When the Fireballs emerged from the River

About Dragon fireball in the Mekong River,
Thailand ...... balls of fire that can appear in a
sequence up to a dozen times. After taking off, the ball of fire had vanished in the darkness.
Each year, approximately 200-800 fireball was seen along the rivers. Everything just happens, without noise or smoke. Usually this
phenomenon occurs only about 1-3 days a year, at the end of the rainy season retreat local Buddhists, who usually held in October. This phenomenon can only be seen at night, starting with the launch of the boats are decorated and illuminated by thousands of candles into a river

Therefore, according to local residents, the
dragon emerged from the bottom of the river
and join the celebration ritual to welcome the
Buddha. Because, according to their beliefs, that's when Buddha returned to earth, after giving sermons to his mother in heaven. For the people of Nong Khaya, the legend of the dragon in the same area as the legend of the LochNess monster in the river that has been passed down from generation to generation.

To Time (magazine), Abbot Wat Paa Luang,
Phrakhru Kitjaton Pichai, said that the testimony of various monks already enshrined in the written records in the monastery which was situated near the Mekong River, since hundreds of years ago. "My mother, my father never saw them (the dragon). I've also seen it. The dragon was huge, silver, and swim like a snake in the river. I saw it when I was 13 years old," said Pang Butamee, local residents 78 years.
However, Thailand's Ministry of Science dismiss the legend. Through its official release, they concluded that the ball of fire dragon is a myth.
"The phenomenon was caused by the gas
phosphine (PH3) is lit," said Deputy Permanent
Secretary, Ministry of Science Thailand, Saksit Tridech.

A team from the ministry's time to install the
scanner temperature (thermo-scanner) in
several places on the banks of the Mekong
river in the area of Rattana Wapee. When the dragon ball appeared, the tool captures the movement of gas from the water, before people saw a fireball that lit. So, said the ministry, the fireball was highly dependent on gas content of the river, which usually peaking in October

Meanwhile, Manas Kanoksin, a local scientist
said that it also could not be separated from
the role of the sun's gravity will assist the
escape of methane gas from the river bed. Because, says Kanoksin, in October, the earth was at the point nearest the sun