We met Ern Mainka, completely by chance, at the total solar eclipse in the sa outback, he parked right next to us in fact on the Stuart highway, and we got chatting and told us about ball lightning, he showed us a photo album/porfolio including the pics of ball lightning had just recently obtained. He was a very genuine bloke and I believe him completely (and a b-l-o-o-d-y good photographer!). Here is his page with his pics from Victoria, the only known pics from Vic (i think) and at that time only one of 5 amateur shots in the world (I think?).
http://www.ernmphotography.com/Pages...ning_ErnM.html
Kearn
EDIT: hey my first b l o o d y got erased in my first post - so i did it again hehe
is this censorship? i hope that words not flagged too?