Has Anyone Ever Witnessed St Elmos Fire

[Weather-Voyager]

It's very much debatable whether that is 'Ball lightning' around the 0:30 mark. Having replayed that section over and over, I've come to the same conclusion I did when I first watched the video the day it was uploaded: it's a bird. I'm pretty sure you can even hear the bird the moment it enters the frame.

Doesn't help that the video quality is poor. But I do wonder, though, what makes people so sure, or certain even, this was a form of lightning. As I said, it is still open to debate what exactly flew across the sky at aformentioned point in the video, but I think many people, whether weather enthusiasts or not, would like to believe it's something out of the ordinary. A rare natural occurance. Gives them something to talk about, I guess.

I agree and I am open minded on what it could be, maybe it is a bird or other easily explained object.

This same phenomenon was also caught on May 25th 1997 near Loco, Oklahoma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIO37eVlLJc

Skip forward to 4:00 minutes to see it.