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Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Posted Sep 14, 2006
I witnessed a strange thunderstorm where there were mainly horizontal lightnings and lightnings coming down from one cloud and looping up into another. However during the storm there was an horizontal lightning that forked in direct line with my window. Two elongated silver balls of light flew off the ends of the fork at high speed! Strange thing was - it wasn't raining. It was a purely electrical event. Were these sprites or ball lightning forming I wonder.
I did see a ball lighting once at close quarters; it was basketball size and a pure deep blue.
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Fizzymouse- no place like home Posted Sep 14, 2006
I'm no lightning expert, but it does sound like ball lightning to me. Sprites travel only upwards from the top of storm clouds, some folks even think they may be in some way repairing the ozone layer
There are all sorts of other phenomenon being researched and the scientists are having a laugh calling them elves, pixies and the like, so maybe you witnessed some of these
Still, there's nothing more exciting that watching a lighning storm - rain or no rain, and what a racket - I love it
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Sep 15, 2006
Perhaps you saw a "balrog"? 
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Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Posted Sep 16, 2006
Saw it Gnomon? I was there at the birth!
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- 4: Gnomon - time to move on (Sep 15, 2006)
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