Re: Anyone ever successful with Ball Lightning generationhere. . . .

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Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davep-at-quik-dot-com>

> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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>Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
>> <davep-at-quik-dot-com>
>>>There are also a lot of people that claim to have seen ufos

>>        BL is not so improbable,.

	more widely seen and more consistent.



>>        And, at least once, bounced down the center aisle
>>        of an airliner.  Inside.
>>        cf
>>        Ball Lighting & Bead Lighting, Barry.
>>        (This is a nice, scholarly work.....)
	Dug out the book, can't find the reference, in detail.

	P 43 lists references to 4 or 5 instances.  There are 90
	odd pages of scholarly bibliography in the appendix.
	cf below.  Strongly recommend this book, via library,
	or whatever for studious fanciers of BL.


> I've been been hearing this ANECDOTE for years,

	cf below:

> but have no reason to believe it.

	Martin A Uman (PhD)
	All About Lightning, p 130, with
	reference to original report:
		Jennison, R C
		Ball Lighting
		Nature (A professional scholarly publication)
		224, 895 (volume & page?)
		1969

	Cross referencing from that to Ball Lightning & Bead
	Lighting, James Dale Barry, shows the same report,
	plus more from Jennison in the bibliography.

>  If it had occurred

	It did.  cf above.

> it would have been a most sensational event, and I think it is

> interesting that it was never reported (at least not since 1945)

> in Aviation Week, Aerospace Daily, or any of the other aviation

> magazines I read.

	Up to the mid 60s, BL WAS disregarded in many
	scientific quarters.  I speculate that this incident
	may have been an 'index case'.

	Up until 1850, meteors were regarded as delusions.

> The event should have also have been reported in some of the

> science magazines,

	cf above for cite(s), which will, i believe serve.

	That Said, i had some of the details wrong.  I
	believe Jennison was an eyewitness:
===========================================================
This communication records the observation of ball lightning in
unusual circumstances. I was seated near the front of the
passenger cabin of an all-metal airliner (Eastern Airlines Flight EA
539) on a late night flight from New York to Washington. The
aircraft encountered an electrical storm during which it was
enveloped in a sudden bright and loud electrical discharge (0005
h EST, March 19, 1963). Some seconds after this a glowing
sphere a little more than 20 cm [8 inches] in diameter emerged
from the pilot's cabin and passed down the aisle of the aircraft
approximately 50 cm [20 inches] from me, maintaining the same
height and course for the whole distance over which it could be
observed.
	The relative velocity of the ball to that of the containing
aircraft was 1.5 ± 0.5 meters [or yards] per second.  The object
did not seem to radiate heat.. . . the optical output could be
assessed as 5 to 10 watts and its color was blue-white.. . . the
course was straight down the whole central aisle of the aircraft.
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	dwp

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