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This is Volume 2 of the Ministry of Defence report 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region', Defence Intelligence Staff Scientific and Technical Memorandum 55/2/00, dated February 2000 and received 7 December 2000. It gathers 25 working papers on natural and man-made phenomena, meant as a reference for analysing UAP reports. The papers cover ball lightning, radar detection, balloons, satellites, mirages, plasma and similar subjects. One paper compares magnetic field experiments on human volunteers with close encounter reports. It concludes that effects from such fields are 'uncannily similar' to what witnesses describe.
“ball lightning”28 pages
- p. 6 ## CONTENTS
1 UAP Effects on Humans, Electrical/Electronic Equipment and Objects
2 Ball and Bead Lightning…
- p. 10 …The more violent can clearly come from the explosion which sometimes occurs when ball lightning disappears…
- p. 16 …ball lightning, bead lightning, 'earth lights' and other charged airmasses, it is possible to calculate, as…
- p. 26 ## WORKING PAPER NO.2
## BALL AND BEAD LIGHTNING
Para. Page
INTRODUCTION 1 2-2
Ball Lightning…
- p. 27 …Intensive Plasma Formations (PPFs) | 40 | 2-8 |
| BALL LIGHTNING AND AIRCRAFT | 41 | 2-8 |
| PLASMA SHAPE…
- p. 28 # UNCLASSIFIED
UK RESTRICTED
# THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BALL AND BEAD LIGHTNING
## INTRODUCTION
1. A review of the…
- p. 29 - Effect on Humans
- Effect on the Environment
- Effect on Equipment
- Odours
- Electrical/Chemical theory
Ball Lightning…
- p. 30 …Velocity Secondly the ball lightning often has velocity in one or more of the following categories…
- p. 31 …Almost all ball lightning reports are visual in the first instance. After they have disappeared (either…
- p. 32 …There is no indication of gamma radiation from either ball or bead lightning.
## ODOURS
19. Odours…
- p. 33 …Some general EM effects on equipment (not necessarily ball lightning) are also discussed at Working Paper…
- p. 34 …It should be noted that rarely are there any measurements from real ball lightning; any measurements…
- p. 35 …In some cases it is claimed that ball lightning has the ability to absorb light, hence…
- p. 36 …The ball follows the aircraft even in manoeuvres. Observations of ball lightning show that its characteristics…
- p. 37 …In the many attempts to develop a theory to explain ball lightning (and by so doing…
- p. 38 …Considerable evidence exists to show that the incidence of ball lightning, especially with a longer lifetime…
- p. 39 …1. "Ball and Bead Lightning" J.D. Barry Plenum 1980.
2. "The Nature of Ball Lightning…
- p. 40 …6. "A Model of Ball Lightning as a Magnetic Knot with Linked Streamers"A F Ranada…
- p. 43 …The potential connection between UAP and ball lightning are summarised at Working Paper No 2.
## TIME…
- p. 55 …RADAR REFLECTIONS FROM PLASMA | 5 | 5-2 |
| BALL LIGHTNING AS A RADAR REFLECTOR | 10 | 5-3…
- p. 58 …2, ball and bead lightning (which do not always
appear as spheres), may have diameters as…
- p. 86 …Ball Lightning) may be observed near to tall structures, aircraft, the crews of which will be…
- p. 124 …finally, exploded. This, in fact was probably ball lightning rather than an earthlight. Other historical earthlight…
- p. 126 …UK EARTHLIGHTS (OR POSSIBLY BALL LIGHTNING)
NOTE: Location Carleton Moor, Skipton, Yorks, police photograph (copyright Sgt…
- p. 228 …have been assumed to have been with ball lightning (Working Paper No 2). Whether this is…
- p. 229 …The Russians have reportedly lost aircraft to ball lightning (it is not clear whether these are…
- p. 247 …component of earthlights), or even incompletely formed ball-lightning, might react to the addition of external…
- p. 249 …1,2,10,19 & 21:
## INTRODUCTION
- Ball Lightning
- Ionospheric Plasmas
- Earthlights
- Electrically-charged Aerosols.
It is…
## CONTENTS
1 UAP Effects on Humans, Electrical/Electronic Equipment and Objects
2 Ball and Bead Lightning
3 Potential Reasons for Higher Densities of UAP Sightings
4 After Images as a Result of Flashes of Light
5 Detection of UAPs by Radar
6 Exotic Technologies
7 Sightline Rates of Flying Objects & Meteorites
8 Rarity of UAP Sound Reports
9 Black and other Aircraft Programmes as UAP Events
10 Ley Lines, 'EARTH LIGHTS' and UK Earth Fault Lines
11 Collected Imagery and Classification of UAP Shapes
12 Earth's Magnetic Field in the UKADR
13 Visual Meterological and other Natural Phenomena
14 Meteorological Balloons
15 Air Ships and Hot Air Balloons
16 Sunspot, Aurora and Seismic Correlation
17 Visual Observation of Satellites
18 Projected Shapes/Shadows, Fluorescence & Luminescence
19 Charged Dust Aerosols
20 Optical Mirages
21 Ionospheric Plasma
22 Artefacts
23 Linked Vortex Rings
24 Sprites, Elves and Blue Jets
25 Overview of Magnetic Field Effects on Humans
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