Has anyone seen a blue orb in the sky tonight?

Question

My husband saw a blue orb move very quickly in a downward position in the sky tonight. He said it was round with a sky blue colour on the outer part and a darker blue on the inner circle. He said it moved very fast. He said that had he not seen it with his own eyes he wouldn't have believed it. We wonder if anyone else has seen it. 14 July 2006

The Orb was seen from the east side of England facing West

Stansted Airport area

Answer 1

Your husband may have seen an electrical discharge phenomenon... Please see some of the articles on http://www.thunderbolts.info, specifically the picture of the day archive. They have some cool stuff in there. Our planet is more electrically active than was once believed in the upper middle and lower atmospheres.

Specifically, see the following articles, but also go to the home page and see the subjects index, lots of interesting stuff in there with explanations from plasma physicists and electrical engineers' perspectives. VERY accessible to the layman.

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060322sprite.htm
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050302electric-earth.htm
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/040908circuit.htm
http://www.thunderbolts.info/webnews/ieee_plasma_balllightening.htm

Could have been a form of ball lightning.

See:

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060206chicagofire.htm
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060207biela.htm
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060202tunguska.htm
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060203tunguska2.htm

The above (2 articles on the chicago fire and two on the tunguska event) both are similar events. And in one or both, they mention large bright balls of "fire" (most likely plasma, a hot ionized gas) dropping from the sky and setting fire to whatever they touched.

It's very possible that your husband may have seen a similar cohesive plasma "ball" phenomenon. Of course would need WAY more info before making that kind of determination... ;o] But yes fols have previosly seen similar falling bright glowing orbs. Just be glad he saw it from a long way off and not right up close... ;o) Plasma and other electrical phenomena are generally bad to see up close. ;o]

Very possible there's a more mundane explanation though. Sometimes in the right conditions (cloud cover or fog), headlights of a car going up a hill can refract inside of cloud or fog water droplets and reflect back to another observer, making it seem that they saw soemthing extraordinary, when it's really just an optical trick of the light and water vapor. But, y'never know. Really depends on what he saw. Where are you located? Maybe someone else in your locale can confirm or deny an observation of the same penomena in the same region from a different vantage point.

Answer 2

likely the astounding purple movie star Antares. It has a tendency to be low contained in the south from mid-northern latitudes (in Scorpius). via its low elevation from the horizon our environment can create all sorts colourful twinkling consequences. i have considered the kind of aspect with different stars too. Sirius does this alot. examine out the final route of this the following day nighttime jointly of nighttime. you should be able to work out purple Antares. If the air is clearer and a lot less turbulant it would want to no longer flash and regulate colour as a lot yet you would possibly want to nevertheless be able to varify that it is a star and not in any respect a alien craft.

Answer 3

BLUE ORB? NO NOT YET. Does your husband wear glasses? Or contacts?
If he was putting pressure on his eye(s) this will cause a phantom orb, or what is a natural response to pressure. If this continues, he may want to get his vision checked out either way.

Answer 4

Yea i saw it.My first time too.if you missed it im sorry.it DID move kinda quick

Answer 5

tell your old man to stop bangin so many pills down his neck.

Answer 6

Where?

Answer 7

Not me.

Answer 8

Where was this?

Answer 9

i haven't