Balls of Lightning. Please help decide who is right!

I believe you. People never believe anyone or anything unless they see it or experience it themselves. I have seen balls of lighting out here in the desert in USA where I live many times. It seems to be a UFO. I had a friend who stayed with me see it too. You know what you saw, so too bad who won't trust or believe you. Blessings, M&M

Here is some really good information I found. I've never seen it but have heard and read alot about it. What we know about it. It's a ball of light (orange, red, yellow, blue, or other colors) that slowly drifts parallel to and a few yards (meters) above the ground, sometimes apparently unaffected by breeze or wind. Often it spins as it moves. Sometimes it bounces off the ground or other solid objects. Observers see the light spheres clearly in the daytime —about as bright as a 25 to 100 watt incandescent light bulb. The balls, usually grapefruit size, can be as small as a pea or as large as a beach ball. They last an average of 25 seconds — When does it happen? During a thunderstorm, usually immediately after a lightning strike. Sometimes, though, they occur near the ground without a lightning discharge. Where? Almost anywhere. After a lightning strike, balls can suddenly appear out of the ground as they did for Terry Stetler. Sometimes they descend from clouds or hang in the sky. Within seconds after an Eastern Airlines jet was hit by lightning, a glowing sphere emerged from the pilot's cabin, floated down the aisle, and vanished near the rear lavatory. A fiery sphere burned a basketball-size hole in a screen door, entered an Oregon house, descended to the basement, and wrecked an old upright ironing machine. Why does it happen? We don't know. Although theories number in the hundreds, none is generally accepted. So far, even the best theories only explain some aspects of ball lightning — but not all. The theories propose various causes of ball lightning: • an atmospheric maser • a stable plasma ball • a standing wave of electromagnetic radiation • an electrical discharge similar to corona discharge. • a suspension of fine particles in the air (an aerosol) that interact.

when we have a great lighting show (as I call it) if you look close where the lighting comes up and meats one coming down it could be thought of balls of fire for it looks as if they burst together. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning go here and it tells you about it .

"Ball lightning is a rare phenomenon in which the discharge takes the form of a slowly moving, luminous ball that sometimes explodes and sometimes simply decays." Microsoft Encarta 2005 under "Lightning" Hope this helps more than the rant!

I've never seen it myself, but I would love too. I used to be really into UFO's and that kind of thing, and one of the most common explainations for mysterious lights was ball lightning. One lady I read about had a ball of lightning rise out of the floor of her mobile home, levitate to chest level, then shoot off in another direction. It reportedly bounced around her house for several minutes, giving her several burns before it shot out of the wall. There were burn marks on her floor and wall to confirm this. I'm pretty sure that event happened in the US. I've also heard of "St. Elmo's Fire" which, if I understand it right, is a kind of static electric ball lightning buildup on the mast of old sailing ships. What did it look like? I read another place that ball lightning was rainbow colored. Anyway, simple answer, yes, ball lightning is a well documented natural occurrence. You are not insane - I think... ;-P