PORTLAND, Ore. — Ball lightning has mystified electricity researchers since Benjamin Franklin first flew his kite in 1752. The very next year, Russian scientist Georg Richmann was killed by ball ...
A couple have been left astounded after a thunderstorm produced a glowing orb of light thought to be mysterious ‘ball lightning’. Ed and Melinda Pardy were watching a storm from their porch in Alberta ...
"A marvellous sign..." The report dating back around 800 years appears to be the earliest of ball lightning in England. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for ...
For decades such unidentified flying objects have simply been dismissed as optical illusions or "swamp gas". Now science has no excuse. Mysterious ball lightning has been captured on scientific ...
One of the rare scientific reports on the rarest form of lightning -- ball lightning -- describes better ways of producing this mysterious phenomenon under the modern laboratory conditions needed to ...
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