Dancing Orbs and Strange White Light

[Liger20]

Hello, I wanted to make a post about this, because this is a topic that has bothered me for a very long time. I live in a very mountainous region, and I just recently discovered that there have been stories going around this area for a long time about something that I saw when I was much younger. The stories say that there is some kind of light that people have seen that breaks up and supposedly dances around in white orbs. Now, first of all, I want to make it very clear that I am skeptical any sort of supernatural phenomena, and I believe that most everything can be explained by science. However, I saw something very similar to this once, and I want to explain my experience to you, because I just have to figure out what this was:

It was a night in July, and I looked out the front window, and I saw this big ball of white light sort of flash and disappear right out on my driveway. Then I looked out over onto this mountain near my house, and I saw this white glow covering it. It’s hard for me to explain exactly what it looked like, but in a way it looked like a big white fog. Interestingly, it would disappear, and then flash every few seconds, as though something sparked it. I also saw these strange white orbs floating around in the woods below my house. I didn’t dream these things either, because everyone in my neighborhood saw them, and nobody could figure out what it was.

I really hope that someone can offer a perfectly valid scientific explanation for this extremely interesting phenomenon. My guess is that it might have something to do with a bizarre electromagnetic phenomenon, but I can’t be 100 percent sure. I suppose it might have something to do with heat lightning. Everyone I know thinks it has to do with the supernatural, but I think there is a perfectly scientific explanation for it, which is why I want to find out what it really is.

[junglebeast]

There are several locations where orbs such as this are known to appear. I'm sure someone can provide specific location references (I don't recall details). But basically, if I recall correctly, they are often caused by car headlights broken up by trees that go through some atmospheric scattering.

[Ivan Seeking]

There are a couple of natural phenomena that are recognized but not understood - ball lightning and earth lights. So while your experience may be the result of something more commonplace, it could have been something like ball lightning. No need to invoke the supernatural. :biggrin:

People see glowing orbs on a somewhat regular basis in the Mt. Addams area of Oregon/Washington. They are clearly not headlights as they are seen on and above the mountain. [Edit: I should have said that was my impression based on a number of videos seen over the years]