grandmother had a ball ligntning come through a window into her living room while she was in there. It bounced around a bit before burning a couch, IIRC.

Since she was an almost painfully honest person, I have no reason to doubt this story.

Sounds like some sort of GLO Apparition to me. What interests me is the bouncing around bit after travelling through the window. These are known to have left holes in windows after travelling through them.

[TexasStooge]

Haven't seen one, but it'll be interesting.

[Scorpion]

Never really heard anything about it. Sounds rather strange though. How exactly is it a solid object?

[Weatherfreak14]

Heres a Pic. Not Mine found it on Yahoo Search



http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Science/Images/BallLight.jpg

[cgstorm5]

When I was out watching storms in my front yard in June 1997 living on Ellsworth AFB next to Rapid City,SD I saw a huge bolt strike down the road near power lines and then a bright luminescent light blue ball float and do loops in the wind. It rose higher than the tree tops then fell and fizzled slowly behind the trees from my viewpoint.

Living on base we got way more lgt. than the city when it always seemed after the storms came off the Black Hills would become super-electrified and positive CGs strike way before the storm and mostly out of the anvil. I now live in the city now and the storms are regular but the radio towers on the foothills get struck a lot by pos. CGs. Just this past summer a very huge bolt multi-branched blew a transformer out with shards of copper flares clustered but no ball. Makes you think when they store all those chemicals and weapons underground it somehow leaked radioactivity and seaped into the soil. This was back when missile silos were used in the 1950s.

[Scorpion]

Almost extra terrestrial-like. Its so strange.

[ict1523]

I saw it when I was in Poland during the summer of 2000.

During one storm, I saw lightning shaped in a circle.

Another storm also in Poland, I saw like tiny balls of light floating around during a thunderstorm, I've never known what it was, but I guess its ball lightning.

[Wpwxguy]

My Mom and Dad witnessed it when they were young, they were standing on my Grandmother's front porch when this ball of light came out of nowhere, zipped around the yard and then streaked down the driveway and lifted into the sky and vanished. She said it really freaked them out. It was at dusk with storm clouds building. I've also heard of it entering the cabins of airplanes and bouncing around inside, totally freaking out the passengers. Spooky!