Re: [Vo]:Ball Lightning 2012: call for papers

2012-01-30 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:38 AM, William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com wrote: Russian YouTube shows a video film of airborne BL lasting 40+ seconds during thunderstorm at: http://rutube.ru/tracks/3787124.html?v=f37c6f3d5dd780052a6bca48c0825685

Re: [Vo]:Ball Lightning 2012: call for papers

2012-01-30 Thread Nigel Dyer
Judging size is always a problem, but that does look to be of the big and far away variety. I saw BL many years ago when it appeared to be small (1 metre?) and closer, and have had a long standing interest in BL as a result. I have seen videos of other BL where it splits. In other cases

Re: [Vo]:Ball Lightning 2012: call for papers

2012-01-30 Thread pagnucco
On a 2008 CNN Larry King Show, former air force officials showed videos of UFOs which I think may be ball lightning. The videos are available starting at -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTBqwTuSuMM Has anyone seen these? If so, any opinion on whether ball lightning is a good explanation?

Re: [Vo]:Ball Lightning 2012: call for papers

2012-01-30 Thread Harry Veeder
Awesome! Harry On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:38 AM, William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com wrote: Russian YouTube shows a video film of airborne BL lasting 40+ seconds during thunderstorm at:

[Vo]:Ball Lightning 2012: call for papers

2012-01-29 Thread William Beaty
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