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Thank you, Rob...... and, wake up Ryan!  This is soooo typical!  "I have
never seen it, so logically therefore,...it doesn't exist."  Right?  Well, I
have never seen Cleopatra....and I cannot reproduce her in a lab!  She too,
I'm told was quite rare!  Can you prove her?

Ball lightning is quite well documented.  While I myself have never seen it
, (although I long to before I die),... two of my direct family have.  My
Grandfather witnessed one floating along, following closely to a barbed wire
fence, before it hit the end post with a ka-boom, and vanished!
My 1st cousin and her husband were lying in bed one evening during an
intense electrical storm.... and watched a ball of pulsating, slowly moving
electricity enter the kitchen from the porch window.... floated across and
bounced on top of the table, when it split into 2 peices.... one part
floated out the opposite window, and the other part headed for the
electrical outlet on the wall.  Upon hitting the outlet, it went out of
existence with a "bang"!  (I don't recall if fuses were blown, or not.)

Do not be so naive as to assume that just because current science cannot
prove, or duplicate, a phenomenon....that it doesn't, or can't exist!  That
very primitive attitude, if adhered to by modern science..... would be the
Death, and Stagnation of all further advances toward true knowledge!

Bruce D. Yager
bdyager@mhtc.net



-----Original Message-----
From: FERNLEA4@aol.com <FERNLEA4@aol.com>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 2:23 PM
Subject: Ball lightning


>Hi folks,
>
>I hate to sound a bit negative over all the ball lightning sightings and
>claims, but everyone seems to have assumed that it really does exist!
>There is no logical reason for the existence of ball lightning, it's far
from
>proven and has definitely not yet been accepted as a real phenomena.
>You have more chance of winning the lottery this weekend than witnessing
ball
>lightning in your whole lifetime. There are several old woodcuts and
sketches
>that are supposed to show ball lightning, plus a few 20th century
>photographs, but there are also plenty of photographs of ghosts!
>Ball lightning remains a mystery and is still far from proven fact.
>
>However, eye witness accounts all tell a similar tale of a small
>glowing,hovering plasma ball, often accompanied by a hissing sound, that
>darts up,down,left right,forwards,backwards completely at random, at or
near
>ground level and it usually detonates in a loud explosion.
>No-one knows of any likely scientific reason for it's existence, nor has
>anyone been able to produced it artificially in the lab in anything but an
>almost microscopic scale.....and then it still remains extremely doubtful
>that the "ball lightning" was anything other than molten metallic globules
>produced by the electrical short circuit trigger.
>
>Sorry guys, but ball lightning is a myth that is still undergoing
>evaluation.....much in the same way as UFO's, ghosts, Bermuda Triangle and
my
>neighbour the Loch Ness Monster. There may be something in it, but all the
>evidence to date clearly shows it to be extremely rare and, more
importantly,
>highly questionable!
>
>Regards,
>Rob.
>
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