Interconnectedness of weirdness

Three years back or so, I started reading up on the paranormal. Occasionally I tripped over the odd UFO story. Realized they are connected, somehow. When I was a kid, my grandmother told me of a ball lightning she'd seen close up. Still to this day, ball lightning is not an understood phenomenon, and as such, most of the time it's considered non-existent - especially by academics.

Interestingly, the only ones taking ball lightnings seriously are the Russians. No comment.

One other thing that mainly Russian academics take seriously is E-cat's "cold fusion" effect, which is soon to be publicly recognized as a regular field of research in Russia.

Ball lightning appears often near Skinwalker Ranch. As does other other weird anomalies, such as UFO's, Bigfoot and cattle mutilations. A research group into ball lightning is also looking into LENR.

Somehow these things are related, and not only due to their enigmatic nature. Not sure how though.