I AmnotGeorgeBush wrote:

You saw the green flash! No, just kidding!
I have seen a similar example. Flash right through the house in a
horizontal line many years ago at the same time as a direct strike, but
the ball did not hang around at all. It shot from one end to the other
and disappeared..and this was INSIDE.

It's been a long time. Nobody believed me when I told them about the
ball lightning the first time. I was only eight or nine.
In the early eighties, I watched a huge storm on July 4 in the west in
Indiana. I saw three large balls of lightning travel parellel to the
ground from cloud to cloud. It was far away. No telling just how big
they were.
I also saw lightning dance along a wire fence of the hog lot.
It was always a real show to watch the summer storms off over the edge
of the mountain and listen to the thunder and the rain on a tin roof.
You can't keep awake for long. What a sweet lullabye.