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Lightning (and magnetic fields) can cause hallucinations

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maybe some of it but not all of it. we had a ball of lightning floating around our house, it melted part of a frying pan hanging on the wall, melted part of the stove when it bumped into it and caused some burn marks on the floor as it bounced around before fizzing out.
 
Your story, Pix, sounds to me similar to this case (I think it took place back in the '70's) of a policeman patroling in his vehicle, then this ball of light comes flying at him and cracked into his windshield. I think I recall that this officer was injured. I recall that J. Allen Hynek or Ted Philips investingated. It was on History's Ufo-files, I believe.

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This might be the case I'm thinking of.

Just Wikipedia the Val Johnson Incident. My copied link......don't want to, for some reason.
 
Yep yep. Far too often researchers in ghost hunting claim that orb phenomena caught on photography is the same as ball lightening. They do not understand what ball lightening is, and this is just another lame attempt to explain dust and moisture as being something other than a photographic effect. It's outstanding, regarding orbs and the 'debate' if you want to call it that; you have people who understand that orbs (again, on photographs) are mere dust and moisture, others who believe orbs are ghosts and spirits, and still a third group who is skeptical about orbs being ghosts but doesn't want to succumb to the realization that orbs are dust and moisture. So, they attribute orb activity (both within and outside of photographs) as ball lightening. I was listening to a podcast (not TPC, of course) where this group was going down into an abandoned railway system, essentially one of the first subways, to investigate for a haunting. During the discussion orb activity was brought up and the so-called expert said, "Well, I know some orbs have been caught on camera...I don't know if there have been any reports of ball-lightening down there but it's something we're going to check out." I just about wrecked my car at the sheer, blinding stupidity of this "expert" ghost hunter while I screamed at my car stereo in utter frustration. Even now, as I think about it, I'm starting to get utterly pissed off about it.

I have to stop typing now.

J.
 
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