someone should go here and set up a permanent camera to catch all the instances.

@@chrisauh Hi chrisauh, I was told it’s the most lightning struck place on earth, I don’t know if it’s true or not, but in the “build-up” to the Monsoon season and during the monsoon season, the lightning was spectacular, I lived on one of the highest points of the city and watching the lightning from our verandah while having a drink was a favourite pastime at dusk.

There are Aboriginal stories of "min min" lights which may be ball lightning if not another phenomenon caused by gas

My Dad used to work in Darwin. He said it's a hole.

You saw it often? What are the chances of seeing that phenomenon even once?! You should contact people who study ball lightning and let them know it happens so frequently in this particular place. Seriously, contact them. You could advance science 🙂

option B is to go full 1984 surveillance with EMF shielding for the sole purpose of capturing ball lightning footage.

@@norwegiansmores811 1984 level surveillance should never be an option 😉

Outside of the extreme movement of the supposed “Ball Lightning” this almost sounds like the plasma leftovers of a particularly powerful lightning strike. What happens is that the bolt of lightning will heat the air up so much with the amount of energy it’s dumping that after the bolt ends, you have a very quick lived remainder of Plasma along the path the bolt took. These last long enough to even drift in the winds, but will quickly dissipate right after and produce enough light to glow quite brightly, but not enough to shine. The air is igniting with how much energy is within the bolt of lightning.

@@barstool9156 based on my experiences I cannit confirm nor deny that. As I mentioned I was in a cabin. I can only recall a sizzling sound on the aluminium roof once it crashed into the tree like 3meters from where I was sitting. But honestly, I cant think of how plasma leftovers would sound either, so maybe that is what I described as sizzling.

Grandma should have taken her pills

My grandpa told me almost the same exact thing. Happened when he was a kid in the 1930s

I can attest to that. My grandma told me she saw one coming through her window a couple years ago too

Same for my grandmother in Illinois. I'm guessing it was the 40s when it happened.

I was thinking the same thing 😂

I think this may be a reference to the video game Portal

As far as I have seen no reported injuries have ever happened with ball lightning touching individuals even though it has been reported as damaging structures. It's quite strange.

@@jimmydesouza4375 yes, general people need to survive to report things. Lmfao.

@@marktaylor865 No, there's reports of it passing through people, leaving them completely unharmed, and then immediately passing through a wall and burning a hole in the wall, and things of that nature. They don't make sense from current understandings of physics but ball lighting just in and of itself doesn't so...

nah, you’ll probably hear it coming, because it’s like… made of electricity, you know?

Myth busted or confirmed? Not sure…

Well to be fair, it works well to deter people from approaching it, since if that was ball lightning, they can definitely fry someone

Get out of here, STALKER

My mother would not lie and she told me she saw ball lightning in Cork, Ireland. Her impression was that it was bigger and faster than the clip says. I'd agree that they may differ in speed and size. As well, it would be hard to judge size in relation to distance.

Ball lightning has been investigated by physicists for almost 200 years, but it wasn't until a physicist saw one materialise inside a jet airliner that they became more credible to the scientific community.

@@patrickcorliss8878 I would tend to agree with her about the size and speed. Again, it's hard to judge due to the distance and the fact that it was in the middle of the night, but I would definitely say more like 30-40cm in diameter and moving about twice as fast as he says as well, but I am sure you're right; and I'm REALLY unsure. That said, it was visible from some distance so we know it's not that tiny. But there is another type which I'm not sure I believe in, which is the type that seems to go through walls. That I find very odd; but it's also not what I saw.

Seperate phenomena. St Elmo’s Fire is also very well documented in photos and videos where ball lightning is not

What about the video

​@@IceOfPhoenix88The video is only an illustration, inspired by reports. Alleged videos are much more diverse than reports and likely all fake, many of them quite obviously so.

@@IceOfPhoenix88 could be fake

@@IceOfPhoenix88 he says we never captured one of them

@@rainaldkoch9093 oh ok

Avogadro from transit

Yeah, I think that's commonly understood. The question is not whether it can theoretically happen - we're quite sure it can - but whether it does actually happen in nature.

@@IshayuG It certainly does. It has been observed and reported all throughout history. When we can reliably replicate it with a fraction of the power, its not "theoretically" anymore. Its certain. It is a natural phenomenon since we can reproduce it and it fully obeys the natural laws of physics. So your question of whether it happens in nature is fundamentally illogical.

@@rolandlee6898 how do? Electronic microchips also obeys the laws of physics, but that doesn’t make it a weather phenomenon.

@@IshayuG What you just said is profoundly idiotic. I will give you time to address it yourself first.

@@rolandlee6898 Of course it’s “profoundly idiotic” as it’s an obvious counter to something profoundly idiotic you said to me. The point was, and continues to be, that just because something can happen according to the laws of physics and people claim to have seen it, that does not mean it happens in nature here on Earth, or at all, without our intervention.

Yes, we can even create them in a lab. It's really just a plasma ball hanging out in mid-air. The only real question is does it occur in nature without human interference. We know lightning is a line of plasma that has moved through the atmosphere to find the highest concentration of ionized atoms and create an arc from ground to sky. What I think might be happening is that, just as the arc forms, something happens to path that it was planning to use - could for example be a gust of wind that might blow the path away, causing the plasma to concentrate into a ball to minimize energy. The plasma will then eventually either finish its arc when the opportunity arises (new ionized particles it can use come near it) or fizzle out due to the temperature dropping rapidly due to contact with the surrounding air. But the truth is I don't know. I don't think anybody does - if we knew they'd be much easier to find.

So this would have been 2006 or so

If it's lightning absolutely not.

@Christopher._M I meant physically. I know I'll die but could I

Only once

Can you? Yes.

Though more accurately it'll touch you

They are demons dude the DMT monsters... balllighing is a physical phenomenon thougg dude. /the christian

Bro, it's not that deep