chrome ignition box: high voltage at the outside?

I am hoping to pass, from lightning.

I had a close call with ball lightning when building my shop/lab. It was a rare act of nature, on a clear sunny day. I was at a faucet cleaning concrete tools, when I felt a strong electric field raise the hair on my neck. Two seconds later about 75' away, to my right, a gold ball about 8" in diameter, disappeared as it exploded, leaving a 10' diameter clear area in the tall grass, and grass confetti in the air. My building is a galvanized steel arch building 16' H, 40'W, 60'L, why it exploded 2' off the flat ground nearby, and not on the well grounded building is a mystery. No, I did not have gas that day, gas service, or electrical service on the property. What I experienced, does not fit well with my understanding of electromagnetic field theory.
This is funny, My Ex told a story of when she was a kid, a friend and her were walking down a road, at night, then were being chased by a ball of fire! I thought this was pure BS until in the last few decades I`ve seen on tv about ball lightning. That is what they were probably experiencing.:wack: