Ball Lightning, is it a scam or made up of psychic energy? This attitude on the question of ball lightning is not a unique problem in the history of science as in this day and age a lot of phenomena is still hard to prove conclusively or disprove-despite science and a technological age of discovery and breakthroughs. The fall of meteors to earth was not so long ago considered the mere superstition of ignorant peasants. Despite repeated observation of these fiery spheres the controversy at one point caused the removal and destruction of rare meteorite specimens from museum collections worldwide on the grounds they were fraudulent objects of superstition and folklore only with no validity in fact.
A thorough analysis of the question in 1794 by Chladni,a physicist whose major work was in acoustics, contained the conclusion that such objects do not originate on the earth and that they indeed fall from the sky or come from outside of us. Chladni’s study was based on observations by reliable witnesses and data on samples o
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meteorites, many of which were entirely unlike all the materials in the area where they were discovered in. His result were not widely accepted or approved of. The reality of the phenomenons existence was finally established by the appearance of thousands of stony meteorites in 1803 at L’Aigle, France. The reports of numerous reliable witnesses and a great number of actual solid specimens were cited in the authentication of the event by the physicist Biot for the French Academy of Sciences. Despite calls to ignore it.
In the negative view of the existence of ball lightning the reported observations are ascribed to mistaken identification of other luminous natural objects and to optical illusions and trickery. Meteors are often held responsible for supposed appearances of ball lightning. Several reports originally identified in the literature as ball lightning appear to have been meteors. Mistakes identifying ball lightning are possible. The flight of meteors, however, is almost invariably seen as a straight line, in contrast to the characteristic path of ball lightning which is curved and ball shaped. Ball lightning furthermore appears during storms with very few exceptions, while meteors are observed only by a rare coincidence during a storm. Ordinary lightning flash seen by an observer directly in its path may appear to be a ball. In the optical illusion which may result, the intense light from the flash persists as an optical image even when the observer changes his field of view. This it is suggested that the false image of the ball appears to follow a complex path.Others have suggested that ball lightning is entirely different from regular lightning in the fact that they believe it is formed entirely of psychic energy.
A rare and unusual phenomenon a typical description includes a spherical shape of any colour and ranging in size from a tennis ball to a football. Normally the appearance of ball lightening coincides with a thunderstorm. The phenomenon can materialise within confined spaces and buildings and their duration can be anywhere from seconds to minutes. It is common for the spheres of ball lightning to appear as if the have a ’sense’ of direction or ‘purposeful’ motion rather than simply drifting around. The spheres have been seen to bounce at will and even follow individuals ot objects such as cars as they move or are in motion. People are rarely reported as being injured or affected by ball lightning although sometimes great damage is caused to surrounding inanimate objects. Normally the phenomenon vanishes silently or disappears with a loud bang. Many sightings of Ball Lightning have been reported at certain well known energy hot spots such as Stonehenge, Aires Rock,and even in buildings thought by many to be haunted.
An American scientist called Corum and his team have managed like the Japanese with some success to produce small plasma balls of lightening in a laboratory. This was achieved by a process of manipulating high voltage radio frequency. Ball lightning has been photographed, filmed, witnessed and semi recreated in lab conditions
and whilst many have their theories as to what Ball Lightening actually is…no one so far has been able to confirm exactly what it is.














































