Best Ball Lightning Footage Captured in Alberta!

[Torchageddon]

 

Historic for the most mysterious wx curio! Lasts so long and the extreme brightness it gives off to the ground below it, wow!! I was befuddled as to why there were no good ball lightning videos in existence even with all the phones, security cams, ring doorbells, etc.

[Stebo]

That looks like a plasma charge along a powerline.

[Torchageddon]

On 7/6/2025 at 9:01 AM, Stebo said:

That looks like a plasma charge along a powerline.

Yeah a comment I saw suspects its "an arcing power line. Play 0:27 onwards at 0.25 speed and watch properly. Also notice how the lens reflection floating around to the right shows a less exposed version of it as two dots, which are the two power lines."

Wouldn't that be a gas, vid has 1.2 million views 

[cyclone77]

[frostfern]

On 7/7/2025 at 2:09 PM, Torchageddon said:

Yeah a comment I saw suspects its "an arcing power line. Play 0:27 onwards at 0.25 speed and watch properly. Also notice how the lens reflection floating around to the right shows a less exposed version of it as two dots, which are the two power lines."

Wouldn't that be a gas, vid has 1.2 million views 

I want it to be real, but it does look exactly like another video where the ball was generated by a pair of power lines.  I can’t really see any poles though.  

[Torchageddon]

The large size of it also makes this suspect, I read one of if not the best book on the topic 'Ball Lightning: An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics' by Mark Stenhoff which has many accounts from the centuries. I don't ken any mentioning the size of a house, typically they're softball size give or take.