Rare extended footage of the ball lightning spotted in Alberta, Canada on July 2, 2025 ⚡💥 by @mes on 3Speak
Ed and Meldina Pardy said they were far away from a power line, and the ball itself looks larger and behaves differently than typical electric arc discharges – contrary to the strangely casual dism...
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What is it? It's going for a long time. A ball of light hoverses over a field. Looks like a fireball, but not really. And this couple from Rich Valley, Alberta, was mesberized. After a rather vicious lightning strike, we saw the ball of fire kind of retain, I don't know, 20 feet above the ground. The cell phone video was captured an hour northwest of emitted by Ed and Melinda Pardy. It shows the ball of light for about 20 seconds before it disintegrates. They were under a tornado watch and experiencing a thunderstorm Wednesday evening when they saw this. about a kilometer away from their home. Yeah, it's moving horizontally above the ground. Incredibly bright, too. It was very bright. It was really bright. It was probably anywhere from a meter to two meters in diameter, so it was fairly large, and then, I don't know, about 20 feet above the ground. The couple were amazed and scrambled to film it with a phone. It's like, what is this? I've never seen this before. No, it was pretty neat. A neat sight that had Ed immediately wondering if it was the mysterious thing he'd read about as a kid called Ball Lightning. After we shut the video off and it disappeared, I'm like, oh, so that's what that looks like. We've got this really bright light out here. We asked longtime storm chaser George Corunis for his opinion. If this is indeed Ball Lightning, this is one of the best ball lightning videos I've ever seen. But he wonders if what we're seeing is the result of lightning hitting a power line and an arc of electricity traveling along. This exhibits all the characteristics of a persistent, slow-moving, arcing power line. Ed and Melinda doubt that. Definitely not. No, it's a long way away from a power line. Just to spoil it for you, unfortunately, it's most likely. not ball lightning. As a matter of fact, additional reports from this event suggest that there is actually a power line running through this location, and very likely exactly where this event is happening. Definitely not. No, it's a long way away from a power line. But it's also the end of this event that kind of gives it away. Watch this. See how it just disappears? Well, this is something you can easily find on YouTube if you look up, something referred to as electric power lines arc. Now, here's one video I found very easily by HBO Jane that shows you one of these bizarre effects running along the power lines, and this is actually something that happens quite frequently. As a matter of fact, there are so many of these electric arc videos out there, that we know that this is not a rare phenomenon at all. And in some cases, these arcs can easily travel down the line. producing enormously bright objects that do appear spherical in shape, and they almost always end in a very similar way as observed in this video. Here's actually one of many examples I found on the web with the link you can find in the description. And so, what does look like some kind of a bowl lightning is really more of an electrical effect produced by the power lines themselves. And so this is extremely likely what we're seeing here as well. not necessarily bull lightning, but an arcane power line that seems to be producing these very, very bright emissions. Definitely not. No, it's a long ways away from a power line. But the only way to, I guess, prove this officially is to basically confirm that there is a power line in this location. In this video, it's kind of difficult to tell. Definitely not. No, it's a long way away from a power line. But that particular event in Canada was extremely unlikely to be one of these bow lightnings, and is a lot more likely to be the result of arc lightning following the transmission lines. Definitely not. No, it's a long ways away from a power line. What is it? It's going for a long time. It's like a fireboat. The video does not do justice, though. So what is that? It's fire. What is it? It's going for a long time. It looks like a fire bulb, but not really, it's the wrong color. Wow, the video does not do justice film. So what is that?