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BALL LIGHTNING..... There are many theories about what causes the phenomena of Ball Lightning and many who deny that they exist and say people who claim have seen it are hallucinating......This is what I saw. |
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I was 13 or 14 at the time. My friend Monika and I were walking up the road to her house.....There was a corner store. We would always take a shortcut across the parking lot. It had been a nice Spring late afternoon, then there had been a sudden hail shower accompanied by thunder and darkening sky. Just as we started across the parking-lot, we spotted a bright light on the ground about 20 ft away. It was a glowing sphere about the size of a small melon. It moved across the pavement to a steel drum used as a trash-burner, which was smoking......The glowing sphere then, to our astonishment, travelled slowly up the side of the drum and disappeared.......We were afraid to approach, but as we stood there, the ball again appeared and slowly rolled back down the side of the drum. It then travelled along the pavement, onto the road, then uphill for half a block and disappeared. We ran after it and saw that there was a deep puddle where the sphere had disappeared..... We ran to Monika's house and excitedly told her parents. They weren't interested at all.....they scoffed and her mother said " Silly girls, did you also see a flying saucer and aliens?" We were feeling very weird.....We had both seen it and had kept up a play-by-play through the whole thing....I was not used to being called a liar...We slammed out of the house and went to my house, which was several blocks away. My mother was there and we told her our story and she was very interested. She told us that she had seen ball lighting as well when she was a young girl.. Her family lived in a 4th floor apartment in Oslo. It was a fine Summer day, but suddenly the sky darkened and there was thunder. Her mother asked her to shut the window in the bedroom. When she opened the door to the room, she saw a glowing ball the size of a large orange appear on the window sill and then slowly travel down the wall and disappear into the electrical outlet near the floor....Then the lights went out in the whole neighborhood. Monika and I were very relieved to be believed.....and then my mother directed us to the encyclopedia and we looked it up....What we found is still the same today......Innumerable personal witness accounts by people all over the world who have seen ball lightning and as many theories by scientists, but no verifiable proof.
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I have heard of ball lightning when I was a child. When a thunderstorm came on, my mother closed all windows saying that a ball lightning could come in, it would roll across the floor and might do harm. I never saw one. A month ago I saw something strange. In the afternoon I heard a distant growl of thunder and when I looked out the kitchen window, I saw a horizontal orange flash on top of the hedge about 7 meters away from the house. At first I thought of a fire. The next moment it was gone. I did not find an explanation for this anywhere. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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WOW, Lulu! What an amazing and obviously unforgettable experience. After reading a bit about ball lightning, it just shows that not everything in nature can be explained. I hope you shared this experience with your family so that if they ever experience it, they can say, "I remember my gramma telling about seeing this." Thanks for sharing it with us. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I have heard of ball lightning when I was a child. When a thunderstorm came on, my mother closed all windows saying that a ball lightning could come in, it would roll across the floor and might do harm. I never saw one. A month ago I saw something strange. In the afternoon I heard a distant growl of thunder and when I looked out the kitchen window, I saw a horizontal orange flash on top of the hedge about 7 meters away from the house. At first I thought of a fire. The next moment it was gone. I did not find an explanation for this anywhere. ....
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WOW, Lulu! What an amazing and obviously unforgettable experience. After reading a bit about ball lightning, it just shows that not everything in nature can be explained. I hope you shared this experience with your family so that if they ever experience it, they can say, "I remember my gramma telling about seeing this." Thanks for sharing it with us.
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My father told us a similar story. After the war he couldn t work in his old profession as a carpenter because of an injury in his leg. To make money he used to sell to the farmer gears in the nearby villages. One day during a thunderstorm on a sudden a lightning ball - Kugelblitz - appeared on the strandeet in front of his lorry. He was very scared to hit it . As quickly this ball appeared as quickly it disappeared after a few hundred meters. During thunderstroms we had to keep quite a distance to the chimney as a thunder might come down the stack and burst that little door addititonal my grandmother lit a consegrated, black "weather candle".
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Growing up in the country I have vivid memories of thunder and lightening storms. The sound of the thunders roar used to terrify me. My grandmother would close all windows and draw the curtains and sit and pray. I remember hiding under the kitchen table lol. I never saw ball lightening, but I know my grandparents did.
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My father told us a similar story. After the war he couldn t work in his old profession as a carpenter because of an injury in his leg. To make money he used to sell to the farmer gears in the nearby villages. One day during a thunderstorm on a sudden a lightning ball - Kugelblitz - appeared on the strandeet in front of his lorry. He was very scared to hit it . As quickly this ball appeared as quickly it disappeared after a few hundred meters. During thunderstroms we had to keep quite a distance to the chimney as a thunder might come down the stack and burst that little door addititonal my grandmother lit a consegrated, black "weather candle". 
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Growing up in the country I have vivid memories of thunder and lightening storms. The sound of the thunders roar used to terrify me. My grandmother would close all windows and draw the curtains and sit and pray. I remember hiding under the kitchen table lol. I never saw ball lightening, but I know my grandparents did. 
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But what did you see?......
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So many unexplained phenomena witnessed by Humans....sounds like Aurora Borealis or similar .....
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