• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It is called ball lightning, so you’re right!

    I’ve never been lucky enough to see it, but my mother had an eerily similar experience to yours. It was years before I was born, and she was feeding my older brother in his high chair in the kitchen when a ball of blue light the same size as yours came through the kitchen window, hovered a bit, and dissipated. She also said the air felt electric.

    Nobody believed her until many years later.

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        1 year ago

        I mean… the first line about it on the article is: it’s an unexplained phenomena. So… no learning here, no. Just more mysteries.

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          There’s also a long list of descriptions from sightings over the years, as well as summaries of scientific hypothesis attempting to explain the phenomenon. There’s even an emission spectrum published in 2014. I for one can learn stuff without having all the answers completely figured out (which is good, since almost everything has something unexplained about it if you dig deep enough). For example, I learned I can make plasma balls in the microwave! Very cool.