Ball lightning has mystified scientists and witnesses for centuries, appearing as glowing orbs during thunderstorms that seem to defy physics. While thousands of people report seeing these luminous ...

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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 ...

MOLINE, Ill. — We're all familiar with lightning that goes from cloud to ground, ground to cloud, and cloud to cloud. The thin, step-like shaped bolt of electricity produces quite a bang as the air ...

As a massive storm swept through central Alberta in early July, a couple stood on their porch watching bolts of lightning play across the cloudy skies. A particularly massive lightning strike hit ...

I hope that you will permit me to make a few final remarks on the destruction of primrose flowers by birds … In my former letter I remarked that if the habit of cutting off the flowers proved to be a ...

A picture portraying a UFO flying. A crack of lightning, a burst of heat, and suddenly a glowing sphere hangs in the sky like a craft from another world. Scientists now say this is not fantasy or ...

I saw a 20-second security camera clip on Facebook of ball lightning. It came out of the sky, rolled, and “walked” around a parking lot as if alive, then disappeared. Scientists to this day do not ...

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