The Proof Is Out There: Unexplained Lightning Phenomenon Caught On Camera (Season 1) | History

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[@hordescoffeecwest6203]

Why can't you find real phenomenons Natural and/or unnatural

[@hordescoffeecwest6203]

When dealing with the Government. The History must always be one step ahead of them. Because, they are already prepared for an Interview with the History Channel.

[@kurtklein4299]

All this TV show Does it show the exact same things I've seen another shows. I don't like the show but the same Copy Cat videos

[@jennmaclovin75]

My two sisters and I witnessed ball lightning as kids. During a lightning storm, a small bit of lightning broke off from a large lightning bolt. A half dollar sized piece passed through the window pane without breaking the glass. It hovered for a few seconds then shot into a portable radio that was sitting on the foot one of my sister's bed.

[@lunared6754]

Plss notice this. Idk if this you talking about but they kinda similar

[@shastri10k77]

In 1994 when I was chilling in my grandma house.. I saw a round lightning ball rolling through her house and suddenly vanish when it hits the wall.. I thought I was crazy and no one would believed me! Today I learn that such thing exist and I was really lucky to have witnessed it with my own eye

[@idkwhatname_9094]

SAME I saw one in my room it scared me

[@labab1048]

Saw one in a restaurant I worked at, myself and one other girl....will never forget, been 35 years

[@Dillondz1994]

I'm sorry you lost your eye, but very glad you had this rare experience.

[@raptor1272]

@@Dillondz1994 😂😂

[@staceys4471]

I saw him Orange or golden purple 20-in round orb I guess plasma orb about 15 to 18 in away from me hovering about 4 inches above ground for about 7 seconds election night 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

[@Kotaztrafee]

My grandmother told me about a ball of light in her yard and explained it as "A ball of light that moved slowly through the yard from here to there and went away". My grandmother was about 60 years old and of sound mind. She never had paranormal thoughts and would laugh if someone told her this back in about 1990. I believed her for sure.

[@Kotaztrafee]

My grandmother also told me about her X-husband (my grandfather who she despised, though he loved her) who appeared in her bedroom in the middle of the night. Later that day we got word that my grandfather had died sometime that night. I have a couple other stories that prove there is more to life than life.

[@woodslore8537]

Family member of mine saw a ball oflight in the woods, called it a will-o-whisp. Didn't say it was one but that was the best way that she could describe it. Watched it go past and you could feel the hairs on her arms stand up.

[@cozu631]

@@Kotaztrafee oh man my grandmother has told me a very similar story

[@swardinc]

yea science better ask more people because in places like Kentucky they are no so rare at all

[@Dirivitiveofrye]

Ive deffiently seen a willow wisp but that was a very experimental summer 😅 couldve just been extra doaphamine in the brain

[@DZuls1]

In 1984 I was working on the drilling rig Ocean Odyssey in the Bering Sea. A huge storm came up, worthy of tales of its own. I was outside in a survival suit, clipped off for safety, what with the wind blowing about 150 mph,watching the storm with my buddy Greg. We were in a sheltered spot on the deck, enjoying watching the hail swooping around the rig's structures, very exhilarating. I saw a ball of bright blue light about the size of a basketball headed for the crown of the derrick, going maybe 5-10 mph. I pointed it out to Greg, we watched it collide with the derrick and pop like a rifle shot with a bright blue flash and it was gone. It was ball lightning! We reported it right after, and were told half the circuit breakers on the derrick popped. Years later I bumped into Greg and his wife just by chance, and the first thing he said was "Tell my wife what we saw in that storm" and I said ball lightning. He turned to his wife and said, "See? Told you so!"

[@Dmoriarty1993]

Awesome account of your experience. I'm glad your friend finally proved it to his wife.

[@hoshiaral9130]

Out of 99.99% of all these comments, you’re tale is probably the only one i somewhat believe

[@pmarnoze8321]

When I was a kid I saw something extremely similar to this that I haven’t forgotten, it’s kind of nice to hear that something like this exists and I’m not losing my mind

[@aerobeehi5895]

Your not losing your mind. It does exist .I have seen this twice. Once in the front of my yard during a lightning storm moving around for a few seconds and then dissipated. Then another time a few years later and had many witnesses. This one during another thunder and lightning storm, we saw it falling to the ground in a big field and about 50 feet from the ground we heard a small pop like a firecracker makes and it vanished.

[@gavinnathaniel8860]

Ur not

[@sank8dbz387]

I also witnessed this when i was ten years old and it was like a red burning fireball and it was just a couple of feet above my head,as it went from my right to left, and took 90° turn from the tree in our garden. It still haunts me whenever it's monsoon season

[@doug5700]

I saw one pass through my house near Leicester in 1967. I had no idea what it was though a local paper at the time reported a house roof had been hit by a lightning bolt the same day a few streets away from where I lived. I was 7 at the time but I can still see it clearly in my mind

[@patriciaotoole6508]

Me too. A storm was coming. It just rolled down the street like a tumble weed

[@HectorGarcia-yg5wl]

I saw one. At 9 years old in Mexico in my back yard. I had to walk out to shower. When suddenly in the back fence I saw a small ball of light which seemed to stare at me. It became small then expanded into a flash of light and it was gone. One of the most beautiful and scary things I’ve witnessed. I thought it was an angel.

[@mikkey246]

It stared at you?

[@LynxPlaysYT]

@@mikkey246 He probably meant that it stopped for a second when he spotted it.

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

@@mikkey246 yeah you know, like a deer who just spotted you spot him.😳

[@Main_Range]

Yeah actually if you get near it you'll see an actual angel

[@lovesucks3875]

@@Main_Range dark

[@pipoo1]

My grandfather was a farmer in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and he always swore that he once saw ball lightning in a field by his farm yard.

[@elusive6119]

I probably saw something similar in 2007. I went to the garage to close the gate during a thunderstorm and when I came out I saw that a ball the size of an orange was floating over the wire that went under the canopy in the backyard. Golden-orange is not a bright glow about 20cm in diameter, with a bright blue-white pulsating spark inside and purple discharges. It looks like a souvenir plasma lamp. The balloon floated over the wire at a height of half a meter, as if it was pushed by the wind, but clearly along the live wire. The anomaly was five meters or so away. The problem was that it was a garage, and there was gasoline and stuff. I ran to the electrical panel in a couple of seconds and hit the emergency disconnector. Then I ran into the house and turned off the common fuse, pulled the power from the laptop, etc. I looked out the window and saw that the tarnished ball was also floating at the garage gate, but already chaotically and it was blown away by the wind, after which the ball flashed brightly blue several times and went out. In total it took 10-15 seconds and I found that the slippers were left in the garage and I was running barefoot. ps I have already read about ball lightning in the old (50-60s) recommendations on behavior in a thunderstorm. And there was a section about fireballs with a description of a dozen deaths. Namely, due to the lack of lightning protection, it was recommended to turn off the common disconnector during a thunderstorm. Just my case, very old power grids. As I understood it, it was a smoldering discharge ionizing nitrogen and oxygen and hydrogen in the air. The blue-white glow is ionized nitrogen, the purple glow is oxygen, and the red-orange glow is hydrogen. There was a little rain, so there was a water suspension and besides, the noise of the rain drowned out the quieter sounds and I did not understand whether the anomaly was making a sound or not, rather yes, but... Probably the water in the air was decomposed by a smoldering discharge into hydrogen and oxygen, but where did it take so much energy from? I read some versions of physicists and came to the conclusion that they are partially right in their theories, and this rare and dangerous phenomenon is a random combination of atmospheric factors giving an unexplored electrostatic effect. By the way, I violated the recommendation, it was not recommended to move quickly so as not to attract the discharge, especially to run. Which occurs when unknown natural factors coincide with old power grids that are unprotected by grounding. That is why there are so few such cases now. either after a close lightning strike or a discharge without thunder. Besides, you just won't have time to photograph it. Literally a few seconds. When all your thoughts are focused on one thing - to get away from it. Instincts are literally screaming - run!

[@albandrejaj]

Fusion ball?

[@Junior-jm5tq]

Believe him! It is real!

[@RolandoP]

My grandma and mother saw multiple of these too in the farm, at least 3 times in different times. The farm is in Costa Rica. In one of the times, there was no storm.

[@cubicajupiter]

Haha yes indeed, grabbing a phone and tapping into its camera is the last thing i thought when i saw one. I was a bit frightened and just stared it down intently, with a lot running through my mind. The one i saw was roughly the size of a basketball, blueish-white, with some dark spots/holes, hovering about a foot off the ground. It made no sound, and it moved through open doors inside my flat. Noteworthy: it was early september and there are electrically charged tram cables hanging in the air outside my building running perpendicular to the path of the orb, so -maybe- that had something to do with it?

[@julieparsons1255]

In 2008 or so we had a storm that had started to come through. We live approximately 1/8 of a mile from Lake Michigan in West Michigan. My husband and I were home alone and we noticed what looked like a large cloud traveling slowly just above the road. It had multiple colors flashing within the cloud and as it passed our home it made our lights slowly go out. We ran to the back deck and watched it go further down the road. We had no neighbors at the time and never reported anything. We tried for years to search the internet for some kind of possible rare weather phenomena to explain, but nothing resembles what we had seen that night.

[@NickiDee-tm1qs]

Must have been cool to see.

[@Crazy_Explorer_XD]

Hello i assume that this was a : Heavy cloud with positive and negative currents which can explain the colours(caused by probable inter cloud lightning ) ,the floating effect was probably caused by the wind and the power cut is a coincidence OR the ions from the heavy charged cloud overloaded the system or the power was attracted to the opposite ion and got sucked out this is actually a very absurd turn of events but if you are telling the truth good for you :)

[@OkTheOneWhoKnocks]

wow nice explanations@@Crazy_Explorer_XD

[@jacobskovsbllknudsen5908]

Saw one too when I was about 8-10 years old. Parents woke me up during the night to watch a massive lightning storm. There was constant lightning hitting all over the place, and one of them illuminated one of the fields we were watching and I saw a ball of light whizz past close to the ground... I was the only one who saw it, so I've always been doubting wether I really did see it, cause it seemed so unreal. Only found out a few years ago that it's a real but rare phenomenon, I love watching thunderstorms to this day, and I always watch when I get the chance, would like to catch a glimpse of a ball lightning again some day! 😊

[@raywave1231]

I’ve seen ball lightning by my own eyes at short distance. It came in through an open kitchen window during a thunderstorm, travelled across the kitchen into the entrance hall where it went up into the ceiling light and blew up the lightbulb with a flash and sparks and was gone. It’s definitely real. Interesting that science still can’t explain it.

[@Mr.V.]

😅😅😁

[@sopix7980]

bruh idk but wat im seeing is not real rn

[@Mr.V.]

@@sopix7980 yeah all clips in this video are all fake. Lightning can brighten an entire zip code so much lumens, and here its like a torch. Less lumens

[@jamesscott4574]

@@Mr.V. Could be just a name to describe it since sightings have been recorded before electricity was a thing, while I'm dubious of the actual existence of one I still largely remain unsure of what to believe.

[@petrol_prophet]

@@Mr.V. okay, but this is clearly not lightning as we generally know it as. While we give the NAME a reference to lightning (we don't know what else to call it, we don't even know what it IS), that does not mean that the phenomenon itself is fraudulent. Call it an "mobile electron globe" if that makes it more believable for you.

[@EazyDuz18]

Crazy that ball lightning turns everyones camera into Gameboy Colour resolution

[@look.its.jacobb]

everytime they catch it on video, they dont have anything but a microwave to record it

[@bootlegmufasacringe2397]

Well, ball lightning is a *ball of lightning*, and electromagnetic energy concentrated like that could cause camera qualityto drop, who knows

[@pointoflight2914]

Exactly, when camera tech gets better, the videos stay the same.

[@Trip_mania]

@@bootlegmufasacringe2397 It's just light, it cannot go inside your camera and change the number of pixels without you noticing it.

[@bootlegmufasacringe2397]

@@Trip_mania do you know how energy works :| just because lightning has light in the name doesnt mean its made out of light (thats physically impossible), im saying that the sheer ammount of energy the ball must be radiating must be messing with the camera

[@charlesferreira3597]

I remember about 15 years ago I was fishing with my mom and my brother and as we were headed back home in the car due to a violent hailstorm that came, one of the most violent thunderstorms I have ever been in, a lightning strike where we had just passed about 5 seconds before and when the lightning hit, I looked back and saw balls of fire going everywhere. I wonder if these lightning balls that people rarely see can have something to do with the after affect of a lightning strike. It sounded and looked like a bomb exploding with small balls of fire coming out.

[@johnduke4120]

Look up the lightning strike that hit the recent volcano eruption.

[@zbubby1202]

How deep was the water? A common occurrence in shallower water is organic material decaying at the bottom and trapping methane gas. Could have been bubbles of methane igniting and propagating up.

[@Jabberwockybird]

People need to made more aware of this. It explains so many urban legends of fairies, and UFOs. They all have a natural explanation.

[@m.a.g.3920]

You have a distorted view of the world, there's nothing natural if there's not supernatural. If something happens it's natural (physis) but that doesn't mean fairies or demons cannot exist, but they are natural, even if they are above the law of the physical world.

[@sadalien9049]

My parents have experienced ball lightning 5+ times. They lived on a hill full of iron and had ball lightning every time there was a big enough storm. It was in northern Alabama, U.S.A.

[@thyfloatingfetus8681]

Usually white people make up stories to seem more interesting soooo, I don’t believe you

[@Deathend]

@@thyfloatingfetus8681 casual racism, in my KZbin? It's more common than you think! For real though, anyone that sees this please report them for racism.

[@danieldevito6380]

Iron has nothing to do with ball lightning. One of the #1 theories on ball lightning is that it has something to do with high amounts of silica in the ground. Ball lightning is also one of rarest weather phenomena there is, if not THE rarest. So, I highly doubt your parents witnessed ball lightning even once, let alone 5 times.

[@_heidi_]

@@danieldevito6380 but god what if they did? There's barely anything known about ball lightning it doesn't seem like that far of a stretch to at least check you know?

[@danieldevito6380]

@@_heidi_ There's 1 things that's WELL known about Ball Lightning, and that it's EXTREMELY rare. Too rare for someone to have seen it so many times.

[@RONWOLPA]

it was a warm summer night of 1972 , a friend of mine and me were walking down a street. A storm was imminent. Then as we approached a vacant lot we saw something very similar to the lightening phenomenon on video , leaving the lot and crossing the street. In our case the "lightening ball" went up nearly 300 feet and seconds later landed on the ground. We felt a static electricity sensation on our clothes and hair. It took 30 seconds to extinguish itself. Sort of scaring.

[@TheGRACEBIBLECOLLEGE]

Keep practicing. Imminent...

[@kkhunt7]

It was just Kyle Reese returning from the future to save the world.

[@peterpemrich6962]

@@kkhunt7 just stop dude is anyone the slightest bit original anymore. This comment section is full of that already. Plus why try to be funny in a reply to someone with a legit story? Could've just posted it in the regular thread with the other "jokes"

[@vg6761]

@@peterpemrich6962 sir this is a wendys

[@MsNooneinparticular]

Something like this came through my mom's TV when I was little. We had one of those old rooftop satellites & assumed lightning hit it, but the way the fire "came through the TV" into the room freaked us out so bad we had to run!

[@joannag4177]

These things are indeed very real, scary and fascinating all rolled (no pun intended) into one. Back in late 60s, I did not personally witness it but a ball of light went through the open window of my neighbors' apartment. It burned a bunch of stuff in its path, then literally flew back out the same window it came in. My neighbors were petrified, and couldn't stop talking about it.

[@crystalnavarro8012]

Actually saw one a few years ago like volley ball size maybe a bit bigger, it was during a thunderstorm it went through the glass door hovered for about 3 seconds then shot back out through the glass door. There was no damage, there was a little bit of a sound like a light hiss to nearly no sound. It was an experience that not many get so I am definitely intrigued to finding out more.

[@kenjidev576]

Never seen one change direction. It can go through glass though and seemingly not damage it, on a level visible to us.

[@bedhead5410]

I am a fairly skeptical person - but I legitimately saw one of these with my friend as a teenager! I even reached out to her recently to make sure it wasn’t a dream haha! She confirmed that it definitely wasn’t! It was orange-ish, sparkly, and floated right past my bedroom window! It was actually super magical and pretty. I just remember us both going silent for a moment, and then she looked at me and said, “Okay, am I hallucinating or did you see that too?” Haha!

[@bedhead5410]

@@E-Kat actually Ekaterina, if you read further down, I said that there was another witness there. I hadn’t spoken to this girl in about 10 years, so this was the first time I reached out to her. She and I never talked about it again because of how strange it was until I brought it up. So? I legitimately DID see it, as I have witness to back it up! I’m glad you believe me, but I didn’t misuse the word.

[@deadpxn3517]

​ @Ekaterina Why are you so angry over grammar when yours is far worse than the original commenter? You are misinterpreting the definition of the word "legitimate" in this context. 3. Informal "truly; genuinely." That person made no error and you're fed up with this person over nothing. Then you pointed out how you're mad how people say "I was like" or whatever you seem to be judging the complexity of peoples vocabulary for some reason when it genuinely has no bearing on you. Language evolves naturally over time and "legitimately" has been an informal way of saying "I'm being serious" for a long time. Now if you wanna get mad over the misuse of the word "literally" that's a completely different story. ;)

[@E-Kat]

@@deadpxn3517 so sorry, I'm legitimately sorry! 🥀

[@nickkiser8958]

He legitimately used that word right

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

It came straight out of super mario world believe me.

[@richardwadd9769]

I decided to do some in-depth research into ball lightning, and what I found shocked me.

[@andrianroque5937]

what

[@richardwadd9769]

@@andrianroque5937 it’s a joke

[@nadirahcroom1938]

😂😂😂

[@no.problem1234]

In my elementary school in another country, they used to warn us about these all the time. They said that if it ever gets into your house, you’re supposed to not move because if you move, it will explode. One of my old friends witnessed one and said that it flew through the window and disappeared into a socket.

[@WaterBabyKendra]

“Remain humble in the face of the unknown”

[@chumbasauce5428]

In the face of a lightning ball

[@rjak187]

@Hassan Rashid you took the words right out of my mouth 👊🏽

[@lokofranco]

The soul is definitely a "spark of life". Very electric.

[@ShrinkRai]

And in the face of the known, act a fool! 😏

[@ulisesperez3137]

👏 Yes! I believe in the bible. And we don’t know About this phenomenon. I saw it couple times when I was 18 and 21 years old. Whit my girlfriend was really scared and panic. Can’t forget this experience. And talk whit my 17 year son about that.

[@erich930]

Sad how they tried to pass the Belarus video as being real initially, when it is very clear that it is fake. The brightness the ball apparently had didn't reflect in the environment. The apparent lighting effect on the area immediately under the ball is impressive, however.

[@stun9771]

The sound track was added, and the person who put it on the internet, admitted it was done using software visual effects...

[@100Hasake]

If you watch the full video you can see they said it was edited

[@boiboi5402]

@@100Hasake thats why he said "initially" as the first half of this video made it sound like it was real

[@alymig70]

I’ve seen ball lightning, myself, twice. That video may be fake but I’m glad it exists because now I can say, that’s what it looked like. I wish somebody could tell me what and why because I’m convinced that it was supernatural and/or extraterrestrial in nature.

[@spankymymanky6188]

Not true, i have experienced one of these just a few feet from my face when i was a kid, aside from the electricity shooting from it, and the size, thats exactly as i remembered it, the one i saw was about the size of a soft ball maybe a few inches bigger but everything else was perfect. The way it moved was spot on.

[@user_1234_asdf]

Yo story time: A couple years ago, i was driving down some back roads with my friend at night. We came up to a street perpendicular to us, and we both saw this glowing ball of white light, about the size of 2-4 basketballs put together floating down the street really slowly. It was about 4 feet off the ground, and glowing like a glow stick does at night. After like 5 seconds of watching it, it zoomed down the street then disappeared. We were 100% sober and both saw the same thing. Ever since then I have been a lot more open minded. There was not a thunderstorm going on - so it’s hard to believe that it could be ball lightening. The way it was floating in a straight line made it seem conscious.

[@kryptofly]

Knew a lady at work that had one approach her kids and started to slowly circle around them. One of the kids got scared and ran past her through the open into the house. It followed right behind him but from what I can remember he went into another room and shut the door. She said it slowly circled around the dinning room then suddenly jumped into a wall socket and fried all the electrical appliances in the house that were plugged in. She had to get them all replaced, the refrigerator, TV, the VHS player which was popular at the time and expensive. Think the house wiring had to have an electrician replace it. Home insurance took care of everything. Said that thing scared her, acted like it knew what it was doing. It think it might have been attracted to the weak bio electrical charges the kids made by moving. She said it was blue-white and pulsing and made a low humming sound…..

[@ateist]

Is this documented?

[@thealchemist6994]

it's 2021 January....and i find it sooo amazing how so many people experienced this ball of light. I do believe all of your stories... and i hope one day to experience this mystical phenomena our Earth offers.

[@predator7088]

They are 100% Real thats why i end in this video because i just have seen a green one in the sea I even though it was a ufo now i know it was a lithing

[@theangrydweller1002]

@@predator7088 the funny thing about information is that you still don’t know what you saw. you now just have a plausible explanation.

[@theowlhouseseason3213]

Its January 2023, i agree with you, its wonderful

[@avysar7723]

This is one of the best trolling comment section that exist on KZbin

[@Drud]

@@avysar7723 You say that now, but just wait and see who’s the troll here when it happens to you too. 😂🤭

[@labab1048]

I saw it in a restaurant I worked at, myself and another server were the only 2 in the room. It came down the center of the room, and proceeded to vaporize and disappear down at an emergency door. But We saw it, and it’s reflection in the pictures hanging all along the wall in the room. It went right past us and it was about six feet off the ground. Crazy!

[@sarads7877]

When i was a kid a friend of mine told me one night a lightning hit her house, and this ball of electricity appeared right in the middle of her room. It then moved towards the window and disappeared. I always wondered whether she had made it up or not...

[@Mr.V.]

Wow 🤣

[@kajetus0688]

@@sarads7877 of course she made it up Energy cannot stay in a circular form for longer than few seconds also this video is CGI Even author said it

[@artemisgaming7625]

@@kajetus0688 It's amazing the amount of mental gymnastics morons will go through to convince themselves a well documented phenomena doesn't exist.

[@kajetus0688]

@@username6338 ball lightning exists but not in that form

[@sheesbinshahid7082]

One of my aunts had seen a similar thing during rain. She was sitting in her courtyard with her elder son. Suddenly there was as a really loud sound of thunder and then, "It was round like a frying pan and rotating so fast. It felt like it had an eye in the center and directly looking at us." That's what she said.

[@siddharthchaudhary7749]

Jim Corbett has mentioned regarding this phenomenon in "Temple Tiger and more man eaters of Kumaon"while he was going to hunt down Talla Des man eater

[@unathandavis]

They always talk about this in Jamaica 🇯🇲 apparently it's a lil more common there, I've never seen one.

[@robertochesa1045]

"...a good remainder to remain as humble as we are curious in the face of the UNKNOWN" best line!!

[@zoramahnamte9760]

a rare aerial phenomenon in the form of a luminous sphere that is generally several centimetres in diameter. It usually occurs near the ground during thunderstorms, in close association with cloud-to-ground lightning.

[@exexe8999]

In the video from Russia there's no ball lightning, it's an electric arc. You can notice high voltage power lines there. During a thunderstorm the wind brings closer together the power lines and the arc is formed.

[@willl389]

fed

[@yungred4135]

nice theory buddy but that’s definitely far from the truth

[@sylviacottle4649]

You could have 100 of your fellow brothers with eye witness accounts and video footage, still, some will stand in defiance and claim they are all lying and thier eyes and hearts tricked them. The truth to our world is not through shutting down possibilities but to opening our minds and broadening our horizons.

[@hobosorcerer]

Guys, he's only talking about the Russian video-- he's not saying that everything here is fake.

[@superALA-ff6us]

@@yungred4135 yeah. The only other logical explanation is a 15 meters big ball of just lightning that hasn't been found naturally nor artificially by scientists

[@FuturesPast1]

When I was a child I was in my classroom and everyone were reading their textbooks. A bad thunder storm came through the area with huge booms of lightning and thunder and downpours of rain. The thunder was so loud it sounded like bombs were going off and the room kept shaking. I happened to glance up and saw a glowing ball go floating past the chalkboard and out the window. I could not believe what I just saw. The rest of the class never glanced up from their textbooks and nobody else noticed it. I thought I was crazy and seeing things, but now I know it was real.

[@alaricshiran9189]

this is very rare ,once in a life time opportunity, my grandparents and my parents have seen 1 , they said that it could see and navigated through obstacles till it disappeared

[@Judas_1989]

Me and 7 other people witnessed a ball lightning in 2004, it was absolutely facinating yet scary AF. When the ball lighting disappeared, we all felt normal again and were discussing why we all felt so scared while looking at it. Just weird.

[@loser3829]

From deja Vu moments to seeing weird things this is just another glitch in The matrix

[@srirachayaya]

when i was little, i learned about ball lighting from an episode of the mysteries of alfred the hedgehog. i swear a week later, my dad was driving us to my grandmas house and it was raining and a ball of lightning appeared but he kept telling me it’s not what i thought it was.

[@masontroglen3413]

We saw this in Florida on a balcony at the don ceaser overlooking the water.. There was tons of heat lightning non stop and this orb of light spinning across the water, it was getting struck by the heat lightning spinning like crazy and even shot particles out of it.. Like sparks flying from it... Hard to explain was insane though

[@alanwisse192]

Funny thing is I was chased by ball lightning after a bolt hit a transformer above me and it looked and acted more like the footage crossing the railroad tracks. One difference was it was about 8 mini balls whizzing past me while it crackled, popped and exploded. My dogs were with me and it definitely chased us.

[@AlexParks121]

The only thing it saw in you was a ground cable

[@Kyo-uz1zi]

​@@AlexParks121lmfaoooooooo

[@brandonberger6181]

When I was a kid in the late 90’s, I’d sit at the window and watch every storm that would roll through in the summer. One day, I was at my grandma’s house and her and I watched a storm at the window together. We saw a ball of blue light come swooping down onto her street out in front of her house, it moved much faster than in the fake video and made a humming/buzzing sound as it went. It exploded as it hit a tree, it literally blew the bark right off it. My grandma was convinced it was an Angel and for years, she had me convinced as well until I read about ball lightning. It’s real, but it seems to be so rare that we can’t even really get it on video, and the ones we do get end up being fake 😒 It would be nice if a scientist would try and recreate it in a controlled environment so we could understand the phenomenon better

[@SilverDreamweaver]

If only we could recreate lightning in a controlled environment, then maybe we could do the same for ball lightning. But I think we can create the same ionization caused by lightning.

[@opolskiowcaburz9929]

Kinda hard to recreate lightning that we don't understand and don't know anything about how its made

[@KentFPV]

@@opolskiowcaburz9929 no one says science is easy

[@schraderclemens6122]

Considering how many people have security cameras or doorbell cameras nowadays it is unlikely that there are so few rercorded cases.

[@fasted8468]

They have. Martin fleischmann memorial project. Soviets did it a few times but it's propensity to explode and cast strange radiation is what scares people off

[@barackobama7761]

When I was a kid I remember going outside from my apartment to watch the rain when suddenly, lightning strikes right infront of a small structure for the boiler room, and a beach ball sized ball of lightning appeared for a second but what I saw wasn't anything like in the video. You could actually see through the ball and small lightning bolts were forming around it then it popped and made a loud thunder. Craziest thing I have ever seen

[@jamesmiddleton8335]

Imagine chilling, ball lightning comes up infront of you and you just hear "I'VE GOT ANOTHER CONFESSION TO MAKE..." And then disappears into thin air.

[@Magst3r1]

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[@virtusetglorie]

Underrated comment

[@kurakunyy9631]

Seeing it outside: 😲 Seeing it in your room: 💀

[@OG1919]

In my experience real ball lightning from Nature makes noise. At times it can sound like rapid fire pops much like firecrackers. In the Rocky Mountains there is ball lightning that shoots down off the mountains is how I found out about it. The noise of firecrackers traveling down the mountains.

[@fadedn8v314]

🤣😂 I seen one inside my girlfriend's room early in the am. Explain that! Lol it can appear any where, any time. No human can explain it because its supernatural.

[@hobosorcerer]

@@fadedn8v314 These are clearly natural phenomena, even if we can't explain exactly how they form indoors.

[@JohnMkrv]

Never had the opportunity to get close to it, I was only 7 years old when I saw it

[@BlenderStudy]

That's an excellent video clip. Thank you for the update, History..!! :)

[@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden]

Around July of 2021, me and dad were visiting Valley Ho in Scottsdale. A tornado had occurred and morphing lightning strikes kept occurring. I saw what I thought was a UFO which was actually a ball lighting in the distance, I started filming it but the footage that was recorded on my phone is now lost after it stopped working long ago. It was unbelievable. The next morning though, I almost got struck by lightning which multiple lightning bolts struck a bunch of trees right by Paradise Valley. The night before, I was in the patio of my hotel room with my shirt off and was like the guy from Titanic. A lot of Arizonans can relate to that scene from the movie.

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Chinny chin chin ram? What happened to the light flat cresent face with the dark long nose rat hiding behind it ? 😭

[@theknightking4379]

It's crazy , yesterday evening in a sudden moment I surprisingly witnessed it happen as I was looking outside my window and I saw a small and glowing uneven ball of blue light slowly hovering over the surface of a Tin Roof and saw it just disappear into air. It all happened so fast within a fraction of seconds that I couldn't even react or get to capture a photo or a video. And today I saw this video come up on my suggestion.

[@kitcat2449]

I've seen one of these, but way smaller, about the size of a fist. I couldn't believe my eyes. I watched it in awe and horror while it circled around a streetlight before it quickly changed its direction and flew behind the house, as if startled that someone was watching it. It was super bright. The brightest thing I've seen in nature. This happened in finland in the early winter. I wish I had my phone with me. Maybe a ball lightning too?

[@bracoop2]

To be honest I think they attribute sightings of supernatural or paranormal events as something natural so they don’t have to worry about it.

[@kitcat2449]

@@bracoop2 Could be, but at least in this video it's crackling and zapping so it could truly be an electric ball. The one I saw didn't let out any noise and the movement was oddly animal like. Like the ball was having fun and then got startled, so I'm still a bit unsure whether it was indeed a ball lightning or something completely different. I've had a few vague, possibly explainable, paranormal experiences (poking, cold spots, sudden cold puffs of air to my neck or face, tv light turning on despite it not being connected to the wall) in that home but nothing compared to the light ball. I'm 100% sure it was really there and I wasn’t imagining. It is one of the most horrifying and exciting experiences I've had so far. There used to be an old barn house at that exact same spot before. Also because it was a row house, the ball was closer to my neighbor, a friend, whose dad had passed away at a young age a few years prior. It really makes you wonder about the paranormal side. I've seen a red splotch flying above her room too while I was taking the trash out. It looked a bit weird, like a big red glowing leaf, so I quickly asked her if they were using their fireplace. She told me they never used it and freaked out, but I think it could've been a lost spark from another house's fireplace, that somehow managed to stay alight in the cold air, so I haven't given this one too much thought.

[@Arpitthis]

7 years ago, I was sitting in balcony enjoying the rain and suddenly lighting fall down very near on my neighbor's roof then 4 electrical orbs same as the video was there they last for some time then disappeared..... That was a very horrible experience and 5 people in our neighborhood also saw that. Tvs and fridges and other electric devices are also fused off because of them.

[@milos1336]

I've seen this i. The age of 5. It stuck into my memory for good. The bright ball falls next to a window in school, and when it touches the ground, there was a loud bang, like the lightning strike.

[@Dunce524]

Look at that little guy roaming around the rail road,it’s like an unwanted pet😀

[@luisgonzalez2976]

Lol the terminator has came !

[@JWolfe-xt5nr]

Best comment ever.

[@chickengenius4202]

T-1000

[@twiston43]

come

[@chumbasauce5428]

The terminator came??????

[@Driven2Beers]

The best ball lightning is phased and in the 40 watt range. 😄

[@95KIPPIE]

We had a lightning ball go through our yard and into our barn full Of hay. Luckily it went through the barn out the other doors and didn't touch one strand. Otherwise, it would've burned the barn to the ground. But it was one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen

[@bdan6954]

No, that never happened.

[@digitaldritten]

​@B Dan you never happened

[@OfficialMeep]

I just found out about this and then I rememberd, when I was little my grandmother told a story about ball lightning that she saw it in a house and my parents said don't tell him those lies and no one believed her, I guess she was not lying.

[@MyVariousRandom]

My mum saw one yesterday. My ban also used to tell me stories how one flew in through an open window,she said she used a silk scarf to guide it back out.

[@JuanRivera-jy4jx]

if that's not CGI or something then that's awesome.

[@club4ghz]

I have seen one of those when I was a kid hanging in the field few feet above the ground right before the storm.

[@IgnoremE-cp7pu]

bingo my friend its like a S.T.A.L.K.E.R game anomaly very simmilar

[@mikev2116]

​@@IgnoremE-cp7pu There was a rare artifact in that ball lightning, but no Veles detector to get it.

[@Onitsuka01]

You clearly didn't watched the whole video. It was doctored

[@herbertspanecki7029]

Look up microwaving grapes, artificial ball lighting, it's basically plasma

[@darth2205]

I was around 6 years old when I saw one of these. It entered the house that me, my mum and the housemaid were living in. I clearly remember it looked like, like a photo i can recall it. It was so terrifying . My mom screamed and the maid shrieked. While I was also glued to them staring at it as it disappeared after a while.

[@arturoarteaganunez]

During a storm back home in South America I was extending the antena of my radio when I saw a beautiful sparkly blue light coming down from the ceiling I was completely amazed look it on it never seen something like that that I couldn’t move my self at all ! And it hit my arm ,and it pushed me back and it disappeared. It was so scared .

[@Driven2Beers]

When my mom was a little girl, she witnessed ball lightning come through an open dining room window during dinner. It was slightly larger than a baseball. Everyone froze as it slowly floated around, finally making contact with the chandelier. It disappeared with a bunch of loud pops and crackles. Needless to say, everyone kind of lost their appetites.

[@OblivionFalls]

The main 'Ball Lightening' video used here is CGI created by Andrei Trukhonovets. You can find the original version on his KZbin channel. The original video is way higher quality and it's still on KZbin.

[@JP-dw1fp]

I saw ball lightning once here in central Fl.. It was during one of our usual summer daytime thunderstorms. I saw a ball of light about 4 or 5 feet around bouncing along the road crossing in front of my car toward the sidewalk. It bounced along much like what's shown in the doctored video until it hit an electrical box on the ground. There was a loud thunder like sound and sparks coming out of the box. It knocked out electricity for an entire subdivision. These electrical boxes are often hit by normal lightning during these storms here in Fl.

[@davidvignola7060]

When I was approximately 12 in quebec Canada on a native reservation. I was sledding with 3-4 friends and this exact same thing appeared out of no where and floated this way down a path. We still talk about it today and can't explain it. But it was larger, it was probably the size of small car. It looked exactly like this but it was semi dark outside and was more of a blue purple color and moved a lot faster. We saw it go down a path and we watched the light go out as it made it like 20/30 feet. The odd thing is that I started on the incline of the hill we were sliding on and maintained the same hight off the ground as it moved downwards to the path......

[@johncerdena1421]

My father saw one of these when he was young in the Philippines, but instead of lighting/electricity, it was a fire. They call it santelmo (saint elms fire)

[@kirkenstiensmonster6522]

I'm so glad they zoomed in and pointed out that blue sphere. I missed it the first time.

[@CleverGirlAAH]

Where?

[@sherlockwatson101]

Witnessed ball lightning in Colorado Springs, while camping. I thought it was fascinating but didn’t think too much on it, believing at the time (I was 8) that it was a common phenomenon

[@cliffordpogue4280]

Dude the only time I have ever seen it was in Colorado springs as well I was going to the rainbow gathering back in 06 and it was late July when I woke up from my rent went out to go pee and seen a giant ball of lightning 🌩️ coming right towards me. Will never forget that night.

[@nanowarrior01]

my brother and one of his friends experienced a ball lightning when they were kids, they explained it as a pinpoint light seemingly out of nowhere and it kinda flashed like a camera flash and was gone. It left both of them blinded for a brief moment.

[@gretschcorvette73]

I saw it during a storm in Taranaki, New Zealand about 1980 when I was 7 yrs old. There was my brother and sister plus two kids from our neighbour. We were upstairs in our 2 story house sitting at a large window watching the storm. The ball lightning passed the window at our eye level travelling from the left to the right at quite a fast speed. It was about 2 to 3 meters out from the window and about 1 to 1.5 meters in diameter. It was very bright but more yellow in colour than any footage I have seen in videos. It basically looked like a Big ball of fire. the sound it made as it passed was quite loud and it was like a zipping kind of sound. Unfortunately being a kid and being back in 1980 we never got any footage of it. Definitely was an amazing experience which I feel privileged to have seen and grateful to have survived. Would have been great to be able to share it with everyone.

[@mikekaup5252]

In 1957 I was at my dad's place on Lake Fenwick in Kent, WA. A bolt of lightning hit the top of a large Maple tree in the middle of the park. The bolt turned into a ball and circled the trunk until it hit the ground and sat sizzling for about two minutes and then vanished. It was sighting never to be forgotten!

[@fouraces1949]

3:00 I saw that floating in a meadow at our cabin. My Pop and I were sitting on the front porch getting ready to leave soon and my dad said hey what’s that? And I looked toward where he was pointing, it’s a big open meadow, and it was that ball of lightning floating around about a quarter mile away from us. My mom came out and saw it and was so scared begged us to hurry up and leave. We watched it for maybe 10/15 seconds and then it around the corner of the hill and disappeared out of sight. I was about 11 years old and I’ll never forget it. I have been searching the web and yt videos to find out what we saw. This is The closest I’ve seen yet. Also one more thing it was so hot and not a cloud in the sky.Crazy memory

[@zakkarystevens6247]

Imagine the phenomenal things that happen here and in the universe we can't even lay eyes on.

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

The reason I hate news like; researchers have found something that should not be there.. FO, it should be there, because it obviously is there or like that.. We hoomans, know nothing bout our seas, planet, solar system.. lets act all together and act like we know whats out there while were not🤦🏼 there is still so much to discover, explore and realize. For instance, the fact this phenomenon is still not officially acknowledged as its existence in the first place, even if we still dont know what it exactly is. The ignorance..

[@truthman2306]

Imagine... Ever heard of electric charge?

[@truthman2306]

@@ClosestNearUtopia I know exactly what it is... Personally because I saw one in my bedroom as a very sure way of proving to me what it was made of as it was that close. One step and an arms reach and i could touch it. It wasnt like any of these or other online illustrations. It was 1 inch diametre translucent blue tinged sphere containing many electric static sparks like a plasma globe. It had a 5 or 6 inch diametre glow. The glow was like that of plasma but didn't have a border. Not like the inner smaller sphere. The plasma like glow was thick like fog where you could just see through at its deepest points. The glow darker blue than the electric coloured sphere. I know exactly what it is. But at this stage in my abstract perception of life. I'm not sure whether it's a good thing, a moral thing to tell people. But if you want to know... Research brain death. ⚡ And think... When does a soul leave a body... And when does it enter... Think.. What is electric charge and does it ever change like matter.. Then listen to the songs "sound and vision" by David bowie. And "dreamer" by super tramp. Then and i mean this.... Think of a match box. Imagine it. Do it until you get bored. Now think about looking at your minds eye in a mirror. And you tell me how researchers and physics can explain something thst is clearly not dictated to like the laws of physics dictate. Our mind isn't made of brain cells... Brain cells limit our mind. Being that your mind is electric charge, the void in which your second eyes see, and the void in which is eternal under the laws of physics. Now listen to Midnight blue by Electric Light Orchestra.. Realise from the songs and the science behind braindeath that I'm not alone in my calculations. And you will be what they call enlightened. If God is.. ⚡. Then it only makes sense why matter solves the problem. The abstract, eternal state of being. Boredom. You'll have to go from he

[@work90]

@@ClosestNearUtopia for real. Many mainstream Scientists just want to feel smart. They pride themselves on following"methods" but that doesn't take away their fault emotions away. They're still flawed humans

[@PurpleRegulator]

@@truthman2306 god is poopy

[@Heythebrodyboy]

I seen that before. Nobody knew what it was but since it was sparkling out lightning they thought it was dangerous so they told us to get far from it. I was so scared

[@rars0n]

It's absolutely amazing how common ball lightning is in internet comments despite how uncommon it is in real life. By this point, if it were really that common, we'd have solid documentation of it and not just random anecdotes that sound exactly the same.

[@TectonicWalrus]

I dug deep into the comments to find this lol,

[@LM632]

Videos like these could be attracting people who've once witnessed ball lightening, so the comments end up becoming enriched with eye-witness testimonies

[@Minetendo0000]

My mom once told me that back when she lived in Russia, while she was at home during a thunderstorm she saw a lightning ball outside the window. Her mom always said that she should never move when she sees one. Since my mom told me this, I've been curious about what this thing is. It seems like something like this should have an obvious answer all over the internet right now!

[@elusive6119]

I probably saw something similar in 2007. I went to the garage to close the gate during a thunderstorm and when I came out I saw that a ball the size of an orange was floating over the wire that went under the canopy in the backyard. Golden-orange is not a bright glow about 20cm in diameter, with a bright blue-white pulsating spark inside and purple discharges. It looks like a souvenir plasma lamp. The balloon floated over the wire at a height of half a meter, as if it was pushed by the wind, but clearly along the live wire. The anomaly was five meters or so away. The problem was that it was a garage, and there was gasoline and stuff. I ran to the electrical panel in a couple of seconds and hit the emergency disconnector. Then I ran into the house and turned off the common fuse, pulled the power from the laptop, etc. I looked out the window and saw that the tarnished ball was also floating at the garage gate, but already chaotically and it was blown away by the wind, after which the ball flashed brightly blue several times and went out. In total it took 10-15 seconds and I found that the slippers were left in the garage and I was running barefoot. ps I have already read about ball lightning in the old (50-60s) recommendations on behavior in a thunderstorm. And there was a section about fireballs with a description of a dozen deaths. Namely, due to the lack of lightning protection, it was recommended to turn off the common disconnector during a thunderstorm. Just my case, very old power grids. As I understood it, it was a smoldering discharge ionizing nitrogen and oxygen and hydrogen in the air. The blue-white glow is ionized nitrogen, the purple glow is oxygen, and the red-orange glow is hydrogen. There was a little rain, so there was a water suspension and besides, the noise of the rain drowned out the quieter sounds and I did not understand whether the anomaly was making a sound or not, rather yes, but... Probably the water in the air was decomposed by a smoldering discharge into hydrogen and oxygen, but where did it take so much energy from? I read some versions of physicists and came to the conclusion that they are partially right in their theories, and this rare and dangerous phenomenon is a random combination of atmospheric factors giving an unexplored electrostatic effect. By the way, I violated the recommendation, it was not recommended to move quickly so as not to attract the discharge, especially to run. Which occurs when unknown natural factors coincide with old power grids that are unprotected by grounding. That is why there are so few such cases now. either after a close lightning strike or a discharge without thunder. Besides, you just won't have time to photograph it. Literally a few seconds. When all your thoughts are focused on one thing - to get away from it. Instincts are literally screaming - run!

[@elusive6119]

Indeed, it is not worth moving, this causes a potential difference or air movement that can provoke the movement of this plasma ball. Potentially, this phenomenon is extremely dangerous. Sometimes the ball goes out quietly, and sometimes it explodes with enough force to destroy a small light structure.

[@elusive6119]

I probably saw something similar in 2007. I went to the garage to close the gate during a thunderstorm and when I came out I saw that a ball the size of an orange was floating over the wire that went under the canopy in the backyard. Golden-orange is not a bright glow about 20cm in diameter, with a bright blue-white pulsating spark inside and purple discharges. It looks like a souvenir plasma lamp. The balloon floated over the wire at a height of half a meter, as if it was pushed by the wind, but clearly along the live wire. The anomaly was five meters or so away. The problem was that it was a garage, and there was gasoline and stuff. I ran to the electrical panel in a couple of seconds and hit the emergency disconnector. Then I ran into the house and turned off the common fuse, pulled the power from the laptop, etc. I looked out the window and saw that the tarnished ball was also floating at the garage gate, but already chaotically and it was blown away by the wind, after which the ball flashed brightly blue several times and went out. In total it took 10-15 seconds and I found that the slippers were left in the garage and I was running barefoot. ps I have already read about ball lightning in the old (50-60s) recommendations on behavior in a thunderstorm. And there was a section about fireballs with a description of a dozen deaths. Namely, due to the lack of lightning protection, it was recommended to turn off the common disconnector during a thunderstorm. Just my case, very old power grids. As I understood it, it was a smoldering discharge ionizing nitrogen and oxygen and hydrogen in the air. The blue-white glow is ionized nitrogen, the purple glow is oxygen, and the red-orange glow is hydrogen. There was a little rain, so there was a water suspension and besides, the noise of the rain drowned out the quieter sounds and I did not understand whether the anomaly was making a sound or not, rather yes, but... Probably the water in the air was decomposed by a smoldering discharge into hydrogen and oxygen, but where did it take so much energy from? I read some versions of physicists and came to the conclusion that they are partially right in their theories, and this rare and dangerous phenomenon is a random combination of atmospheric factors giving an unexplored electrostatic effect. By the way, I violated the recommendation, it was not recommended to move quickly so as not to attract the discharge, especially to run. Which occurs when unknown natural factors coincide with old power grids that are unprotected by grounding. That is why there are so few such cases now. either after a close lightning strike or a discharge without thunder. Besides, you just won't have time to photograph it. Literally a few seconds. When all your thoughts are focused on one thing - to get away from it. Instincts are literally screaming - run!

[@NorThenX047]

unreal. great explanation. I'm skeptical but very open minded to sightings. Only thing of interested i have seen in my 30+ years is a ufo when i was 27. Been watching the sky since i was a kid and finally witnessed the unexplainable. Small glowing craft at a very high altitude doing an impossible manouver followed by travelling 10's of miles in a second...from a previously slow speed. interestingly , there was a plane along the horizon as well as 10 or 15 satellites that i had been tracking giving me an excellent perspective on distance and speed. crystal clear night not near any cities. amazing

[@bobbydigital8243]

all these years I thought I saw an alien ship zig zaging through the skies, this explains what I saw

[@Yashdeepverma18]

I have also seen this. I am a resident of a village in India (Madhya Pradesh). I saw it when I was on my farm and it was raining heavily with lightning.I saw a glowing object like a big round ball from which saffron colored light was emanating And after some time that ball gets blasted.

[@Max-E-Mum]

Nice Kabhi Madhya Pradesh Jana parega

[@shadeofmercury]

I've seen ball lightning in real life. Interestingly, also in Russia. It was Moscow 2007. It was floating between buildings during the night. About the size of a beach ball, this brilliant glowing orb of light just floated in front of my building, was looking dead at it from the 7th floor. I had no idea what it was at the time and was totally mystified, but now I know it had to have been this.

[@kg-it9zm]

I have seen it too, more than once in Goa. It's amazing to witness such a phenomena. There was no sound at all, at first I thought it was fireworks, but the way it got bigger, from a single dot to a full blown circle like the one in the video, while being stationary in the middle of the sky. Eventually it fell down and disappeared by reducing in size before it hit the horizon.

[@Mr.V.]

Where in Goa did you see.? What were you during during that time.?

[@kg-it9zm]

@@Mr.V. I was just sitting in the empty plot behind the Bambolim church with my friend, I mean we would go there very often and this was not the first time we were there. She and I we work togather, so we would meet after work and talk about all sort of stuff, we were in very serious conversation and as I sat there looking at her, since she was talking and simultaneously looking at the night sky behind her in the background while thinking about what to say next, when it happened. She is native to that place, so when I told her what I had noticed obviously she was shocked and terrified but, then mentioned that in her village there has been multiple accounts of people who have seen these orbs for generations. I insisted coming back to that place again even though my friend was not happy about that idea, and this time we both saw it and it had a blue tinge, before it vanished behind the pitch black foliage of the forest next to the empty plots.

[@Mr.V.]

@@kg-it9zm maybe it's all a mass hysteria. Ball Lightning cannot fundamentaly exist. Where in Goa u stay.?

[@kg-it9zm]

May be, but extending over different time periods, I doubt that. I am not saying ball lighting exist but, i know what i saw, besides i have an eidetic memory, I can describe that incident vividly even now. I have seen comets and artificial satellites too. This was something else. I currently live in pune, but my family is in Miramar.

[@bassrooten2217]

@@Mr.V. love that finally we have someone who completely understands all the fundamental rules of nature. You should start calling meteorologists and physicists, they’d love to hear all the knowledge you have

[@losecheria5832]

It's so crazy how many people don't realize that the first video about he ball lightning is fake, made using CGI.

[@Purple_guy1234]

When I was a (kid over five) I saw something just like the ball of lighting and it looks similar to the electro stalker ngl

[@spectrumstudios4848]

All I can think about is the Metro 2033 “Anomaly”.

[@user-rd5rl9oo2o]

*Stalker

[@spectrumstudios4848]

@@user-rd5rl9oo2o specifically the Metro version of the “Anomaly”

[@rizkinadakonveksi8092]

Yep

[@thegheymerz6353]

Great series! Keep it up. I really appreciate the serious tone and lack of sensationalism. Paranormal events deserve a more serious look. Thank you.

[@James-hq1yv]

Oh please this episode was pure bias. The expert clearly says there was no evidence of ball lightning. The only reason why she left the door opened for a natural weather event is basically because anything is possible and we don't understand everything about electricity. The host used the God of the gaps fallacy and concluded and gave the verdict *without any evidence* that the event was ball lightning. How did he come to that conclusion without evidence?... because of biases.

[@jonathonrobinson6081]

Paranormal? LMAO!

[@DembaiVT]

I struggle to call something like this paranormal. It is a rare but completely normal phenomenon. It happens not just to the superstitious or those who go looking for it. It happens even to scientists too shocked to record it. It's unreasonable for science to ignore those facts, though it may be unimportant and meaningless as anything other than "it can happen". To gaslight us all when it's something so many people have witnessed it without any commonality of being attention seeking or having religious belief or or seeking out paranormal things or drug use or whatever is infuriating.

[@hylianchriss]

The serious tone? This entire video is a joke! That lightning ball was obviously someone messing around in After Effects. Why do you people believe this? There are tons of similar fake videos, ranging from Aliens to Big Foot.

[@piplawrence2981]

It’s amazing the way these editing software apps can get these results. Amazing trick photography.

[@danholmesfilm]

I have a faint memory of seeing one of these cross the road behind my house when I was 7 or so.. almost have convinced myself it wasn't real or it was a dream or something, barely can even picture it anymore but definitely remember a large yellowish ball of light slowly crossing the street then disappearing. weird.

[@mylesmcmanus2847]

I came home from church one day with my mother. I was 7 and she told me to stay in the car as she felt the Holy Spirit speak to her. Around the time we would have been at the door, ball lightning came and literally exploded at the front door of our house. Pretty wild

[@synthoelectro]

There are reports that it can kill you.

[@eyes2c..519]

Amazing story

[@ElBantosClips]

Might have seen one once. Was watching a very active storm in the hills behind our house at around midnight. At some point I saw a light in the distance (could've been 1 or 2km, or maybe even up to 5-10km) start maybe 20-30m in the air and dive down towards the ground and it disappeared. It was like a meteor come to think of it, except it wasn't in the sky obviously as it was cloudy

[@Donkilluminatii703]

I just saw what I think would be a ball of lightning like 20 minutes ago. I saw a small strike of lightning hit the utility pole wires (or it appeared to) and then the "Ball Lightning" just stayed in that spot for 5-7 seconds before it disappeared. Leaving a small flame (it looked like) and maybe some sparks then it went away completely. It was like looking into a strong glare somewhat blinding. Very cool to see! (if that's what I saw).

[@Donkilluminatii703]

The thunder, which wasn't too loud and lightning, happened at the exact same time too. Pretty cool.

[@treyjones9550]

I've seen this when I was 13teen. I was in my kitchen doing homework and it appeared in front of me the size of a great fruit. It shined so bright it was all white. It disappeared and then thunder rang out thru the house. My dad thought I was lying, but my mom believed me cause my eyes were burnt as if I had looked at an arc welder.

[@tomasssemevics5509]

My grandpa witnessed this one day, he was in the kitchen during thunderstorm, talking with his neighbor and at one point he saw this ball of lightning coming through window, after that it slowly went through the other part of the house until it went out of other window and later on they heard a not a big explosion, so the ball of lightning explodes too.

[@stevenbaer5999]

Ball Lightning is actually a little known, very extremely rare to watch, and bizarre phenomena. Blue ones are actually very extremely dangerous, they can actually cause charring and vaporize objects with a loud sonic boom. It's actually a blue - white in color. There's actually a Red one which is actually quite harmless but it's still a lightning, it's actually a reddish - orange glow.

[@Ryan-ce1oc]

I very much doubt they are real. Ball lightning would have to be an electricity generator to sustain itself, which as far as I know breaks conservation of energy (because where does the energy come from) which is not possible.

[@illi1059]

yes but it's not usually found in near the ground if i remember

[@n1ghtwhirl]

@@Ryan-ce1oc where did the big bang come from?

[@charlesferreira3597]

@@Ryan-ce1ocI once saw small balls of fire come out of an explosion from a lightning strike that was extremely violent and looked like a bomb had dropped, so I do think it is a real phenomenon because I saw it myself, but it was probably due to pieces of asphalt being thrown into the air, but not sure. My mom and brother were with me inside the car and the lightning strike fell about 100 feet away, maybe less. So, since those balls of fire formed due to a lightning strike, I don’t doubt that a rarer phenomenon can cause these balls of energy to travel longer distances and be caused by something besides lightning hitting the ground. Just look at all the people in the comments who have seen or heard of someone who saw it.

[@GV5]

@@Ryan-ce1ocit comes from electrical energy generated by clouds is my best guess

[@insomniacryan9916]

I’ve never seen ball lightning, but half the weird visual phenomena out there were considered myths until the last few decades, from sprites to the green flash to milky seas, all 100% acknowledged fact now. They only confirmed milky seas 6 months ago. This one hardly seems implausible, lightning just does weird stuff on the regular.

[@untitled_profile]

in 2015 I saw a lightning ball in my backyard @ 2:30AM, I thought someone was trying to break in because I thought the sensor lights turned on, my jaw dropped when I saw a literal basketball sized blue orb of light floating in mid-air about 8-9 feet off the ground, I stared at it until my eyes burned and then it sorta zig-zagged sideways and shot up into the sky. Glad to know I'm not crazy cause my friends never believed me!

[@l_andon.41]

When I was about 12 years old I was staying the night at a friends house, there was a lightning storm and we were hanging out in the Florida room. Shortly after the storm had passed a ball of lightning the size of a large beach ball flew through the backyard as if it had some sort of control. It came from behind a garage, flew around a tree and right passed us. It looked exactly like the glass lightning ball that you would see in a science lab, class, or a spencers store only bigger. That was 30 years ago and till this day I still wonder what it was. If it would’ve flew straight into something I would say “yeah, it was just a ball of lightning” but the way it flew through the yard, dodging things makes me wonder if it could have been some sort of vehicle or something may have had control of it. 👽

[@davidmacphee8348]

I was about thirteen, hard to remember. More that one, single file crossing over the backyards and fences going south. Close to the ground. I was looking out my third floor window. My science teacher had no idea either.

[@archiesvlogmc]

The ball of lightning and fire has been witnessed around the world since early times.

[@stupidshiba]

That’s true, they did say that in the video after all

[@dangezome4865]

And what dose it mean , i have seen it too ,

[@charlesferreira3597]

Yes and they thought it was the devil. I wouldn’t be surprised, as the Bible says he fell like lightning and many people here in the comments have seen it inside their houses, as haunting as it might seem. I would never want to see such a thing inside of where I live.

[@Yungberto415]

I seen it twice about 3-4 years ago in San Francisco, Potrero hill and Geneva and Naples I started crying once I saw this video and the comments now I know I’m not crazy !!

[@andrewhornung2570]

My farther when he was a boy told me that he used to see it going down the alps in Germany and it behaved like it had a mind of its own .

[@hmong_keeb_kwm]

I've seen this once flying over Minneapolis city in the middle of the night while smoking. But no one would ever believe me. .

[@xgodtella7792]

Alien bro ive seen this next door

[@osamabinladen824]

You're just high

[@willrose5424]

they exist. I seen it in Texas.

[@ddkapps]

About the 2nd video, its probably not ball lightning either. You can clearly see it's moving along power lines, you can see the towers, so it's most likely a power arc of some kind. These do indeed sometimes move along the lines, there are many examples online and I've even seen it myself IRL. True ball lightning would not be confined to high voltage areas, it can go anywhere.

[@alexrogers9051]

When I clicked this video I had no idea I was about to learn how the “Foo Fighters” got there band name! Well played sir!!

[@briansmith980]

I worked at a restaurant and a coworker was going out our back door to throw some trash out. There was a storm going on. Just as she opened the door a ball lightning flew past her head and scorched her cheek flew in about 15 feet hit a back wall then bounced off of that and took a right turn and went straight to our big ice maching about 25 more feet away from where it hit the wall. About a year later at my dads house there was a very bad storm happening. My dad had security cameras outside and a ball lightening came under his open carport thats attached to the house. It was shown bouncing around hitting all kinda stuff but then struck the house and blew out all computers and a few other things not plugged into surge protectors.