Mysterious fireballs ram the Earth

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Mysterious fireballs ram the Earth

09/27/2004 17:13

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/14329_fireball.html

A mysterious fire tornado that ripped through the jungles had torn

out trees in some areas, while leaving the vegetation untouched.

 

At night of 14 September 2004 many people got a chance to witness

the fall of a fire object near the southern Argentinean town of

Ushuaia. Further searches in the region yielded fascinating results:

the area of approximately 150 sq meters had absolutely no trees. At

first sight, it appeared as though the trees were chopped down;

however, all the vegetation remained untouched. More so, according

to the Argentinean media, scientists were unable to find any traces

of the mysterious fire object that had "melted down" the woods. The

next day, on September 15th, another fire object was spotted in that

same region.

 

Currently, researchers are trying to determine the nature of such

mysterious phenomenon. It is likely that it has got something to do

with the kind of research work many scientists from all over the

world have been preoccupied with for ages. In particular, Sandia

National Laboratories hosted a workshop in August of this year which

was dedicated specifically to such kind of unexplained phenomena

involving descending burning objects.

 

One Russian scientist, candidate of physic-mathematical sciences

Andrei Ol"khovatov was one of the participants of the workshop.

 

In his exclusive interview to "PRAVDA.RU", Mr. Ol'khovatov noted

that due to the lack of evidences regarding recent events in

Argentina, it is rather difficult to draw any conclusions at this

point. However, if analysis of the eyewitnesses' words will be

confirmed concerning the fact that the fire object had in fact

landed in the area with major tree-anomaly and the date of the

anomaly will correspond to that of the fall, then this occurrence

could be classified as something of a mystic origin. In that case,

it will be referred to as a "geophysical meteors."

 

Scientists have yet been unable to determine physical mechanism of

geophysical meteors. All that is known today is the fact that

geophysical meteors somewhat resemble high-energy ball lightning and

has a tendency to remain in certain geophysical environment.

 

According to Ol'khovatov, geophysical meteors are far from harmless.

In January of this year, a fire ball has caused severe damage to a

house in the Iranian town of Babol. However, there were plenty of

far worse cases. In 1935 for instance, hundreds of kilometers of

jungles have been completely destroyed in South America, in British

Guiana.

 

 

 

Read the original in Russian:

http://science.pravda.ru/science/2004/6/79/305/18131_balllightning.ht

ml (Translated by: Anna Ossipova)