Original poster: Steve Conner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
My own view is that ball lightning that seems to float
around and persist, is just an after-image burnt into
the retina of the extremely bright point where the
lightning attached to the target. There may well be a
ball of light there, but only for fractions of a
second, which is just what people observe in lab
experiments.
Eyewitness accounts of how ball lightning moves and
passes through solid objects are (imo) consistent with
how your brain behaves when it tries to look at an
"object" that is actually inside your eye and moves
with it.........
Steve Conner