Dr. Stephen Hughes, an astrophysicist at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, conducted a detailed study of a large meteor event that took place over Brisbane in 2006. While this meteor shower was taking place, a farmer in Queensland spotted two green balls of light descending from the sky. While one of these orbs descended directly downward to the ground without further incident, the second orb seemed to roll down a hill and bounce over a rock before disappearing, according to the farmer. Hughes believes the first orb was simply a bright meteor, while the second orb was probably ball lightning caused by the meteor, even though the event occurred on a clear night.
As he told the BBC, Hughes believes, “If you put together inexplicable atmospheric phenomena, maybe of an electrical nature, with human psychology and the desire to see something – that could explain a lot of these UFO sightings.”
The findings of Dr. Hughes’s study appear in Proceedings of the Royal Society.
I watched a meteor vanish and an electric blue oblong object accelerate from the area of the vanished meteor. The blue light shot across the horizon in a couple seconds. I joke that it looked like a ufo fleeing for it’s life from the meteor because that was what it looked like. I have thought since it might have been ball lightning. I have offered this information thinking scientist might be interested. I now found this site that makes me feel my hypothesis might have actually been correct. Let me know if you know more on the subject. Seeing it was baffling and facinating!