No injuries were reported after an intense night of stormy weather unfolded in central Alberta on Wednesday night, but once ...

Reports of what ball lightning looks like vary widely, but most accounts share common characteristics. Witnesses often describe it as a bright, glowing sphere that is often colored red, orange, yellow ...

Retired US air force major Don Smith contacted Crompton after reading ABC Science Online's recent story on ball lightning. Smith says he saw ball lightning being triggered while flying over the ...

Ball lightning is a rare circular light phenomenon occurring during thunderstorms. Scientists have been puzzled by the nature of these apparent fire balls for a long time. Now physicists have ...

Ball lightning is an odd phenomenon. The few, fortunate people who have seen an incident describe the lightning as a roughly spherical glowing object that travels horizontally for a few seconds ...

The video recorded is from 900 meters (2,953 feet) away and shows a glow of about 5 meters (16.4 feet). The actual ball lightning is expected to be smaller than that.

The scientists -- Jianyong Cen, Ping Yuan, and Simin Xue -- were observing a thunderstorm when the ball lightning, 5 meters wide and lasting roughly 1.6 seconds, appeared before their eyes.

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Fiery blasts: QuickTime video clips.. THE SHINING. An extraordinarily large–about 100 meters in diameter–object presumed to be ball lightning was caught on film by a park ranger in Australia.

In 2015, Liu Cixin became a worldwide sensation with the publication of The Three-Body Problem and its sequels, The Dark Forest and Death’s End. Liu has a new book out in English: Ball Lightning ...