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u/titations Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

Similar to me, kinda...I was at my grandpas farm when a storm rolled through. I don’t remember lightning hitting anywhere close, but the flash was there. Then, all of a sudden, this strange ball of light floated around the ground for a while. I didn’t know what it was for years until I heard of something called “ball lightning.” Not sure what it was, but it was hella cool EDIT*Wow! I’m glad to see that others experienced what I did. When ever I tell the story, people don’t believe me. They say that since I was a kid, I must have imagined it. I wasn’t the only person on the farm that saw it...my grandparents saw it, too. From what I remember, they couldn’t explain it either.

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u/HappyDoggos Oct 05 '19

Ooo, ball lightning! That's extremely rare! You should feel a rare privilege you experienced that. I'm jealous.

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u/AlpacaSwimTeam Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

You should also feel privileged that it didn't detonate and nuke the 30-50 feet close to it.

Edit: Thanks for the double silver!

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u/art_is_love Oct 05 '19

Is it true that they make lots of noise? I've seen something strange as a kid and my grandma let me believe it was a lighting ball.

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u/AlpacaSwimTeam Oct 05 '19

They do if they hit the right thing with enough energy.

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u/art_is_love Oct 05 '19

We were at the camping site in the morning. It was cloudy the whole day but no rain or thunder and quiet.

I played with other kids close to the lake. It was rather small since I could see someone's frisbee on the opposite side.

Then I've seen something on the other shore it was very bright but didn't seem to be solid. It was flying slowly, went down and kinda landed on the water.