Is this another GLOWING report? There was another incident that I should mention, because it was a bit strange, to say the least. It happened also on a Hermes. We were flying in cloud,at night,and I started to get a lot of static over the Radio which usually meant that we were running into a bit of Electrical phenomena,which sometimes shows itself as what is known as "St Elmos Fire". I had experienced it before and it consists of when different parts of the aircraft are at differing electrical potential and they "Glow".

For instance, the Antenna between cockpit and the top of the tail fin Glowed like a Blue Neon Tube!!. Also there was a Blue glowing ring around the periphery of each of the propellers, and little blue "things" ran up and down the windscreen wipers. This time, however, there was something new to me. As I stood between the two Pilots seats,looking forward, I could see what looked like a Blue rotating ball, about 18 inches,or so, in diameter,and around 20 or 30 feet ahead of the aircraft.

It started rolling towards the aircraft and I swung round to sit down in my Radio Ops seat (which faces rearward), and this ball came straight through the nose of the Hermes, passing about two or three feet away from me, and continuing through the galley (the door was open at the time) and down the central aisle until it disappeared through the end of the aircraft.!! I looked across at the Flight Engineer and we both said the same, "What the hell was that". I have no idea,but it was like the special effects that you see in Sci Fi movies.! You would need to ask a Ph.D !.