Anomalous Observational Phenomena: 09/27/22

Tuesday 27 September 2022

Volcanic lightning arises from colliding, fragmenting particles of volcanic ash (and sometimes ice), which generate static electricity within the volcanic plume, leading to the name dirty thunderstorm. Moist convection and ice formation also drive the eruption plume dynamics and can trigger volcanic lightning.

This video shows an example and explains things.

J. Bernard Delair, who ran Contact (UK) Data Research and gave the organisation a far better appeal than BUFORA, wrote the following which was published in The UFO Register vol 8 pts 1 & 2 1977.

I should point out that I do not believe that "UFOs" (ie. extra-terrestrial space craft) were involved. I did try, several times, to get some information from Costa Rica on the events reported on but without success. It is possible that the phenomenon reported we connected -created- by the volcano as even inactive volcanoes have been known to be the locus of light phenomena whether plasma or other.

Was the volcano active? When it comes to the descriptions of the animals killed and so on then a volcanic outburst does come to mind -this photo of animals killed after an eruption in Indonesia proves a point.

Considering the fact that Ufology has gone off the deep end into fantasy these days the Ufologists of the past were only a tad better. Very cold winter? Was that to do with UFO sightings? Very hot summers -a UFO connection? Thunderstorms and ball lightning became 'UFO crashes' as in Nottingham in the 1980s and on it went.

Until we can get a hold of any report from the time this was either volcanic/piezoelectric phenomenon or something similar because anything someone was not fdamiliar with became "flying saucers".

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