Ball Lightning Real Life
Ball lightning is real it s out there.
Ball lightning real life. Advertisement perhaps one of the most famous ball lightning sightings was by a young czar nicholas grandson to czar alexander ii who witnessed a flaming orb during a. Ball lightning may be more exotic than microwave oven sparks but most scientists are convinced that it is no less real. Ball lightning is an extremely rare and poorly understood atmospheric phenomenon that accompanies electrical storms. Uman chair of the department of electrical computer engineering.
The strange phenomenon can appear in the sky from the size of a golf ball to several. However a recorded case didn t occur until the 18th century when georg richmann a pioneer in research on electricity was killed by what s believed to have been ball lightning. Until recent years most scientists remained skeptical about ball lightning. It goes from 0 40 until 0 47.
Delano ca 10 3 18 during a severe lightning storm i caught a massive ball lightning that lasted 7 seconds. Ball lightning also known as fireballs and ghost lights have spooked sky watchers for hundreds of years. Is ball lightning real. One of the first recorded sightings of ball lightning occurred in 1638 when a great ball of fire came through the window of an english church.
I thought the lightning had struck something but after. Ball lightning is one of the best known natural phenomena that few have seen. Some nineteenth century reports describe balls that eventually explode and leave. It hovers in the air somewhere between a few seconds and a couple minutes with an average of 25 seconds then disappears either silently or with a.