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Ball lighting may be induced hallucination

Published: 12 May, 2010, 12:36
Edited: 29 May, 2010, 11:00

Numerous encounters of light balls during thunderstorms may actually be magnetic fields playing with human senses.

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2 COMMENTS

joey hijosa May 29, 2010, 03:23 quote

so,, do cameras who caught videos of these so called ball of lightning were just experiencing hallucinations as well?

amanda May 29, 2010, 10:05 quote

I saw small balls of light bounce across the kitchen floor during a thunderstorm. First one appeared from a wall and went past me into the wood stove. I had no idea what it was but directly after two more balls about the size of golf balls followed. My immediate thought was that the electricity which had been cut off by the storm was somehow escaping from the power point.

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