Mysterious fireballs ram the Earth

CVX · Post by **CVX** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:57 am

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.

From: http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/ ... eball.html

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anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:21 am

what a weird story. both in the content and the way it's told.

vampress.rozz · Post by **vampress.rozz** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:50 pm

Hi found this article on ball lightning and thought id share it

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1721473.stm

PermanentMarker · Post by **PermanentMarker** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:13 am

I saw on TV a report about a different kind of forest burn.

Normaly when there is fire in a forest whole trees would burn.

However fires tend to 'climb' in trees.

A few reasons for the effect are, that fresh air is sucked in at lower altitude acka the ground and heated air is ejected on top of a fire.

Under some wind conditions it can be that air is rushing over the trees and starts to burn the more thin wood in top of the trees (where there is less wood and more oxygen a better fire combination, also young wood over there filled with hars often)

A fire can start normaly from ground and then transform in a tree top burn.

And then expand to other tree tops.

The heat of the fire in the tree tops was much more heater then normal fires.

Altough i forgot the temperatures if i remember well one could melt iron with it.

perhaps if the area is wet enough by rain then a top fire would only harm the tree tops and leave the gras green.