Post by irishbanshee on May 14, 2004 9:14:46 GMT
Last Wednesday (5th May) here in south Essex we experienced a pretty violent electrical storm at around 3pm.
A few hours before at 12pm, I had picked my daughter up from pre-school and was on my way to make my Nan-in-law's lunch (she is 92, bless) before heading off to a kids playcentre nearby.
As we pulled up outside the house my daughter started yelling,
"There's a yellow circle in the sky! Behind the tree, mummy!" She jumped out of the car and we ran to see what it was, but there was nothing there. No balloon, no kids playing ball, no nothing. The sky was blue, with heavy clouds coming from the west and there wasn't even an aeroplane in the sky. Puzzled, we carried on with our day.
I kept thinking of UFO's (which I don't beleive in) and wondering what she could have seen.
The storm broke around 3pm as we were in the playcentre and we watched the lightning tear across the sky.
The next day, my sister emailed me an article on ball ligtning and I nearly fell off the chair!!
I wonder was that what my daughter saw?
A few hours before at 12pm, I had picked my daughter up from pre-school and was on my way to make my Nan-in-law's lunch (she is 92, bless) before heading off to a kids playcentre nearby.
As we pulled up outside the house my daughter started yelling,
"There's a yellow circle in the sky! Behind the tree, mummy!" She jumped out of the car and we ran to see what it was, but there was nothing there. No balloon, no kids playing ball, no nothing. The sky was blue, with heavy clouds coming from the west and there wasn't even an aeroplane in the sky. Puzzled, we carried on with our day.
I kept thinking of UFO's (which I don't beleive in) and wondering what she could have seen.
The storm broke around 3pm as we were in the playcentre and we watched the lightning tear across the sky.
The next day, my sister emailed me an article on ball ligtning and I nearly fell off the chair!!
I wonder was that what my daughter saw?
