The red-hot plasma clot behaves mysteriously, which gives rise to unthinkable assumptions.
Olga Vasilievna Ponizova from Fryazino near Moscow never went to the editorial offices of newspapers: she considered her modest person unremarkable. Changed her mind after the third time in my life "collided" with ball lightning. The woman wrote off the first two "meetings" as an accident, but after this winter a fireball flew into her bedroom and caused a pogrom in the room, she realized: it was no accident. “I have an unsettling feeling that the lightning will still return,” Ponizova suggests. - Maybe the scientists will explain what she wants from me?
Olga Vasilievna worked all her life as a turner at a factory, received the sixth grade and many certificates for labor valor. Now she is retired, but she continues to work and take care of the household farm - she has a vegetable garden, chickens and a goat. To be bored and to invent "fairy tales", as she herself admits, is not enough time, and it is not in her nature. “I have another problem - I cut the truth in my eyes,” the interlocutor argues. "Neighbors and girlfriends often take offense at me for this."
The first time Olga Vasilievna encountered ball lightning in her childhood. She was 13 years old. Then she lived with her parents in the Urals, worked on a collective farm, grazed cows. It was August, it was getting dark, the weather was clear and cloudless. Olga was sitting on a log and reading a book, from time to time glancing at the cows under her care who lazily nibbled on the grass. She was already getting ready to drive them home, when she suddenly noticed a motionless bright spot in the air: it flashed, then disappeared. Suddenly, the stain began to move directly towards her, so quickly that the girl only managed to cover her face with her palms. The ball quickly flew past, scalding him with hot air. For about five minutes he seemed to tease her and frighten the cows, making aerial jumps. The burenki began to rush across the field and bellow. And then the girl got angry with the air bully, grabbed a stick and went to him, saying: “Go, go,where did you come from! The ball seemed to recede, and Olga threw the stick after him. There was a loud crack, and in front of the frightened girl's eyes, the stick flared up and burned out like a match.
20 years have passed, Olga Vasilievna lived with her husband and two children in Tashkent, she had already begun to forget about that childhood adventure. But one day I went with my family to rest outside the city, and while walking along the lake shore, a 12-year-old son called out to her: "Mom, look what a balloon is in the air!" She looked back and saw how a ball about 15 centimeters in diameter, bright like an orange, hovered above the water, and the children, husband and friends were staring at it spellbound. Suddenly he began to turn around in the air, "as if he was choosing a target," Olga Vasilievna suggests. “I felt horror, although not timid by nature,” she recalls. A shiver went down my spine. She shouted to the children to lie on the ground, while she herself stood and waited with the certainty that 'it' had come back for me. " Her presentiments did not deceive the woman: the ball moved towards her, flew around her head several times, burned her ear, and then dashed off towards the forest. Before the woman had time to recover, she felt a strong heat from her back. Her husband ran up, pulled off her burning jacket, started shaking her by the shoulders. “I was dumbfounded and could not come to my senses for a long time,” recalls Ponizova. - Only three days later began to calm down. The burn scar on the ear remained for life."
For the third time, ball lightning - Olga Vasilievna by that moment already knew that this strange phenomenon was called that way - visited her this winter. The weather that day was clear and frosty again.
- I was in the garden, repairing greenhouses, when she appeared in the air and hovered, as if looking at something, - says the pensioner. - At first I was confused, but quickly pulled myself together. I looked at her and thought: what do you want from me? And she began to sway, vibrate in the air, as if preparing to jump. I said loudly: "I'm not afraid of you," although in reality my knees buckled, "do whatever you want, but I'm not afraid." The ball spun around the greenhouses, and then rushed into the house. Olga Vasilievna rushed after her, shouting over the fence to her neighbor Maria Lvovna Oshanina to call the firemen if there was a fire.
“I heard the glass clinking and ran into the bedroom,” says Ponizova. - I saw that the mirror was broken, there were photographs of my husband and children on the floor, the curtain on the window was on. I tore it off and began to trample, and at that moment I saw a hole in the window glass, as if it had been made with a drill. Through this hole, she left. Probably, he takes revenge for the fact that I then drove her with a stick, wants me dead. So I broke the mirror …
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Then many people came to look at this hole - neighbors, foreman Sergei Plotnikov from the city construction trust, district police officer Viktor Trynin, an employee of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Gubasov, geophysicist and ufologist Anna Shchipkovskaya came from Moscow. It was clear to everyone: no apparatus and mechanisms known to us are capable of making such a hole in the glass in a split second. This would require a temperature of about three thousand degrees!
A body with such energy is capable of many things: for example, to burn a person or a small house alive, to boil water in a barrel, to uproot a tree, to pierce metal. So our interlocutor, one might say, was still lucky. But "for what purpose" the uninvited guest pursues her, she really does not understand.
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“Ball lightning is one of the most exciting mysteries of modern science,” says Vadim SPERANSKY, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor of Moscow State University, Deputy Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. - Scientists have been puzzling over its nature for a long time. It is only known for certain that it is a plasma clot with spherical shape and luminescence. The rest is sheer riddles. Ball lightning and its “relative” poltergeist often behave as if “reasonable”: they choose the same people for “communication”, enter into a kind of contact with them, “take revenge”, “spare” or “have fun”. People who have become the object of attention of ball lightning often testify: the fiery guests are pursuing some goal, trying to influence their psyche. Victims often experience stiffness and fearand after the incident they cannot recover for a long time from feelings of depression, nightmares, severe headache. Not to mention personal injury and property damage.
Recently, the hypothesis sounds more and more confident: ball lightning is a product of a quantum vacuum reigning around us, concealing gigantic energetic possibilities. This is where, quite possibly, the fantastic energy she possesses. Following Einstein and Paul Dirac, we are getting closer and closer to the conclusion: vacuum is not emptiness at all, it is also a huge "memory bank", information, semantic space of the Universe. Our life is based on energy-informational processes, and ball lightning and poltergeist are one of their manifestations. People who seem to attract such phenomena to themselves, most likely, have increased sensory abilities, at the subconscious level they are able to catch such phenomena. They have flashes of intuition and insight more often than usual. There is, of course, no reason to believethat ball lightning is almost capable of "thinking", as some ufologists and researchers of anomalous phenomena claim. Most likely, we subconsciously set one or another of their "behavior" ourselves. Many adults experience horror when faced with these phenomena, just like our distant ancestors, who were mortally afraid of thunderstorms or winds, while children often manage to “make friends” with a “bright ball” or “drum”, talk to them and even join “in correspondence ". Of course, this is not without imagination, but still it is better than depression and fear.while children often manage to "make friends" with a "bright ball" or "little bunny", talk to them and even enter into correspondence. Of course, this is not without imagination, but still it is better than depression and fear.while children often manage to "make friends" with a "bright ball" or "little bunny", talk to them and even enter into correspondence. Of course, this is not without imagination, but still it is better than depression and fear.
Leskova Natalia, Labor