The Tailor of Paris and his visitor, summer 1843ĭuring a thunderstorm, a small shining globe entered the tailor’s room via the chimney, explored the floor, then rose and left via a stovepipe (after removing the paper covering it). The atmosphere then became intolerably hot, yet solid lumps of ice fell on deck. Two of the most curious are the scintillation, also known as globular lightning. The bright body fell into the sea, raising a huge wave. There are other types of natural phenomena related to thunderstorms. THE following account of a display of globular lightning will, I think, be of interest to your readers, as it was well observed by several independent observers, and differs in some respects from. ‘Rare Electrical Phenomenon at Sea’, March 19, 1887ĭuring a violent storm in the North Atlantic Ocean, a bright and dark object were seen above the barque J.P.A. Two persons were killed and others injured. Taylor and myself were in our drawing-room on the ground floor, taking shelter from a passing storm they were seated, and I stood five paces from them.

Pursuit of a lightning ball, Milan, June 1841Ī reddish-yellow fireball, chased by a group of men and boys, drifted down a street during a thunderstorm.ĭuring a thunderstorm on the Worcestershire Beacon, July 3, 1826, a huge ball of ‘electric fire’ rolled into a stone shelter and burst through the opposite wall. It passed through the kitchen, leaving the startled family members untouched, and out the. Or thison 6th August 1944, a ball of lightning smashed through a closed window in Uppsala, Sweden, leaving a circular hole about 5cm in diameter. It was visible for at least two minutes.Ī ball lightning visitor, Linguy (Eure-et-Loire), France, 1897Īn explosion in a chimney before the fireball appeared drove bricks into the wall of the couple’s bedroom The explanation at the time was that the ball of fire was ‘the devil’ or the ‘flames of hell’. John’s Wood, London, 26 June 1921Īn incandescent pear-shaped body hovered beneath the clouds of a slow-moving nocturnal thunderstorm. The town was devastated, although only 7 persons were killed.īall lightning over St. By using the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, the researchers used 12 years of data to pinpoint the stars in the cluster and study their. For more information on these events, seeīall Lightning and Globular Light-emitting ObjectsĪ ‘body of fire’ from a ‘fiery cloud’ exploded the powder magazine of Athlone Castle, Ireland, 27 October 1697. Messier 4 is the closest globular star cluster to Earth.

Globular lightning