From fw-nx@... Tue Mar 02 06:32:48 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: fw-nx@... X-Apparently-To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 38048 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2004 14:32:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Mar 2004 14:32:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp-out2.xs4all.nl) (194.109.24.12) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2004 14:32:43 -0000 Received: from tm616316 (213-84-215-93.adsl.xs4all.nl [213.84.215.93]) by smtp-out2.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i22EWC4j048884 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:32:12 +0100 (CET) To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:31:53 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 194.109.24.12 From: Frits Westra Reply-To: fw-nx@... Subject: Fwd = [UASR]> Multiple Ball-Lightning Event? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=162873989 X-Yahoo-Profile: parodynl From: "Terry W. Colvin" Subject: [UASR]> Multiple Ball-Lightning Event? Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:50:55 -0700 Reply-To: uasr@... Forwarding permission was given by William R. Corliss. Science Frontiers, No. 152, Mar-Apr, 2004, pp. 3 & 4 < http://www.science-frontiers.com > GEOPHYSICS Multiple Ball-Lightning Event? May 8, 2003, Alghero, Sardinia. An account from R. Hooberman, who was staying at a hotel on the Mediterranean coast. He and his wife were watching a violent electrical storm at sea from their room. To the Editor of *Weather* he wrote: In the midst of this event I saw a group of ten or a dozen spherical balls of light in three rows and surrounded by a sort of halo pass horizontally before me at eye level, then disappear. The episode lasted at most three seconds. They were close to each other, moving horizontally. It is impossible to assess size and distance with no reference point, but had they each been the size of an orange, I would estimate that they were perhaps no more than ten to twelve feet from the window, and that the group was about three feet across, four to five including the halo. I asked my wife who was standing next to me, 'Did you see what I just saw?' 'Yes... they were like a shoal of fish', she replied, which I thought was a very accurate description. [Sketch showing what may have been a formation of small lightning balls. The dusky halo enveloping them is hard to render in this newsletter.] (Stenhoff, Mark; "A Possible Multiple Ball Lightning Event in Sardinia, 8 May 2003," *Journal of Meteorology, U.K.*, 29:67, 2004) Comment. A "shoal" of lightning balls; that's a new one. The large number in the formation is remarkable; even more so is the enveloping faint halo. [Science Frontiers is a bimonthly collection of digests of scientific anomalies in the current literature. Published by the Sourcebook Project, P.O. Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057. Annual subscription: $8.00.]