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A large collection of stories submitted by eyewitnesses. Add your own report.
Wikipedia article about the phenomenon.
Lots of articles and links, including "how to make your own ball lightning".
Devoted to investigations and experimental modeling of the ball lightning and some related phenomena.
The images on ball lightning modeling are presented. The material will be updated gradually in accordance with deriving new experimental effects.
Description of an old experiment to produce ball lightning in the laboratory.
A BBC news article on New Zealand scientists who believe that ball lightning is little more than burning soil fragments that have been kicked up into the air.
Discussion of the scientific explanations for this phenomenon.
Beginning with an interesting comparison of the physiology of a smoke ring and ball lightning, leading to the development of a device to create ball lightning, this site continues with several well-presented accounts of the phenomenon.
Storm News article: "A Theory of Ball Lightning as an Electric Discharge" by Dr. John J. Lowke.
A Edward Lewis paper, with the discussion of ball lightning as plasmoids.
Discussion of the scientific explanations for this phenomenon.
Wikipedia article about the phenomenon.
A large collection of stories submitted by eyewitnesses. Add your own report.
Description of an old experiment to produce ball lightning in the laboratory.
Lots of articles and links, including "how to make your own ball lightning".
Beginning with an interesting comparison of the physiology of a smoke ring and ball lightning, leading to the development of a device to create ball lightning, this site continues with several well-presented accounts of the phenomenon.
Devoted to investigations and experimental modeling of the ball lightning and some related phenomena.
The images on ball lightning modeling are presented. The material will be updated gradually in accordance with deriving new experimental effects.
A Edward Lewis paper, with the discussion of ball lightning as plasmoids.
A BBC news article on New Zealand scientists who believe that ball lightning is little more than burning soil fragments that have been kicked up into the air.
Storm News article: "A Theory of Ball Lightning as an Electric Discharge" by Dr. John J. Lowke.
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