Hello Sharon Hill,
> Lots of terms that are left undefined are bandied about in this thread.
To which terms do you refer? Things like ROM, RAM? or RTK, MASER, etc? All vintage technology which can easily be 'googled'; I try to leave enough crumbs to enable the curious to come up speed wrt my posts.
>but none are so extraordinary as to invoke alien cloaking.
This presumes that the object was in fact ball-lightening, irregardless of the entire sequence of described exhibited behaviors that suggest otherwise. However the URL that you cited:
https://www.sciencealert.com/russia...nce-behind-ball-lightning-as-bubbles-of-light
I must admit that this is a new and interesting speculation and one that I had not read before, and I've read much on the subject over the years, long before I became interested in Near Earth ET Studies. Although based in what I know about physics and chemistry, the description doesn't seem to match many of the reported characteristics seen in authentic ball-lightening events.
"Luminous-Orbs" (for my convenience, and is my name for a suspected alien object class), in my opinion are just as mysterious and interesting as are ball-lightening and while the two objects do seem to share similarities, they are not the same type material objects but are often confused as being one and the same by the unindoctrinated.
Authentic 'Ball-Lightening', apparently, is a form of natural electrically based phenomena but which are not intelligent, whereas, Luminous-Orbs, are in my and other ET scientist opinion, and are suspected to be likely an alien 'mecha' (for lack of a better definition) and do exhibit intelligent behaviors including consciousness and demonstrated functionality akin to 'telepathy'. Coincidentally, luminous-orbs frequently present themselves in scenarios that could be explained-away as being ball-lightening, and it is in that vantage that I cite the behavior as being "mimicry'. These objects seem to purposely appear to be something other than what they are, which seems to be a form of hiding-in-plain-sight. This behavior is also seen in other alien mecha exhibitions.
Sharon, my interest is not to educate everyone about what is already suspected and-or known within the Near Earth ET Studies community, but rather to find and engage in cogent conversation with folks who are also further along the ET-presence learning curve, hopefully to find and learn something new. I've moved on from attempting to hold debates with skeptics, and as I've stated before, I will not debate the subject for the sake of proving something contested as experience has illustrated that it can not be accomplished. So, I skip over'm.
Best Regards,
plutronus