I don't think ball lightning is a hallucination caused by EMFs. We did an investigation last October where the clients reported seeing a ball of light come in through the window, land on the bed, and then take off. We went through with an EMF meter and found no unusual readings, but I think it might have been ball lightning.
I don't think ball lightning is a hallucination caused by EMFs. We did an investigation last October where the clients reported seeing a ball of light come in through the window, land on the bed, and then take off. We went through with an EMF meter and found no unusual readings, but I think it might have been ball lightning.
Ball-lighting would not pass through glass or any form of screen (except maybe plastic, but then it would melt), so unless it was a wide open window with no screen, then it couldn't have been real ball-lighting or static or actual physical material of any form.
From Wikipedia:
Descriptions of ball lightning vary wildly. It has been described as moving up and down, sideways or in unpredictable trajectories, hovering and moving with or against the wind; attracted to,[25] unaffected by, or repelled from buildings, people, cars and other objects. Some accounts describe it as moving through solid masses of wood or metal without effect, while others describe it as destructive and melting or burning those substances. Its appearance has also been linked to power lines[26] as well as during thunderstorms and also calm weather. Ball lightning has been described as transparent, translucent, multicolored, evenly lit, radiating flames, filaments or sparks, with shapes that vary between spheres, ovals, tear-drops, rods, or disks.[27]
The balls have been reported to disperse in many different ways, such as suddenly vanishing, gradually dissipating, absorption into an object, "popping," exploding loudly, or even exploding with force, which is sometimes reported as damaging. Accounts also vary on their alleged danger to humans, from lethal to harmless.
A review of the available literature published in 1972[28] identified the properties of a “typical” lightning ball, whilst cautioning against over-reliance on eye-witness accounts:
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Think about it. Doesn't it seem to reasonable to assume, that since this is all based on witness description that, one, they could be mistaken, or two, there could be multiple types of phenonoma being described?
Electricity does not pass through glass, plain and simple. If a "ball of light" passes through a pane of glass, I would say that it is *not* "ball lightning". I can't say what it is, but electricity or plasma, it most definitly is NOT.
You're probably right that it's not *lightning*, but that it's some other natural phenomena that also looks like a ball of light.
I honestly can't think of any possible natural phenonoma, from what we know of physics, that could pass straight through a pane of glass. I know a good amount of physics. :) So that leaves three options in my mind: 1) The description of the event was simply wrong. 2) The witness was hallucinating. 3) The event was supernatural, paranormal, or alien.
