July 15, 2026

UAP Orbs: Avi Loeb Proposes Ball Lightning Explanation — July 15, 2026

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests some UAP orbs may be plasma or ball lightning; listen to learn why this hypothesis could reframe many orb sightings and affect future UAP research.

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This is UFO sidings today. John F. Shusler was one

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of the people who kept the civilian record of UFO

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reports alive for half a century. The Mutual UFO Network

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announced that Schusler, its international director emeritus and a co

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founder when the group was the Midwest UFO Network in

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nineteen sixty nine, died peacefully at home on July eleventh,

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twenty twenty six, after more than fifty three years of service.

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An aerospace engineer by training, he documented cases and wrote

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for the Mutual UFO Network Journal. His name is linked

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to the cash Landrum affair, the nineteen eighty encounter that

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left two women with radiation illness. For a community that

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prizes continuity and witnesses is passing as a loss, and

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it arrives in a year already marked by other notable

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deaths in this field. The pattern has not gone unnoted.

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On a different track, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loebe published an

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essay proposing that some uap orbs might be a form

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of ball lightning or related plasma phenomena. He lays out

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physical mechanisms and argues that natural plasma could explain the

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free standing luminous spheres people film. The piece is exploratory

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and unconfirmed. If true, it would force a reappraisal of

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many ORB reports, but the hypothesis remains under scientific debate. Online,

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the conversation has turned to doctor Phil's rundown of forty

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declassified UAP files JANUP one six, the nineteen fifty three

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rule threatening pilots with ten years in prison for discussing sightings,

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the Turner Report, project sign and the Belender memo, and

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to a filmmaker's Puerto Rico CE five footage showing daytime craft,

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a jellyfish, UAP and n Officially, the Pentagon's Anomaly Resolution

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Office collects and analyzes reports, while scientists point out ball lightning,

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radar deception, and electronic warfare as conventional explanations. Civilian databases

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document encounters but do not equal government confirmation. Will keep

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watching the skies. UFO sightings today is for informational purposes only.

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Stories are drawn from publicly available sources. All claims are

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attributed to their original sources and have not been independently

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verified