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Ball lightning is a debated and controversial atmospheric electrical phenomenon. The term refers to reports of luminous, usually spherical objects which vary from pea-sized to several meters in diame...
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Lots of articles and links, including "how to make your own ball lightning". ... Ball Lightning Page ... Journals with Ball Lightning on the WWW...
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Ball lightning has also been photographed, although some scientists are wary of such evidence, believing that it is easy to confuse some other light phenomenon for the real thing. One man, however, has obtained not just still photographs but 16 mm film of what may be a ball lightning event.
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Ball lightning is a natural phenomenon, or debatably, a pseudoscientific theory. It is sometimes associated with thunderstorms. It takes the form of a long-lived, glowing, floating object, as opposed to the short-lived arcing between two points commonly associated with lightning.
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A New Zealand scientist may have finally explained the mechanism behind the extraordinary phenomenon of ball lightning ... A New Zealand scientist may have finally explained the mechanism behind the extraordinary phenomenon of ball lightning. Associate Professor John Abrahamson, a chemical engineer at the University...
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This is the "ball lightning" effect in the 700-watt oven in my dorm, captured; via a video camera. The ball is on the order of an inch in diameter and; glows a fiery orange / violet color. It survived about four seconds, and was;
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Ball Lightning Photograph ... On the 1st February 2002 I observed and photographed a rare type of unkown energy called Ball Lightning. It's called that because of it's spherical shape similar in nature to the animated GIF above.
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People have reported seeing small, glowing spheres of electricity for centuries. But scientists still can't explain what causes ball lightning, or even what it is. ... Surveys estimate that between 1 in 30 and 1 in 150 people believe that they have seen ball lightning. Hubler is one of them.
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A remarkable picture illustrates the power of ball lightning, but scientists are still puzzled by the rare phenomenon. ... Ball lightning witness...
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