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This section contains descriptions of unexplained facts provided by eyewitnesses or published in the media, as well as the results of their analysis by the group.

UFO. Russia

ID	#1637054438
Added	Tue, 16/11/2021
Author	July N.
Sources	Ефросинья Петровна
Phenomena	UFO
Status	Hypothesis

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness

Incident date:

1890

Location:

Кондрашкино

Voronezhskaya oblast

Russia

Efrosinya Petrovna tells two cases of meeting with a ball lightning:

My mother told me that in the village, at the end of the last century, a woman was killed by a ball lightning. Several people saw how during a thunderstorm (there was a break between showers, but there were clouds in the sky) a bright ball descended on a woman walking along the road. She screamed, and then fell dead.

Surprisingly, I have also met ball lightning myself. I was little. During a thunderstorm, a window opened from the wind, and she flew in. We got scared and crawled under the table. Then there was a crack and she disappeared. Didn't hurt anything.

Hypotheses

List of versions containing features matching the eyewitness descriptions or material evidence

Ball lightning

A rare natural phenomenon, a unified physical theory of the origin and course of which has not been presented to date.

There are about 200 theories explaining the phenomenon, but none of them has received absolute recognition in the academic environment. Since this phenomenon was introduced into the scientific sphere by the English physician and researcher of electrical engineering William Snow Harris in 1843, and a scientist of the French Academy Francois Arago in 1855, many hypotheses were put forward. Here are selectively some of them: