From: Chuck Farley <cf11@coldmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Ball Lightning and Fusion
References: <c2laan$5fpv$1@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <c4hblp$c5al$1@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:11:44 -0400
Organization: Bell Sympatico


On 1 Apr 2004 10:15:05 -0500, jonesrob@emporia.edu wrote:

>
>If ball lightning exists (if probably does)

I vividly recall at age seven or eight, we lived in a farmhouse with a
telephone, but no electricity. During a local thunderstorm,
coincidentally with a very nearby lightning flash, a glowing baseball
sized ball burst from the wall mounted telephone. It was yellow-white,
very bright, and made a noise like a swarm of angry bees. It flew
across the room to a metal-framed sofa-bed, and buzzed around
underneath it for a couple of seconds, before leaping back across to
the phone, and disappearing. My mother was in the room also, and was
very frightened while the object was zooming around. I was fascinated.
The whole incident lasted a few seconds, and the motion of the object
was spasmodic rather than smooth. There were no burn marks or obvious
damage, although the telephone had to be repaired.