ATTACKS OF THE BALL LIGHTNING, RUSSIA YEAR 2026: DEADLY, MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-01

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[00:00:02]Ball lightnings attacked homes of Russian people, not drones.

[00:00:10]Ball lightnings.

[00:00:13]Two houses in Russia on Monday, May 25, year 2026.

[00:00:19]Ball lightnings hit houses in two Russian regions. First, a semi-detached wooden house in the city of Shenkursk in Arkhangelsk region was damaged.

[00:00:31]The glowing sphere appears the paneling and the inside of the wall.

[00:00:35]Only the building, only the structure was damaged. The residents were not injured.

[00:00:39]The second case occurred in the village of Starozhevsk in the Komi Republic.

[00:00:44]Because of the ball lightning, a fire broke out in a private house there.

[00:00:50]The fire covered an area of 30 square meters.

[00:00:53]While people were not injured by the fire, Moscow and the region were urged to prepare for danger.

[00:01:01]It is possible that the fireballs, meaning ball lightnings, will soon appear in other regions of Russia.

[00:01:10]Where can you encounter this dangerous phenomenon and how to protect yourself from it?

[00:01:16]Russian media was asked. In Moscow, the season of this phenomenon falls during the summer thunderstorms with a peak in July.

[00:01:29]A human encounter with this phenomenon does not always lead to death.

[00:01:33]Burns and wounds are more common consequences.

[00:01:38]The main rule when encountering ball lightning is to remain calm and not make sudden movements.

[00:01:45]There's no need to abruptly approach it or run away in the opposite direction. This way you can create an air current that will force the sphere to follow uh the person who created it. Scientists strongly recommend against waving your arms and trying to touch the floating object, especially with metal objects. The best strategy is to freeze in place and wait for the ball lightning to fly away.

[00:02:16]What is ball lightning?

[00:02:18]The ball lightning looks like a glowing sphere that moves chaotic chaotically in the air.

[00:02:24]This natural phenomenon most often occurs in stormy weather and still has no clear scientific explanation.

[00:02:34]The diameter of the ball can reach from 10 cm to several meters, and its color can be yellow, orange, red, white, or blue of varying degrees of intensity.

[00:02:47]Eyewitnesses also note a hissing sound and an unpleasant pungent odor.

[00:02:54]Scientists suggest that like ordinary lightning, this ball or sphere consists of plasma and ionized gas with free electrons and positively and negatively charged ions. However, it has not yet been possible to prove this.

[00:03:15]Unlike linear lightning, ball lightning lives longer in the air from 10 seconds to a minute. At the end of existence, an explosion usually occurs, but sometimes the phenomenon simply disintegrates into individual particles and slowly fades away.

[00:03:35]There are many hypotheses about how ball lightning appears, but none of them have been fully accepted in the academic community.

[00:03:44]The electrical hypotheses do not explain how energy supplies to the ball hanging in the air and the chemical hypothesis do not agree with the fact that people's injuries after a collision with the ball lightning resemble electric shock.

[00:04:04]Ball lightning can enter rooms through open windows, chimneys, cracks, or even through glass.

[00:04:10]It is capable of moving against the wind or along conductors and leaving behind burns, meltdowns, or explosive damage.

[00:04:21]But now, let's look at what Russian physicist Alexander Kostinski had to say about ball lightning a few years ago. Hypothesis of its existence and modeling of this phenomenon in the laboratory.

[00:04:37]The first scientific description of ball lightning was given in the book in English translation Thunder and Lightning by French physicist François Arago in the early 19th century.

[00:04:50]This is the first book about this lightning, the electrical nature which was discovered half a century before.

[00:04:58]Arago's book described two dozen cases of ball lightning sightings. Its properties are still difficult to determine because the descriptions mostly belong to people who were not scientists and were usually not done in hot in hot pursuit.

[00:05:16]Ball lightning as the as a difficult to study and therefore mysterious phenomenon has become popular in part in popular culture. But scientists who decide to investigate this phenomenon need to be very careful to take into account only a really reliable data.

[00:05:39]The first full-fledged scientific observation of ball lightning has recently been published, but also raises questions.

[00:05:47]So, what is called a ball lightning?

[00:05:51]Eyewitnesses immediately call any ball, any sphere glowing and moving phenomenon in the air a ball lightning.

[00:05:59]This may be an event that people saw after lightning struck a high voltage line or a tree.

[00:06:05]This is also the name of an object that appeared in a room flying out of a chimney or appeared with a hiss from an outlet.

[00:06:15]The researchers who collected information about this phenomenon relied on a rather unreliable source, eyewitness reports. Witnesses of the phenomenon say that the size of the ball lightning is from 5 cm to a meter.

[00:06:29]The glow lasts from fractions of a second to several seconds and even tens of seconds.

[00:06:36]When in contact with ball lightning, people often experienced severe electric shock, even fatal.

[00:06:42]Some observers spoke about a hissing of the ball lightning, that it was a tangle of luminous channels of blue color, but in large ball lightning, there were also red colors.

[00:06:55]Ball lightning passes through the glass and it even seemed to be seen inside the aircraft.

[00:07:02]Ball lightning is most often seen after an ordinary lightning strike.

[00:07:08]But a lightning bolt looks like a very bright flash of light up close.

[00:07:13]Therefore, at the beginning of the 20th century, there were scientists who believed the ball lightning was not a physical phenomenon, but an artifact, an eye flare. If you look at the bright flash lamp when photographing or strobe light at the disco, then for a few seconds, there'll be a feeling of moving light spot in the eyes, regardless of whether they're closed or open eyes.

[00:07:40]What is the main problem with ball lightning? The huge interest in ball lightning is caused not by the fact that it has the shape of a ball or a sphere, but by the fact that the nature of its um long lifetime is still unclear. In general in nature, if you do not have a dedicated direction, many phenomena take the form of a ball. For example, drops when falling down. There are no serious problems in creating a spherical plasma formation between two electrodes for as long as possible using low current electric arcs.

[00:08:17]The same applies to a spherical plasma formation in free space supported by a beam of microwave electromagnetic radiation. With great ingenuity, it can be created even in a microwave oven, which was once done by Japanese scientists.

[00:08:36]In this phenomena, electromagnetic energy supplies supplied to the discharge plasma from the outside and there are no problems with maintaining such plasma. But most researchers, and especially amateurs, assume that no external energy supplied to the ball lightning. Plasma is a gas in which there are many there are in which there are many free electrons and therefore plasma has high conductivity. A significant current flows through it as through a wire with a high resistance.

[00:09:13]If you stop supplying energy to the plasma, then in a few millions of a second, the electrons will disappear, the current will stop, and the plasma will go out.

[00:09:26]And if this is the case, then it is necessary to explain why a ball lightning, if it is a plasma formation, lives so long.

[00:09:34]There are many amazing optical and electrical atmospheric phenomena. For example, uh the lights of St. Elmo, which burn on the mast on the night before the storm, as we heard in the song of Russian poet Bulat Okudzhava, well-known song.

[00:09:53]Convincing physical explanations have been found for most of them.

[00:09:58]Scientists understand how it is possible to study even such an infrequent phenomenon as ordinary linear lightning.

[00:10:06]About a hundred discharges occur on occur on Earth every second.

[00:10:11]A thunderstorm cloud forms gradually, and the place from where lightning discharges will occur can be predicted with good accuracy by changing the electric field on Earth on the ground and the movement of hydrometeors, droplets, ice, snowflakes, and so on in the thunderstorm cell, where the main electric charge accumulates. The lenses of various physical devices can be directed to this place.

[00:10:44]St. Elmo's lights.

[00:10:46]Often of fire Often during thunderstorms, lightning starts from tall buildings and television towers more than 200 m size, on the tips of which um devices can also be placed. In addition, scientists have been able to summon lightning from a thundercloud unto themselves for 60 years. That is to create the so-called trigger lightning.

[00:11:13]Despite this, many of the key problems of conventional lightning are still poorly understood, let alone ball lightning.

[00:11:23]Since its nature is unclear, it is unclear where you know, armed even with devices to expect it.

[00:11:35]The main hypothesis at the beginning of the 20th century, there was a hypothesis that suggested that due to the large distance from which ball lightning is usually observed, we do not see how a thin plasma channel stretches from the cloud to it. Due to its current to its current, the existence of ball lightning is maintained.

[00:11:56]Now, scientists know quite a lot about the current of ordinary lightning and have established that the discharge lasts a maximum of a second, while it will consist of many separate bright shocks with high current, between which there are interruptions, during which the current to the ground practically stops.

[00:12:19]And ball lightning with a lifetime of 10 seconds or more was recorded, while no strong lightning strikes were observed through them. Otherwise, witnesses to such events would simply receive electric shocks of such force that they would not be able to tell about their impressions later.

[00:12:37]Scientists are also well aware of the size of the charges accumulated in the cloud from ground and aircraft observations, and there are also not many of them there to ensure the long life of plasma formations. It turned out that it is not yet possible to explain the maintenance of life of ball lightning using known manifestations of natural atmospheric electricity.

[00:13:05]Therefore, many exotic explanations of the nature of ball lightning have appeared, including from scientists have become obsessed with this phenomenon from other fields of physics who are not well versed in atmospheric electricity and do not take into account all the observational observational material in their hypothesis.

[00:13:30]For example, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, an academician and a Nobel laureate in the Soviet Union, suggested that the ball lightning is supported by a beam of microwave radiation as in a microwave oven, and the microwave radiation itself becomes itself comes from lightning. But, when studying lightning, it was not possible to detect any serious streams of microwave radiation.

[00:14:02]Microwave radiation is easily measured over long distances as it is used to detect airplanes, missiles, and measure the speed or velocity of vehicles, cars.

[00:14:14]Some scientists involved in nuclear physics have suggested that ball lightning has a nuclear energy source, but nuclear processes are monstrous energy that cannot be generated by lightning. In addition, it creates radioactivity, which is also easy to measure. In places where ball lightning was observed, several attempts were made to measure radioactivity, but it did not suc- it did not exceed the natural background.

[00:14:43]If ball lightning is a physical phenomenon, then its basic properties can be deduced from several thousand reliable observations. Therefore, a scientist who claims to explain the mechanism of ball lightning needs not only to propose some new unusual source of internal energy that supports ball lightning, but also to explain other established properties of ball lightning within the framework of this hypothesis.

[00:15:12]Almost none of those presenting alternative hypotheses do this.

[00:15:17]So, their ideas are hanging in the air.

[00:15:20]Martin Uman, one of the most famous modern lightning scientist, together with his colleagues, initiated trigger lightning by launching a rocket with a grounded wire into a cloud, receiving a powerful discharge between specially shaped electrodes.

[00:15:38]But, they failed to create a ball lightning. An important, but controversial, piece of evidence, in 2012, Chinese scientists filmed linear lightning with a spectrograph and a high-speed camera, and recorded some spherical phenomenon that appeared at the moment when ordinary linear lightning struck the ground.

[00:16:04]This is a very important testimony.

[00:16:06]Their results were published in the most prestigious Journal of Physics, Physical Review Letters, and the editors left the term ball lightning in the title, where they left it there, which indicates the recognition by serious physicists of the possibility of the existence of this phenomenon.

[00:16:26]The article was called Observations of the optical and spectral characteristics of ball lightning.

[00:16:32]The spectrum of ball lightning caused by a lightning strike in the soil.

[00:16:37]The recording, which shows the ball glow, lasts for 1 and 1/2 seconds, which is a lot. A luminous formation appeared from the linear lightning channel directly near the surface of the Earth.

[00:16:50]According to their measurements, the size of the ball formation was at first more than 10 m, and after a whole second, more than 5 m. And this is a lot for a ball lightning.

[00:17:04]The ball lightning glowed almost uniformly for a whole second, which is completely impossible without the influx of external energy. It was possible to record spectral lines related to the soil material where the linear lightning struck and to remove the spectrum of ball lightning silicon iron calcium.

[00:17:26]Moreover, spectral lines were present all the time of the recording which means that for the same time there was a plasma supporting this glow. Combustion uh burning cannot explain the spectrum by any burning. The color of the fireball changed from purple to red.

[00:17:46]The glowing formation was moving at a speed of about 9 m/s.

[00:17:51]The Russian scientist said that he would like to congratulate his Chinese colleagues on their remarkable success, but in their work itself there's a rather strange graph of fluctuations in the luminosity of ball lightning with a period of about 100 Hz during the bright glow which is proportional to the industrial frequency of power transmission lines.

[00:18:14]50 Hz.

[00:18:15]The authors honestly write that 20 m from the place where the linear lightning struck and this plasma formation appeared, there's a 35 kV high voltage uh power transmission line. 20 m is not a very long distance and a lightning channel can pass to the wet ground reaching the support of the power line and damaging it.

[00:18:40]As a result, the current from the power line can connect to the point of contact of the lightning channel with the ground where the ball lightning existed. It turns out that this experiment that in this experiment it cannot be ruled out that the plasma formation called by the authors a ball lightning is not completely natural phenomenon, but possibly is supplied with the energy of the current coming from a lightning pierced power line.

[00:19:13]Then it's clear why plasma lived for so long. It was powered by industrial electricity. It is a pity that the authors did not write in the article whether they contacted the electrical power industry, which was supposed to fix the breakdown of the transmission line, if there was one. In any case, this is important evidence in favor of the plasma nature, if not the ball lightning itself, then of the ball plasma phenomena that a linear lightning can generate when it hits high voltage power lines or near them.

[00:19:52]Let's look at the chemical hypothesis.

[00:19:54]Currently, the most consistent hypothesis is about the chemical nature of the ball lightning energy source.

[00:20:01]Chemical reactions can take a relatively long time until the chemicals involved in the reactions are exhausted. For example, such a process can be a specific form of a ball combustion. It was possible to create a ball forms of ignition of flammable gases in the laboratory, which did not explode and existed for seconds, moving through the laboratory chamber.

[00:20:26]Suppose lightning strikes an area of swamps where vapors and accumulations of flammable gases such as methane are quite common. Due to the high temperature during a lightning strike, this gas ignites and continues to burn, resembling a gas stove burner with the lid removed. After all, the gas can burn for hours if there is an influx of gas from inside the swamp. But if we consider ball lightning to be a form of combustions, then how to explain its electrical manifestations up to the injuries of humans and animals who are in contact with ball lightning.

[00:21:09]It is also very difficult to realize the nature, the motion of a burning ball similar to those described by observers.

[00:21:18]Gases usually explode or burn up quickly. Therefore, the chemical hypothesis cannot explain many important properties of ball lightning, but it removes the lifetime problem that exists in the plasma hypothesis.

[00:21:34]The advantage of the chemical hypothesis is that it does not need to involve very exotic concepts like obtaining energy from a vacuum or cold fusion.

[00:21:44]But this hypothesis does not correspond to the reliable Chinese experiment described above since there were no swamps there swamps there and the combustion spectrum is radically different from the spectrum recorded by the Chinese.

[00:22:00]However, the Chinese experiment cannot be trusted to the end either.

[00:22:06]Simulation of ball lightning in the laboratory. Several groups in the world have tried to simulate ball lightning in the laboratory uh settings.

[00:22:16]There are researchers who claim that they have managed to create a ball lightning with a powerful discharge in water vapor.

[00:22:24]They even posted the photos online, but there have been no serious publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals like the Chinese on the topic.

[00:22:34]Publications where their experiments would be described in detail. Plasma properties would be recorded with modern devices. The absence of additional energy supply from external sources would be guaranteed and so on.

[00:22:50]A ball lightning effect in a water tank.

[00:22:52]Well, it's not enough to get an interesting long-lived spherical luminous phenomenon in the laboratory, but we need to make serious arguments in favor of the fact that we have created in the laboratory that what we created in the laboratory is related to a natural phenomenon called ball lightning.

[00:23:12]The spark between the balls which slips through the in an electro- electrophoretic machine has contrary to the statements of school teachers very little to do with lightning.

[00:23:26]Um It cannot explain not only how lightning is born, but also how it breaks through the cloud-earth gap. The same applies to the creation of long-lived spherical luminous formation in the laboratory. It is also necessary to prove that the experiment simulates a natural phenomenon. Nevertheless, ball lightning still poses a serious challenge to scientists. Today, it is believed there is so much evidence of the existence of ball lightning that it is impossible to dismiss them. Perhaps ball lightning is not just a phenomenon, but a complex combination of known physical phenomena that we cannot yet track and decipher.

[00:24:14]Yet another phenomenon we cannot as yet decipher just as UFOs and USOs.

[00:24:22]And I had made a video 8 years ago about Russian ball lightning cases. I'll put uh the um site of this video um in the description to this one so you can look at it.

[00:24:41]Uh just click on it and it will take you to my old video. I think you'll find it very interesting.

[00:24:46]And of course, I'll be on the lookout for more interesting information because this is an ongoing research and we know so little about this fascinating and sometimes deadly phenomenon.

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