A strange ball of light lit up the sky over Canberra before quickly vanishing once again stirred UFO sighting speculations on social media.
The video, which was first uploaded to Reddit, showed a round UFO surfacing on the Australian Capital Territory sky amidst a Sunday night storm. The mysterious object has a faint green and red glow in the background.
Some users of social media labeled it as an ET event while experts branded it as a weather phenomenon called ball lightning.
The lightning illuminated with a green-red hue and a white orb in the dark sky and disappeared after a few seconds during the recorded incident.
Some believe it is a UFO exiting a portal from another dimension. Jakka Warren says that it is the so-called Class B UFO because of the presence of typical hyperdrive residue and not the ball of lightning as experts hinted. Many Reddit users maintained that the strange light was a sign of hyperspace opening up.
But experts insist it is ball lightning. Dr. Brad Tucker, an astronomer at Australian National University, debunked alien claims, saying it was ball lightning, an equally mysterious phenomenon.
He stated that some may have mistaken it for an Aurora, where the energy of the sun hits the atmosphere, rubbing it with friction and charging the gas. But it doesn’t fit because there is no activity from the sun and it is cloudy.
However, he thought it was ball lightning, a strange event where lightning appears as a ball explosion and moves around in the sky in some instances. The electrical charge rubbing against atmospheric gases manifest in this activity.
i belive it is real, ball lightening, thats all this is, i truely belive in UFOs but you got to call a spade a spade,
Exactly the same i saw here in Portugal in 2013. If it’s UFO or weather phenomena i dont’ know.
Exactly the same that me and my brother saw here in Portugal in 2012 and there was no sun too. Sorry not a weather phenomenon.
How can it be ball lightning when there are no clouds in the sky???? Are you that stupid?? I am seeing them where I live in Missouri and have been seeing them for many years now. Open your eyes. They are here, have been here for millions of years. How do you think we have gotten this far. We have gone from the stone age to the space age in less than 100 years. How do you explain that??? We are being lied to about our history, about religion, about everything. Open your eyes and believe what you see. They are real, and some are from this planet and have been teaching us as we go along. We have also been teaching ourselves with their technology.
the stone age to the space age in less than a hundred years? dude, better brush up on your history! really!
I agree with you Casey.
The light appears to be at least half a kilometer distant, meaning it would have to be tens of meters in diameter. Maximum diameter of ball lightning is almost never more than 1/2 meter in diameter. Friction from solar wind on the edge of the ionosphere seems a stretch of imagination. What do physicists call such a phenomenon, besides aurora?
We have UFO’s and we have nature. This is nature as strange as it might be.
This is a proper intelligent Entity ,they are balls of light been seen all around the world also seen making cropcircles.Some five years ago a bus load of people inland Australia saw a white ball of light observing them. There are skeptics out there who dos not want to think that there are other intelligents ,they only want to beleive whats in the boxs, not whats outside the boxs.Also 400 School children saw such a event at Napier NewZealand 1970. Also Waihi Queens Heads NewZealand white balls of lights have been seen.There out there, we are not alone.
Apples and oranges!
All sorts of weather phenomena can cause interest.
I believe in UFOs because I’ve seen 2 and they looked solid and had a definite shape, no mistaking them for lights or swamp gas, fire balls, ball lightening, balloons, paper bags, Chinese lanterns, blimps,or drones etc. That is why I have an open mind about seeing just lights.