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Earthquakes and Sky Booms
Charles H. Fort catalogued a large number of stories in which strange things happened during or after thunderstorms, among which are many mysterious booms which fail to be accompanied by earthquakes to explain them away, or meteor showers during thunderstorms.
Mind you, electrical storms are so numerous that coincidence could explain these odd phenomena in many cases, but one wonders if there isn't something unknown as well.
Some scientists have hypothesized that ball lightning (which can be explosive) is a geo-electrical phenomena--the ball may be a sphere of flaming silicon plasma or other.
Perhaps these seemingly connected phenomena have a common element--lightning balls created during a storm might last long enough to explode violently after the storm is past, and being plasma could create mysterious sonic booms over a relatively large area without turning up on seismic records, despite their earthly origin.
On the other hand, perhaps meteors can create ball lightning by feeding silicon and other elements into the electrical fields of storms.
How Fortean would that be? Earth, sky and space linked into one giant exploding ball of mystery! No single explanation, perhaps, but a net of common threads reaching out like forks of lightning.
Charles H. Fort catalogued a large number of stories in which strange things happened during or after thunderstorms, among which are many mysterious booms which fail to be accompanied by earthquakes to explain them away, or meteor showers during thunderstorms.
Mind you, electrical storms are so numerous that coincidence could explain these odd phenomena in many cases, but one wonders if there isn't something unknown as well.
Some scientists have hypothesized that ball lightning (which can be explosive) is a geo-electrical phenomena--the ball may be a sphere of flaming silicon plasma or other.
Perhaps these seemingly connected phenomena have a common element--lightning balls created during a storm might last long enough to explode violently after the storm is past, and being plasma could create mysterious sonic booms over a relatively large area without turning up on seismic records, despite their earthly origin.
On the other hand, perhaps meteors can create ball lightning by feeding silicon and other elements into the electrical fields of storms.
How Fortean would that be? Earth, sky and space linked into one giant exploding ball of mystery! No single explanation, perhaps, but a net of common threads reaching out like forks of lightning.