Ball Lightning: Natural phenomenon associated with thunderstorms & takes the form of a long-lived, glowing, floating object, as opposed to the short-lived arcing between two points seen in common lightning

Ball Lightning

Ball lightning is a natural phenomenon associated with thunderstorms and takes the form of a long-lived, glowing, floating object, as opposed to the short-lived arcing between two points seen in common lightning. An early attempt to explain ball lightning was recorded by Nikola Tesla on March 5, 1904.

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TANGMONKEY.COM: Ball Lightning
Ball lightning is the name given to floating balls of light/electricity often observed during thunderstorms, or in the days following thunder storms. The 'lightning' appears to be self-contained in a spherical formation, and despite numerous theories, nobody knows what causes it.

Ball Lightning Page
Ball Lightning: An unsolved problem in atmos, physics.

Tornadoes and Ball Lightning
Certain anomalous characteristics of tornadoes and ball lightning are described and shown to be similar to the behavior of the plasmoid phenomena produced by electrolysis and discharge apparatus; in part, as evidenced by certain kinds of micrometer sized traces in nuclear emulsions and marks in materials.

The Virtual Times
Unusual Experiences with Lightning.

Ball Lightning
Of course some people don't believe it exists, though others claim it can be reproduced in a laboratory, given the correct equipment. Could Ball Lightning be produced when rock is put under stress? This is one theory...

Does ball lightning really exist?
In your recent column about lightning, what intrigued me the most was your mention of "ball lightning a rare, poorly understood phenomenon that behaves like a mixture of electricity and fire." The accompanying anecdote was incredible.

Ball Lightning Experiment
The first intentions of my experiments were not in any way to try to create ball lightning. My intention was to make my high voltage device develop better, more regular sparks...

Natural phenomena
What is ball lightning? How is it different from usual lightning?

Ball Lightning from Terrestrial Lightning
There is a very interesting form of lightning called "ball lightning." Many scientists do not believe in this form of lightning because there is no physics theory that can satisfactorily explain it. Obviously, the Ball-of-Light Particle Model does explain ball lightning. Ball lightning are balls-of-light.

Anatomy of a Lightning Ball
An aerial wonder, pondered for ages, no longer seems so ghostly.

Ball lightning explained
A New Zealand scientist may have finally explained the mechanism behind the extraordinary phenomenon of ball lightning.

Rense.com
Top Mexican Meterologist Says UFOs Were Not Ball Lightning.

Science Frontiers Online
Spontaneous human combustion and ball lightning?

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New light on ball lightning - Scientists may have discovered an explanation for one of the world's most mysterious natural phenomena - ball lightning. John Abrahamson and James Dinniss from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand suggest that ball lightning...	Electrodynamic Explanation of Ball Lightning - The author of this article demonstrates that ball lightning is self-closed longitudinal electromagnetic waves. Ball lightning is considered as self-closed alternating displacement current, which produces air luminescence (electroluminescence).