Was Ball Lightning Phenomenon Captured on Video in Canada?

When i was in grade 7 (1984) i was walking in front of my public school. It was raining a bit and lightning struck the corner of the school. It flashed down the corner wall and hit the concrete side walk forming a ball about the size of a basket ball. It was blue and white and rolled around on top of a puddle on the sidewalk slowly getting smaller until it disappeared. I just stood there staring at it.

"And unfortunately it's most likely not a ball lightning. It's just a regular UFO."

The day of my high school graduation party back in 1995, we all went inside the house because of a thunderstorm that popped up mid day. My cousins and I were sitting in my room playing Super Nintendo (Sim City if I remember correctly) and a lightning bolt struck my TV through the open window from behind me. A ball of light formed above my now blown out TV, and then zipped across the room toward the doorway and struck my sister in the head as she walked into my room. It made a loud popping sound when it hit her head and my sister yelled "ouch!" Fortunately she wasn't seriously hurt, but it was totally bizarre and insane and I'll never forget it. The object in the video looks like a blown up transformer. I've seen quite a few of them over the years.

During a thunderstorm in the summer of 1991, I was driving my car on a small side road in my home town in Austria (Styria). The rain was coming towards me horizontally, interspersed with small hailstones. The wind was extremely strong and lightning flashed every few seconds followed by loud thunder. As I drove onto a small, narrow wooden bridge, what I first thought was a yellow softball came rolling towards me (visibility was very poor due to the heavy rain). When this "softball" suddenly jumped vertically upwards onto the bridge railing and rolled away from me first and then back towards me, it was clear to me that it wasn't a softball because I could see from the proximity that there was heat and electrical charges coming out of it. The ball lightning (I've been convinced ever since that it was one) then fell from the railing into the small stream under the bridge and produced the loudest thunder I have ever heard!

I’d like to note that during the Krakatoa eruption as the Dutch ships were passing through the streets, they reported ball lightning also most of the people lost their hearing because of the loud booms of that volcano. A lot of people died from inhalation and most, if not all lost their hearing, but they did report ball lightning, and lots of it.

My sis in Iowa bought a house on top of a hill in the country that has a really big picture window. Previous owners said one thunderstorm a basketball sized ball of blue light came thru the window took a right out the front door window all slow & lazy like it wasn't in a hurry. Freaked them out enough to sell the house to my sis & her hubby. Hasn't repeated. Yet.

My grandma told me that she saw a ball lightning hit her house. It definitely was something strange because it made a big impressing telling the story years later. I have no reason to think she made this up.

Around 1979 at age 9. We were living in Hinkley California. It's way out in the Mojave Desert in Southern California. We lived right next to the railroad tracks. I went outside on this day to play & noticed a thunderstorm north of us about 15 mi away. All of a sudden I heard an electrical noise like something was arcing. I looked to where the sound was coming from & noticed a ball of lightning approximately 6 to 7 ft in diameter just rolling down the power lines that run alongside the railroad tracks. This ball lightning had fingers of lightning bolts reaching out in all directions about it like it was trying to find something close by. The ball was heading westbound on top of the power line wire. It was moving around 30 - 35 mph, going up and down the wire as the line sags between poles. I stood there and watched it for about 7- 10 minutes until I could not see it anymore. It traveled many miles away. That was the largest, the slowest moving & the longest living ball lightning I had ever seen. The other 2 times I seen ball lightning, (also while living in Hinkley California. ) The balls were about the size of a basketball & moving extremely fast. One was again riding down a power line. It came to a dead end. Ran out of wire or the wire ran down to the ground. The ball hit the telephone pole, and then the telephone pole exploded. The other time, I was in the middle of a thunderstorm in a car with my one of my parents driving. There was a flash of lightning, a ball lightning shot across the road in front of us, then it raced through the desert. As it went racing through the desert, it went right through several, several sticker bushes but not a single one any of them ignited. We only lived in Hinkley for a total of 5 years. During that time I seen ball lightning 3 times. When we moved away in 1981 I had never seen ball lightning ever again, even to this very day !

When I was a kid, I was sitting in the living room with several relatives watching TV during a thunderstorm. There was a bright flash and an almost simultaneous loud crack of thunder, then all of a sudden a bright ball of light materialized near the ceiling, seemed to roll along the ceiling towards the front of the house, and then disappeared through the wall. It was a yellowish color, about the size of a volleyball, but I don't remember if there was a smell or not. The TV went all static when it appeared, but cleared up shortly after it disappeared. Everyone freaked out about it, but someone said it was ball lightning.

My Dad was almost hit by ball lightening during a heavy downpour and thunderstorm. He came home from work, got out of his car and ran towards the house door, when this bright, hot ball rushed past behind him. My mother was standing in the doorway and saw it happen. He felt the heat from it. This happened before I was born, so pretty happy that it missed him!