Mar 20 2008
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Ball Lightning News
For many UFO researchers, ball-lightning has about as much relevance to the subject as do weather-balloons, swamp-gas, and Roswellian crash-test-dummies. I know why this is: it’s because they look at the subject with the view that “If it’s not nuts-and-bolts spaceships and flesh-and-blood aliens, then I don’t wanna know about it.”
I’ve always found this to be very odd, frankly: as I see it, if we’re looking for UFOs, then that quest should encompass anything and everything unusual that’s flying (or floating) in the skies above us - and not just those things that have possible relevance to theoretical visitations from ET.
And, for that reason, my own personal view is that just because ball-lightning has nothing to do with literal aliens, doesn’t make it any less important in terms of trying to understand what lies at the heart of it. I would argue that it’s still a part of Ufology - that is, if you are looking for all the answers to the UFO puzzle, and not just those that help bolster your own prejudices about extraterrestrials.
And why I am bringing this to your attention? Well, the subject of ball-lightning is once again in the news, and attracting the attention of the scientific community.
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March 20th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Sounds remarkably like some of the “orbs” seen in Paul Bennewitz’ home. I wonder if someone has figured out how to make these….
March 20th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Not relevant to this story, but you all might be interested in the March 7 story here of jellyfish-like UFOs. Seriously, http://rigint.blogspot.com/
March 20th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Hmm, the “sprites” that form over lightning storms look like jellyfish but you can’t see them with the naked eye.
John Hutchison may have made a floating plasma with his Tesla coils, see www.hutchisoneffect.ca , as well as levitation and altered metals. A sort of real life Buckaroo Banzai, sort of.
I still have my money on Phylos the Thibetan’s “one substance” and “night side of nature” to explain everything, Theosophical prig though he may be.
March 21st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Disownedsky:
Weirdly, I’m working on an article on this very issue for a magazine. I’ll update closer to publication.
Erehwon:
Many thanks for this - anything Lovecraftian is always welcome here!
Euphemystic:
Yeah, Hutchinson’s stuff is pretty interesting. I may do a blog post on him one of the days for people who want to know more.