Good new UFO video from /r/UFOs

a reply to: MamaJ

That's the $64,000 question, isn't it.

The best science on this phenomenon or apparently related phenomenon is being done on the Hessdalen Lights in Norway. They recur yearly, last for up to hours, and are not fueled by lightning strikes. Their spectral analysis doesn't quite match known plasmas such as laboratory ball lightning.

Then you have the idea of Cellular Automatons (see Wolfram, etc for endless discussion of these) which are simple machines that do things, and now scientists have created plasma automatons in the lab which have some characteristics of living cells.

Put it all together and it starts to look like there is a natural phenomenon that produces ethereally short-lived plasma 'life' at regular times in certain places on the Earth, and perhaps more rarely in a wider range of places.