St. Elmo's Fire
One of my favorite religious-science light phenomenon is St. Elmo's Fire.
St. Elmo's fire is a plasma that forms arounds the tips of raised, pointed conductors during thunderstorms and snowstorms. It has occured around ships masts, church steeples, horns of cows and out stretched fingers and is known as a point discharge to physicists. People who have witnessed an actual St. Elmo's fire occurance have given various descriptions. It could be blue to bluish-white, silent to emitting a hissing sound, and ghostly to solid. Some people belive that the Hindenburg was ignited by St. Elmo's fire in 1937, however this theory has yet to be proven. If it occurs at sea, it is a sign that St. Elmo is protecting the ship.
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