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Ball Lightning: Weather’s Biggest Mystery | Answers With Joe

Joe Scott | April 7, 2025



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Ball lightning is a mysterious phenomena that’s been seen since the beginning of recorded history, but it’s so rare most people put it in the category of folklore or pseudoscience.

However, there’s some new studies that seem to show that ball lightning is not only real, but there’s possibly many different kinds, and there’s a lot we can learn from it.

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LINKS LINKS LINKS:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-lightning-afterglow-gamma.html

https://envronozone.com/science/ozone_science.htm

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/weather/reference/ball-lightning/#close

Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQGFvKAujb8

https://www.livescience.com/42731-weird-lightning-types.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24886-natural-ball-lightning-probed-for-the-first-time/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/great-balls-of-fire/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/5/100514-science-ball-lightning-hallucinations-magnetic-fields/

Spectrograph results
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/5

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260789338_Solid_charged-core_model_of_ball_lightning_2

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