![]() ![]() My sister and I watched it land in the woods very close by, lost it for a second or two, then saw it appear to take off again, more in our direction. I watched it come down and blurted out that I had seen a meteor, although my mind already knew it was something odd. The trail was smooth, not sparky, and not brilliant as it fell it didn't noticeably illuminate neighboring trees. The ball lightning was silent and left a long, lingering, solid white turbulent trail about 2-3 inches in height. I saw lightning all over the sky even though the clouds were very thin, and heard no thunder whatsoever. Remember heat lightning? I've read somewhere lately that heat lightning is really just lightning that's so far away you can't hear the thunder. There had been noiseless lightning in the clouds all around before and after, so I think it was a castoff of lightning activity in the clouds. It descended (south to north) from my left in my approximate direction like a meteor, but slower, apparently from the high thin clouds. I saw the second one off to my left and that's when I saw the ball lightning to the west. I saw a lightning bug, which really caught our interest because neither of us had ever seen them up there. It was windy, coming from the south (to our backs). I knew it was very thin because we could see a few stars poking through. I had been hoping to take some Milky Way photos but there was a very thin layer of high clouds above us. My sister and I were talking one night on the porch of our family cabin in Minnesota, looking north. ![]() I'm also a photographer and a trained observer (as a forensic engineer). For you skeptics and people who have seen this phenomena: ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |